Svansjön
When Mats Ek talks about Swan Lake – he first talks about Tchaikovsky’s music, which he believes is the most important reason for the work’s survival. “Someone has said that Tchaikovsky’s music is like flowers, but not like seeds,” he…
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We Humans are movement
The historic Sala Grande in the modernist Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido, home of the Venice International Film Festival, is the site for this special, large-scale commission performed by students of Biennale College alongside the elite dancers of Company…
Emergence
Dawn Patrol He’s been escorting (well, dragging) his mom and dad to the Museum of Flight for almost three years. Recently, he added a little brother to his entourage. Price Suddarth (aka Milo’s dad) was fascinated by the stories these…
Dialogues
What happens when the language of dance transcends its barriers? This is the question answered by Dialogues, a choreographic competition that strives to redefine the terms of dance performance. Imagined by the choreographer Mourad Merzouki, this contest puts four companies…
Triple bill
To mark the occasion, the ballet director and chief choreographer of the Wiener Staatsballett has once again embarked on a creative process with the dancers in his ensemble and created a large-scale ballet to Piotr I. Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony, which…
Evidentia
In this experimental film conceived by Sylvie Guillem, the choreographers become dancers or photographers: William Forsythe dances a superb solo and Mats Ek films his brother and Sylvie Guillem in Smoke, an oniric and sensual duet. Ballerina Sylvie Guillem demonstrates…
The Little Match Girl
A snowy stage sets the scene for an icy cold Christmas eve, where the little match girl paces the emptying streets, trying to sell her matches. Cold, hungry and with just one final match flame to keep her warm, she…