Exhibition/Twelve Ton Rose/Ten Duets

His Exhibition, to Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition in the famous orchestration by Ravel, is a polemic of sorts, as the work is rarely visualised as a ballet. From the beginning, it was intended as an in memoriam for the painter Viktor Hartmann, full of thoughts of death and with an elegiac mood. Dreamlike scenes mingle with the desire to recapture an elusive past.

Twelve Ton Rose by Trisha Brown is based on parts from Anton Webern's Four pieces for violin and piano. Brown studied Webern's twelve-tone technique, to which the title of her work alludes. In a poetic interplay in which light makes movement visible and darkness makes it disappear, Brown focuses on stillness. Twelve Ton Rose is surely one of Brown's most moving choreographies and is a masterpiece of modern dance.

In Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue, the Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite offers a highly personal take on the theme of rescue between two people. In ten duets, each of which highlights a particular aspect of "rescue", Crystal Pite approaches the human body from a poetic perspective. Her work is characterised by inventive theatricality, humour and a quick-witted language of movement.