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Contemporary dance superstar Angelin Preljocaj tackles the Mount Everest of the ballet world with his new take on Swan Lake.

Combining Tchaikovsky’s musical masterpiece with contemporary arrangements, he reinvents the timeless tale of love, betrayal, seduction, and remorse into a contemporary ecological tragedy. The evil sorcerer von Rothbart is portrayed as an industrialist who wants to exploit fossil fuels against a backdrop of unbridled capitalism, while Siegfried and Odette are the two eco-conscious heroes who try to thwart his plans.

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Ballet Preljocaj - Swan Lake

Detroit Opera House

Combining Tchaikovsky’s musical masterpiece with contemporary arrangements, he reinvents the timeless tale of love, betrayal, seduction, and remorse into a contemporary ecological tragedy. The evil sorcerer von Rothbart is portrayed as an industrialist who wants to exploit fossil fuels against a backdrop of unbridled capitalism, while Siegfried and Odette are the two eco-conscious heroes who try to thwart his plans.

Ballet Preljocaj: Swan Lake

Angelin Preljocaj is a leading figure in French contemporary dance and a loyal supporter of the Maison de la Danse, which has supported his work for many years. Requiem(s) was born from a profoundly personal grief . The loss of his father, mother, and several close relatives in 2023 led the choreographer to explore mourning through the only language that truly belongs to him: the moving body. Nineteen exceptional performers take to the stage with a primal energy and absolute precision. From Bach to System of a Down, from Mozart to Ligeti, the music propels the bodies through a succession of hypnotic tableaux, oscillating between collapse and revolt, tenderness and trance. Drawing on medieval danse macabre as well as the raw energy of contemporary ballet, Preljocaj transforms intimate grief into a collective and cathartic ritual. He does not choreograph death. He choreographs what remains: the memory, the rage to exist, the stubborn beauty of the human gesture.

Requiem(s)

Maison de la Danse (House of Dance)

Angelin Preljocaj presents the world premiere of a piece at the Grand Théâtre de Provence, a work of "wild beauty fueled by the energy of despair, dreaming of igniting the spark of renewal." Dream, revolt, or utopia? Vital necessity? The choreographer and director of Ballet Preljocaj explores this mysterious force that unites us beyond our differences. In this work of raw energy, bodies in motion rise like a dike, and move like a flock of starlings ready to disintegrate only to reconfigure themselves elsewhere.

Uprising

Dijon Opera

La Criée Theatre

La Piscine Theatre - L'Azimut

La Rampe, Scène conventionnée danse et musiques

Le Figuier Blanc

Grand Théâtre de Provence

Espace Jean Legendre

La Chaudronnerie

Grand Théâtre de la Coursive

New Giovanni da Udine Theater

Royal Opera House of Versailles

Under the direction of choreographers Josépha Madoki and Maud Le Pladec, the dancers of the Ballet de Lorraine bring to life a history of the concerto, from Vivaldi to Bach.

Bringing together eight musicians from Les Arts Florissants and twenty-four dancers, Concerto danzante embraces a broad and unique form to celebrate the art of dialogue. This dialogue defines the concerto—between soloists and orchestra—but also the interplay on stage between Baroque music and contemporary dance, abstraction and expressiveness. The creation is rooted in the history of a form born in the early 18th century among Venetian dance masters, to which Johann Sebastian Bach and Antonio Vivaldi gave its prestige. Josépha Madoki—a leading figure in waacking, a dance characterized by rapid and fluid arm movements, which originated in West Coast American clubs in the 1970s—will offer a bold interpretation of Vivaldi's concertos. Then Maud Le Pladec – director of the CCN – Ballet de Lorraine – will embrace the complex structures of Bach's pieces with the formal rigor and poetic abstraction that mark her writing.

Dance concert

Opéra de Dijon

Set Designer, Lighting Designer

Éric Soyer

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 30 - Oct 8, 2026

Requiem(s) · Ballet Preljocaj

Oct 7, 2026 - May 13, 2027

Uprising · Ballet Preljocaj

Apr 6, 2027

Dance concert · Opéra de Dijon

Past events

17 - 19 Feb, 2023

Ballet Preljocaj - Swan Lake · Detroit Opera

17 - 19 Feb, 2023

Ballet Preljocaj: Swan Lake · University Musical Society

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