CCN Ballet de Lorraine

On a dark stage with a reflective floor, twenty-one dancers in brightly colored costumes form a tight semicircle. Standing and kneeling at different levels, they extend their arms toward a shared central point, creating a geometric pattern with their hands under overhead light.

Triple Bill

Kampnagel, K6

Jan Martens, Twyla Tharp, Marco da Silva Ferreira
June 17, 2026, 20.00 h, openedy by welcome speeches
June 18, 2026, 20.00 h
Duration ca. 90 minutes (including intermission)

German Premiere

Regular 28,- to 40,- EUR/ Reduces rate 16,- to 20,- EUR
Pre-sale

Language(s): No spoken language / no language knowledge required
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible, highly visual, induction loop (front seating area), beanbag seating available, audio description, tactile tour one hour before the performance (Thursday, 18.06.2026), pick-up and accompaniment service on request
Info: Young audiences are welcome if they can engage with the duration and focus of a dance evening. Recommended age: 8+.

Founded in 1968, the CCN – Ballet de Lorraine is one of France's leading national choreographic centres, with an ensemble of 25 dancers and a reputation built on both ambitious new creations and a rich repertoire spanning the history of contemporary dance. Since January 2025, the company has been led by the visionary choreographer Maud Le Pladec.

With “Turning Burning”, Jan Martens created his first work for a ballet company in 2016 — a piece that channels his longstanding passion for repetition and minimalism into a choreographic statement for a large ensemble. Centred on the motif of turning and rotation, the choreographer pays tribute to the iconic figures of postmodern and minimalist dance, from Lucinda Childs to Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, in a powerful and hypnotic work.

“The Fugue” transports us into the avant-garde energy of 1970s New York, where Twyla Tharp — who recently celebrated 60 years of making dances — created one of her most celebrated works. Inspired by Bach's ‘Musical Offering’ it is a masterpiece of choreographic composition. Each of the three performers represents a musical register: bass, alto and soprano. The music is created by the sound of the dancers' footsteps on an amplified stage.

With a Folia, Marco da Silva Ferreira explores the ecstasy, joy and trance that emerge from a moment of dance shared by a group. The folia is a festive Portuguese folk tradition celebrated by shepherds, free from social conventions of gender and class — its very name rooted in fole (bellows for fanning a fire), fôlego (breath) and folga (rest), evoking bodies freed from labour and given over to joyful abandon. It is this spirit that the choreographer places in direct dialogue with the nightclub dances of our time.

This guest performance is kindly supported by the Institut français and the French Ministry of Culture.

The Fugue
Choreography: Twyla Tharp
Music: „Musical Offering" by Johann Sebastian Bach
Premiere: August 1st, 1970 by Twyla Tharp Dance and Dancers – University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA)
Entrance to CCN – Ballet de Lorraine Repertoire: November 12th, 2015 at Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine (Nancy)
Re creation: November 5th, 2025 at Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine
Restaging 2025: Kaitlyn Guilliland
Restaging 2015: Richard Colton
Original lighting: Jennifer Tipton
Rehearsal assistant Valérie Ferrando
Production/broadcast: A propic: Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent
Male Dancers' version: Nathan Gracia, Afonso Massano, Luc Verbitzky
Female Dancers' version: Inès Depauw, Angela Falk, Elsa Raymond
Production: CCN - Ballet de Lorraine

Turning Burning
Choreography: Jan Martens
Premiere: 2016, in the frame of the programme Plaisirs inconnus at Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine
Re-Creation: November 5th, 2025 at Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine
Performers: Jonathan Archambault, Aline Aubert, Alexis Baudinet, Malou Bendrimia, Charles Dalerci, Anéva Dubeaux, Mila Endeweld, Inès Hadj-Rabah, Matéo Lagière, Laure Lescoffy, Valérie Ly-Cuong, Andoni Martinez, Lorenzo Mattioli, Clarisse Mialet, Céline Schoefs, Gabin Schoendorf, Mac Twining
Light: Eric Wurtz
Costumes: Atelier costumes du CCN - Ballet de Lorraine
Production: CCN-Ballet de Lorraine

a Folia
Choreography: Marco da Silva Ferreira
Premiere: March 7, 2024, Opéra national de Lorraine, Nancy (FR)
Music: Luis Pestana
inspired by music of Arcangelo Corelli's Violinsonate in d-Minor "La Folia", Op. 5 Nr. 12
Costumes: Aleksandar Protic
Lighting: Teresa Antunes
Choreographical assistant: Catarina Miranda
Director of studies: Valérie Ferrando
Co-Produktion: Mafalda Bastos and P-ulso
Produktion/Distribution: A propic: Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent