Every choreographer, company, and work on Ballet Modern tagged Identity. Browse all tags →
House, hip-hop, and release technique in conversation with memory
A MacArthur Fellow whose company, A.I.M, and commissions for ballet's biggest stages fuse house, hip-hop, and release technique into deeply personal work.
Building a shared physical language across cultures and forms
A Belgian-Moroccan choreographer who builds work at the meeting point of ballet, martial arts, and global dance traditions.
Kathak's rhythm and storytelling recast as contemporary dance theatre
A British-Bangladeshi choreographer who fuses classical kathak with contemporary dance into some of the most physically demanding storytelling in the field.
Literary narrative recast as psychologically driven movement
A British choreographer known for turning novels and biographies into psychologically detailed narrative ballets, including The Cellist and Jane Eyre.
The Tel Aviv company that gave contemporary dance the Gaga language
Founded with Martha Graham's involvement, then remade by Ohad Naharin into one of the most physically distinct companies in contemporary dance.
Britain's oldest dance company - and its clearest pivot from ballet to contemporary
Britain's oldest dance company began as a classical ballet troupe and, within its own lifetime, transformed itself into one of the UK's leading contemporary dance companies.
Aszure Barton, 2012 - the body as origin and vessel
An ensemble work built around the many cross-cultural words for 'mother,' exploring motherhood and womanhood through visceral, weighted movement.
Akram Khan, 2011 - one dancer, an inherited homeland
Akram Khan's Olivier Award-winning solo mixes spoken storytelling, animation, and punishing solo dance to trace his relationship to his father and to Bangladesh.
Cathy Marston, 2016 - a novel's interior life given danced form
Cathy Marston's adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's novel for Northern Ballet, staging Jane's inner turmoil through a device of shadow men who trip, obstruct, and carry her.
Kyle Abraham, 2012 - a neighborhood remembered in movement
Kyle Abraham weaves John Singleton's Boyz n the Hood and W.E.B. Du Bois's sociology of Black Philadelphia into a meditation on his own Pittsburgh neighborhood.
Justin Peck, 2017 - ballet unlaced from pointe shoes
Justin Peck's high-energy ensemble piece, danced largely in sneakers rather than pointe shoes, became known for its socially engaged tone and a landmark same-sex principal pairing.
Wayne McGregor, 2015 - three novels, one dancer's return to the stage
Wayne McGregor's three-act meditation on Virginia Woolf's novels and life, made with Alessandra Ferri's return to The Royal Ballet.
Akram Khan, 2018 - a soldier's memory, danced as farewell
Announced as Akram Khan's final full-length solo as a dancer, Xenos follows a colonial Indian soldier's unraveling memory in the trenches of WWI.
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Akram Khan, 2005 - two bodies, one border
A duet co-choreographed and danced by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan themselves, built around a life-cast figure standing in for a dead body.
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