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From the Press: "Fantasy, folly and fancy footwork: cosmic dance comes to Manchester" by The Guardian
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Invisible Cities part of Manchester international festival. © Tristram Kenton i
"Performed in a cavernous former railway depot, Invisible Cities features actors, dancers, digital animations and amazing stage designs.In adapting Italo Calvino’s novel of the same name, it aims for sweeping themes such as imagination, power, belonging, morality and mortality. “The question of whether this was one of my best ideas or an act of pure folly remains open,” writes director Leo Warner in the programme. My answer is that it’s both."
To read The Guardian's full review, click here.
Invisible Cities is the winner of the FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet 2019.
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New creations by our former FEDORA Prizes winners at the Opera Forward Festival
24 February 2025
Amsterdam / Netherlands
The Opera Forward Festival (OFF) will take place from 14 to 31 March at the Dutch Nationale Opera & Ballet in Amsterdam and will feature three of our former FEDORA Prizes winners.
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Denis & Katya by Composer Philip Venables and Stage Director Ted Huffman of Opera Philadelphia, Winner of the FEDORA - GENERALI Prize for Opera 2019, premieres in France today! After a success in the United States, the piece has been adapted for French audiences and will be performed on July 26th, 28th and 29th 2021 at Opéra Comédie, Montpellier, France.
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"Change of Plans" - Platform-K's upcoming performance
08 March 2023
Ghent / Belgium
"Change of Plans" is a new dance piece in which the idea of changeability is tested, danced, played, and exorcised. At the invitation of Platform-K, Femke Gyselinck (Choreographer at GRIP ensemble) is working for "Change of Plans" with dancers Zanne Boon and Oskar Stalpaert...
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