FELA! et al. Set for Sadler's Wells Autumn 2011 Season

Sadler's Wells announces its Autumn 2011 Season. The Autumn 2011 Season at Sadler's Wells is now on sale from Monday 23 May 2011 Sadler's Wells Ticket Office: 0844 424 4300 or visit: www.sadlerswells.com

The Autumn 2011 season at Sadler's Wells in detail:

FELA!
Wednesday 20 July - Sunday 28 August
Tickets: £15 - £50

FELA! arrives at Sadler's Wells this summer, following its sell out success at the National Theatre and a triple Tony award-winning run on Broadway; a provocative hybrid of dance, theatre and music exploring the extravagant, decadent and rebellious world of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti. Leading the cast is Olivier Award-nominated Sahr Ngaujah, who returns to the title role at Sadler's Wells, having garnered acclaim for his portrayal of Kuti in New York and London.

FELA! was choreographed, directed and co-written (with lyricist Jim Lewis) by Bill T. Jones, whose company, Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company, last performed at Sadler's Wells in 2004.

Press night: Tuesday 26 July at 7.30pm

British Youth Opera

Le nozze di Figaro / PEACOCK THEATRE
The Rape of Lucretia
Saturday 3 - Saturday 10 September
Tickets: £10 - £38
British Youth Opera, in association with Southbank Sinfonia, returns to the Peacock Theatre for the eighth year with two contrasting new productions.

Firstly Mozart's masterly comedy of class, cross-dressing, mistaken identities and marriage, Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata (The Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness). The programme is completed by Benjamin Britten's chamber opera The Rape of Lucretia. An intimate portrayal of a personal tragedy with historic consequences set against a backdrop of war; the iconic tale of the last Prince of Rome's assault on the virtuous Lucretia.

Out of Asia Season at Sadler's Wells

For Autumn 2011 Alistair Spalding, Sadler's Wells Artistic Director and Chief Executive, has chosen to focus on the exciting artistic work happening in Asia. The Out of Asia series of work brings together artists from China (Beijing Dance Theatre, TAO Dance Theater), Vietnam (Ea Sola), Bangladesh (Akram Khan's DESH), Japan (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's TeZuka) and Taiwan (Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan).

The first of these works is the World Premiere of Sadler's Wells' latest production, TeZuka, which is a manga-inspired dance theatre work by acclaimed choreographer and Sadler's Wells Associate Artist Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
TeZukA WORLD PREMIERE
Tuesday 6 - Saturday 10 September
Tickets: £10 - £32

Widely hailed as the ‘God of Manga', visionary Japanese animator Osamu Tezuka provides the inspiration for internationally renowned choreographer and Sadler's Wells Associate Artist Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's brand new work - TeZukA. Famed for his manga creations including Astro Boy and Buddha, Tezuka's work has become a vital part of Japanese cultural identity.

Working with a cast of nine dancers, two musicians, an actor and a calligrapher, all drawn from Europe and Asia, Cherkaoui explores Tezuka's fascinating world. TeZukA features a specially commissioned score from award-winning composer and Sadler's Wells Associate Artist Nitin Sawhney with lighting and visual design by Willy Cessa, plus projections of Tezuka's original illustrations alongside work by video artist Taki Ueda.

Part of Out of Asia
A Sadler's Wells Production

Havana Rakatan PEACOCK THEATRE
Tuesday 13 September - Sunday 9 October
Tickets: £15 - £42

One of Sadler's Wells' most successful productions, Havana Rakatan returns to the Peacock Theatre for a fifth season. Jazz, mambo, bolero, son, cha-cha-cha, rumba and salsa all come alive in a dazzling dance display of Cuban passion. Set to live Cuban music courtesy of Cuba's acclaimed son band Turquino, Havana Rakatan is a captivating journey through the dance and music of a unique country.

