FIELD / Minus 16

With FIELD / Minus 16, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen presents a diptych that inspires reflection and sends everyone dancing off home.

Until recently, Kirsten Wicklund was a member of our ballet company, and in parallel she was hard at work as a starting choreographer. Now she returns with FIELD, her first major creation for Opera Ballet Vlaanderen. To the groundbreaking chamber music of Béla Bartók and Dmitri Shostakovich, Wicklund opens a window to a universe full of intriguing reflections and contrasts.

Minus 16 is perhaps the biggest hit of the living legend Ohad Naharin. Since its premiere in 1999, this celebration of dance has graced stages all over the world and now it is finally here too. Minus 16 is an unpredictable kaleidoscope that sometimes moves you and sometimes makes you laugh. With infectious Latin music, pumping techno beats or the intimacy of Chopin, Naharin breaks through genres and expectations.