dance performances and video dance
Hussein Chalayan‘s first theatrical work Gravity Fatigue, received its world premiere at Sadler’s Wells in October 2015. Gravity Fatigue combined the visual creativity of his artistic concepts with contemporary dance, realised in partnership with award-winning choreographer Damien Jalet (Vessel, Babel(words)),…
Never before has The Australian Ballet presented contemporary dance of this scale and ambition. Commissioned for the 60th anniversary of Nederlands Dans Theater, the world’s most celebrated contemporary company, and now presented for the first time outside of the Netherlands…
The 2022 edition of Noverre: Young Choreographers, presented by the Stuttgart Ballet, once again celebrated the creativity of the company’s emerging choreographic voices. Established in 1961 by John Cranko, the Noverre evenings provide dancers with the rare opportunity to develop and…
Frankly playful, Ramdam initiates a rhythm, a potential passage between sounds, words and bodies. By challenging the tyranny of information and statistics, Maguy Marin subtly and softly denounces a life eaten up by a rolling wave of figures and percentages,…
Tundra is a barren landscape where ultra-modern creativity blinks into life and tears pages from history books about Russian folk dance, the USSR and revolution. Marcos Morau‘s bold style draws inspiration from art and cinema. Tundra takes old ideas and…
Summer Shorts Festival returns with a series of short films available for global audiences. The arts streaming site will share “shorts” from leading arts organizations and festivals across dance, theater and music, bringing together new and established talent from around…
Oeil pour œil (“Eye for an Eye”) is a powerful contemporary ballet by acclaimed French choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot, Artistic Director of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. Inspired by themes of justice, revenge, compassion, and the fragile balance between violence and reconciliation, the…
MC 14/22 “Ceci est mon corps” is a meeting of the spiritual and the carnal, drawing on St Mark’s version of the Last Supper in the Bible: “Take, eat: this is my body”. Created for twelve male dancers – Preljocaj’s…
Marcos Morau‘s daring rereading of Tchaikovsky’s famous 1890 ballet turns Sleeping Beauty into an allegory of our relationship with time. The Catalan choreographer’s rich visual universe reinterprets the princess’s long sleep as a wild and uninhibited procession. What does the…