"The hottest, the coolest, the sexiest dancers in town... Irresistible" Sunday Express

Age Guidance: Under 5s admitted

A Sadler's Wells & Congas Production

Grupo Corpo

Ímã & Onqotô
Tuesday 13 - Friday 16 September
Tickets: £10 - £38

Founded in 1975, Brazilian contemporary dance company Grupo Corpo and choreographer Rodrigo Pederneiras have attracted high praise from both critics and audiences for reinventing classical ballet as an exuberant and rhythmic dance form.

Onqotô tackles the origins of the universe through the surprising setting of a football match in Rio de Janeiro. A score of Latin-inflected funk by Caetano Veloso and José Miguel Wisnik accompanies the 21 dancers, with lighting by Paulo Pederneiras.

Ímã is inspired by the scientific law of magnetism whereby particles either repel or attract one another. Set to an experimental soundtrack by Brazilian trio +2, the dancers engage in a constant game of union and dispersion, while Freusa Zechmeister's costumes and Paulo Pederneiras' lighting work in harmony to create an explosion of colour on stage.

Ea Sola

Drought and Rain
Monday 19 & Tuesday 20 September
£10 - £32

French-Vietnamese choreographer Ea Sola was born in Vietnam and trained in Paris. She left her homeland at the height of the war and returned in 1990 to conduct five years of research on the traditional music and dance of Vietnam and the lasting effect of the war on its people.

The culmination of this research was 1995's Drought and Rain, a work that celebrates historical and cultural memory and meditates on the cost of conflict and imperialism. Now, 16 years later, Ea Sola has recreated this moving work with a group of elderly women from the north of Vietnam whose singing consoled the soldiers in the front lines, as well as an ensemble of six virtuoso traditional musicians.

Part of Out of Asia
A Sadler's Wells Co-production

Sylvie Guillem

6000 miles away
Thursday 22 - Sunday 25 September
Tickets: £10 - £45

Internationally acclaimed dancer Sylvie Guillem has conceived a new evening of work by three of the most important choreographers working today: Mats Ek, William Forsythe, and Ji?í Kylián. This is the second run of performances following July's world premiere.

After their successful collaboration in Wet Woman and Smoke, Swedish choreographer Mats Ek presents Ajö (Bye), a new solo created especially for Guillem set to Beethoven's last piano sonata. William Forsythe choreographs a brand new duet for Guillem and one of Teatro alla Scala's biggest stars, Massimo Murru. Completing the evening is a work by former Artistic Director of Nederlands Dans Theater, Ji?í Kylián.

A Sadler's Wells / Sylvie Guillem Production
Co-produced by Holland Dance Festival, Les Nuits de Fourvière/Département du Rhône, Athens Festival, and Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay

Quarantine 

Entitled LILIAN BAYLIS STUDIO
Tuesday 27 September - Saturday 1 October
Tickets: £15

Quarantine makes and tours work internationally and nationally, working with both experienced performers and complete novices. Last year, they presented their cult hit Susan & Darren in the Lilian Baylis Studio to great acclaim. They return this autumn with a brand new piece, Entitled.

With their signature blend of intimacy and honesty, Entitled is about hope, privilege and disappointment. It portrays the usually hidden choreography of transforming a theatre from an empty space into a stage for a show, and back again. As is typical of Quarantine's output, the piece will blur the lines between spectator and performer with a cast that includes working technicians.

A Sadler's Wells Co-commission

La La La Human Steps UK PREMIERE

New Work by Édouard Lock
Wednesday 28 September - Saturday 1 October
Tickets: £10 - £36

Leading contemporary dance group La La La Human Steps was founded in Montreal in 1980 by Édouard Lock. To mark more than 30 years of groundbreaking dance, Lock has created a new work that brings together two great tragic operas; Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice.

Set to a score by acclaimEd English composer Gavin Bryars, dance unites two operas into one seamless ode, featuring guest soloist and star of the Mariinsky Ballet, Diana Vishneva.

