Dance

Let’s Dance! With "Disco: Acrobatics, Dinner, Dance", the Wintergarten Varieté Berlin celebrates the dazzling disco era in all its facets. more

Platform 14 is an annual international dance festival that challenges traditional boundaries of genre and form. Selected dancers and choreographers present their contemporary, urban and experimental dance... more

This evening brings together two key works by the choreographer William Forsythe, which conceive of ballet not exclusively as a kinesthetic event but as a product of aggregated semiotic fields. In the... more

The mystery of the beauty and the sorrow that we see, tumbling buildings, hungry eyes, young children giggling, wanting to know everything, the holding of hands, the stacks of pillows on the side of the... more

A contemporary dance piece for three performers, inspired by William Shakespeare’s tragedy „King Lear“. It depicts Lear battling his own shadow, which refuses to let him go and embodies all his hybrid... more

Jiří Kylián has left a lasting mark on 20th-century ballet. In Gods and Dogs, Kylián bridges the divine and the instinctual, order and madness, in a radically concentrated manner. The piece explores the... more

In times of humanitarian and ecological crises, hatred and fear are growing unstoppably and are polarising our societies. Based on the confucian Zhong Yong, also known as Doctrine of the Mean, and its... more

“I don’t want strangers to touch me on the subway. And yet I hope that if I were to fall one day, someone would come to me.”   POINT OF TOUCH stems from these words. Not from a desire to celebrate closeness... more

What happens when an overstimulated body enters a state of numbness? What kinds of signals demand our attention, and which ones are no longer perceived? “PRESERVE - Call for Attention” is a choreographic... more

Christian Spuck’s new production places E.T.A. Hoffmann’s literary original at its center, emphasizing the tension between childhood innocence and the awakening of self-awareness. Since Hoffmann’s 1816... more

Through impressive trio acrobatics, “Shrouded” explores the power of human emotions and translates the complexity of inner states into movement. Inner turmoil coexists with moments of harmony and lightness.... more

Everything is transient—performance, body, life, even the idea of home.   Looking back on himself from his exile in Germany—as a dancer, a son, and as a human being—choreographer and performer Ivan Estegneev... more

Anyone who thinks of “classical ballet” as stiff people in fur coats has never been to this tour. more

Gustave Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary is considered a masterpiece of French realism and a pioneering work of literary modernity. Flaubert devoted five years to writing this work, which was published in... more

The multi-award-winning ballet Nureyev, choreographed by Yuri Possokhov, composed by Ilya Demutsky and staged by visionary director Kirill Serebrennikov, premiered in December 2017 at Moscow’s world-famous... more