Choreographer
'Baroque Encounters'
New English Ballet Theatre
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells, London, Nov 2023
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
Sets & Costume Design: April Dalton
Lighting Design: Andrew Ellis
Piece for 7 dancers
"Daniela Cardim’s Baroque Encounters did exactly what it said on the tin, being the most distinctive and memorable piece on the programme. Cardim chose beautiful harpsichord music by Bach and her choreography for seven dancers was rich in imagery and musicality and elegantly layered with exquisite transitions. April Dalton’s long red skirts for both men and women enhanced the movement's slick flow"
By Graham Watts, Bachtrack, Nov 2023
'Stabat Mater'
Pozan Opera Ballet
Aula Artis, Pozan, Poland, Nov 2022
Music: Karol Szymanowski
Set & Costume Design: Diana Marszałek
Lighting Design: Wiktor Kusma
Piece for 25 dancers
"This neoclassical interpretation delighted with its symmetry, synchronicities, consistency, and the choreographer's understanding of music, which was her starting point for interpretation"
Kultura Poznan, Nov 2022
'Nocturne'
New English Ballet Ballet
Royal Opera House Linbury Theatre, London
June, 2022
Music: Frederic Chopin
Costume Design: Lisa James
Lighting Designer: Andrew Ellis
"Set to Frédéric Chopin’s Nocturne No.13 in C minor, it’s a beautiful, intense and very intimate pas de deux, and a highlight of the evening. Camino Llonch and Daniel Corthorn are the couple working their way through sorrow and loss. Surrounded by darkness, perhaps the darkness of their feelings, I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who recalled Jerome Robbins’ In the Night. Llonch throws herself at Corthorn. She clings to him. But all the time there is a bond, a closeness and togetherness that you feel will see them through. I will be amazed if Nocturne doesn’t stay in the repertory for a long time"
By David Mead, Seeing Dance, Jun 2022
'Reset'
West Australian Ballet
Quarry Amphitheatre, Perth, Feb 2022
Music: Gabriel Prokofiev
Sets & Costume Design: Bruce McKinven
Lighting Designer: Matthew Marshall
Piece for 10 dancers
"Cardim’s lucid and uncluttered choreography was thrilling; her improvisations not just echoes of work already played out, and able to completely absorb the audience"
Limelight, Feb 2022
’Imminent’
Birmingham Royal Ballet
Repertory Theatre, Birmingham, Jun 2021
Sadler’s Wells, London, Nov 2021
Music: Paul Englishby
Sets & Costume Design: April Dalton
Lighting Designer: Peter Teigen
Dramaturg: Lou Cope
Assistant Choreographer: Peter Leung
Piece for 16 dancers
"The sixteen-strong cast was led by a magnetising performance by Eilis Small in a role that seemed to have some resonance with the concept of “a chosen one (...) Cardim hails from Brazil where both climate emergency (the destruction of the Amazon forests) and extreme politics are clearly to the fore and this was a brave attempt to sum it all up in a short ballet” - Graham Watts - Bachtrack, Jun 2021
’Divergance’
Images Ballet Ballet
Artsdepot, London 2021
Music: Zoe Keating
Costume Design: Rosie Whiting
Lighting Design: Pete Ayres
Piece for 3 dancers
"Where Cardim has succeeded is that the story is clear – there is no need to read the programme beforehand and that is a feat in itself. It is a courageous step into narrative dance”
- Deborah Weiss - Dancetabs, Sep 2019
’Two Husbands’
New English Ballet Theatre
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells, London 2019
Music: Heitor Villa-Lobos
Sets & Costume Design: April Dalton
Lighting Design: Andrew Ellis
Piece for 10 dancers
"Where Cardim has succeeded is that the story is clear – there is no need to read the programme beforehand and that is a feat in itself. It is a courageous step into narrative dance”
- Deborah Weiss - Dancetabs, Sep 2019
'What Got You Here'
Dutch National Ballet Junior Company
Meervaart, Amsterdam 2019
Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London 2019
Music by Nico Muhly
Text excerpts from Bill Bryson’s audiobook: ‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’ (with kind permission from the author)
Costumes: Oliver Haller
Lighting Design: Wijnand van der Horst
Piece for 6 dancers
“The first new work - and also the most interesting of the program - is What Got You Here by the Brazilian Daniela Cardim. On each of the beautiful miniatures by composer Nico Muhly, three men and three women answer the amazement that sounds in Bill Bryson's texts, as quoted from his equally witty and masterly A Short History or Nearly Everything. The dance is frieze and airy, but with enough interesting movement material. I would like to see it three times in a row.”
- Het Parool, 2019
’The Message’
Elmhurst Ballet School
Birmingham, 2019
Music: Ludovico Einaudi
"The Message, a smart piece of neo-classical choreography built on a clever idea, used pointes and partnering to good effect and was given a strong performance by the dancers of the school’s touring Company”
SeeingDance, Jul 2019 - Maggie Foyer
'The Whisper'
English National Ballet School
New Wimbledon Theatre, London, 2017
Music: Nico Muhly
Piece for 20 dancers
“Daniela Cardim’s The Whisper was a class work of modern ballet with a quirky back story to give a handle”
SeeingDance.com - by Maggie Foyer
'Vertex'
New English Ballet Theatre
Peacock Theatre, London 2016
Music: Camargo Guarnieri
Costumes: April Dalton
Projected Art: Ann Christopher RA
Lighting Design: Andrew Ellis
Piece for 8 dancers
"The most accomplished work on the programme was Daniela Cardim’s Vertex, with aesthetic designs by April Dalton. This looked like a full-blooded, pure dance work with clear lines, lovely duets and a sense of symmetry."
