Bold, unpredictable, and innovative. Multi-award-winning choreographer Alexander Ekman's Hammer is a humorous critique of our image-obsessed world. 

A harmonious commune of altruistic individuals begins to dissolve as they adopt a more modern life. With all eyes on them, the community becomes gradually more individualistic and egotistical. Ekman shines a light on the skewed values of contemporary society with talented dancers of the GöteborgsOperans Danskompani. Hammer is a bold testament to Ekman's creative powers.  

Bold, unpredictable, and innovative. Multi-award-winning choreographer Alexander Ekman's Hammer is a humorous critique of our image-obsessed world. 

Alexander Ekman: Hammer

The Ballet Boyz, internationally acclaimed world leaders in groundbreaking stage, film and dance projects - celebrate their 20th anniversary with Deluxe.  

Fusing the work of some of the world’s leading choreographers and composers, Deluxe showcases just why Ballet Boyz have earned their reputation. 

Deluxe includes a work by Chinese dancer and choreographer Xie Xin and Maxine Doyle, who collaborates with Cassie Kinoshi, composer of the Mercury Award nominated SEED Ensemble.

Ballet Boyz celebrate 20 years of world-class dance with Deluxe, a fusion of some of the world’s most exciting choreographers and composers. 

Deluxe

Choreography premiered by Danza Contemporánea de Cuba in 1987, and inspired by the homonymous play of the Peruvian playwright Alonso Alegría. In 2015, Carlos Acosta recovered the piece for the repertoire of his company Acosta Danza. This Duet focuses on a tightrope walk across Niagara Falls showing the sheer strength and focus of a dancer as they move faultlessly across the stage. Boan’s El cruce sobre el Niágara is one of the most important choreographies of modern Cuban dance.

Boan’s El cruce sobre el Niágara is one of the most important choreographies of modern Cuban dance.

El Cruce Sobre El Niágra

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre's enchanting work captures the serene beauty and spiritual sanctuary of the evergreen bamboo forests. 
 
Artistic Director Lin Hwai-min’s choreography masterfully blends ancient wisdom and modern artistry to create an immersive world, inspired in part by The Seven Sages in The Bamboo Grove, a group of third-century Chinese scholars, musicians, and writers, who retreated to the bamboo groves to escape persecution and to continue their political and artistic endeavors.  

Set to music by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and improvised melodies from Chinese flute player Huang Sheng-kai, the dancers create six expressive scenes that follow the ever-changing seasons: Morning Mist, Spring Breeze, Summer Heat, Autumn Path, When Rain Stops, At Midnight and Snow. With skillful meditative motion inspired by martial arts, contemporary dance, and ballet, dancers flow through tall stalks of bamboo. This work is a moving testament to the skill and caliber of Cloudgate Dance Theatre.  

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre's enchanting work captures the serene beauty and spiritual sanctuary of the evergreen bamboo forests. 

Bamboo Dream

This short piece, choreographed by Silas Farley for Washington Ballet Dancer Gian Carlo Perez, captures the impressive beauty of the U.S Capital’s great Lincoln Memorial.

This co-commission from The Washington Ballet and Marquee TV is set to an outstanding archival recording of Copland’s Fanfare For The Common Man, recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Copland himself.

Watch Choreographer Silas Farley’s moving dance piece set to Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for The Common Man.

Fanfare for the Common Man

Presented by Fall For Dance North, Choreographer Aszure Barton captures the colourful spirit of Havana with Cuba’s Malpaso Dance Company.

Directed by Vikram Dasgupta and filmed on-site in the breezy courtyard of a classic Baroque building in Havana, Cuba, dancers fill the space with captivating kinetic energy. Like the bustling streets of the city, friends and loved ones flow through space to the rhythm of jazz.  

Presented by Fall For Dance North, Choreographer Aszure Barton captures the colourful spirit of Havana with Cuba’s Malpaso Dance Company.

Bloom

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre's breathtaking tribute to the serene and meditative beauty of water. 

Inspired by the Buddhist proverb ''Flowers in a mirror and the moon on water are both illusive,'' choreographer Lin Hwai-min has created a poetic exploration of the ever-changing and cyclical nature of life. Set to the backdrop of Bach's Six Cello Suites, played by Mischa Maisky, dancers move in front of a mirror on a reflective stage playing with the elusive nature of reflection. Through years of Tai Chi training with master Shong Wei, the Cloud Gate dancers exude control and balance in their movements giving the impression of sculptural stillness that is nothing short of mesmirizing.  

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre's breathtaking tribute to the serene and meditative beauty of water. 

Moon Water

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre's visually stunning work is a meditative journey that seamlessly blends dance, nature, and ancient wisdom.

