Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui News

Jack Ferver's critically acclaimed Everything Is Imaginable returns to New York Live Arts' mainstage as the finale to the 2019 Live Arteryplatform during the annual Association of Performing Arts Professionals conference, January 7, 2019 at 10pm and January 8-12 at 8pm. Presented in collaboration withAmerican Realness, Ferver's radiant and evocative dance-theater piece juxtaposes the lives, virtuosity, and fantasies of its five queer performers.

Akram Khan Company have today announced a brand-new production from the multi award-winning choreographer and dancer Akram Khan. Outwitting the Devil will premiere in Stuttgart in July 2019. The announcement comes six weeks ahead of Until the Lions' homecoming to the Roundhouse in London, Khan's first ever work in the round and one of his most haunting, which he will dance for the last ever time. Both pieces of work will explore old myth and reinterpret them in a contemporary context, in a way that Khan has become renowned for in his career over the last two decades. Brand new images for Until the Lions have also been released today. Outwitting the Devil will premiere at COLOURS International Dance Festival, Stuttgart, running 13-14 July. Until the Lions at the Roundhouse runs from 11 - 17 January 2019. Tickets for Until the Lions are now on sale.

Over the last two years, the Abbey Theatre has welcomed close to 300,000 audience members to 97 productions and events, not only at the Abbey Theatre, but also in pubs, theatres and venues across Ireland and beyond.

200,000 people came to Adelaide Festival Centre, the Riverbank and city venues to experience the best contemporary arts from across Asia and beyond, reaffirming OzAsia Festival as Australia's major international arts festival engaging with Asia. 

DanceHouse, in co-presentation with SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs and Theatre la Seizieme, is delighted to announce the anticipated Vancouver premiere of Akram Khan Company's award-winning solo, Chotto Desh - loosely based on Khan's childhood raised under the stern eye of his authoritarian father, November 21-24, 2018 at 8pm at the SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts. Performances will be held in French on November 22 at 8pm and with ASL Interpretation on November 24 at 2pm. Revered UK choreographer Akram Khan and acclaimed children's theatre Director Sue Buckmaster fuse kathak, storytelling, mime, and interactive animation, to create a bewitching tale of a young man's dreams and memories growing up in Britain and Bangladesh. This charming work for adults and children ages seven and up, will address the complex relationship between parent and child, as well as timely concepts of home, identity, and belonging in our multicultural world.

Australia's largest lantern parade has wowed attendees, with more than 40,000 converging on Elder Park and Lucky Dumpling Market to soak up the colour, lights and entertainment.

The UK premieres of two works choreographed by Sadler's Wells Associate Artist Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, with designs by his regular collaborator, the sculptor Antony Gormley, are presented by Swedish contemporary dance company GoteborgsOperans Danskompani at Sadler's Wells this autumn.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts announced its 2018 White Light Festival, which will run October 16 through November 18. The multidisciplinary festival will feature events presented in six venues across the city, including world, U.S., and New York premieres. The ninth annual international festival will explore transcendence, interior illumination, and the communal impulse as exhibited through artistic expression across continents and centuries.

The opening engagement of this year's White Light Festival is the return of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Sutra, which had its U.S. premiere in a sold-out run at the inaugural White Light Festival in 2010. The Belgian choreographer - who will take the stage for opening night - mixes contemporary dance with martial arts in this singular piece, which features warrior monks from China's Shaolin Temple, a Zen Buddhist enclave devoted to kung fu.

Jagged Little Pill will stage a developmental lab this winter, following its world premiere earlier this year at the American Repertory Theater.

The opening engagement of this year's White Light Festival is the return of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Sutra, which had its U.S. premiere in a sold-out run at the inaugural White Light Festival in 2010. The Belgian choreographer - who will take the stage for opening night - mixes contemporary dance with martial arts in this singular piece, which features warrior monks from China's Shaolin Temple, a Zen Buddhist enclave devoted to kung fu.

Nearly two years ago to the day, Carlos Acosta presented A Classical Farewell at London's Royal Albert Hall, a mix of solos and pas de deux with his esteemed Royal Ballet colleagues to celebrate his career . Fast forward to 2018, and he's still saying farewell but now with a focus on the future, through his dynamic Cuban company, Acosta Danza.

In the first highlight of the season, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, accompanied by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, led by Kazuki Yamada, will perform a Hommage a Nijinsky, consisting of four choreographies in December.

Premier temps fort de la saison, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, accompagnes par l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo dirige par Kazuki Yamada, interpreteront en decembre un Hommage a Nijinsky comprenant quatre choregraphies.

The Roundhouse, Akram Khan Company and Sadler's Wells have today announced that the multi award-winning choreographer and dancer Akram Khan's critically acclaimed Until the Lions will return to the venue where it received its world premiere - London's Roundhouse - for just six performances in January 2019, with Khan dancing the role of Bheeshma for the final time. Created for the uniquely atmospheric 360° setting of the Roundhouse in January 2016, the inspiration for the piece which Khan choreographed and performs in is taken from poet Karthika Nair's book Until The Lions: Echoes from the Mahabharata, an original reworking of the ancient Sanskrit epic. One of Khan's most thrilling and haunting works, performed in one of London's most distinctive spaces, Until the Lions runs from 11 - 17 January 2019. Tickets will go on sale to the public on 1st October 2018.

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo's 2018-2019 season features discovery and travel this year. Taking discovery first, with a remarkable collection of international choreographers invited as part of the Monaco Dance Forum from 8 to 16 December 2018.

Starting from the 2019-2020 season, Alejo Perez will become the new music director at Opera Vlaanderen Royal Ballet Flanders. He has been appointed by Jan Vandenhouwe, who will take over as artistic director for the opera, starting in the same season.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts announced its 2018 White Light Festival, which will run October 16 through November 18. The multidisciplinary festival will feature events presented in six venues across the city, including world, U.S., and New York premieres. The ninth annual international festival will explore transcendence, interior illumination, and the communal impulse as exhibited through artistic expression across continents and centuries.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts announced its 2018 White Light Festival, which will run October 16 through November 18. The multidisciplinary festival will feature events presented in six venues across the city, including world, U.S., and New York premieres. The ninth annual international festival will explore transcendence, interior illumination, and the communal impulse as exhibited through artistic expression across continents and centuries.

For the first time, the Royal Opera House has sold over one million cinema tickets reaching this target in the 2017/18 Season. Featuring 12 productions broadcast in 51 countries across the globe, the Royal Opera House's Season achieved a new goal simultaneously as the organisation celebrates 10-years of live cinema since the inaugural broadcast of Mozart's Don Giovanni in 2008.