Based on Tchaikovsky’s music mixed with contemporary arrangements, Angelin Preljocaj pays homage to Marius Petipa with his idea of this new Swan Lake.
Swan Lake: a new choreography by Angelin Preljocaj
Ballet
Dangerous Liaisons: A ballet by David Nixon CBE
Northern Ballet
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Subscribe NowNorthern Ballet transforms Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ scandalous 18th-century novel into a sensually charged ballet where aristocrats weaponize love with devastating effect.
David Nixon’s adaptation follows two nobles who manipulate desire for sport, targeting the virtuous Madame de Tourvel and the naïve Cécile Volanges. Joseph Taylor’s calculating Vicomte de Valmont exerts control through lifts that shift from brutal to tender, while Matthew Koon’s Chevalier Danceny leaps with youthful hope destined to unravel. Vivaldi’s "The Four Seasons," performed live by Northern Ballet Sinfonia, underscores scenes where whispered letters seal fates and reputations collapse.
Nixon’s choreography threads psychological warfare into every gesture. What begins as flirtation becomes a brutal reckoning, exposing the human cost of pride, pleasure, and power. This is ballet as emotional bloodsport: exquisite, erotic, and utterly merciless.
Cast & Crew
(Director), (Choreographer), Ashley Dixon (Gomte de Gercourt), Aurora Piccininni, Natalia Kerner, Matthew Morrell, Archie Sherman, Joseph Taylor (Viscomte de Valmont), Abigail Prudames (Marquise de Merteuil), Mariana Rodrigues (Madame de Volanges), Filippo Di Vilio (Chevalier Danceny), Rachael Gillespie (Cécile de Volanges), Antoinette Brooks-Daw (Madame de Tourvel), Heather Lehan (Madame de Reosemonde), Sarah Chun (Emilie), (Composer)