A film based on the unique story of four members of one family dancing together in one of the most prestigious contemporary dance companies in the world: Het Nederlands Danstheater. Xante, Imre, Marne and Myrthe are four children of the…
The German choreographer Marco Goecke is one of the greatest dance makers of our times. His controversial pieces for companies including Nederlands Danstheater are dark, evocative and magical. Thin Skin is an intimate portrait of an uncompromising choreographer. We see…
Un saut dans le bleu (A Leap into the Blue) is a large-scale contemporary dance creation by the legendary choreographer Carolyn Carlson, created for the Ballet of the Opéra national du Capitole in Toulouse. Drawing upon more than five decades…
With devices designed by Retouramont, a dance company specializing in aerial techniques, choreographer Mourad Merzouki leaves the ground and plays with gravity. His new production confronts the very much floor-based hip-hop dance with verticality. Dancers dash in the air, they…
Life’s substance can be pulled this way and that, thrown about, piled up and dissected. Through a sober recognition of the body’s materiality, this piece tries to understand the fundamental split imposed on us by our physical nature. It interrogates…
Philippe Decouflé offers a new version of Codex, his first great public success, an already legendary piece, originally conceived for seven dancers. Under the title of Tricodex, this third version produced for the Ballet de l’Opéra national de Lyon multiplies…
Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) is based on Schönberg’s late romantic music for strings and a poem by Richard Dehmel about a woman who, one moonlit night, confesses in a wood to the man she loves that she is pregnant with…
