In this double programme with Ensemble Intercontemporain live on stage, Saburo Teshigawara and Rihoko Sato dance on Arnold Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Alban Berg’s Lyric Suite. Stripped down, poetic and light as a feather. “Lost in dance” is masterful dance…
In the 2020/2021 season the Czech National Ballet succeeds in instigating creative energy and seeking new artistic impulses. The world online premiere of works by choreographers Douglas Lee and Alejandro Cerrudo ranks among them. The present brings along new things…
New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and…
Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui‘s show offers a profound reflection on our intimate connection with the world around us. From putting mathematics in movement to Ravel’s Boléro as a dance of death, Cherkaoui transcends the boundaries of the stage to offer…
While the leaves are blowing While the leaves are blowing is an ode to them for who it seems impossible to find the right partner. Are we too critical when it comes to finding the perfect partner? Is it a…
“Dona Nobis Pacem” – give us peace. This title is of great importance to me – even at the risk of seeming naïve, sentimental or even pretentious. In light of the constant and growing tensions in our world, this thought…
In choosing the myth of Noé as inspiration, Thierry Malandain again looks at the themes which are dear to him: Humanity and its future, destiny, the environment. Water, by turns a destructive or life-giving element, is envisaged here as that…
