Classical ballet mixed programme

• Serenade (non-narrative)

• Prodigal Son (narrative work based on the biblical tale)

• Symphony in C (non-narrative)

Three works by George Balanchine, the influential early 20th-century choreographer who is considered the father of American ballet.

Part of Dance Reflections Festival by Van Cleef & Arpels.

Two contemporary dance works exploring marginalised people:

• CROW: “Jules and collaborators explore a more spacious world of responsive ritual, symbolism and connected solitude, qualities associated with the crow.”

• Pigeons: “Working with pigeon groupings and behaviour, the dancers explore ways of being alone and together, disruption and distraction.”

Part of Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections Festival

“A duet for two bodies: Georges Labbat and his translucent, rigid and plastic alter-ego, fashioned in resin.”

Contemporary dance

Part of Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections Festival

Contemporary dance

“Dancers and athletes move effortlessly between a criss-crossing web of high wires and slack lines”

Part of Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections Festival

Postmodern dance performed in an unusual space

Award-winning American choreographer

An exploration of rituals

Part of Dance Reflections Festival by Van Cleef & Arpels.

A contemporary dance piece reinterpreted every time its performed.

This time Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company join forces with Rambert Dance School students.

Part of Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections Festival

Contemporary African dance

“an homage to the rickshaw drivers of South Africa’s past.”

Performed by “Moving into Dance Mophatong (MIDM), a company nourished by Zulu traditions and a flagship for contemporary dance in South Africa.”

Part of Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections Festival

Contemporary dance mixed with video technology

French choreographer

Accompanied by a live performance of Bach’s The Art of Fugue

Part of Dance Reflections Festival by Van Cleef & Arpels.

Two contemporary dance pieces by 20th century modern dance legend Merce Cunningham

Programme:

• BIPED: “references that humans are two footed creatures. The choreography focusses on movement restricted to motion supported by the feet.”

• Beach Birds: “In Cunningham’s words Beach Birds “is all based on individual physical phrasing. The dancers don’t have to be exactly together. They can dance like a flock of birds, when they suddenly take off.””

Part of Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections Festival

A dance solo taking inspiration from various artforms including the Madigascan dance Afindrafindrao and popping.

Part of Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections Festival

Contemporary dance

Solo retelling of the ballet Giselle

Accompanied by live music

Part of Dance Reflections Festival by Van Cleef & Arpels.

Contemporary dance

“Through dance, movement, instrumentals, ritual and chant, Hagay Dreaming recounts a story based on an ancient legend connected to the Truku indigenous culture of Taiwan.”

Taiwanese-American choreographer

Part of Dance Reflections Festival by Van Cleef & Arpels

Two contemporary dance pieces

Programme:

• Working Title, Trisha Brown

• In the Fall, Noé Soulier

Part of Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections Festival

Title translates to “An over-protected eye always gets sand in it”.

Contemporary dance solo

French choreographer

Part of Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections Festival