Christoph Willibald Gluck, an innovator and dance enthusiast, worked throughout his life to ensure that ballet would no longer be reduced to mere entertainment, but would become an expressive and autonomous action. In 1761 in Vienna, his ballet Don…

Barbarian Nights is the second oeuvre of Hervé Koubi with twelve Algerian and Burkinan dancers, selected on an audition in Algeria in 2009. When Koubi speaks of barbarians it is in its historical sense , and to remind us that the Mediterranean…

The Bern Ballet, under the artistic direction of Taiwanese choreographer Po-Cheng Tsai, masterfully reinvents the timeless classic "Don Quixote" in a whirlwind of exhilarating movement and emotionally moving moments on 6 September at the Gare du Midi…

Created by Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young, the award-winning Betroffenheit is a boundary-stretching hybrid of theatre and dance that explores the psychological states of trauma, grief and addiction. Combining tap, salsa, spoken word, song and…

The most charismatic of Iberian artists, renowned for her daring fusion of dance styles, Blanca Li plunges with all her visual and poetic power into the great ancient myth of Dido and Aeneas. From the story of Dido and Aeneas and the masterpiece it…

A parable on the laws of art - Based on Ilse Aichinger's short story A man wakes up. He is bound. The bonds leave him room to move. He performs in a circus. A woman tries to match his movements in the bonds; she fails to seduce him. The bound man…

A Musical Theatre by Alain Platel. For years, the tension between the group and the individual has been the central theme in Platel’s performances. In C(H)ŒURS, so far his biggest project, he examines – together with his dancers and the Teatro Real…

A ballet by Cayetano Soto & Dario Suša A dance story about Tchaikovsky, illuminating the long-hidden moments of his life. Through his compositions, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky influenced and shaped classical ballet like few other composers. The myth of…

The little guy with his mustache, his bowler hat and his bamboo cane is world-famous. But, who is the man behind this figure? Mario Schröder wondered the same thing when choreographing “Chaplin”. His rise to fame makes Chaplin a person of public…

Many people live in a closed world. What happens to them when they step onto an arena where they can be themselves, free of their usual roles and status? In the film Closed we encounter four completely different people who once a week leave their…