Encounters: Four contemporary ballets
Encounters: Four contemporary ballets
Encounters: Four contemporary ballets
Four 21st-century choreographers. Four bold explorations of movement.
Explore human emotion through movement with bold contemporary works by Kyle Abraham, Pam Tanowitz, Joseph Toonga and Crystal Pite.
Explore human emotion through movement with bold contemporary works by Kyle Abraham, Pam Tanowitz, Joseph Toonga and Crystal Pite.
Royal Ballet and Opera Principal Julia Rausing Trust
Dame Tina Taylor DBE, Malcolm and Rosalind Gammie and The American Friends of Covent Garden
Aud Jebsen
Background
The Weathering by Kyle Abraham
A gentle meditation on love, loss and memory, Kyle Abraham’s The Weathering is danced to music by composer Ryan Lott (Everything Everywhere All at Once). The Weathering was the American choreographer’s first one-act work for The Royal Ballet.
Or Forevermore by Pam Tanowitz – new work
In a new work expanding on her previous success with Dispatch Duet, Pam Tanowitz brings her trademark wit and light to turn the conventions of dance inside out.
Dusk by Joseph Toonga – new work
Joseph Toonga presents his second Main Stage work for the Company where the idioms of classical ballet and hip-hop converge.
The Statement by Crystal Pite
Four characters battle for control in Crystal Pite’s riveting dance-drama. Choreographed to spoken word, The Statement explores the shadowy depths of human nature and boardroom politics.
Cast and Creatives
THE WEATHERING
Creatives
OR FOREVERMORE – NEW WORK
Creatives
DUSK – NEW WORK
Creatives
THE STATEMENT
Cast
Artists of The Royal Ballet
Creatives
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