Boston Ballet
Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen
TranscenDanses
Two major figures from the world of contemporary ballet, Alexander Ekman and Akram Khan, feature on Boston Ballet programme.
Dates
CACTI Created on 25 February 2010 at NDT 2, The Hague; premiered by Boston Ballet on 8 May 2014 at Boston Opera House
Alexander Ekman | choreography, set design, costumes
Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert | music
Tom Visser | lighting, stage design
Spenser Theberge | text
Live music
VERTICAL ROAD (reimagined) Created on October 5, 2023 for Boston Ballet
Akram Khan | direction & choreography
Aditya Prakash, Nitin Swahney | music
Jesper Kongshaug, Richard Fagan | lighting
Kimie Nakano | costumes
Ruth Little | dramaturgy
Akram Khan, Kimie Nakano, Jesper Kongshaug | set design
Recorded music
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Approx. running time : 1h40 with intermission
About
For more than sixty years, this American East-coast company’s repertoire has mixed “classics” (Petipa, Noureev, Balanchine, John Cranko, etc.) with some of the great names in contemporary dance (William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Wayne McGregor, Crystal Pite, Christopher Wheeldon, Jorma Elo, etc.). It is a tribute to the company and to the dancers’ high degree of technical skill that they can master such diverse repertoire which is usually the preserve of some of the biggest international ballet companies in the world. They are back again with two of the most interesting choreographers of their generation, Alexander Ekman and Akram Khan, both regulars at the Théâtre on avenue Montaigne.
TranscenDanses est une coréalisation Productions Internationales Albert Sarfati | Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
