dance performances and video dance
Formed in 1909 by Sergei Diaghilev, Les Ballets Russes revolutionised the art of dance. One hundred years later, four ground-breaking choreographers pay a thrilling tribute to this unique artistic venture. For this special event Sadler’s Wells has commissioned brand new…
17 dancers, 36 scenes, 100 characters, 1000 costumes… Like passing-by miniature scenes through a train window, or cycling through the streets and peering into apartments, we all love to glimpse into other lives, and the homes they’re lived out in.…
Boys do not cry is a young public piece built on the basis of a text by Chantal Thomas, written especially for the piece, around an unlikely football game, playground and dance. This is a pretext for a nostalgic, funny…
Place is a sensational dance film, especially created for world-famous dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov & Ana Laguna by an outstanding international team of artists. Staged by Mats Ek, considered to be one of the world’s best Choreographers.Directed by Grammy, MTV &…
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Mats Ek‘s ten-minute esoteric premier Woman with Water, inspired by two earlier works, Wet Woman (1996) and Place (2008), a pas de deux created for Mikhail Baryshnikov and Ana Laguna. With a haunting presence and technical flair, Madeline Woo performs…
“Riptide” the first major dance performance created by the Icelandic choreographer and dancer Hlín Hjálmarsdóttir. On this occasion, the Royal Swedish Opera for the first time produced a performance as a film. Choreographer Hlín Hjálmarsdóttirhas created a new performance exclusively…
Maguy Marin signs with BiT her fourty ninth show in just forty years. The title refers to computer term designating the basic unit of measurement of information. This word, very tonic, gives a first rhythmic impulse, after which the show…
Perpetually moving amidst the dancers on meticulously mapped out paths, a filmmaker focuses sometimes on solos, sometimes on group structures. As if out of nowhere, double the number of dancers filling the stage only to disappear at the next shot,…
The choreography “M“, originally created by Maurice Béjart for The Tokyo Ballet in 1993, vividly portrays the life of Yukio Mishima—one of the most renowned Japanese authors of the 20th century. He was poet, playwriter, actor, and model as well.…
