The Nutcracker is an 1892 Classical ballet in Two Acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination. The plot is an adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1816 short story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. The ballet's first choreographer ...

TRISTAN & ISOLDE

"Salue pour moi le monde !" say Isolde before she leaves Brangäne while waiting for Tristan to make him drink the philtre of the expiation which will become a love potion, simple alibi. Joëlle Bouvier again explores the great myth about the music of Richard Wagner. She wants to ...

The Sleeping Beauty is a Ballet in a prologue and three acts to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 66, completed in 1889.

It is the second of his three ballets and, at 160 minutes, his second-longest work in any genre. The original scenario was by Ivan Vsevolozhsky after Perrault's La ...

Subject to the dictates of modern beauty and the taboos of tradition - when it is not reduced to the expression of violence or hunger - the body of the African man is stigmatized. In an attempt to free him from his complexes, the South African choreographer Robyn Orlin and eight dancers from the ...

With Auguri, the choreographer and director of the CCN Ballet du Nord offers a large and powerful piece for around twenty dancers.
Confronting the raging elements, Olivier Dubois puts the “protean pack” of augurs into dance. Olivier Dubois took his time to "meet" the dance: it was not until the ...

María Jesús Pagés Madrigal, better known as María Pagés, is a modern Spanish dancer and choreographer and one of the most internationally renowned Flamenco artists in the world. She is considered the paramount representative of flamenco vanguard. Internationally acclaimed for her personal aesthet...

Ballet in two acts, freely inspired by the novel Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

In a hymn to humanism and the spirit of discovery that brings the entire world within our reach, Marco Polo by Luciano Cannito is a choreographic fresco that subtly combines the most dazzling shades. Here, a class...

Hedda Gabler is one of the most famous characters in the world of theater - an icon created by Henrik Ibsen. Here, this deeply psychological game is transformed into a chamber ballet, created by director Marit Moum Aune and performed by Nils Petter Molvær.

It became clear, when Marit Moum Aune p...

Dive into the depths of the sea and swim alongside the Little Mermaid with the Czech National Ballet.

Everyone knows the story of the Little Mermaid, the young underwater creature yearning to exchange her fishtail for a pair of human legs, and who goes on to sacrifice her voice and her life for ...

Physical aggression, an at once fascinating and repulsive subject, is as old as the human race itself. This provocative new performance on the collective loss of memory reveals the hidden force and motivations of human behavior that lead to violence and killing.

We live in a time when most of us...