Sadler's Wells Adds New Programming For 2025
Sadler's Wells has announced programming across its four theatres for 2025, including 14 UK premieres, 3 world premieres. The international programme features artists from 13 countries across 4 continents.
Review: ENCOUNTERS: FOUR CONTEMPORARY BALLETS, Royal Ballet And Opera
The Royal Ballet season continues with its first modern bill - Encounters: Four contemporary ballets. For some, like me, the four works presented are all new, but in actuality only two of the four are premières. And one of those is in fact a development of an existing (2022) pas de deux into a bigger scale work.
The Royal Ballet Will Perform ENCOUNTERS: Four Contemporary Ballets
The Royal Ballet will present Encounters: Four Contemporary Ballets, a mixed programme of works by 21st-century choreographers featuring world premieres by Joseph Toonga, former alumnus of The Royal Ballet Choreographic Residency programme and Pam Tanowitz, alongside the revivals of acclaimed choreographic works: Kyle Abraham’s The Weathering and Crystal Pite’s The Statement.
KONTAKTHOF " ECHOES OF '78 Will Embark on Tour
Sadler's Wells, the Pina Bausch Foundation and Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch have announced Kontakthof – Echoes of '78 – a new encounter with Bausch's seminal work, conceived and directed by Meryl Tankard, who was one of the main characters in 1978. Tankard will reunite with other members from the original cast for this unique production, which receives its world premiere at the Opernhaus Wuppertal, Germany in November 2024.
Ballet Edmonton Comes to Toronto This Month
Ballet Edmonton will debut a new work at Fall For Dance North (FFDN), Toronto's premier professional international dance festival, on September 26th and 27th with the world premiere of a new creation by choreographer Anne Plamondon; “Feel no More”.
FORM Dance Projects Will Launch IDEA'24 Festival
FORM Dance Projects will launch its new annual Dance Festival IDEA - Independent Dance Exchange Australia. For four weeks across the Greater Sydney area, IDEA’24 will feature an intensive program of public performances, workshops and seminars held by local and global leadership across First Nations practice, contemporary dance and physical theatre.
Review: ASSEMBLY HALL, Sadler's Wells
Assembly Hall takes place in, as you might have guessed, an assembly hall, where a group of medieval reenactors are coming together for what may be the final meeting of the General Assembly of the Benevolent and Protective Order. However, everything is not as it seems . . .