Mediterranea
Let us remember that Mediterranea was created in 1993 for the Ballet of Tuscany and immediately achieved an amazing success. For his fifteen years, in 2008, he was taken back and reassembled for the company of the Teatro alla Scala,…
Category Dance
dance performances and video dance
Jirí Kylián: Svadebka, Symphony of Psalms, Torso
Three performances by the Nederlands Dans Theater. The choreography by Jiri Kylian is set to Stravinsky’s ‘Les noces’ and ‘Symphony of Psalms’, and Toru Takemitsu’s ‘Torso’. Among the dancers are Shane Carroll, Nils Christe and Sabine Kupferberg. Every now and…
Stravinski
The Firebird A danced tale by choreographer Michel Fokine with music by Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird premiered at the Paris Opera on June 25, 1910 performed by Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. “Ivan Tsarevich one day sees a marvellous bird, all…
Por vos muero
Duato was inspired by old Spanish music of the 15th and 16th centuries together with some of the most beautiful verses of the Spanish poet Garcilaso de la Vega. Music and poetry connect the obviously contemporary dance of Por Vos…
Un Jour Ou Deux
In 1973 the Paris Festival d’Automne and the Paris International Dance Festival commissioned a new work from Merce Cunningham, to be performed by 26 dancers of the Ballet of the Paris Opera, including three etoiles, Wilfride Piollet, Michael Denard, and…
Dance and Short Fiction Films
This video contains an overview of choreographer and filmmaker Wim Vandekeybus career with dance films and short fiction films, including many extras and featuring original compositions by David Byrne, Thierry De Mey, David Eugene Edwards, Marc Ribot and Peter Vermeersch.…
Connection
Juliano Nuñes‘ artistic sensibility and distinctive choreographic voice have earned him international praise from critics and audiences alike, and he has worked extensively with leading ballet companies and choreographers across the globe. He has been a collaborator of Philadelphia Ballet…
Le Songe de Médée
Angelin Preljocaj is interested in the myths of antiquity as well as current events. Medea’s Dream allows him to penetrate inside the soul of a woman, to search for deeply buried desires and to pierce Medea’s unconscious beyond the myth:…
Nomad
Invited by artistic director of 420PEOPLE, Václav Kuneš, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui presented a work-in-progress at the Czech dance festival Tanec Praha in 2017, a performance titled Nomad – with dancers of Eastman (Nemo Oeghoede, Antonin Rioche, Nicola Leahey and Mabrouk…