The 2023-2024 season will consist of the already acclaimed Nutcracker and the bright new Bach/Beethoven.

The shows can be adapted on demand to a shorter version, more captivating for younger audiences (from 6 yo). For the company, it is of great importance to bring the next generations to open to the art of dance and to help them understand it.

Through our productions, we can attract both young children and teenagers. We can introduce them not only to dance but also to the music behind it. Young students will also identify more easily with young professional dancers than with people with a greater age difference.


Nutcracker

Performance on the 19th of January 2024 at 8.30pm at centre de Loisirs, CC de Warandepoort, Tervurentickets 

Performance on the 24th of January 2024 at Saint-Ghislaintickets 

Performance on the 3rd of February 2024 at 3pm and 8pm at Le Palace, Athtickets 

Performance on the 10th of February 2024 at 8.30pm at Maison de la culture at Arlontickets (waiting list)

Performance on the 19th, 20th and 21st of February 2024 at 8.30pm au Wolubilis, Woluwe-Saint-Lamberttickets

Performance on the 15th of March 2024 at 8pm at Le Théâtre- Central, La Louvièretickets


Nutcracker is one of the most world-know ballets and also one of the most accessible. Countless adaptations have been made of it and countless shopping malls bring delight to the ears of their shoppers with its music during winter season. Moreover, it is a universal story to which everyone can relate.
Laurent Drousie offers you a new, more contemporary, and modern version that does not omit the basics of this rite of passage – a young girl becoming a woman who meets her first love but offers a different interpretation.

SYNOPSIS
This ballet opens with Clara’s 18th birthday with her family. What’s not to celebrate? Clara enters into adulthood.
Later during the night, Clara goes out to meet with her friends. On the way, she comes across a gang of weird creatures, looking like they came out of a horror movie. They spread fear in the streets, and they threaten passers-by. Nutcracker appears and helps Clara to fight them. Clara feels overwhelmed by this arrival and doesn’t really understand what all those emotions are.

Starting from there, she starts the journey of discovering first love emotions and sensations. The feeling is obviously reciprocal. The young couple acknowledges their love with a pas de deux towards new adventures.

To freshen this masterpiece up, its atmosphere will take you to a magical and enchanting world while keeping the musical mood of Tchaikovsky, vital to this ballet. The music lightness will contrast with the climate of the various encounters and of the mix of cultures.

Nutcracker is accessible to young people and will also touch adults with the freshness of this timeless tale.

© Filip Vanzieleghem

Bach/Beethoven

The Bach/Beethoven show is an evening that will be enjoyed to the rhythm of great masterpieces by Bach and Beethoven. The lyricism, the melodies, the madness and the grandeur of these two composers take us from the shadows to the light, for an evening full of emotions. Even if the pieces are already wellknown and recognized, modern ballet will give them another reading. It will not be a classic evening, but a transposition of baroque and romantic works into our contemporary era.

This show will be composed of four ballets by four choreographers: William FORSYTHE, Marco GOECKE, Julian NICOSIA, Laurent DROUSIE.

© Europa Danse Company