Ailey's choreographical masterpiece Revelations, based on
Ailey's experience growing up as an African American in the South, is
among the best-known and most frequently seen of modern dance
performances.

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In this work for six dancers, choreographer Jiri Kylian's décor - a
synthetic back wall comprised of eight large sheets or strips, with
hidden spaces between each - converts the stage into a place of
illusion, fantasy and ...

Falling Angels is a part of the Black and White ballets which were created in 1989 with 8 white female dancers dressed in black leotards. It was performed to drumming/percussion music based on ceremonial ritual music from Ghana (West Africa). ...

Rambling, oblique, maddeningly repetitive, violent yet often savagely
funny, played out on stages piled with earth, or brick rubble, or
fields of fake flowers, her work resists categorisation as dance, drama
or installation art. ...

Danced by Yann Bridard & Marie Agnes Gillot

Sung by Maria Riccarda Wesseling & Julia Kleiter

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Altynai Asylmuratova and Roland Petit in Coppélia.
In 1975
Roland Petit created his Coppélia, casting himself as Doctor Coppélius
- who became the main character. He placed the work around 1880, in a
garrison town wh ...

Alain Platel, director and choreographer, is best known for his
pioneering work with the internationally acclaimed Belgian companies
"Les Ballets C de La B" and "Victoria". He founded Les Ballets C de la
B in ...

The young man and the Death choregraphed by Roland Petit

Marie-Agnes Gillot: The Death

Nicolas Le Riche The young man

"Le jeune homme et la mort" was created in 1946 by the 22-year old ...

Since its creation for the Paris Opéra Ballet in April 1994,
Angelin Preljocaj' work, Le Parc has become a classic of the
company's repertoire. Inspired by seventeenth and eighteenth century French art
...