Boston Ballet: Théâtre des Champs‐Elysées

About the Event

Two major figures from the world of contemporary ballet, Alexander Ekman and Akram Khan, feature on the Boston Ballet programme.

CACTI Created on 25 February 2010 at NDT 2, The Hague premiered by the Boston Ballet on 8 May 2014 at the Boston Opera House
Alexander Ekman | choreography, set design, costumes
Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert | music
Tom Visser | lighting, stage design
Spenser Theberge | text
Live music

VERTICAL ROAD (reimagined) Created on October 5, 2023, at the Citizens Opera House de Boston
Akram Khan | artistic direction, choreography
Aditya Prakash, Nitin Swahney | music
Jesper Kongshaug, Richard Fagan | lighting
Kimie Nakano | costumes
Ruth Little | dramaturgy
Akram Khan, Kimie Nakano, Jesper Kongshaug | set design
Recorded music

For almost sixty years, this American East‐coast company’s repertoire has mixed “classics” (Petipa, Noureev, Balanchine, John Cranko, etc.) with some of the great names in contemporary dance (William Forsythe, Jiří Kylián, Wayne McGregor, Mark Morris, Christopher Wheeldon, Jorma Elo, etc.). It is a tribute to the company and to the dancers’ high degree of technical skill that they can master such diverse repertoire which is usually the preserve of some of the biggest international ballet companies in the world. They are back again with two of the most interesting choreographers of their generation, Alexander Ekman and Akram Khan, both regulars at the Théâtre on avenue Montaigne.