- Deborah Weiss - Dance Europe 2016
'Uirapuru'
Ballet do Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro
Theatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro 2016
Music: Heitor Villa-Lobos
Costumes: Rene Salazar
Sets: Gringo cardia
Light design: Maneco Quinderé
Piece for 14 dancers
"The neo-classic dance is guided by the musical score in a well-resolved harmony. Karen Mesquita and Alef Albert show excellent technique while sets, lights and projections frame the elegance of the piece.”
- By Adriana Pavlova - O Globo newspaper
Dancer: Claire Calvert
'Similarities between diverse things'
Royal Ballet - Draft Works
In collaboration with choreographer Érico Montes
Royal Opera House - Linbury Theatre , London 2015
Music: Joby Talbot
Piece for 5 dancers
photo by Gigi Gianella
Dancers: Alexandra Cameron-Martin & Gyorgy Baan
'Wundarra'
New English Ballet Theatre
St. James Theatre - London 2015
Music: Various Iwra
Costumes: Allie Duthie & Daniela Cardim
Light design: David McDade
Piece for 2 dancers
"This was the kind of duet that makes dance accessible and exciting for all."
- London Theatre
'Tangents'
New English Ballet Theatre
Peacock Theatre, London 2014
St. James Theatre, London 2015
Tour: Richmond, Cheltenham, High Wycombe 2015
Music: Modest Mussorgsky
Costumes: Daniela cardim
Original lighting: Malcolm Glanville
Piece for 6 dancers
"Tangents, by company manager and choreographer of growing repute Daniela Cardim Fonteyne to Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition was an abstract, lyrical journey centred around the changes in relationships, the differences in how people interact with each other. It was sensitively shaped, with a number of eye-catching sequences."
- Dance Europe 2015
'Separation'
Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts
LIPA - Liverpool 2015
Music: medley
Costumes: LIPA students
Light design: LIPA students
Piece for 6 dancers
'Aida'
Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam 2012
Dancers from Dutch National Ballet School
Piece for 3 dancers
'Inertia'
English National Ballet's Workshop 2011
Music by Michael Nyman
performed by Balanescu Quartet
Piece for 4 dancers
"Daniela Cardim's 'Inertia' to Michael Nyman music was a confident, sophisticated work in neo-classical style"
- Dance Europe 2011
'Bits and Bobs'
Dutch National Ballet
New Moves 2010
Music: Balanescu Quartet/Caetano Veloso/Bob McFerrin/Vivaldi
Piece for 7 dancers
'Two Octaves Below Middle C'
Dutch National Ballet
Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam 2009
Music: Philip Glass / Nando Russo
Costumes: Yumiko Takeshima
Sets: Ellen Windhorst
Light design: Wijnand van der Horst
Piece for 10 dancers
"She handed her ten dancers in skilful and interesting designs, making innovative use of balletic form"
- Dance Europe 2009
'Passanoite'
São Paulo Companhia de Dança
Teatro Alfa, SP 2009
Music: Marcelo Petraglia, Hermelino Neder, Mário Manga and André Mehmari
Costumes: Ronaldo Fraga
Lighting: Domingos Quintiliano
Piece for 10 dancers
Dancer: Natalia Hofman
'In Space'
Dutch National Ballet
Het Muziektheatre, Amsterdam 2008
Music: medley
Costumes: Oliver Haller
Piece for 1 dancer
'New York Choreographic Institute'
Lincoln Center, New York 2008
In collaboration with composer Jude Vaclavik
(Juliard School graduate)
Dancers: School of American Ballet
Piece for 8 dancers
Dancers: Ji-young Kim & Peter Leung
'Summa'
Dutch National Ballet
New Moves 2008
Music: Arvo Part
Piece for 2 dancers
"Daniela Cardim built her growing choreographic reputation with 'Summa' , a neo-classical duet danced by Ji-Young Kim and Peter Leung. The movements were clearly etched, following the simple violin line, and beautifully interpreted"
- Dance Europe 2008
'Zaahir'
Dutch National Ballet
'Souk' - Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam 2007
Music: Claude Chalhoub
Costumes: Daniela Cardim with Dutch National Ballet's costume department
Piece for 2 dancers
Dancers: Veronique Tamaccio & Juanjo Arques
'Piano Suite'
Dutch National Ballet
New Moves 2007
Music: Philip Glass
Piece for 2 dancers
'Baticum'
Dutch National Ballet
New Moves 2007
Music: Marco Antonio Guimarães
Piece for 6 dancers
Dancers: Emanouela Merdjanova & Peter Leung
'3 Movements for Cello and Piano'
Dutch National Ballet
New Moves 2006
Music: Brahms
Piece for 6 dances
'9 for 8'
Dutch National Ballet
New Moves 2005
Music: Uakti
Piece for 8 dances
'Encuentro'
Dutch National Ballet
New Moves 2004
Music: aboriginal sounds
Piece for 8 dances
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