In 2017, the Hans van Manen Festival, organised by Dutch National Ballet for the occasion of Van Manen’s eighty-fifth birthday, was the highlight of the theatre season. Metaforen (1965), Reflection and symmetry In creating the ballet, Van Manen’s starting point…
32 rue Vandenbranden, directed by Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier, takes us to a mountain landscape with only two rickety campers for shelter under a wide-open sky. We find ourselves in a small isolated community where the inhabitants are confronted…
Ruven Afanador’s gaze is not that of a documentarian: it does not record an archive of events, styles and personalities for posterity. Neither is it monumental: it does not seek to imbue its object with glamorous or photogenic qualities. Afanador’s…
The partnership between Maurice Béjart and the Paris Opera lasted for over forty years and provided the institution with more than twenty pieces. In a tribute to this choreographer who died fifteen years ago, the Paris Opera Ballet presents three…
Under the direction of Mourad Merzouki, Phénix shakes up the codes between musicians and dancers for a delightful and unexpected encounter between the viola da gamba and hip-hop dance. Phénix was born from an unexpected and singular encounter between the…
NDT 1 revisits Jiří Kylián‘s Vanishing Twin (2008) and Clowns by Hofesh Shechter (2016). In addition, NDT 1’s dancers present a new work by Christos Papadopoulos. A new voice for NDT, the choreographer favours a minimalist and precise language of…
“The Glass Menagerie” was the foundation of Tennessee Williams’s fame as one of the most important writers in the US of the 20th century. Although the success of this production on Broadway was entirely unexpected for the 33-year-old author, he…