Akram Khan Company

DESH
Tuesday 4 - Saturday 8 October
Tickets: £10 - £36

DESH (homeland) is a new solo work from Sadler's Wells Associate Artist Akram Khan, inspired by his homeland of Bangladesh. After critically acclaimed collaborations with artists including Sylvie Guillem, Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley, DESH is set to be one of Khan's most personal works, as he examines the contradictions of his own British-Asian identity.

DESH sees Khan collaborate with Oscar-winning visual artist Tim Yip (Production Designer for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), fellow Sadler's Wells Associate Artist lighting designer Michael Hulls, writer and poet Karthika Nair and Olivier Award-winning composer Jocelyn Pook.

Part of Out of Asia
A Sadler's Wells Co-production
Sponsored by COLAS

Emanuel Gat Dance 

Brilliant Corners UK PREMIERE
Monday 10 & Tuesday 11 October
Tickets: £10 - £20

Brilliant Corners is the newest work from Israeli choreographer and performer Emanuel Gat. Created for ten dancers it is set to an original score composed by Gat himself. An explosion of simultaneous ideas, this new work is a choreographic playground of multiple perspectives, exposing both the fragility and burning relevance of the moment. Emanuel Gat's company previously performed at Sadler's Wells in both 2008 and 2010 to critical acclaim.

"Emanuel Gat is fast becoming a household name in dance circles" New York Times

Part of Dance Umbrella 2011
A Sadler's Wells Co-production

Shaun Parker & Company

Happy as Larry PEACOCK THEATRE
Friday 14 & Saturday 15 October
Tickets: £10 - £22

Created by award-winning Australian choreographer Shaun Parker and coming to the West End as part of a UK tour, Happy as Larry investigates the nature of human happiness. Combining a mix of ballet, break-dance, roller skating and highly physical contemporary dance, Happy as Larry is accompanied by an electro-acoustic score from Nick Wales and Bree van Reyk.

The eclectic cast of characters is drawn from the Enneagram, a psychological system that maps nine different personality types: The Perfectionist, The Giver, The Performer, The Tragic Romantic, The Observer, The Devil's Advocate, The Optimist, The Boss and The Mediator; providing rich inspiration for Parker's choreography.

Part of Dance Touring Partnership Tour 2011

Beijing Dance Theater

Haze UK PREMIERE
Thursday 13 - Saturday 15 October
Tickets: £10 - £27

Established by choreographer Wang Yuanyuan and visual artists Han Jiang and Tan Shaoyuan, Beijing Dance Theater has built an impressive reputation for collaborating with leading dance artists and cultivating dance and the arts in China. In just three years the company has created a rich repertoire that brings together traditional elements of Chinese culture and dance with ballet.

The company makes its first appearance at Sadler's Wells with Haze, choreographed by Wang Yuanyuan as a creative response to the economic and environmental crises of early 2009. Wang Yuanyuan is one of the most sought after choreographers to emerge from China in recent years having served as resident choreographer for the National Ballet of China and guest choreographer for New York City Ballet.

Part of Out of Asia

Birmingham Royal Ballet

La Fille mal gardée & Autumn Glory
Tuesday 18 - Saturday 22 October
Tickets: £10 - £40

Birmingham Royal Ballet returns with two contrasting evenings; La Fille mal gardée and Autumn Glory, a triple bill of ballets from the heart of Britain's dance heritage.

An engaging and charming love story, La Fille mal gardée was choreographed in 1960 by Frederick Ashton and tells the story of a love triangle between country beauty Lise, her true love Colas, and Alain, the son of a rich vineyard owner.

This season's triple bill, Autumn Glory, features Ninette de Valois' Checkmate, with a score by Sir Arthur Bliss and iconic designs by E. McKnight Kauffer; Frederick Ashton's Symphonic Variations performed by six dancers to one of César Franck's finest works and Pineapple Poll, choreographed by John Cranko and danced to a medley of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Press night: Programme One, Wednesday 19 October at 7.30pm;
Programme Two, Thursday 20 October at 7.30pm

ZooNation Dance Company PEACOCK THEATRE

Some Like It Hip Hop WORLD PREMIERE
Thursday 20 October - Saturday 19 November
Tickets: £12 - £38

Some Like it Hip Hop, written by ZooNation founder Kate Prince and Felix Harrison, is the company's first full-length production since the award-winning West End smash hit, Into the Hoods. With a nod to Billy Wilder's much loved film Some Like It Hot and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Some Like it Hip Hop is a comical tale of love, mistaken identity, cross-dressing, gender stereotypes and revolution; all played out in ZooNation's trademark style of hip hop, comedy and physical theatre.

