Photo Flash: BALLET BLACK Comes Back to London

Following a sold out run at the Barbican, Ballet Black opens at Theatre Royal Stratford East in a new partnership. A professional ballet company for international dancers, they aim to bring ballet to a more mixed audience with this critically acclaimed Triple Bill.

At the centerpiece is Christopher Hampson's critically acclaimed Storyville: set in 1920s New Orleans we follow Nola, a young farm girl who falls prey to unscrupulous characters and secret desires, set to the haunting music of Kurt Weill. Storyville is the tender yet bittersweet story of a young girl's journey from rags to riches and back again. A tale of love, corruption and survival set in the nightclubs of Storyville, it is a salacious world where anything goes.

The programme also includes two newly devised pieces, Christopher Marney's To Begin, Begin, fresh from McQueen, and a new duet Cristaux by recent Olivier Award Winner Arthur Pita, who previously choreographed a hit version of A Midsummer Night's Dream for Ballet Black's eight-strong ensemble.

Theatre Royal Stratford East

06 October, 2016 - 08 October, 2016
8:00 pm

Northern Stage, Newcastle

11 October, 2016 - 12 October, 2016
7:30 pm

Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Northern Ballet, Leeds

14 October, 2016 - 15 October, 2016
7:30 pm

Tramway, Glasgow

28 October, 2016 - 29 October, 2016
7:30 pm

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