Name: William Forsythe Evening / The Blake Works - Beijing
Start: 2026-01-25T14:00:00
Location: National Centre for the Performing Arts

Frédéric Olivieri

Teatro alla Scala Ballet

Teatro alla Scala

Members of the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

L'elisir d'amore for Children

In the spirit of Stravinsky, timeless masterpieces, pinnacles of art and dance that have made history. A unique, highly anticipated event: for the first time, La Scala, its artists, and its audience will be overwhelmed by the telluric force of one of the most powerful readings of Le Sacre du printemps, the one created by Pina Bausch in 1975 for the Tanztheater Wuppertal. Emotional rawness, of rare expressionist power, earthy and dramatic in the viscerality of an ancient ritual, a true foundation of contemporary dance. Fundamental to 20th-century ballet is Apollo, which opens the evening, in the brilliance of Balanchine’s style, which in 1928, at the age of 24, achieved international recognition and began his lifelong partnership with the composer.