The titles of some operas are in themselves sufficient to capture the imagination. For the centenary of Pushkin’s birth in 1899, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov drew inspiration from one of his celebrated fairy tales and composed a delightfully imaginative opera, with the…
A creation for 17 dancers performed on a 34 degrees platform. In Skid, human beings relationship to the law of gravity, to the poetry of resistance and abandonment from gravity itself, sets the dancers in motion. Our very existence itself…
The Béjart Ballet Lausanne is the instrument of a major choreographer of the 20th century. Maurice Béjart an extraordinary artist, a genius of dance, a master of ballet. This shows that Stadsschouwburg Antwerp is delighted to be able to present…
The second opus of her cycle after OCD Love, Love Chapter 2 shows Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar starting their world again to question modern solitude and its corollary, the lack of connection. A sensitive and inhabited choreography. “If OCD…
Having just celebrated their 60th anniversary, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater bring with them a flood of new and exciting works alongside modern classics in three mixed programmes that demonstrate the unparalleled artistry that has defined them. Alvin Ailey‘s masterpiece,…
Sacred Monsters. Monstres Sacres. The term was used for the first time in France in the 19th century as a nickname for the big stars of the theatre, such as Sarah Bernhardt. It marks the birth of contemporary stardom in…
Nacho Duato composed the one-act ballet, White Darkness, as a requiem for the untimely loss of a sister. The result is a masterpiece which, according to critics, has “reached impossible heights” in the landscape of modern art. The ballet’s heroine,…
