Discover Crosswinds, our new stage creation combining music and dance

From the emergence of the earliest repertories intended for dance, choreographic and musical forms have circulated, transformed, and given rise to variations, quotations, and rewritings. Melodies and dances respond to and reinvent one another, crossing the boundaries between sacred and secular, learned and popular traditions, driven by creative emulation and a profusion of exchanges that carried them across Europe.

Drawing on this spirit of encounters and intersections, Crosswinds explores the tangible and imagined connections between these musical repertories and choreographic practices rooted in the early history of dance. Combining rigorous reconstructions based on the earliest dance treatises with contemporary explorations of movement that extend them, the performance weaves the invisible thread linking these forms and impulses across time, carried by the distinctive breath of historical wind instruments.

From the solemnity of princely court dances to the virtuosic and spectacular variations of the dancing masters, from the earthy vitality of rustic dances inspired by popular festivities to the pursuit of higher harmonies seeking to unite heaven and earth, Crosswinds tells the foundational story of the union between music and movement beyond borders, genres, and eras.

Co-production by Into the Winds and Les Corps Eloquents (Hubert Hazebroucq)

Premiere on 28 April 2026 in Basel as part of the Freunde Alter Musik Basel season.