Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) – Gabriela Carrizo/Jiri Kylian/Cystal Pite and Simon McBurney

Considered by many to be the finest dance company in the world, Nederlands DansTheater has taken a radically progressive path since its founding in 1959.

UK Premiere. Across continents, Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite and British theatre director Simon McBurney reflect on their fears and cautious hopes for the age we are living in, with an extract from their new collaboration, Figures in Extinction. These world-renowned artists work together, drawing from materials such as the sound of icecaps melting, tree roots growing, and the protests of climate change deniers. Gods and Dogs is the 100th choreography Jirí Kylián created for NDT. Gods and Dogs is called ‘an unfinished work’, referring to Kylián’s fascination for the beauty of what is left incomplete in life, and visualizes the line between normality and abnormality. Argentinian choreographer Gabriela Carrizo combines modern dance with acrobatics and slapstick in La Ruta. On a dark, fog-shrouded stage, a street is at once a motorway, a lonely village lane and a forest path. Space and time are suspended, and it is up to the audience to create their own connections. With her experimental style, Carrizo takes us into a parallel dream world open to interpretation.