Sasha Waltz & Guests: Beethoven 7
A cloud makes its way towards the audience, soon enveloping us in its misty grip. Through the fog are glimpsed figures, human, but…
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Staatsballett Berlin: Giselle
When the assured Riho Sakamoto first stepped out of her home as Giselle, she didn’t so much skip round the stage as fly.
Lucinda Childs Dance Company: Dance
About movement to music and nothing else. There’s no hidden theme, no hidden meaning. It’s even performed in simple white tops and trousers.
Dance On Ensemble & Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop: A Sky Like A Wall
The fascinating collage of scenes and sounds engaged fully, watched over not only by the audience but by the rows of portraits that line the gallery’s walls
Staatsballett Berlin: 2 Chapters Love
“2 Chapters Love may be full of ‘classic’ Eyal but, in many ways, it also feels very much an ode to classical ballet.” Plus Sol Léon’s Stars Like Moths.
Staatsballett Berlin: SAABA & Minus 16
The fourth of Sharon Eyal and partner Gai Behar’s work to be danced by the Staatsballett, SAABA is different. Behar’s choreography feels more dreamy.
Clara, a new ballet by Cathy Marston for Ballett Zürich
Based on the life of the legendary pianist Clara Schumann, Marston again takes up the theme of the female musician.
Serge Aimé Coulibaly’s Balau in Munich
“…Physical expression that hit me like a visceral experience. The performance jabbed deep into the emotions…”
A rollerblading love story: Moritz Ostruschnjak’s CRY WHY
A very intimate and intense love story between two people, who barely touch each other, and express their love through… rollerblades.
Zürcher Theater Spektakel: a festival that confronts and includes
The festival’s main program showcased the perspectives of more than 240 artists from about 30 countries, with inequity often at the heart of works
Bayerisches Staatsballett: Sphären.02 | Preljocaj
Sphären.02 certainly embraced a spectrum of styles. Whether it said much about future directions for ballet or dance is highly questionable, however.