With this ballet, Angelin Preljocaj turns himself into a story-teller for the modern day. "Snow White", as interpreted by the choreographer, is first and foremost a story of a mother who doesn’t want to grow old and die…
MONDAY 05 OCTOBER 2009 | 8.30PM
TUESDAY 06 OCTOBER 2009 | 8.30PM
WEDNESDAY 07 OCTOBER 2009 | 8.30PM
THURSDAY 08 OCTOBER 2009 | 8.30PM
Painter, sculptor, puppeteer, musician, poet, pianist, Alwin Nikolais left behind over 120 ballets that cover the second half of the 20th Century. A whole range of elements, images, sounds and shapes combine for a performance of the theatre arts.
THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 2009 |
2PM - 4PM - 7.30PM
FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER 2009 |
10AM - 2.30PM - 7.30PM
SATURDAY 17 OCTOBER 2009 |
2.30PM - 7.30PM
Born in Marseille in 1967, Miguel Nosibor belongs to the first generation of dancers and choreographers from the hip hop movement. he is one of the pioneers who were influenced by the philosophical message of Afrika Bambaataa or the cult TF1 programme Hip Hop, presented by the versatile host Sidney.
WEDNESDAY 04 NOVEMBER 2009 | 7.30PM
THURSDAY 05 NOVEMBER 2009 |
2.30PM - 7.30PM
FRIDAY 06 NOVEMBER 2009 |
10AM - 2.30PM - 7.30PM
MONDAY 09 NOVEMBER 2009 |
10AM - 2.30PM
Writing a solo for yourself boils down to creating a self-portrait. Why do it, in spite of the difficulties involved? Angelin Preljocaj talks about the special, irrepressible moment when the creator needs to look himself in the eye, back to the wall, without any artifice, and with no other body but his own.
MONDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2009 | 8.30PM
TUESDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2009 | 8.30PM
WEDNESDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2009 | 8.30PM
THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2009 | 8.30PM
FRIDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2009 | 8.30PM
Memory, as though and shown by Wen hui on a theatre stage or in a rehearsal studio, has nothing to do with nostalgia or narcissistic compulsion. It is the place from which action stems. With Memory (2008), Wen hui, a forty-year-old Chinese choreographer, dancer and performer, takes us back to the Cultural Revolution, as she and her family lived it.
THURSDAY 03 DECEMBER 2009 | 8.30PM
FRIDAY 04 DECEMBER 2009 | 8.30PM
For a choreographer, combining Schubert (Winter Journey), Coltrane (My favorite things) and Stravinsky (The Rite of Spring) in a single programme is a way of introducing and even revealing himself. Uniting or gathering together things that normally prefer to be apart: this could throw some light on Emanuel Gat’s dance, rounded and jerky, spring-like and autumnal, clear and secretive, sexual and spiritual.
WEDNESDAY 13 JANUARY 2010 | 8.30PM
THURSDAY 14 JANUARY 2010 | 8.30PM
FRIDAY 15 JANUARY 2010 | 8.30PM
SATURDAY 16 JANUARY 2010 | 7.30PM
Monday in the Sun is a piece of drama and dance that brings together two personalities from the contemporary stage in Turkey: Bedirhan Dehmen and Safak Uysal. Against a background of images of the crossing of the Bosphorus Strait, the two young choreographers question friendship between men.
THURSDAY 28 JANUARY 2010 | 8.30PM
FRIDAY 29 JANUARY 2010 | 8.30PM
The Bagnolet competition was founded in 1969 by the dancer Jaque Chaurand and almost immediately became a strong force for artistic legitimacy and a writing workshop. No one could imagine returning to the funny, polemical, adventurous, democratic atmosphere of the time.
WEDNESDAY 03 FEBRUARY 2010 | 8.30PM
THURSDAY 04 FEBRUARY 2010 | 8.30PM
FRIDAY 05 FEBRUARY 2010 | 8.30PM
SATURDAY 06 FEBRUARY 2010 | 7.30PM
"black soul" is the first part of a diptych, the second of which is called "white space". Black on the one side and white on the other are called on to operate around a disturbing object: the soul. This is the starting point for an exploration qualified by its author Christian Ubl, choreographer and dancer, as an “autobio-choreo-graphy”.
THURSDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2010 | 7.30PM
FRIDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2010 | 7.30PM
In "Asphalte" we discover the style and artistic concerns of Pierre Rigal, a choreographer from Toulouse, who here carries on the work begun in his previous creations, some of which were in partnership with Aurélien Bory.
THURSDAY 11 MARCH 2010 |
2.30PM - 7.30PM
FRIDAY 12 MARCH 2010 | 2.30PM - 7.30PM
Is this the start of a story, with a beginning, a middle and an end? Not necessarily! Let’s see it as the outline of a contemporary fable - a matrix or pretext - that’s flexible and infinitely adaptable. That’s the life of stories, according to Système Castafiore, and we never know the exact nature of their dealings with the images.
THURSDAY 25 MARCH 2010 |
2.30PM - 7.30PM
FRIDAY 26 MARCH 2010 |
10AM - 2.30PM - 7.30PM
SATURDAY 27 MARCH 2010 | 5PM
As patron and founder of the Biarritz Ballet for the last ten years, Thierry Malandain stands out in the world of French dance, remaining a true neoclassical when nearly everyone has chosen to move on to contemporary. Spain is central to Malandain’s mental world in "Carmen", and the question of modernity is a major theme in the creations "Ballet Mécanique" and "The Swan".
WEDNESDAY 07 APRIL 2010 | 8.30PM
THURSDAY 08 APRIL 2010 | 8.30PM
FRIDAY 09 APRIL 2010 | 8.30PM
When he founded his company in 1992, David Mahlaba was looking to offer youth an alternative to unemployment and delinquency by attaching to pantsula this art of resistance and combat. The piece contains anger, posing and mockery. With a quite dazzling understanding of how to put on a show, Via Katlehong Dance incorporates a whole range of contributions and influences. Woza means welcome.
TUESDAY 27 APRIL 2010 | 8.30PM
WEDNESDAY 28 APRIL 2010 | 8.30PM
THURSDAY 29 APRIL 2010 | 8.30PM
FRIDAY 30 APRIL 2010 | 8.30PM
