The opera, inspired by Euripides’ tragedy The Bacchae, is as seductive as it is topical: When Dionysus – is he a charlatan? is he a demigod? – bursts into the intact world of ancient Thebes, he plunges a city into chaos. In stark contrast to his cousin, King Pentheus, who leads a life marked...
Two atypical characters, one red and one blue, try to communicate. Were it not for Alain's shyness and Rosalba uncontrollable body behaviour whenever she hears a song, a love story could happen. But between the ebbs and flows there is a tiny space. In this major work, Le Quellec entertains and...
A piece of dance theatre conceived and choreographed by Alain Platel for his company Les Ballets C de la B (Les Ballets Contemporains de la Belgique). Platel was in the process of developing the work when he learnt of the death of the German choreographer and dancer Pina Bausch and was so moved...