Never before has The Australian Ballet presented contemporary dance of this scale and ambition. Commissioned for the 60th anniversary of Nederlands Dans Theater, the world’s most celebrated contemporary company, and now presented for the first time outside of the Netherlands…
The 2022 edition of Noverre: Young Choreographers, presented by the Stuttgart Ballet, once again celebrated the creativity of the company’s emerging choreographic voices. Established in 1961 by John Cranko, the Noverre evenings provide dancers with the rare opportunity to develop and…
Frankly playful, Ramdam initiates a rhythm, a potential passage between sounds, words and bodies. By challenging the tyranny of information and statistics, Maguy Marin subtly and softly denounces a life eaten up by a rolling wave of figures and percentages,…
The quintessential piano ballet, Dances at a Gathering distills the spectrum of human interaction into the most natural of movements, a landmark for its invention, virtuosity, and constantly shifting emotions. Dances at a Gathering, which premiered in 1969, heralded Jerome…
Tundra is a barren landscape where ultra-modern creativity blinks into life and tears pages from history books about Russian folk dance, the USSR and revolution. Marcos Morau‘s bold style draws inspiration from art and cinema. Tundra takes old ideas and…
Summer Shorts Festival returns with a series of short films available for global audiences. The arts streaming site will share “shorts” from leading arts organizations and festivals across dance, theater and music, bringing together new and established talent from around…
The genius of Chekhov is to make comedy out of his characters, stranded in Russia’s provincial backwaters, cut off from the Moscow society they crave; seeking happiness in work, frustrated love affairs, nostalgising over their past, idealising the future. It…
