ballet

Dance is the hidden language of the soul and a reflection of our body, sometimes playful, sometimes painful, and the choreographer’s role is to release that soul...   These words by the legendary American dancer and choreographer Martha Graham so aptly define the ballet performance, offering the audience a chance to explore three different thematic, musical, visual, and intellectual spaces.    This time, we are presented with ...

The classic ballet The Nutcracker, telling the story of young Clara’s adventures, gains new meaning by being combined with Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The extraordinary stage grandeur, characteristic of Hungarian choreographer Youri Vámos’ style, is reflected both in the lavish costumes and sets as well as in the unique theatrical imagination.Technically demanding for the ballet company yet amusing and full of ...

No one has collaborated with Gauthier Dance as many times as the great dance aesthete from Italy. Mauro Bigonzetti's pieces have been an integral part of the company's repertoire since the first season in 2007/08. Just recently, Eric Gauthier „incorporated“ the body-twisting choreography Pression from High Five in the anniversary programme 15 YEARS ALIVE. Those familiar with Bigonzetti's work will not be surprised by the element Eric Gauthier ...

English National Ballet is proud to return to Poland and Lodz Ballet Festival for the first time since 2017. Feel the power, beauty and raw emotion of dance with English National Ballet. Experience the bold, boundary-pushing work of Crystal Pite and William Forsythe.  Crystal Pite’s Body and Soul (Part 1) is a hypnotic work that explores our response to loss and the complex, conflicting emotions that follow. It opens with two dancers in ...

In the first choreographic adaptation of The Maias, a seminal work of Portuguese literature, Fernando Duarte presents a ballet that breathes new life into narrative through dance, a form of expression widely cherished by audiences. This original work combines the dramatic intensity of Eça de Queirós’s universe with the unique expressiveness of choreography. Offering a contemporary exercise in intermediality, the piece evokes and reinterprets ...

Supernova is a diptych of ballets created by outstanding figures of contemporary choreography - Sharon Eyal and Jacek Przybyłowicz - for the Łódź ballet company. As part of the evening opening the Lodz Ballet Festival, the audience will see Bedroom Folk, originally created for Nederlands Dans Theatre, and Echos - a world premiere choreographed by Jacek Przybyłowicz to music by Adam Walicki. Both works are the result of close ...

In summer 2025, Akram Khan will work with Gauthier Dance for the first time. His starting point will be excerpts from four productions that have become classics and were created on himself or Akram Khan Company. The title Turning of Bones not only alludes to a ritual of remembrance practised mainly in Madagascar – Famadihana, where people take the remains of their ancestors, wrapped in cloth, out of the graves to reconnect with their heritage. ...

This exceeded all expectations! Almost a half-hour standing ovation from the crowds in the audience and an endless series of sensational encores by the dancers - wrote 'the oracle' of Lodz critics, Anna Iżykowska-Mironowicz, in 1990 in the pages of Głos Poranny after the premiere of Zorba the Greek at the Grand Theatre in Lodz.   It was specifically for Lorca Massine - the famous dancer, choreographer, son of the great and ...