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This  page gives you the opportunity to get glimpses of many of Jens's performances from his own productions to collaborations and commissions. WE currently tracking back in 25 years of choreograph to find glimpses of many of the works 

Bodies of water with Beirut Contemporary Ballet - 2022

Miramé with Ballet Contemporaneo de Camaquey, 2022

Trespass, Beirut Contemporary Ballet, 2021

TRESPASS FOR BEIRUT CONTEMPORARY BALLET

Created for six dancers is Beirut in the spring 2021

Police Voleur music video - Mechwar

Created for Beirut Contemporary Ballet


Songwriter: Kristian Abouanni Music Production: Scarlett Saad  Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered at Redbooth Studios Mix and Mastering Engineer: William Mahfoud   


Video Production:  

Directed by: Jana Younes 

Choreography by: Jens Bjerregaard   

Starring: Anthony Nakhle & Wafa Bouty   Executive Producer: Celine Habchi

Director of Photography: Elias Daaboul   

Stylist: Ola Achkar  

Post Production: Kristian Abouanni 

2019

Portraits

A co-production between Violet Dance in Macau and Beirut Contemporary Ballet.
 

Choreography Jens Bjerregaard together with Jana Younes

In the woods

A Beirut Contemporary Ballet site specific commissioned work created in Lebanon,

Danced by Jana Younes, Wafa Bouty, Anthony Nakhle & Dasha Aamer

In the woods (2)

A Beirut Contemporary Ballet site specific commissioned work created in Lebanon,
Danced by Jana Younes, Wafa Bouty, Anthony Nakhle & Dasha Aamer

Calling Aphrodite

Created in collaboration with Yidi Lin on students at the 2019 Beijing Dance Camp 

Fendi Casa

A Beirut Contemporary Ballet Commissioned site-specific work for the 30 year celebration of Fendi Casa in the Beirut Showroom.

Created together with Jana Younes, danced by Dasha Aamer and Wafa Bouty

Opening and Closing Ceremony of World Youth Forum, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

Commission  for Beirut Contemporary Ballet to create Televised opening and closing  event with 30 Dancers from Europe and Dubai, Beirut and Lebanon.

2018

Dance film Ghazal, 2018, Beirut Contemporary Ballet

Directed by Jana Younes

Choreography Jens Bjerregaard

Starring Wafa Bouty & Rebecca Dahrouge.

There is no such thing, at the level of love, that causes -must- precede effects.
Ghazal takes us on a flirt journey with a game of time and its flow, where moving backwards becomes a possibility.

- Ghazal in Arabic, is a form of amatory flirt or ode, originating in Arabic poetry.

Counterpoint and other duets 1

Counterpoint and other duets 2

Counterpoint and other duets 3

A Co-production between Beirut Contemporary Ballet and Colorful Dance Festival, China

Counterpoint and other duets 4

Counterpoint and other duets 5

Counterpoint and other duets 6

A Co-production between Beirut Contemporary Ballet and Colorful Dance Festival, China

Skirmish

First official performance of Beirut Contemporary Ballet.

Skirmish  a fight between a two opposing of parties that is usually short and not  planned, it happens randomly and concludes as mysteriously as it  appears. This duet plays with the never ending brutal, beautiful and  funny Skirmishes between a man and a woman as they try to navigate  through life.

Music: Beethoven, 3rd Piano sonata.

Skirmish was premiered January 2018 at the Quoz Arts Fest 2018 at Alserkal Avenue in Dubai. 

Spectacular / Spectator Library opening

Site-specific work created By Beirut Contemporary Ballet in collaboration with Enigma Dance Arts Creative, Kunming, China

2017

Wash away the border

Created  in an old factory bathhouse in Kunming, China, recently reworked into a  gallery and cafe in an area converted into an art district

The  performance with 8 Dancers and 2 actors combined the history of an old  industrial building with the coming of an new era of the location

"Vivre" music video for Rand

Dancers: Jana Younes & Wafa Bouty

encounters

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Wanderlust

Created for Ballet Contemporáneo de Camagüey in Cuba

2016

The Dancing human


Choreography Jens Bjerregaard

Dance together with Diana Cuni (ex soloist Royal Danish Ballet) & Wubkje Kuindersma.


When  we dance, it mostly happens as part of a social event, as an expression  of joy. Some take the dancing further and make it their livelihood and  their paramount passion – In The Dancing Human, we encounter three  experienced artists who, each in his/her own way, has made dancing a  vital part of his/her life. As performers or creators they live for and  explore the possibilities of dance as a means of human and artistic  expression. 


What  these 3 performers will tell on stage is sometimes their own stories  and sometimes the stories of 25 other dancers, from all over the world  and all above the age of 35, who have been interviewed about dance,  their relationship with dance and their life choices. 


In this documentary piece, freely based on Jørgen Leth’s movie Det Perfekte Menneske (The Perfect Human, 1968),  Bjerregaard invites the audience to take an  up-close and personal look at what it means to (choose to) live as a  dancer. 

whispers

Workshop project for dance students in Nanchang, China

Tv work 2014-16

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Dance film "And so do I"

Directed by Jana Younes

Choreography Jens Bjerregaard

Starring Jens Bjerregaard, Giulia Barbone and Shayene Kamel.


A paranoid father embarks on a dance with his belated wife. His daughter witnesses it all.
Set in a realm of sensational language, The family engages in a virtual   conversation of love, loss and the impossibility to forget


Created in Beirut as a co-production between Jana Younes and Jens Bjerregaard/Aurora Borealis

The  Movie have received several awards at International Film Festivals and  the Collaboration lead to the creation of Beirut Contemporary Ballet

2015

Skirmish version 1

Created together with MU Terminal in Budapest

School of Fish

Created on dance students at Nanning University, China

By Friction

Created for Ballet Contemporáneo de Camagüey in Cuba

Juxta

Built  around Bach's 5th Cello suite, this solo work draws its inspiration  from a desire to create a constant river of movement reflecting the  energy of the music - a mirror from where we can portray one man’s  journey. Together with elements from Action painting and visual arts the  dance tries to catch, sort, arrange movements, to place them in order –  creating a body of memories.

The  Solo has been performed in several versions (For stage as well as site  specific) in Hungary, Japan, China and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The  solo is part of a larger project where I since 2014 have been creating  work around the 6 cello suites of Bach. Juxta is the forth work in the  series and the only solo, the previous three works where created on  dancers in Hungary, Cuba and students from the Guangxi Arts Institute.

Earlier works

Adam without

Created together with MUTerminal, Budapest in 2011

falling & love

Created together with MUTerminal, Budapest in 2011

Now

Improvised performance originally for Mancopy Dance Company in 2009 and later restaged for Good Dance Center in China in 2011

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