Smoke and Mirrors
“Vibrations” closes the Opéra Garnier’s 2025/26 season with what might be read as a triptych on dance’s future, past, and present.
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Elisa Badenes and Friedemann Vogel in “Mayerling” by Kenneth MacMillan. Photograph credit: Stuttgart Ballet
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String Theory
Particles or string? Dark matter or light? The National Ballet of Japan offers up a contemporary double-bill of dance, loosely connected by visual metaphors to modern physics.
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Trio A at Sixty
When Yvonne Rainer choreographed “Trio A” on herself in 1965, it took six months to work out the four-and-half-minute solo. But for many early audience members, its effect was immediate and electric.
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A Georgian Swan Lake
Nina Ananiashvili was still thrilling audiences as an exceptional ballerina when, in 2004, she got a call from Georgia’s newly elected president, Mikheil Saakashvili.
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