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Emanuel Gat Dance: Sunny, c. Emanuel Gat (ph. D. Lothert)
Sanchis to four pieces from Coltranes 1964
album A Supreme Love which is considered a
magnum opus of jazz music. Other leading
artists on the current dance and performance
art scene, such as Jrme Bel, will be at the
Festival, together with newer names (See
Calendar for details).
Ballet Preljocaj: Spectral Evidence,
c. Angelin Preljocaj (ph. J.-C. Carbonne)
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Holland, 70 years of festival!
The Holland Festival is a big cultural event in
the city of Amsterdam and has now reached its
70th anniversary; in the course of the years it
has showcased leading names in opera, theatre,
dance and international films. It is, together with
the Festival dAvignon and the Edinburgh In-
ternational Festival (both also founded in 1947),
the oldest festival of its kind in Europe. The
salient dance event at the forthcoming edition
in June will be its home company Het Nationale
Ballet in Alexei Ratmanskys Shostakovich Tril-
ogy, a full-evening programme to music by the
Russian composer which Ratmansky created
in 2013 for American Ballet Theatre and which
will be performed in Amsterdam for the first
time in Europe. The Festivals offerings are ec-
lectic and include highly diverse shows by
dancemakers such as Boris Charmatz or Alain
Platel as well as, in the theatre section, by di-
rectors who are often associated with dance;
this year, for example, there will be a physical
theatre creation by Greek Dimitris
Papaioannou.
Het Nationale Ballet, Amsterdam:
Preljocaj from New York to Shostakovich Trilogy, c. Alexei Ratmansky
(ph. P. Ramone)
Montpellier
The opening of MontpellierDanse
(in Montpellier, in the south of
France) on 23 June has been en-
trusted to Angelin Preljocaj and his
Aix-en-Provence-based company and
to two works commissioned by New
York City Ballet: Spectral Evidence
(2013, music by John Cage) and the
more famous La Stravaganza (1997,
that couples Vivaldi with contempo-
rary American scores). This festi-
val, which is one of the most impor-
tant summer platforms for French
and international dance, continues
through to 7 July with a rich and
varied programme. In particular, mark
your calendars for the following: the
Lyon Opera Ballet in Lucinda Childs
legendary Dance and in an Emanuel
Gat programme; Het Nationale Bal-
let of Amsterdam in two pro-
grammes of works by Hans van
Manen, the troupes resident chore-
ographer and doyen of European mod-
ern ballet; Steven Cohen; Mathilde
Monnier; the Marie Chouinard Com-
pany, with Chouinards study on
walking (Soft virtuosity, still humid,
on the edge). Of note is also the festi-
vals film section which will be screen-
ing documentaries on, or films of
works by, not only the featured cho-
reographer (e.g. Van Manen), but also
others especially Merce
Cunningham (including a series of
films made by Charles Atlas).