Adam Linder

In “LOYALTY”, Los Angeles and Berlin-based choreographer Adam Linder returns to ballet with a fresh take on its traditional vocabulary. Linder dives into the signature aspects of the genre – corps-de-ballet formations, theatrical imagery and partnering – reworking them with five world-class dancers. Performed in three acts and set to the music of the British avant-garde band Coil, this new approach to ballet interweaves virtuosity, theatricality and abstraction. Linder creates a hybridized physicality that is crude yet finessed, dark yet light and curiously both animal and human.

Concept & choreography Adam Linder

By & with Douglas Letheren, Joshua Harriette, Louella May Hogan, Riley Watts, Vânia Doutel Vaz

Stage & lighting design Shahryar Nashat

Costume design Adam Linder

Music Coil

Musical arrangement Steffen Martin

Artistic assistance Cooper Jacoby

Artistic advisement Justin Kennedy, Emma McCormick-Goodhart

Choreographic assistance Anand Dhanakoti

Programme design HiT Studio

Technical director Jan Havers

Lighting Boris Heiland

Production & tour management Uta Engel

Company management & international relations Andrea Niederbuchner