Sleeping Beauty
In the production of Sleeping Beauty, Princess Aurora is a rebellious teenager who goes against her life of privilege and purses a love with a heroin addict. Instead of a spinning wheel from the original story, it is replaced by…
Category Dance
dance performances and video dance
Sonoma
Embark on a journey into the hypnotic and powerful world created by the renowned choreographer Marcos Morau and his ensemble La Veronal in Sonoma. This performance brings surreal images to life, combining intense physical strength and rhythm with a profound…
Giselle
Giselle is one of the oldest preserved ballets. It premiered in Paris in 1841. The music, libretto and much of the choreography have remained intact. Therefore, the ballet has preserved its uniqueness and has much to tell about the time…
Bernardas Hus
For Mats Ek, dance is one form of theater and some of his works are inspired by themes borrowed from theater. La Maison de Bernarda (the house of Bernarda) is taken from the play of the same name by Federico…
Peeping on reality
Originally Argentine choreographer Gabriela Carrizo (1970, Córdoba) founded the Brussels collective Peeping Tom in 2000, together with Franck Chartier. Since then, Peeping Tom has grown into a nationally and internationally appreciated dance theatre company. Carrizo’s experimental style is at the…
Carmen
Mats Ek‘s International Emmy Award winning version of the fiery tale of passion and murderous jealousy is an exciting, suspenseful mix of bravura dancing and inventive, powerful storytelling. Set to Rodion Shchedrin’s “Carmen Suite,” the Russian composer’s arrangement of Bizet’s…
Altro Canto 1
Halfway between the statuary of cathedrals and the twilight zone of a Georges de La Tour, Altro Canto is a work which uplifts the androgynous bodies following the dramatic accents of the Monteverdi Magnificat. Though Jean-Christophe Maillot does not necessarily…
Les saisons de la danse
In 2012, Max Richter recomposed Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, in order to revive this mythical score that he considered worn out by too many listening and commercial covers. On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the work, four choreographers seized…
Puro Juego
Sheer Play is not a filmic approach that portrays an artist. It’s a retrospective of a way of life, combining art as a whole, dance, and a human profile that fully reflects that playful, unstructured, free, and irrefutably beautiful cosmos.…