Ballet: Wings and Feathers - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Ballet: Wings and Feathers
Two-part ballet evening
World premiere of Colossus: 2018 Arts Center Melbourne
World premiere of Vertical Road: 2010 Curve Theatre Leicester
Premiere
November 8, 2025
Two works by Stephanie Lake and Akram Khan explore aspects of individual freedom in movement.
For centuries, the illusion of lightness, the overcoming of gravity, has been considered the ideal of dance. Dancers were viewed as bird-like beings and found their way onto the stage as the Blue Bird, the Firebird, or the Dying Swan – arguably the most famous solo in ballet history. Today, the ability to fly is a symbol of freedom in dance, which can be experienced in all spatial planes and qualities of movement, beyond any specific genre. The two-part dance evening Wings and Feathers represents two distinct contemporary positions, each presenting aspects of individual freedom in movement:
Stephanie Lake, Artist in Residence in Dresden from the 2025/26 season, achieved international success with her large-scale choreography Colossus for approximately 65 dancers, which she will recreate together with the ensemble and students of the Palucca University. With this, the two dance institutions are concluding their 200th and 100th anniversary years. Akram Khan is one of the most influential dance creators of our time. A poem by the Persian mystic Rumi inspired Vertical Road and gave the thematically dense dance evening its name, Wings and Feathers.
Subject to change.
World premiere of Colossus: 2018 Arts Center Melbourne
World premiere of Vertical Road: 2010 Curve Theatre Leicester
Premiere
November 8, 2025
Two works by Stephanie Lake and Akram Khan explore aspects of individual freedom in movement.
For centuries, the illusion of lightness, the overcoming of gravity, has been considered the ideal of dance. Dancers were viewed as bird-like beings and found their way onto the stage as the Blue Bird, the Firebird, or the Dying Swan – arguably the most famous solo in ballet history. Today, the ability to fly is a symbol of freedom in dance, which can be experienced in all spatial planes and qualities of movement, beyond any specific genre. The two-part dance evening Wings and Feathers represents two distinct contemporary positions, each presenting aspects of individual freedom in movement:
Stephanie Lake, Artist in Residence in Dresden from the 2025/26 season, achieved international success with her large-scale choreography Colossus for approximately 65 dancers, which she will recreate together with the ensemble and students of the Palucca University. With this, the two dance institutions are concluding their 200th and 100th anniversary years. Akram Khan is one of the most influential dance creators of our time. A poem by the Persian mystic Rumi inspired Vertical Road and gave the thematically dense dance evening its name, Wings and Feathers.
Subject to change.