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Staatsballett Berlin continue its run of this popular double bill, 2 Chapters Love, named after Sharon Eyal’s work and a follow up to 2017’s to Love Chapter 2.

The junior English and Norwegian companies brought contrasting works, showcasing a great abundance of young talent.

An adventurous triple bill of vintage works new to Norway. 

The Australian Ballet's impressively-danced Kunstkamer is a work of astonishing scale, originality, and warmth, choreographed by Paul Lighfoot, Sol León, Marco Goecke and Crystal Pite.

NDT 2’s 'microcosm' is on display at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele with a mixed bill of four works created for these young talents

Everything Pite choreographs turns to gold and when Young is also involved it’s an especially rich vein.

Shut Eye (Lightfoot & León) is like an alternating current. Woke Up Blind (Goecke) is entertaining and vulnerable. Pite's work hits the rythmic nail on the head. You want to freeze-frame Pite's dancers, snap a picture and hang it on the wall.

As part of the nationwide “Steps” dance festival, NDT2 gave a degree of precision, theatrics, musicality, and humour that truly set the group apart.

Zurich recently welcomed the Swiss premieres of two extraordinary ballets, one by choreographers Sol León and Paul Lightfoot, the other by Crystal Pite.

NDT's main company is back in Berlin, at the House of the Berliner Festspiele, with works by four aces of contemporary choreography. More classically abstract works are successfully paired with ones for the digital-literate.

A held back season opener for NDT, in which pure dance takes centre stage.

It's all there; the virtuoso dancing, brilliant live Philip Glass music, mysteriously connected couples whirled into a subtle feeling of expansion. If your brain lacks a much needed moral and creative boost this is your December pick-me-up.

This was a terrific performance by a world class troupe of dancers.

The house was packed to the rafters at Montreal's Theatre Maisonneuve last Tuesday; it seemed the entire city turned out to witness Nederlands Dans Theater make its return after a twenty year absence.

NDT2 brings a mixed programme to Sadler's Wells, as part of its UK tour. With works by Sol Leon and Paul Lightfoot, Edward Clug, Hans Van Manen and Alexander Ekman 

A phenomenal performance by NDT 2 given in Baden, some 20 minutes from Zurich, was the equivalent of shooting the high ball out of the park. 

In Restless, a striking 4-part programme which the Ballett Zürich recently premiered, it’s sheer energy, speed and unequivocal action in the movements of the human body that are underscored. 

Nederlands Dans Theater 2, the Dutch powerhouse's young ensemble brings a mixed programme to New York City 

Nederlands Dans Theater celebrates 25 years of Lightfoot and Leon, with the strongly executed emotional double bill Sehnsucht / Schmetterling.

Wonderful musicality and a minimalist aesthetic give the choreography an real infectious freshness and verve.

Netherlands Dance Theatre present Kylián's Heart's Labyrinth, Goecke's Hello Earth and new work by Lightfoot and Leon, Stop-Motion, in Programme III at Stadsschouwburg, Utrecht.

An unmissable Christmas mass from awe-inspiring dancers of Nederlands Dance Theatre. Lambrecht Wessels reviews at Lucent Danstheater, Den Hague.

The curtain went up at Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall last night on Nederlands Dans Theater in Sehnsucht and Schmetterling (“Homesickness” and “Butterfly,” in German) and the pleasure of seeing these magnificent dancers was heavily diluted by the machine-gun-like choreography and leaden attempts at humor. Beethoven’s ecstatic Symphony no.

Temps fort de la saison du Ballet de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, la soirée « Quatre tendances » associe cette année deux créations de Wiest et Casquilho et deux œuvres cultes de McGregor et León & Lighfoot.

Les jeunes danseurs du NDT 2 interprètent avec brio les œuvres d’Alexander Ekman, Marco Goecke, Sol León et Paul Lightfoot sur la scène du Théâtre National de Chaillot.

Pour la première fois, le Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris interprète des œuvres du tandem Sol León et Paul Lightfoot, actuels directeurs artistiques du Nederlands Dans Theater.

Le Nederlands Dans Theater est de retour au Palais de Chaillot avec une programmation associant une création récente de la chorégraphe canadienne Crystal Pite et deux pièces de Sol León et Paul Lightfoot, chorégraphes en résidence et co-directeurs artistiques du NDT depuis 2011.

La selección exquisita de su repertorio junto la extraordinaria calidad de sus bailarines hacen del binomio una de las agrupaciones danzarias mejores del mundo. Sin embargo, hasta el Sol tiene manchas