Every choreographer, company, and work on Ballet Modern tagged Narrative. Browse all tags →
The founder of Tanztheater - dance as raw emotional theatre
The choreographer who invented Tanztheater and remains one of the most influential figures in the history of contemporary dance.
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.
Musicality, wit, and the recovered grammar of 19th-century ballet
A former Bolshoi Ballet director whose new works and painstaking historical reconstructions have made him one of the most performed choreographers in ballet today.
Neoclassical fluency in service of full-length storytelling
A former Royal Ballet and New York City Ballet dancer whose neoclassical fluency has produced acclaimed narrative ballets and Tony-winning Broadway work.
Scotland's national company, remade for bold contemporary theatre
Scotland's national ballet company, historically rooted in classical repertory, remade its public identity around bold, theatrical contemporary storytelling.
Christopher Wheeldon, 2011 - Wonderland reimagined as a three-act spectacle
Christopher Wheeldon's three-act spectacle turns Lewis Carroll's Wonderland into one of the most widely restaged full-length ballets of its era.
Helen Pickett, 2019 - Arthur Miller's Salem, told without a word
Scottish Ballet's award-winning full-length adaptation of Arthur Miller's witch-trial drama, built on a classical base but played as taut physical theatre.
Mats Ek, 1982 - the Romantic classic rebuilt as barefoot psychiatric drama, to Adam's original score
Mats Ek's 1982 Giselle keeps Adolphe Adam's score but rebuilds the story around a village outsider whose breakdown lands her in an asylum - one of the most influential ballet reinterpretations of the 20th century.
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.
Cathy Marston, 2020 - a life, and an instrument, danced as one
Cathy Marston's narrative ballet on cellist Jacqueline du Pré, danced with a partner embodying her cello as a living, physical presence.
Alexei Ratmansky, 2017 - a candy-colored fever dream for American Ballet Theatre
A fantastical, candy-colored full-length ballet for American Ballet Theatre, built from Richard Strauss's score and artist Mark Ryden's surreal designs.
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.
This site uses cookies for basic operation and, where enabled, to serve advertising through services like Google AdSense. See our Privacy Policy for details.