Choreographed by the esteemed Lin Hwai-min, dancers evoke spiritual pilgrimages inspired by Herman Hesse's account of Siddhartha's quest and the introspective religious practices found throughout Asia. A lone monk stands in complete stillness as three tons of golden rice grains flow onto his head and to the stage, creating a shifting landscape of hills, deserts, and rivers that usher the dancers along their journey.  Enchanting Georgian folksongs reverberate through the space while dancers sift through the sandy rice creating a powerful narrative of self-discovery and the pursuit of enlightenment.  

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre's visually stunning work is a meditative journey that seamlessly blends dance, nature, and ancient wisdom.


Songs of the Wanderers

Soledad is a duo full of sensuality and emotion that explores the wild and tender aspects of a love relationship. Bonachela received the Guglielmo Ebreo Award and the Critics Award at the first international Biennale Danza Italia competition for independent choreographers, in Italy, 2006.

Soledad is a duo full of sensuality and emotion that explores the wild and tender aspects of a love relationship.

Soledad

Silent Lines was inspired by Maliphant’s research and explorations in movement and anatomy to create rich and resonant aesthetics for the stage using a blend mix of music, movement, animated video projection, and lighting. The piece investigates a range of poetic possibilities from internal and external environments, the microcosm and the macrocosm. Drawing on methodologies from a variety of movement disciplines and setting the movement within a world of animated light and atmospheric sound, Silent Lines explores the endless web of connections we encompass and embody.

Silent Lines was inspired by Maliphant’s research and explorations in movement and anatomy.

Silent Lines

Discover the world of Odissi at the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble’s one-of-a-kind dance village.

The incredible ten-acre dance campus is located near Bangalore, India. There, women and girls come from all over to study contemporary Odissi, a form of Indian Classical Dance that uses symbolic theatrical dance movements to convey a spiritual story. 

In this documentary-style dance piece, the company's Artistic Director, Surupa Sen, speaks about the ancient dance style and shows off the school's talented pupils. This piece was part of Fall For Dance North's 2022 festival.

Discover the world of contemporary Odissi at the Nrityagram Dance Ensemble’s one-of-a-kind dance village.

Lalita Lavanga

This captivating short dance film unveils the story of a lonely ice fisherman who finds an unlikely friend trapped within the depths of the frozen sea ice.  

Against the backdrop of a desolate Arctic shore, a lonely fisherman's fate intertwines with that of a frozen prehistoric man encased in ice. As twilight descends, the ice-bound figure defrosts, revealing an unexpected friend and dance partner. Yet, as the dawn's unforgiving light breaks, revelations shatter the facade of their newfound connection. Combining the art of silent narrative, deadpan Nordic humor, and an original soundtrack by avant-garde accordion wizard Kimmo Pohjonen, this acclaimed short film has taken the festival circuit by storm. Its enigmatic storytelling and mesmerizing choreography have earned it both critical praise and an enthusiastic following.

This captivating short dance film unveils the story of a lonely ice fisherman who finds an unlikely friend trapped within the depths of the frozen sea ice.

Cold Storage

Sensual and entrancing, Kylián's Wings of Wax is an allegorical journey danced beneath the branches of an inverted tree to a hauntingly beautiful score of selections by musical giants Philip Glass, Heinrich von Biber, John Cage, and Johann Sebastian Bach.

Kylián's Wings of Wax is an allegorical journey danced beneath the branches of an inverted tree to a hauntingly beautiful score.

Wings of Wax

With BiT, Maguy Marin signs her forty-ninth opus in barely forty years. At the center of this brutal charge against ordinary barbarism lies the question of rhythm.

The title refers to the computer term for the unit of measurement of information, this word-syllable gives an initial rhythmic drive, after which the show takes shape, relentless succession of scansions and impulses, twists and tensions orchestrated with the feverish rigor of a dance both joyful and desperate. As a constant in the piece, in an obsessive continuity, the same structure: the farandole, a form of collective dance passed down through the ages, is the recurring motif. All the colors of the human condition slide in, love rites and dances of death. On an exhilarating techno music all in beats, the entire show has no shortage of cruelty on the analysis of contemporary society, in the dark conclusion of the dominations exerted on the intimate as well as the social, a deterioration of which we ourselves are the actors. BiT takes us into the depths of our humanity and questions our individual responsibilities in the turmoil of each passing day.

BiT takes us into the depths of our humanity and questions our individual responsibilities in the turmoil of each passing day.

BalletBoyz perform Liam Scarlett’s Serpent and Russell Maliphant’s Fallen with music by Max Richter and Armand Amar, accompanied by BBC Concert Orchestra.

BalletBoyz perform Liam Scarlett’s Serpent and Russell Maliphant’s Fallen.

A New Stage: Curated by Tiler Peck

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