Name: Grisey: Quatre Chants
Start: 2025-11-28T19:30:00
Location: Southbank Centre

Nina Guo

Jack Sheen

Southbank Centre

Together with the dancers of the company, Linder continues his research into hybrid forms of dance, treating these rare physical evolutions like precious jewels. Of particular interest is how the vocabulary of ballet can adapt its DNA through absorbing influences that are street, somatic and theatrical.

Ballet de Lorraine: Acid Gems and a Folia

Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil, which roughly translates to Four Songs for Crossing the Threshold, explores the boundary between life and death – a significance that is elevated by Grisey’s passing soon after its completion, preventing his attendance at the world premiere of the piece by the London Sinfonietta and George Benjamin in 1999.