Tero Saarinen‘s Vortex, commissioned by the National Dance Company of Korea in 2014 will once again re-enter the renowned company’s repertoire. The collaboration has become a huge success, brought back by popular demand in Seoul several times. In 2015, Vortex…
In the dark of sleep, a door opens and a woman enters dressed in sheets of paper, symbolizing the fate and the trial that will rage against the protagonist… Thus is the incipit of The Trial, a ballet by the…
These days, hope seems to die just like the proverbial swan. But difficulties have always – to stay with the metaphor – given wings to Eric Gauthier. Especially since his latest baby had what it took to excite the dance…
With the ballet “Naiad”, the Stuttgart Ballet lets its audience immerse themselves at home in fascinating marine worlds. The Stuttgart Ballet will take its audience below the surface of the sea for three days: The ocean ballet “Naiad”, which premiered…
Akram Khan and Tamara Rojo teamed up to perform Dust as part of English National Ballet‘s production Lest We Forget, which commemorates the centenary of the First World War. Akram Khan‘s work Dust is about the empowerment of women in…
Ballet Preljocaj, a leading French contemporary company, makes its local debut with a program that highlights the choreographic intelligence of artistic director Angelin Preljocaj. Angelin Preljocaj, artistic director of Ballet Preljocaj, regularly juxtaposes reinvigorated classics with original works. Preljocaj, who…
Dmitri Tcherniakov‘s acclaimed new production of Borodin’s Russian epic—the opera’s first Met staging in nearly a century—stars Ildar Abdrazakov in the title role of the tormented prince who leads his army against the Polovtsians. The stellar all-Russian-language cast also includes…
