Thirteen bare-chested men, street dancers from Algeria and Burkina Faso, seem perfectly at home onstage of The Joyce Theater in Compagnie Hervé Koubi’s What the Day Owes to the Night. The French company made its New York premiere to a packed house,…
Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa da Requiem is not only a musical prayer, but also a vision of the afterlife and the drama of Judgement Day that is rich in imagery. The musical requiem mass was created in two stages. Initially, Verdi wrote a Libera…
Toronto Dance Theatre returns to the Fleck Dance Theatre with Glass Fields, an exhilarating program of premieres created in response to Christopher House’s masterwork Glass Houses (1983). Set to Ann Southam’s exuberant piano music, Glass Houses was described by the New York Times as “downright startling – spewing forth…
English National Ballet presents Annabelle Lopez Ochoa‘s critically acclaimed Broken Wings, featuring Tamara Rojo in the role of Frida Kahlo alongside legendary ballet star Irek Mukhamedov as Diego Rivera. The music, by Peter Salem, the show is performed by English…
Inspired by the life and work of Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin, In Her Hands reflects on the relationship between the two French sculptors. It is a glimpse into the mind and heart of a woman challenged by the fragility of her…
During her 1980 stay in New York, in which she first rehearsed her celebrated Violin Phase to the music of Steve Reich, the only other recording playing in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker‘s studio was the Brandenburg Concertos by J.S. Bach.…
What is more indispensable, more immediate, what is more inseparable of us than our body? We are our body and exist through it. Everything we do develops on the limits of our body, through skin and touch. The body is…
