Masters in Motion

English National Ballet is proud to return to Poland and Łódź International Ballet Festival for the first time since 2017.

Feel the power, beauty and raw emotion of dance with English National Ballet. Experience the bold, boundary-pushing work of Crystal Pite and William Forsythe.

Crystal Pite’s Body and Soul (Part 1) is a hypnotic work that explores our response to loss and the complex, conflicting emotions that follow. It opens with two dancers in black suits and white shirts, bathed in a stark light. They move to a voice, speaking in French, describing their actions. As the words repeat in loops and echoes, the duet swells to a crowd, seamlessly blending precision and fluidity and morphing into mesmerising waves of movement across the stage.

William Forsythe has been pushing ballet to its limits for decades – and continues to do so. His piece Playlist (EP) combines ballet classicism and athleticism with an unexpected soundtrack of pop, r’n’b and house – including Barry White and Natalie Cole. The result? Pure joy! It will leave you “with a great giddy grin on your face” (The Telegraph, UK).