Directed by Kate Prince, with original music by Josh Cohen and DJ Walde, the cast includes Tommy Franzen (So You Think You Can Dance), Lizzie Gough (So You Think You Can Dance) and Teneisha Bonner (StreetDance 3D, Shoes). ZooNation Dance Company was founded in 2002 by Kate Prince. In 2006, the company premiered Into the Hoods, which went on to become the longest running dance show in the West End. In 2010 ZooNation became a Resident Company at Sadler's Wells, and Kate Prince became an Associate Artist.

A Sadler's Wells Co-production

Champloo Dance Company

White Caps LILIAN BAYLIS STUDIO
Friday 21 - Sunday 23 October
Tickets: £7 - £12

Bristol based Champloo is one of the UK's leading b-boy dance companies and was founded in 2007 by Wilkie Branson and Joel Daniel. Integrating lyrical film with breakdance, White Caps is a multimedia experience that follows the journey of two young men as they embark on an epic and gruelling personal adventure.

Created and performed by Branson and Daniel, White Caps is set to a soundtrack by Type Sun. With a cult following, Type Sun are known for working with root tradition drums and they have collaborated with a variety of artists including Phil King, Eleanor Rusbridge and DJ Rouge to create a unique score.

ZooNation Dance Company PEACOCK THEATRE 

Some Like It Hip Hop WORLD PREMIERE
Thursday 20 October - Saturday 19 November
Tickets: £12 - £38

Some Like it Hip Hop, written by ZooNation founder Kate Prince and Felix Harrison, is the company's first full-length production since the award-winning West End smash hit, Into the Hoods. With a nod to Billy Wilder's much loved film Some Like It Hot and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Some Like it Hip Hop is a comical tale of love, mistaken identity, cross-dressing, gender stereotypes and revolution; all played out in ZooNation's trademark style of hip hop, comedy and physical theatre.

Directed by Kate Prince, with original music by Josh Cohen and DJ Walde, the cast includes Tommy Franzen (So You Think You Can Dance), Lizzie Gough (So You Think You Can Dance) and Teneisha Bonner (StreetDance 3D, Shoes). ZooNation Dance Company was founded in 2002 by Kate Prince. In 2006, the company premiered Into the Hoods, which went on to become the longest running dance show in the West End. In 2010 ZooNation became a Resident Company at Sadler's Wells, and Kate Prince became an Associate Artist.

A Sadler's Wells Co-production

Champloo Dance Company

White Caps LILIAN BAYLIS STUDIO
Friday 21 - Sunday 23 October
Tickets: £7 - £12

Bristol based Champloo is one of the UK's leading b-boy dance companies and was founded in 2007 by Wilkie Branson and Joel Daniel. Integrating lyrical film with breakdance, White Caps is a multimedia experience that follows the journey of two young men as they embark on an epic and gruelling personal adventure.

Created and performed by Branson and Daniel, White Caps is set to a soundtrack by Type Sun. With a cult following, Type Sun are known for working with root tradition drums and they have collaborated with a variety of artists including Phil King, Eleanor Rusbridge and DJ Rouge to create a unique score.

Fabulous Beast & Liam Ó Maonlaí 

Rian UK PREMIERE
Monday 24 & Tuesday 25 October
Tickets: £10 - £32

Fabulous Beast Artistic Director, Michael Keegan-Dolan, and musician Liam Ó Maonlaí come together to create a new production that takes its title from Ó Maonlaí's 2005 solo album Rian. Moved to choreograph to Rian on first hearing it, Keegan-Dolan aims to create a production with Ó Maonlaí in which the musicians and dancers share the stage equally. Ó Maonlaí will combine material from Rian with the music of influential Irish composer Seán Ó Riada.

Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre has received critical acclaim with Giselle, The Bull and the Rite of Spring all being nominated for Olivier Awards. Liam Ó Maonlaí is best known as a member of The Hothouse Flowers.

"In the febrile creative mind of Michael Keegan Dolan, anything is possible" The Times

A Sadler's Wells Production
Supported by Culture Ireland

Clod Ensemble WORLD PREMIERE

An Anatomie in Four Quarters
Friday 28 - Sunday 30 October
Tickets: £16

Clod Ensemble, led by Suzy Willson and Paul Clark, has been making work that crosses the boundaries between dance, theatre and visual art for over 15 years. Recent productions include Red Ladies and Under Glass.

An Anatomie in Four Quarters, a promenade production set to an original score featuring live strings, percussion and bagpipes, celebrates the physical structure of the human form as well as our perceptions of it.

Sadler's Wells' auditorium will be dissected as the audience of just 200 move to different viewing positions throughout the piece, beginning in the Second Circle and finishing on the stage, the audience examines what it means to open up and to be opened.

Scottish Ballet

Double Bill
Thursday 3 & Friday 4 November
Tickets: £10 - £40

After 2009's hugely successful 40th anniversary performances at Sadler's Wells, Scottish Ballet returns with a double bill originally unveiled at this year's Edinburgh International Festival.

Kenneth MacMillan's Song of the Earth was created for Stuttgart Ballet in 1965 at the invitation of Artistic Director John Cranko. Set to a live performance of Mahler's song cycle Das Lied von der Erde, the lyrics which were translated from a collection of eighth century Chinese poems offering bittersweet reflections on human emotion, Song of the Earth explores man's struggle to accept mortality.

Resident Choreographer at Boston Ballet, Finnish-born Jorma Elo creates a new work for Scottish Ballet which features costumes by Yumiko Takeshima and is set to Mozart's First Violin Concerto and music by Steve Reich.

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan

White UK PREMIERE
Wednesday 9 - Saturday 12 November
Tickets: £10 - £36

Directed by internationally renowned choreographer Lin Hwai-min, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan was the first contemporary dance company in any Chinese speaking community. The company is known for transforming ancient aesthetics into thrillingly unique performances that draw on diverse disciplines; from chi kung and meditation to ballet and internal martial arts.

White is divided into three distinct parts - each part presenting a different type of ‘white'. Set to music by Japanese composer Atsuhiko Gondai, The Bowed Piano Ensemble founder Stephen Scott and percussionist composer Alex Cline, light and shadow is used to spectacular effect as more than 20 performers are transformed into moving silhouettes.

Part of Out of Asia

TAO Dance Theatre

2 & Weight x 3 LILIAN BAYLIS STUDIO
Tuesday 15 & Wednesday 16 November UK PREMIERE
Tickets: £15

TAO Dance Theatre has performed in every modern dance festival throughout China and collaborated with leading Chinese artists across genres including theatre, experimental music, visual arts and installation. Their UK premiere closes 2011's world tour.

Their newest work, 2, is a duet performed by Artistic Director and company founder Tao Ye and Duan Ni. Weight x 3 is a triptych of pieces concerned with perceptions of physical practice, performed to the music of Steve Reich.
Part of Out of Asia

Rambert Dance Company

featuring Seven for a secret, never to be told
Tuesday 15 - Saturday 19 November
Tickets: £10 - £38

Following the success of Constant Speed, Eternal Light and The Comedy of Change, Baldwin presents his brand new work, Seven for a secret, never to be told; a magical and playful piece set to music based on Ravel's opera L'enfant et les sortileges, adapted by Stephen McNeff with designs by Michael Howells.

