He has been described as a dancer with the body of a Greek god and the aura of a movie star. He has reached the highest of the highest in the ballet world, and he has done it all, as it were, with grace, a disarming smile and without breaking a drop of sweat.
A guest of the Berliner Festspiele Performing Arts Season, the Israeli Batsheva Dance Company presented Ohad Naharin’s MOMO (2022), a non-narrative, mesmerising piece, strongly characterised by duality.
The National Ballet of Canada has a new resident choreographer, David Dawson, who has served in a similar role with HET Nationale Ballet in the Netherlands.
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The artistic directors of all four ensembles of the National Theatre in Prague have announced the performance schedule for the 143rd theatre season.
Exactly sixty years ago, the first version of Onegin, arguably John Cranko's most famous ballet, premiered in Stuttgart. It would receive its final cut two years later, followed by international acclaim another two years after that, during a tour of the United States.
On the penultimate day of 2024, the Ministry of Education approved the revised Framework Curriculum for Primary Education. For the first time in the history of Czech education, dance is now a compulsory part of the primary school curriculum.
Beginning during Berlin Art Week and developing over the following months, the joint curatorship of Sophiensæle, Georg Kolbe Museum, and Haus am Waldsee, presented a retrospective on the body of work of Franco-Austrian choreographer, director, interdisciplinary artist, and puppeteer Gisèle Vienne to Berlin.
British organization Dancers’ Career Development (DCD) celebrates its 50th anniversary, marking half a century of supporting professional dancers in transitioning to fulfilling second careers.
Seeing the Paris Opera Ballet’s Paquita on 18 December felt like something of a Christmas miracle. Since opening night on the 5th, the ballet’s holiday run has been repeatedly disrupted by strikes, an increasingly common scenario every December.
