"Simply stunning: can human beings really dance so brilliantly with such apparent ease?" The Independent

"Not everyone seems to be aware that in choreographers Jiří Kylián and the duo Paul Lightfoot and Sol León that Netherlands Dans Theater has a modern-day Rembrandt and a Vermeer in house. With a sure-fire regularity they create masterpieces" De Telegraaf

"…one of those works whose rare beauty and emotive power so overwhelms you that you feel you're losing your sanity." Dance Europe

One of the world's leading contemporary dance companies for young dancers, Nederlands Dans Theater 2 (NDT2) is reputed for their impeccable technique and sublime virtuosity. For one night only, making their Singapore debut and their only stop in Asia, they bring you four riveting pieces by visionary choreographers Jiří Kylián, Paul Lightfoot, Sol León and Alexander Ekman.

Jiří Kylián's award-winning 100th choreography Gods and Dogs is a mysterious, almost mystical ballet featuring four dance couples in between the states of the mental and the physical. Described by Dance Europe as a piece of "rare beauty and emotive power", it explores the twilight zones of the human condition-of normality and insanity, health and sickness, and the norms that define both.

Then, enter the world of critically acclaimed choreographic duo, NDT's artistic director Paul Lightfoot and resident choreographer Sol León, in two stunning dance works. In Subject to Change, death befriends and seduces a girl in an emotionally charged dance towards an inevitable end, while Shutters Shut is a combination of gravity and humour, poetry and slapstick, lyrical lines and witty interruptions set to Gertrude Stein's experimental poem, If I told him: A completed portrait of Picasso (1912).

Finally, be introduced to up-and-coming choreographer Alexander Ekman's playful dance vocabulary in Left Right Left Right. An entertaining, often comic display of synchronised rhythmic movements, it features a large ensemble of dancers performing tricks on treadmills and getting up to other mischief.

Witness their raw emotive energy and be swept away by their expressions of beauty and grace. An Evening with Nederlands Dans Theater 2 is a dance event not to be missed!

There will be a post-show dialogue with the artists.

Nederlands Dans Theater 2

The younger arm of world renowned Nederlands Dans Theater, NDT2 has, over its 35-year history, developed into a premier, internationally recognised company and has performed in theatres across the globe. It consists of classically trained ballet dancers between the ages of 17 and 23 who have been recruited from all over the world.

"Nederlands Dans Theater 2, a youthful company of splendidly disciplined dancers with great clarity in their impeccably staged works" New Zealand Evening Post