Day Before Tomorrow: Bella Figura / Wings of Wax / Gods and Dogs

Name: Jiří Kylián Retrospectief: WINGS OF TIME - The Norwegian National Ballet
Start: 2025-06-22T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-22T16:25:00+02:00
Location: Danstheater

The Norwegian National Ballet

Jiří Kylián Retrospectief: WINGS OF TIME

za 21 jun and zo 22 jun

za 21 jun ’25

and

zo 22 jun ’25

za 21 jun ’25

19:45 - 21:40

Danstheater

Past event
zo 22 jun ’25

14:30 - 16:25

Danstheater

Past event

Balancing between extremes, the field of tension between art and artificiality, reason and emotion, health and illness is explored. The choreography in the second part of this unique Jiří Kylián retrospective shows us the complexity of the borderland. The dancers of the Norwegian National Ballet passionately portray the choreographer's vision: the struggle as well as the splendour of life on earth.

Programme

Day before Tomorrow: 1995-2008 by Jiří Kylián
Bella Figura | Wings of Wax | Gods and Dogs

Bella Figura highlights the relativity of sensuality, beauty and aesthetics. Where is the line between art and artificiality, between truth and a lie? Where does performance begin and reality end? Fascinated by this twilight zone, Kylián explores both meanings of ‘bella figura’: the beauty of the figure versus human resilience in difficult times.

Battling the laws of nature, the classically trained dancer defies gravity time and again. With Wings of Wax, the choreographer refers not only to Icarus' pride, but to man's boundless ambition to reach ever higher to escape the heavy and reach the light. The expressive piece is a swirling set of complex movements in perfect synergy with the music.

Finally, the mysterious Gods and Dogs focuses on the thin dividing line between sanity and madness and the norms that determine who falls under what. Dirk Haubrich's music composition based on Beethoven's string quartet set ballet opens with an exciting play of shadows and takes the audience on a dynamic and ominous journey.

NATO summit
This performance takes place in the period around the NATO summit. Read more about the accessibility of The Hague and Amare.

Cloakroom and drink 
Cloakroom and an intermission drink are included. If the event does not have an intermission, you will receive the drink afterwards. 

Part of

Ooievaarspas discount 
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