Histoire d’eux
He may have whittled things down to four characters and kept it short but Tony Fabre‘s Histoire d’eux, inspired by the Greek myth of Dido and Aeneas has much to admire. It’s a beautifully played out picture of the couple.…
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Einssein
A dance experience for our virtual times: with “Beethoven-Ballets”, Stuttgart Ballet paid homage to the famous composer in a live-streamed performance. Choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti delights in these extremes and the irrepressible power that lie in Beethoven’s music. “I know many…
Summerspace and Exchange
It is with great pomp and with two of its major pieces that the Opera Ballet celebrates the centenary of the birth of the American choreographer Merce Cunningham. First by taking over its Summerspace, then by bringing Exchange to the…
Another Place
4 years after the announcement of his withdrawal from the artistic scene, the emblematic contemporary choreographer Mats Ek, is back at Palais Garnier! Mats Ek is proposing a new ballet piece, “Another Place”, a 35-minute pas de deux created at…
Ukiyo-e
For the opening of the season of the Geneva Ballet, Skid by Damien Jalet, the company’s new associate artist, and the world premiere of Ukiyo-e by its director Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, will bring into play the forces that give way…
Le Bal
Scola’s wordless musical-dance extravaganza traces the life of a ballroom from 1936 to the present. While couples meet, steal kisses, and separate, events in the world outside are echoed in their mimetic rituals and groupings; for the film is clearly…
Petrushka
Scene One: Butter Week (Shrovetide) CarnivalScene Two: Petrouchka’s CellScene Three: The Moor’s RoomScene Four: Butter Week Carnival (towards evening) Original authorial version During the Butter Week (Shrovetide) revelry an old Charlatan, of Eastern mien, displays his puppets who have come…