dance performances and video dance
Scola’s wordless musical-dance extravaganza traces the life of a ballroom from 1936 to the present. While couples meet, steal kisses, and separate, events in the world outside are echoed in their mimetic rituals and groupings; for the film is clearly…
Scene One: Butter Week (Shrovetide) CarnivalScene Two: Petrouchka’s CellScene Three: The Moor’s RoomScene Four: Butter Week Carnival (towards evening) Original authorial version During the Butter Week (Shrovetide) revelry an old Charlatan, of Eastern mien, displays his puppets who have come…
Joseph Sturdy about Sonatra: I was interested to look at the classical technique, to awaken it and enjoy itWhen Joseph Sturdy was asked to choreograph a work for the Royal Swedish Ballet, he accepted the challenge with alacrity. ‘I admired…
Among dance aficionados, the names on the cast list alone are bound to be greatly admired, as this production brings together seven A-list choreographers of worldwide fame. Each of them transforms a mortal sin into a dance piece for Gauthier…
In a white set with a shifting, illuminated neon line on the horizon (designed by Jean-Paul Vroom), four men display their virile strength to four women, dancing to Beethoven’s Fugue. Their stretched arms, clenched fists and measured movements lend a…
The Temptation of Eve is a hybrid solo mixing dance, theatre of body and object into a performance on the history of women through centuries. Through multiple identities, the iconic French dancer and choreographer Marie-Claude Pietragalla evolves in different worlds…
Hailed as a “masterpiece” by the Chicago Sun-Times, Gustavo Ramírez Sansano‘s “CARMEN.maquia” is a Picasso-inspired, contemporary take on Bizet’s classic opera about a passionate gypsy. Riveting from start to finish, the physically charged and sensual choreography fuses contemporary dance with…
ABT Studio Company, the junior company of American Ballet Theatre, develops the next generation of ballet dancers, choreographers, and audiences. The central mission of ABT Studio Company is to prepare its twelve exceptionally promising dancers (ages 17-21) for careers in…
Invited to make a piece for the ballet of the Paris Opera by her director Brigitte Lefèvre, Jérôme Bel wanted to stage a kind of theatrical documentary on the work of one of the dancers of the ballet: Véronique Doisneau.…
