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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 

NDT present a double bill of works by Leon/Lightfoot and Hofesh Shechter. Virtuoso dancing in Shut Eye whilst Shechter doesn't pull punches with political Clowns: there are so many ways to die on stage this night....  

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.

NDT2 conclude their season in the Netherlands with Programme B, showcasing B.R.I.S.A, a new work by Inger, and 2005 work by Lightfoot and León, Postscript. At Theater aan het Spui, The Hague. 

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.

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