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…
Oeil pour œil (“Eye for an Eye”) is a powerful contemporary ballet by acclaimed French choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot, Artistic Director of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. Inspired by themes of justice, revenge, compassion, and the fragile balance between violence and reconciliation, the…
MC 14/22 “Ceci est mon corps” is a meeting of the spiritual and the carnal, drawing on St Mark’s version of the Last Supper in the Bible: “Take, eat: this is my body”. Created for twelve male dancers – Preljocaj’s…
Marcos Morau‘s daring rereading of Tchaikovsky’s famous 1890 ballet turns Sleeping Beauty into an allegory of our relationship with time. The Catalan choreographer’s rich visual universe reinterprets the princess’s long sleep as a wild and uninhibited procession. What does the…
Edward Clug‘s ballet, Peer Gynt, draws its inspiration from one of literature’s most intriguing creations. The protagonist in Henrik Ibsen’s original verse drama of the same name, on which Clug’s ballet is based, is a self-seeking anti-hero, beset by dilemmas.…
Audiences often associate Swan Lake with its Act II, a stalwart of the classical repertoire so powerfully identifiable by the whiteness of its choreography accompanied by Tchaikovsky’s legendary score. Act II of Swan Lake can be considered as one of…
