The evening opens with a revival of Kylián’s Falling Angels. Set to Steve Reich’s intense and driving percussion, Falling Angels is a study about discipline and freedom, about belonging and the wish for independence, about performers and the art of…
An hour-long breathtaking trip through a soundscape created by Coldplay and Massive Attack collaborator, Jon Hopkins, and award-winning composer Joby Talbot (The Divine Comedy), ENTITY is a staggering blend of bodies, lights, technology and film that mark McGregor at the…
“Why let reality get in the way of a good story?” exclaims one of the characters of this artwork that lies somewhere between stage play and ballet—a fitting question with which to approach A Swan Lake by Alexander Ekman. In…
Four dissidents from the former Soviet Union are stranded in the interzonal area between East and West. In the far from harmonious atmosphere the essential question remains – should they continue towards the unknown or should they go back to…
Those who know Marco Goecke‘s works know that they always have to do with himself and with the time in which they were created. Perhaps The Big Crying is Goecke’s most personal piece, begun in Autumn 2020, shortly after the…
Uncle Vanya is a thoughtful and contemplative story of Russian friends and relatives living on an estate with thousands of trees. Written by one of Russia’s greatest playwrights, it deals with grand themes of purposeful life, beauty, money, and even…
Jiří Kylián feels a great affinity for Stravinsky, who, like himself, was forced to leave his homeland. He describes the composer’s music drama, L’Histoire du Soldat, as a ‘surrealistic fairy tale for grown-up children’. His version of the piece uses…
Commissioned by the Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Teatro Festival Italia. A Vertigo Dance Company and Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Teatro Festival Italia coproduction. This new production by choreographer Noa Wertheim weaves together twenty years of the Vertigo Dance…
Christopher Wheeldon, Artistic Associate of The Royal Ballet, created his adaptation of Shakespeare’s late romance The Winter’s Tale for The Royal Ballet in 2014. It received ecstatic praise at its premiere, acclaimed by critics and audiences alike for its intelligent…
Recorded in a completely closed, cylindrical space in which dancers and camera are enclosed. In Fall of a sparrow by Joost Vrouenraets, the viewer comes close, very close …Fall of a sparrow is set in a completely closed, cylindrical space…
