Lied and ballet are two very important artistic forms from the romantic period of the first half of the 18th century. In his latest production, created in July 2014 at the Avignon Festival, Thomas Lebrun brings them face to face, using the lieder texts as a score and the main source for the choreographic composition. Divided into three acts – the traditional structure in ballet – Lied Ballet proposes a journey from abstraction (1st act) to modernity (3rd act), without eluding references to classical ballet in a second act where eight dancers are joined by a tenor and a pianist for a live performance of famous lieder by Berg, Mahler or Schoenberg.