A Tranquil Star Fitri Setyaningsih (Indonesia) At the end of A Tranquil Star six white rabbits hop about the stage. Tiny bodies impervious to stage directions that map their own path through the space. The contrast with the extremely precise choreography that precedes this final scene is enormous. Six dancers move slowly across the…
The starting point for Alain Platel’s new creation is Marco Prado’s documentary Estamira, telling the story of a woman who suffers from schizophrenia and who lives and works in a Brazilian waste disposal site. She has developed her own very particular way of communicating, giving rise to the theme of the piece: how to live…
Liaison Carbone is a particle physics at human scale. “Our juggling matter emerges from the manipulation of a large number of objects, like physical matter is made of a large number of atoms. One doesn’t see a few balls or a few rings anymore, but a whole set with a particular behavior, passing through solid, liquid…
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L-E-V Dance Company, the name of which includes the Hebrew word for heart (lev). And it is matters of the heart that form the theme of the brand new L-E-V creation “OCD Love” The work also deals with OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder, which repeatedly poses challenges for love and for life. A powerful piece, danced to…
Extrêmités explores – in a precariously literal way – the balance of power between three malicious works in a builders’ yard. Committing acts of revenge, torment and torture, the protagonists leave each other stranded at great height, balancing on structures made only from scaffolding boards and propane gas bottles. Irreverent, hideously funny and excruciating to watch, Extrêmités goes…
“Throwing your body into the fight”: this phrase from film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini, a firm favourite with the choreographers Emio Greco and Pieter Scholten, is particularly appropriate for their first creation as directors of the Ballet National de Marseille. How can classical ballet be turned into a playground, or rather a battlefield, where the individual…
Tracing pathways in space, four jugglers and four ballet dancers share a stage for the first time. Both these formalised systems are ephemeral journeys through time and space, leaving an unseen trace, like an imaginary architecture. 4 x 4 is a celebration of where these paths meet. This seasons sees the sensational Gandini Juggling returning…
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet joined forces with visual artist Antony Gormley to create Babel(words), a dance performance that explores language and its relationship with nationhood, identity and religion. Taking the tale of ‘The Tower of Babel’ as its starting point, Gormley’s 5 huge 3-dimensional frames hint at a nameless intersection in a faceless city…
‘Every once in a while, something magical reminds us that we all have an inner child that must be fed. Through simple, clever and charming humour aimed at satisfying that hunger, Tape Face has created one of the most accessible and enjoyable shows the world has ever seen. Mime with noise, stand-up with no talking…