Javier De Frutos returns to Rambert to create a world premiere inspired by the life and work of Tennessee Williams, set to music from A Streetcar Named Desire. Concluding the bill is Merce Cunningham's hypnotic RainForest, a work praised for its "childlike gentleness" (New York Times) performed to David Tudor's evocative score. All three works will be played live by the Rambert Orchestra.

"A company in rude health, replete with sharp, cool and inventive talent" Daily Telegraph

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jérôme Bel & Ictus 

3Abscheid UK PREMIERE
Monday 21 & Tuesday 22 November
Tickets: £10 - £27

3Abschied is a collaboration between Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Jérôme Bel. De Keersmaeker invited Bel to work with her on creating a performance set to The Farewell, the final part of Gustav Mahler's The Song of the Earth. Joining them on stage is contemporary music ensemble, Ictus, as they address the question of whether it is possible to choreograph to this epic masterpiece.

A Sadler's Wells Co-production
Turnage | McGregor | Wallinger

UNDANCE WORLD PREMIERE
Thursday 1 - Saturday 3 December
Tickets: £10 - £32

This collaboration between internationally acclaimed composer Mark-Anthony Turnage, Olivier Award-winning choreographer Wayne McGregor and Turner Prize-winning visual artist Mark Wallinger marks the first new work in Sadler's Wells' Composer Series.

The two part evening, with an orchestra conducted by Tim Murray, features a new staging of Turnage's emotional chamber opera Twice Through the Heart, written for mezzo-soprano and 16 instrumentalists. Sadler's Wells Associate Artist Wayne McGregor directs Sarah Connolly in the role of a woman who is jailed for killing her abusive husband, with design by digital art-collective The Open Ended Group.

The second part of the evening features a brand new choreographic work performed by the dancers of Sadler's Wells Resident Company, Wayne McGregor | Random Dance with lighting by Lucy Carter, costumes by Moritz Junge and a visual world created by Mark Wallinger. A true collaboration, Turnage's new score for the piece has been inspired by a text written by Wallinger, which was in turn inspired by American sculptor Richard Serra's Compilation of Verbs and the work of photographer Eadweard J. Muybridge.

A Sadler's Wells Production
Supported by Outset in partnership with Northern Trust

Birmingham Repertory Theatre

The Snowman PEACOCK THEATRE
Wednesday 30 November 2011- Sunday 8 January 2012
Tickets: £12 - £32
Family Ticket: £95 (4 tickets inc at least 1 child)

London's favourite family Christmas show based on Raymond Briggs' book The Snowman returns to the West End for a record-breaking 14th consecutive year. When a young boy's snowman comes to life on Christmas Eve, the two set off on a night-time quest for adventure. On their travels, they meet dancing penguins, reindeer and, of course, Father Christmas. Featuring Howard Blake's timeless score, including the ever-popular Walking in the Air played live by a full orchestra; this is the perfect Christmas treat for all the family.

"Sheer theatrical magic. Go see The Snowman and melt" The Times

Suitable for all ages

Ambassador Theatre Group presents
Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker!
A New Adventures Production
Tuesday 6 December 2011 - Monday 23 January 2012
Tickets: £10 - £60

One of the most popular dance productions ever staged in the UK, Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! returns to Sadler's Wells this Christmas to celebrate its 20th anniversary with a limited seven week run. A resident company of Sadler's Wells, Matthew Bourne's New Adventures has produced some of the most successful dance productions of the last two decades including Swan Lake, Edward Scissorhands and the Christmas 2010 sell-out hit, Cinderella. Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! marks New Adventures 10th consecutive Christmas season at Sadler's Wells.

Set to Tchaikovsky's score and with Anthony Ward's delicious set and costume design, Nutcracker! follows Clara's bittersweet journey from a bleak Christmas Eve at Dr. Dross' Orphanage, through a shimmering, ice-skating winter wonderland to the candy kingdom of Sweetieland.

