La grande danza
The Corps de ballet of the Teatro Massimo brings on stage La grande danza, a triptych of choreographies that includes Sin lo cual no by the Albanian choreographer Gentian Doda, Duende by Nacho Duato and Six Dances, a splendid work…
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Mediterranea
Let us remember that Mediterranea was created in 1993 for the Ballet of Tuscany and immediately achieved an amazing success. For his fifteen years, in 2008, he was taken back and reassembled for the company of the Teatro alla Scala,…
Jirí Kylián: Svadebka, Symphony of Psalms, Torso
Three performances by the Nederlands Dans Theater. The choreography by Jiri Kylian is set to Stravinsky’s ‘Les noces’ and ‘Symphony of Psalms’, and Toru Takemitsu’s ‘Torso’. Among the dancers are Shane Carroll, Nils Christe and Sabine Kupferberg. Every now and…
Straight Line Crazy
Fiennes is brilliant portraying Robert Moses (1888 – 1981), a very powerful and charismatic urban planner, whose career spanned over 40 years. Early in his career, Moses claimed to want to give all New Yorkers easy access to the outdoors,…
Stravinski
The Firebird A danced tale by choreographer Michel Fokine with music by Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird premiered at the Paris Opera on June 25, 1910 performed by Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. “Ivan Tsarevich one day sees a marvellous bird, all…
Por vos muero
Duato was inspired by old Spanish music of the 15th and 16th centuries together with some of the most beautiful verses of the Spanish poet Garcilaso de la Vega. Music and poetry connect the obviously contemporary dance of Por Vos…
Un Jour Ou Deux
In 1973 the Paris Festival d’Automne and the Paris International Dance Festival commissioned a new work from Merce Cunningham, to be performed by 26 dancers of the Ballet of the Paris Opera, including three etoiles, Wilfride Piollet, Michael Denard, and…