Watch a full program choreographed by contemporary dance master Carolyn Carlson. 

Over the course of her career,  Franco-American choreographer Carlson has crafted well over 100 works. Her pieces have played a key role in the blossoming of French and Italian contemporary dance, and her style has left a lasting impact on the contemporary dance world.

Discover some of her most iconic works in this tribute to the great choreographer. The program features five of Carlson's incredible pieces performed by dancers from her company,  Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson, plus a final piece danced by Carlson herself. 


Program: 
The Seven’th Man 
It’s Alright 
Wind Women 
Mandala 
Prologue


A unique evening programmed and orchestrated by choreographer and dancer Carolyn Carlson, which will in a way conclude her career.

Island: Tribute to Carolyn Carlson

South African brothers Siphe and Mthuthuzeli November dance together for the first time since their childhood in Zolani. 

Both talented dancers, the brothers were separated as children to study at ballet schools a world apart -Siphe with The National Ballet of Canada (Toronto) and Mthuthuzeli with Ballet Black (London, U.K.). In this moving work filmed at the Battersea Arts Centre, they come together to perform a beautiful piece inspired by their relationship as brothers. This piece was part of Fall For Dance North's 2022 festival.

My Mother’s Son unites South African brothers Siphe November and Mthuthuzeli November in performance for the first time since their childhood.

My Mother's Son

Ten years after Mikhail Baryshnikov and Ana Laguna’s iconic duet, Place, Mats Ek brings to life a second duet at the Paris Opera. 

Echoing the original duet, Another Place follows a couple as they navigate love, its impulses, its exhaustion, the emotional wear and tear, and the vulnerability of rekindling the flame of love. 

Set to Franz Liszt’s dramatic Sonata in B minor this piece is a dialogue between a couple that only Mats Ek knows how to portray. This duet also marked Stéphane Bullion’s final performance with the Paris Opera Ballet adding an extra layer of bittersweet love.

Echoing the mythical duet of Ana Laguna and Mikhail Baryshnikov in Place, Mats Ek composed Another Place at the Paris Opera ten years later.

Another Place by Mats Ek

Hip Hop choreographer Mourad Merzouki brings to life a new work for the technological age. 

Together with his Compagnie Käfig Merzouki is credited with elevating Hip Hop, turning it into a contemporary dance form that is on par with Modern Dance or other expressions of today's dance world. 

This visually stunning co-production between Merzouki and digital artists Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne, Pixel was inspired by the everyday confrontation with, ‘’images, video screens, digitalization. Screens surround us.’’ Dancers interact with digital projections, manipulating the synthetic world they exist in. 

Hip Hop choreographer Mourad Merzouki brings to life a new work for the technological age. 

Pixel

Fall for Dance North presents More Forever, directed by Oscar-nominated Barbara Willis-Sweete, and choreographed by New York’s celebrated artist Caleb Teicher. 

More forever blurs the lines between movement and music. Set to a percussive score composed and performed by contemporary pianist Conrad Tao, this performance leaps to life on a sand-coated stage. As Tao plays his score live on a grand piano as dancers perform around him. The eclectic choreography draws influence from jazz, tap, and Lindy Hop creating an infectiously playful work. This is a dance that sneaks up on you and soaks you in its sheer musicality.

More Forever is a captivating percussive dance and music work with New York’s Caleb Teicher & Company and Conrad Tao.

More Forever

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

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

Between dream and reality a girl finds herself in an empty theatre’s audience (Royal Danish Theatre) to find out there are other people there with her. While events between the dancers unfold, a voice guides them on a journey of surreality where the relation between the audience and the stage is connected by a subtle veil.

A voice guides a group of dancers on a journey of surreality where the relation between the audience and the stage is connected by a subtle veil.

VIVIDREAM

In 1998 Mourad Merzouki created Récital, in which the energy of hip-hop mingled with the fragile sound of violins to create a dialogue between six dancers. Hip-hop becomes an art form for him and Merzouki´s Compagnie Käfig begins to tour the world. 16 years later he unites five of his choreographer friends and thirty dancers in order to create Répertoire#1which revives the most memorable pieces of the last years and gives these pieces a continuous life while presenting their creators in their esthetic uniqueness.

This new ballet presents a piece each by Kader Attou, Anthony Égéa, Bouba Landrille Tschouda, and Marion Motin and four pieces by Mourad Merzouki to form an evening´s spectacle. The who´s who of French hip-hop repeats what has happened in the arts time and again: a popular movement is elevated to so called high art.

Mourad Merzouki unites five of his choreographer friends and thirty dancers in order to create Répertoire#1.

Répertoire#1

Explore the seven sins through dance, envy, greed, gluttony, anger, lust, sloth, and pride.

This ambitious project, put together by Eric Gauthier, brings together seven A-list choreographers of worldwide fame. Each of them transforms a mortal sin into a short work for Gauthier Dance// Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart. 

The result: seven fiercely moving premieres from Aszure Barton, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Sharon Eyal, Marcos Morau, Sasha Waltz, and the two Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart artists in residence: Marco Goecke and Hofesh Shechter.

Program:
Greed - Sidi Larbi Cherkoui 
Sloth - Aszure Barton 
Pride - Marcos Morau 
Gluttony - Marco Goecke 
Lust - Hofesh Shechter 
Wrath - Sasha Waltz 
Envy - Sharon Eyal

Eric Gauthier presents his collective collage portraying the seven deadly sins in movement at the Stuttgart Theaterhaus.

Gauthier Dance: The Seven Sins

A captivating story told through BSL, voice and movement, Unspoken Spoken is performed by a cast of disabled and non-disabled dancers. Created and filmed with support from digital commissioning body The Space, Arts Council England and the BBC, the film seeks to raise awareness of Candoco’s work amongst a digital audience for the first time.

A captivating story told through BSL, voice and movement, Unspoken Spoken is performed by a cast of disabled and non-disabled dancers.

Unspoken Spoken

This dance piece explores life with Dementia (and Alzheimer's Disease) by combining dance, music, and film with Khalil Gibran’s moving poetry.

The Poet focuses on the relationship between a father, John Welker, and his daughter, Rachel Van Buskirk, as he grapples with losing his memory. As his memory fades he struggles to hold on to what he knows through his poetry, revealing a life-affirming inner world that is both mysterious and beautiful. 

This unique piece was designed for film and is filled with beautiful cinematic scenes. The Poet was choreographed and co-directed by Tara Lee with breathtaking cinematography from Guay and Cody Collins. Watch the dancers of Terminus Modern Ballet explore the difficult topic of Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease through the mysterious and indefinable medium of dance.

Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre explores the experience of living with Dementia through dance.

The Poet

A group of Young Men brought together by the indiscriminate brutality of war struggle to maintain their humanity in an unending cycle of combat and death.

A group of Young Men brought together by the indiscriminate brutality of war.

Young Men

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.

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

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.

Ballet Boyz Live at the Roundhouse

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

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

Unspoken Spoken (Audio Described)

After the success of their collaboration in Boxe Boxe (2010), choreographer Mourad Merzouki and the Debussy string quartet once again explore the mixing of genres. This piece transforms boxing into a poetic dance, accompanied by music that channels Brazilian energy through classical string instruments. Although they are improbable, Merzouki and Compagnie Käfig’s crossbreeding of genres and styles consistently prove visionary and exciting. Boxe Boxe Brasil is no exception.

Choreographer Mourad Merzouki and the Debussy string quartet once again explore the mixing of genres

Phénix - Mourad Merzouki

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