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Building a rigorous, athletic third way between classical ballet and modern dance
The Czech choreographer who spent twenty-four years turning Nederlands Dans Theater into one of contemporary ballet's most influential companies.
The Hague company that defined a generation of contemporary ballet
Founded by dancers who broke away from Sonia Gaskell's Nederlands Ballet, NDT became one of the defining engines of contemporary ballet worldwide.
Alexander Ekman, 2010 - a satire of contemporary dance and the critics who explain it
Sixteen dancers, square white platforms, potted cacti, a live string quartet, and a voiceover in the overblown language of dance criticism - Ekman's best-known satirical work.
Jiří Kylián, 1991 - fencing foils, Mozart, and the choreography of desire
Kylián's 1991 Mozart bicentennial commission, built around fencing foils and rococo dresses, became NDT's most widely licensed work.
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