dance performances and video dance
Richard Siegal‘s diverse troupe merges ballet, contemporary dance, and pop culture in “UNITXT,” his radical reinterpretation of classical techniques and concepts of symmetry set to the beats of electronic avant-gardist Alva Noto. Unitxt, which premiered on June 25,2013 at Munich’s…
Choreographer of more than one hundred pieces, many of them being part of the core repertoire of leading ballet companies all over the world, Jiří Kylián is a living legend. Written by Christian Dumais-Lvowski and directed by Don Kent, this…
Inspired by masters of the twentieth-century, Olivier Award winning choreographer Russell Maliphant brings to audiences a new production influenced by the works of Jackson Pollock and abstract expressionism. The 20th century American painter was famed for his drip technique. With…
Former Royal Festival Hall choreographer in residence, Akram Khan, teamed up with the celebrated talents of Anish Kapoor and Nitin Sawhney to present the Company’s first full-length work Kaash (Hindi word for “if”). ‘Hindu Gods, black holes, Indian time cycles,…
32 rue Vandenbranden, directed by Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier, takes us to a mountain landscape with only two rickety campers for shelter under a wide-open sky. We find ourselves in a small isolated community where the inhabitants are confronted…
Ruven Afanador’s gaze is not that of a documentarian: it does not record an archive of events, styles and personalities for posterity. Neither is it monumental: it does not seek to imbue its object with glamorous or photogenic qualities. Afanador’s…
The partnership between Maurice Béjart and the Paris Opera lasted for over forty years and provided the institution with more than twenty pieces. In a tribute to this choreographer who died fifteen years ago, the Paris Opera Ballet presents three…
Under the direction of Mourad Merzouki, Phénix shakes up the codes between musicians and dancers for a delightful and unexpected encounter between the viola da gamba and hip-hop dance. Phénix was born from an unexpected and singular encounter between the…
NDT 1 revisits Jiří Kylián‘s Vanishing Twin (2008) and Clowns by Hofesh Shechter (2016). In addition, NDT 1’s dancers present a new work by Christos Papadopoulos. A new voice for NDT, the choreographer favours a minimalist and precise language of…
