dance performances and video dance
Life’s substance can be pulled this way and that, thrown about, piled up and dissected. Through a sober recognition of the body’s materiality, this piece tries to understand the fundamental split imposed on us by our physical nature. It interrogates…
Philippe Decouflé offers a new version of Codex, his first great public success, an already legendary piece, originally conceived for seven dancers. Under the title of Tricodex, this third version produced for the Ballet de l’Opéra national de Lyon multiplies…
Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) is based on Schönberg’s late romantic music for strings and a poem by Richard Dehmel about a woman who, one moonlit night, confesses in a wood to the man she loves that she is pregnant with…
In 2021, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting the project Trisha Brown X 100, initiated by the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris and produced in collaboration with the Festival d’Automne à Paris…
A Louer, directed by Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier, is a fascinating journey through thoughts, memories, visions of the future, dreams and nightmares. In A Louer, there is no linear time, but rather a focus on that moment of boredom…
Pneuma, which was originally created for the Ballet de l’Opéra National de Bordeaux, was inspired by the book Air and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement (1943) by Gaston Bachelard, an author who is very important to me.…
Renowned for her flowing, organic and poetic style, Crystal Pite has succeeded in bringing her surprising and innovative dance approach to a wide audience. Fascinated by familiar storylines of love, conflict and loss, and the body’s role in providing the…
The Digital Season is a festival of 21st century choreographers, made up of excerpts of some of NYCB contemporary repertoire, including:
Season 2016-2017 concludes with an evening solely dedicated to the work of associate choreographer Crystal Pite. NDT 1 will perform a newly developed version of Pite’s eclectic masterpiece Parade (2013). Like many choreographers Pite realized she wanted to return to…
