Type: Modern Ballet
Venue: Palais Garnier, Paris
Choreographer: Thierry Malandain
Music: Compositions by Debussy and von Weber
Principal Dancer: Yvette Chauvire
Year: 2012

Thierry Malandain describes this ballet as a light, joyful escape from life's struggles, offering a moment to forget worries...

Suite Flamenca by the Antonio Gades Company is a vibrant and passionate ballet that showcases the heart and soul of Spanish flamenco. Through intricate footwork, expressive movement, and powerful music, the performance captures the intensity and emotion of flamenco dance. Blending traditional ele...

Type: Modern Ballet
Lead Dancer: Zizi Jeanmaire
Director: Igor Markevitch
Venue: Teatro Regio di Parma, Italy
Year: 1960

Maurice Bejart’s 1960 choreography of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring is still a groundbreaking and electrifying performance. It adeptly captures the raw intensity and primal ener...

Type: Modern Ballet
Company: Paris Opera Ballet
Choreographer: Maurice Bejart
Location: Grand Palais Garnier, Paris
Year: 1962

Béjart's choreography transformed Ravel's hypnotic composition into a mesmerizing dance, emphasizing a build-up of intensity. The minimalist costumes, featuring form-fit...

Type: Modern Ballet
Choreographer: Maurice Bejart
Dancer: Jorge Donn
Conductor: Maya Plisetskaya
Location: Cirque Royal, Brussels
Year: 1977

The 1977 film Bolero, directed by Claude Lelouch, is considered superior to earlier versions due to its intricate storytelling, emotional depth, and seaml...

Type: Modern Ballet
Performers: The Tokyo Ballet & Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Zubin Mehta
Choreography: Maurice Béjart
Ballet: The Ninth Symphony
Location: Palace of Congress
Music: Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Year: 2018

Maurice Bejart's The Ninth Symphony is a dynamic ballet that b...

Type: Flamenco Ballet
Location: Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain
Performed by: Antonio Gades Company
Director and Choreographer: Antonio Gades
Soloists: Cristina Carnero, Angel Gil
Year: 2011

Blood Wedding is a searing flamenco ballet where love defies duty, and fate carves its path in silence. Throug...

Type: Classical Ballet
Ballet Company: The Russian Ballet
Artistic Director: Thierry Malandain, Martin Harriague'
Director: Patrick Lauze
Venue: Chaillot - National Theater of Dance, Paris
Year: 2021

Thierry Malandain's The Firebird and Martin Harriague's The Rite of Spring are two ballets that ...

Type: Modern Dance
Location: St. Paul's Cathedral
Performance: The Land of Yes and The Land of No
Year: 2012

This contemporary dance was staged on the steps of St Paul's Cathedral in London. Created as a site-specific performance, the piece brings together movement and architecture in a dia...