Suitable for all ages

Travelling Light & Bristol Old Vic

BOING! LILIAN BAYLIS STUDIO
Tuesday 13 - Saturday 31 December
Tickets: £7 - £12

In collaboration with Champloo Dance Company, Travelling Light and Bristol Old Vic have created an energetic and enchanting piece of dance theatre combining comedy, acrobatics and breakdance. Set on Christmas Eve, BOING! captures the delirious excitement of waiting for Santa to arrive on the most magical night of the year. BOING! is directed by children's theatre specialist Sally Cookson and choreographed and performed by Champloo founders Wilkie Branson and Joel Daniel.

"Rumbustious, exhilarating dance theatre" The Guardian

Age Guidance: 3+

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: World Cities 2012

Wednesday 6 June - Monday 9 July 2012
Tickets: £15 - £55

This month-long season of international co-productions is presented by Sadler's Wells and the Barbican to celebrate the global focus of the Olympic year and one of the most influential choreographers in dance, Pina Bausch.

This is the first ever continuous season of productions by Pina Bausch and her company, commissioned by Sadler's Wells, in association with Cultural Industry and the Barbican, with thanks to Wuppertal, North Rhine Westphalia and Arts Council England. It features 10 international co-productions exploring 10 global locations in India, Brazil, Italy, Hong Kong, United States of America, Hungary, Turkey, Chile, and Japan. Embarked upon by Bausch in 1986, the landmark series of works was created at the invitation of the different cities. Living in each city for a period of time, her company would then return to Wuppertal to create a piece inspired by their visit. The works are presented as part of London 2012 Festival, which is the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad.

Viktor (Rome) Sadler's Wells
Wednesday 6 & Thursday 7 June

A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with Teatro Argentina di Roma which premiered on 14 May 1986.

Press night: Wednesday 6 June at 7.30pm

Nur Du (Only You) (Los Angeles) BARBICAN
Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 June UK PREMIERE

A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with the University of California in Los Angeles, the Arizona State University, the University of California in Berkley, the University of Texas in Austin, Darlene Neel Presentations, Rena Shagan Associates, Inc. and The Music Center Inc. which premiered on 11 May 1996.

...Como el musguito en la piedra, ay si, si, si (Santiago de Chile)Sadler's Wells
Tuesday 12 & Wednesday 13 June UK PREMIERE

A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with Festival International de Teatro Santiago a Mil in Chile and the support of Goethe-Institut Chile. In cooperation with Andres Neumann International which premiered on 12 June 2009.

Ten Chi (Saitama) BARBICAN 

Friday 15 & Saturday 16 June UK PREMIERE

A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with Saitama Prefecture, Saitama Arts Foundation and Nippon Cultural Centre which premiered on 8 May 2004.

Press night: Friday 15 June at 7.30pm

Der Fensterputzer (The Window Washer) (Hong Kong) Sadler's Wells
Monday 18 & Tuesday 19 June at 7.30pm

A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with the Hong Kong Arts Festival Society and Goethe-Institut Hong Kong which premiered on 12 February 1997.

Bamboo Blues (Kolkata) BARBICAN

Thursday 21 & Friday 22 June UK PREMIERE

A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with Goethe-Institut in India which premiered on 18 May 2007.

Press night: Thursday 21 June at 7.30pm

Nefés (Istanbul) Sadler's Wells
Sunday 24 & Monday 25 June UK PREMIERE

A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with the International Istanbul Festival and the Istanbul Foundation of Arts and Culture which premiered on 21 March 2003.

Água (São Paulo) BARBICAN

Thursday 28 & Friday 29 June

A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with Brazil, Goethe-Institut São Paulo and Emilio Kalil which premiered on 12 May 2001.

Palermo, Palermo (Palermo) Sadler's Wells

Sunday 1 & Monday 2 July

A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with Teatro Biondo Stabile, Palermo and Andres Neumann International which premiered on 17 December 1989.

Wiesenland (Budapest) Sadler's Wells

Sunday 8 & Monday 9 July UK PREMIERE

A piece by Pina Bausch in co-production with Goethe-Institut Budapest and Théâtre de la Ville, Paris which premiered on 5 May 2000

 

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