Merce Cunningham Legacy Tour at Théâtre de la Ville

Tickets remain for shows in the second programme ‘Towards Infinity’ (20-23 Dec) of Merce Cunningham Company’s ‘Legacy Tour’, planned by Merce Cunningham before he died and opening at the Théâtre de la Ville on Thursday. Experience the dance master’s pastoral frolic RainForest (1968), immortalized by Andy Warhol’s silver and helium pillows; for the choreographer [...] [...]

Danser Sa Vie at the Centre Pompidou

Opening on Wed is this pioneering exhibition dedicated to the connections between the visual arts and dance, from the 1900s to today. Between Apollonian aspiration and Dionysian explosion of life, dance was a crucial fulcrum of the modernist revolution in aesthetics. With pioneers such as Loïe Fuller and Isadora Duncan, with [...] [...]

‘L’Anatomie de la Sensation’ by Wayne McGregor

Star London choreographer Wayne McGregor returns to the Paris Opéra, after ‘Genus’ in 2007, with this new creation, inspired by the work of Francis Bacon. McGregor draws on the forms, colours and textures of the paintings to move beyond the images and explore the expressive potential of the human body. The musical [...] [...]

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