Overview

Each in their own way, the choreographers brought together for this evening have (re)defined the art of movement.

La Nuit transfigurée

Premiered in 2014 –
created for the Compagnie Rosas
Production by the Opéra de Lyon
Coproduction with Dance Biennale
Reprise

By moonlight, a woman confesses to her lover that she is carrying another man’s child. The young Schoenberg composed a now-famous post-Romantic score, celebrated for its poetry and unbridled lyricism. La Nuit transfigurée set Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s imagination ablaze: she choreographed it as a boldly passionate love story – one that unfolds under the moonlight of a transfigured night. Night, too, has the power to blur the lines of reality.

Workwithinwork

Premiered in 1998 –
created for the Frankfurt Ballet
Reprise

William Forsythe has ceaselessly challenged his native language – classical ballet – in order to forge his own grammar. With Workwithinwork, one of the most influential American choreographers of his generation sweeps dancers and audiences alike into a continuum of sensation that constantly defies expectation and radiates modernity. Set to Luciano Berio’s Duos for Two Violins, this virtuosic pointe work transforms the academic vocabulary into a true playground, shaping an ever-evolving laboratory.

North Sea

Premiered in 2027 – created
for the Lyon Opera Ballet

The van Opstal siblings – Imre, the sister, and Marne, the brother – are the rising sun of the world of European dance. As part of a cycle devoted to the elements, the two Dutch artists created for our Ballet a work in which their splendidly organic language, tinged with neoclassical accents, explores the way human beings are shaped by their environment. In collaboration with visual artist Boris Acket—whose imagery is strikingly alive, poised between material presence and poetic immateriality—this dance-performance continues to reimagine the very space of dance.

Distribution:

La Nuit transfigurée:

Choreographer: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Composer: Arnold Schönberg - Verklärte Nacht, op. 4
Costume designers: Rosas, Rudy Sabounghi
Lighting designers: Luc Schaltin, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Musical dramaturg: Georges-Élie Octors
Stagers: Boštjan Antončič, Cynthia Loemij, Johanne Saunier
Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon
Conductor: Miguel Pérez Iñesta

Workwithinwork:

Choreographer, set and lighting designer: William Forsythe
Composer: Luciano Berio, Duo pour deux violons, vol. 1
Costume designer: Stephen Galloway
Stagers: Jill Johnson, Thierry Guiderdoni
Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon

North Sea:

Choreographers and costume designers: Imre & Marne van Opstal
Set designer: Boris Acket
Lighting designer: Tom Visser
Assistant choreographer: Chloé Albaret
Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon

Running Time: 2 hours 15 minutes – 1 intermission