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Three masterpieces on the Main Stage 

Poetic and hypnotic dance: Get ready for a full-evening performance by one of the world’s greatest living choreographers! 

Czech Jiří Kylián has breathed new life into ballet as an art form. This can clearly be seen in this performance, when the National Ballet dances three of his more recent and unmistakable works. 

Jiří Kylián / Photo: OiOiOi

Kylián Festival Wings of Time

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“Such rare beauty to behold” wrote the critic Inger Merete Hobbelstad in Dagbladet when the National Ballet danced Bella Figura (1995) in 2010. Baroque solemnity is combined with humour and set to music by such composers as Vivaldi. It is open, vulnerable and an aesthetic feast for the eyes. 

The myth about Icarus, who flew too close to the sun and fell from the sky when his wings melted, inspired the name Wings of Wax (1997). A naked tree is suspended upside down over the stage floor as if at any moment it might drop onto the eight dancers dressed in black. “A metaphor for humanity’s endless ambitions to always want to reach higher and achieve even more,” says the choreographer about the work. 

Gods and Dogs (2008) is a hypnotising ballet the spans the gap between turmoil and beauty, set to a soundscape in which electronic music is interwoven with Beethoven. A vast, dancing silver curtain accentuates the nerve-racking atmosphere, behind dancers who really know their Kylián. 

... a late masterpiece, and one that captures Kylián’s intricate relationship with music. 

Financial Times om Gods and Dogs