Images: © Erwin Olaf, We Fight, We Dance campaign for the Nederlands Dans Theater, 2009. Video: Nederlands Dans Theater, Gods and Dogs, 2008. Choreographed by Jiří Kylián as his 100th production for the Nederlands Dans Theater.
Categories: dance
Tagged: choreography, dance, dancer, dogs, Erwin Olaf, Gods, Gods and Dogs, Jiri Kylian, Nederlands Dans Theater, photography
I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me. I am not yet born, console me. I fear that the human race may with tall walls wall me, with strong drugs dope me, with wise lies lure me, [...]
Categories: dance,photography,poem
Tagged: bird, born, children, come, console, curse, FACE, forgive, geath, gift, grow, guide, hear, LIVE, Louis MacNeice, me, near, prayer, Prayer Before Birth, provide, refuse, rehearse, Roberto Foddai, sing, Strength, talk
Nederlands Dans Theater celebrates 50 years as one of the world’s most innovative contemporary dance companies with two programmes of works performed by all 50 dancers of both NDT I and II. Programme One features Paul Lightfoot and Sol León’s Subject to Change for NDT ll, which pitches a beautiful duet against the threatening outside [...]
Categories: dance
Tagged: Jiri Kylian, Johan Inger, Mémoires d’Oubliettes, Nederlands Dans Theater, Paul Lightfoot, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Sol León, Subject to Change, Symphony of Psalms, Whereabouts Unknown
Montreal-based Compagnie Marie Chouinard is a firm fixture on the international dance scene, renowned for artistic director Marie Chouinard’s distinctive choreographic style, which explores the poetics of the body in immediate, intelligible and ever-surprising ways. In this hypnotic work the company’s 14 dancers explore themes of beauty and freedom, often appearing en pointe: on one, [...]
Categories: dance
Tagged: body, choreography, Compagnie Marie Chouinard, condition, crutches, harnesses, horizontal bars, human, Marie Chouinard, rope, Sadler's Wells Theatre
This November, prepare to set sail (literally and figuratively) for the most extravagant and fanciful gathering of castaways, sailors, glittering mermaids, sea sirens, pirates, romantic sea captains and scalawags ever known to New York! Dances of Vice Festival returns on November 20 – 22 2009 in a three-day nautical themed flight of fancy that will [...]
Categories: costumes,dance,festival,live art,party,performance
Tagged: Alexandra Snyder, Antonia Pugliese, ballroom dancing, BASTET, classical, Company XIV, costume, cultire, Dame Darcy, dance, Dances of Vice, decadence, DJ PUREVILE, fashion, fencing, festival, Glamour, Hey Sailor, Jared Kirby, Martinez Academy of Arms, music, New York, Nouveau cabaret, opera, opulence, performance art, puppetry, Ragwater Revue, Revue Noir, rock, SHIEN LEE, Starkall, The Hellblinki Sextet, Tina Cassati, vendors, Victorian
Maureen Fleming American (Artistic Director/Choreographer/Performance Artist) was born in Japan. At the age of two, she was in a serious car accident with her mother. The effects of the experience, both physical and emotional, have formed a thread through Fleming’s life and influenced, if not driven, her devotion to the study of physical movement. In [...]
Categories: choreography,dance
Tagged: After Eros, Butoh, Christopher Odo, David Henry Hwang, Decay of the Angel, Fall for Dance, Kazuo Ohno, Maureen Fleming, Maureen Fleming Company, multi-media, New York, Philip Glass, Soul, Waters of Immortality and Other Works
This new work evolves from Clark’s admiration for the music of rock’s holy trinity, David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed, who worked in close proximity during the 1970s. The production includes Bowie’s iconic song “Heroes”. ‘Rock is my rock. It has been vital to me at a personal level, it has shaped me as [...]
Categories: choreography,dance
Tagged: Barbican, Charles Atlas, Michael Clark
Since its 1995 world premiere at Sadler’s Wells in London, Matthew Bourne’s breathtaking version of Swan Lake has become the longest running ballet in the London’s West End and on Broadway. It has enjoyed two successful tours in the UK and thrilled audiences in Los Angeles, Europe and Japan. Originally written by Tchaikovsky in the [...]
Categories: ballet,dance,stage
Tagged: London, Matthew Bourne, Sadler's Wells Theatre, Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of [...]
Tagged: American Ballet Theatre, Bourmeister, inaugural speech, La Scala, light, Nelson Mandela, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Roberto Bolle, Svetlana Zakharova, Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky, The Royal Ballet
La confidence des oiseaux/Birds’ Confidence Concept and choreography: Luc Petton Artistic collaboration: Marilén Iglesias-Breuker Dancers: Marie-Laure Agrapart, Mélisande Carré Angeli, Aurore Castan-Aïn and Tuomas Lahti or Maxime Iannarelli Music composer: Xavier Rosselle Birds trainer: Tristan Plot Birds handler: Julien Durdilly Birds: cockatiels, crows, jays, starlings, rosellas and magpies. Stage design: Jean-Paul Céalis Costumes: Raul Pajaro [...]
Categories: choreography,dance
Tagged: bird, birds, Birds' Confidence, dancing with birds, La Confidence des oiseaux, Luc Petton
