Analogy/Ambros: The Emigrant is the culminating chapter of Bill T. Jones’ Analogy Trilogy, an ambitious dance-theatre project that explores memory, identity, migration, and the enduring impact of personal history. Inspired by the character Ambros Adelwarth from W. G. Sebald’s acclaimed novel The Emigrants, the work…
With Mirror and Music, Japanese choreographer Teshigawara Saburo returns to Theatre Chaillot with a work for nine dancers, for which he also did the stage design, lighting, and costumes. “I am trying to express something of the invisible…that has no…
Hussein Chalayan‘s first theatrical work Gravity Fatigue, received its world premiere at Sadler’s Wells in October 2015. Gravity Fatigue combined the visual creativity of his artistic concepts with contemporary dance, realised in partnership with award-winning choreographer Damien Jalet (Vessel, Babel(words)),…
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…
