Every choreographer, company, and work on Ballet Modern tagged Physical Theatre. 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.
Large-scale spectacle with a wink - contemporary dance that laughs at itself
A former NDT and Cullberg dancer whose large-scale, wickedly funny works turn contemporary dance's own conventions - and its critics - into the subject of the piece.
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.
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.
Building a movement language from the inside of sensation
The Israeli choreographer who rebuilt Batsheva Dance Company around Gaga, a sensation-based movement language now taught to dancers and non-dancers worldwide.
Physical theatre built from grief, memory, and the crowd
A former Ballett Frankfurt dancer who now builds some of the most acclaimed large-scale dance theatre of the last two decades.
Primal, propulsive movement set to his own pounding scores
A former Batsheva dancer and composer whose company builds dark, tribal-feeling ensemble works from his own pounding, self-composed scores.
Sweden's opera-house company, built for large-scale immersive dance
Sweden's leading contemporary dance company, built inside an opera house and known for large-scale, immersive works from major international choreographers.
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.
Australia's leading contemporary dance company, built on athletic force
Australia's flagship contemporary dance company, rebuilt around Rafael Bonachela's fast, physically extreme movement style.
Crystal Pite & Jonathon Young, 2015 - grief staged as a haunted vaudeville
A dance-theatre work built from actor Jonathon Young's own experience of loss, co-created with choreographer Crystal Pite.
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.
Pina Bausch, 1978 - a stage of chairs, eyes closed against memory
Pina Bausch's own semi-autobiographical piece, danced with eyes closed through a stage cluttered with chairs, later made famous worldwide by a film excerpt.
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.
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.
Hofesh Shechter, 2017 - a wild waltz staged among sliding black monoliths
A meditation on conflict and mortality staged among sliding black monoliths, blending Shechter's own score with recomposed classical fragments.
Ohad Naharin, 1999 - a collage of repertory built to end with the audience onstage
Ohad Naharin's collage of his own repertory, built around a chair-bound unison sequence and famous for pulling audience members onstage at its close.
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.
Hofesh Shechter, 2010 - history's violence played at full volume
A large-scale, deafeningly loud work for a stage packed with dancers, electric guitarists, and drummers, staring directly at authoritarianism and political violence.
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