- Approx. 1 hour 30 minutes including break
- Interesting for people aged 10+
Two up-and-coming choreographers present their new creations
Since 2011, Lilit Hakobyan has been making a name for herself as an interdisciplinary artist. Her cinematic work shapes her choreographic thinking, while in photography she specifically seeks out the dynamic moment of dance. Anne Jung, internationally sought-after for her powerful and energetic dance vocabulary, also creates fascinating visual universes. Emerging from the talent factory of the Nederlands Dans Theater in The Hague, she realized her first own choreography in 2016 in the programme ‹Switch by NDT Dancers›.
In her new work ‹Ephémère›, Anne Jung focuses on the fleetingness of the moment. In artfully staged blurring between encounter and dissolution, she understands transience as a continuous process. Her images seem like illusions: encounters arise, change and disappear again. Jung is interested in how time passes and how interpersonal encounters leave traces in our bodies and our consciousness. Everything is in motion, everything is in constant change.
In her premiere performance, ‹The Urge›, Lilit Hakobyan explores the raw, ritualized and mesmerizing side of dance. She was inspired by what is probably the most famous choreomania in history, the so-called ‹Strassburger Tanzwut› of 1518. For weeks, up to 400 people were seized by an uncontrollable urge to dance – a phenomenon that began as ecstatic religious rapture and culminated in collective mass hysteria. Hakobyan's new work explores extreme physical states and reveals the forms of irrationality that arise when control breaks down and the body reaches its physical and mental limits.
Both works are accompanied by original musical commissions from sound designers Samuel van der Veer and Kirill Richter.
‹New Works: Hakobyan/Jung›
- Choreographie & Konzept «The Urge» –
- Choreographie & Konzept «Éphémère» –
- Choreographische Assistenz «The Urge» –
- Choreographische Assistenz «Éphémère» –
- Sounddesign «The Urge» –
Samuel van der Veer
- Sounddesign «Éphémère» –
Kirill Richter
- Bühne –
- Kostüme –
- Dramaturgie –
- Licht –
‹‹Éphémère››
- (05.02.2026 / 09.02.2026 / 12.02.2026 / 13.02.2026 / 15.02.2026 / 20.02.2026 / 21.03.2026 / 25.03.2026 / 28.03.2026 / 11.04.2026 / 10.05.2026 / 12.05.2026 / 19.05.2026),
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‹‹The Urge››
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Sanne Vree,(05.02.2026 / 09.02.2026 / 12.02.2026 / 13.02.2026 / 15.02.2026 / 20.02.2026 / 21.03.2026 / 25.03.2026 / 28.03.2026 / 11.04.2026 / 10.05.2026 / 12.05.2026 / 19.05.2026),
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Sanne Vree,(05.02.2026 / 09.02.2026 / 12.02.2026 / 13.02.2026 / 15.02.2026 / 20.02.2026 / 21.03.2026 / 25.03.2026 / 28.03.2026 / 11.04.2026 / 10.05.2026 / 12.05.2026 / 19.05.2026),
Just under two weeks before the premiere, we are offering you the opportunity to find out more about the concepts behind their new creations in a moderated discussion with choreographers Anne Jung and Lilit Hakobyan at the "Rendez-vous". In addition, the two up-and-coming dance makers will give an insight into their personal working process with Ballett Basel, which has taken place over the past few weeks and will ultimately lead to the premiere of their tailor-made works for the company on 5 February 2025.
Ballett Basel invites you to visit its training centre for an insight into the daily work of the ballet company: take a look over the shoulders of the Ballett Theater Basel dancers during their daily training and get a close-up view of the «athletic» start to the day. This not only serves to warm up the muscles for the following day's rehearsals, but is also essential for maintaining fitness, technical aptitude and preventing injuries. It also gives an impression of how much discipline, constant work, passion and joy there is in dance.
