Sadler's Wells Announces Summer Festivals Programme
By: Stephi Wild Apr. 09, 2019
SADLER'S SUMMER MOVES is an outdoor season of festivals and gatherings taking dance performances and workshops outside the four walls of the theatre.
Dancing alfresco, Sadler's Wells, the UK's leading dance house, returns to both Latitude Festival in Suffolk and Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire this summer dispersing a diverse programme of dance across the country.
As well as presenting at festivals in July and August, Sadler's Wells brings dance to London's Great Get Together and Your Stratford Stage with the capital serving as a backdrop for an outdoor stage and innovative works, free of charge to the public.
https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/2019/sadlers-summer-moves
Latitude Festival HENHAM PARK, SUFFOLK
Thursday 18 - Sunday 21 July 2019
Tickets: from £202.50 + Booking Fee (Adult weekend ticket)
For the 12th consecutive year, Sadler's Wells celebrates its long-standing collaboration with Latitude Festival by presenting a varied programme of international dance on the Waterfront Stage including performances from the flamenco innovator Jesús Carmona, BBC Young Dancer Grand Finalists and one of the world's leading contemporary dance companies, Rambert.
Off the back of his week-long artistic residency at Flamenco Festival London, former principal dancer with the acclaimed Ballet Nacional de España and flamenco innovator, Jesús Carmona will continue to share his results from delving into the idea that masculine and feminine energies are not based in gender in an attempt to transcend social conditioning and narrow definitions of masculine identity. Jesús will perform alongside four other artists, including live music bringing a fresh perspective on this most soulful dance style.
The Grand Finalists from the BBC Young Dancer competition also join the line-up to provide Latitude audiences with a taste of the best young home-grown dance talent.
Following the success of the first two competitions in 2015 and 2017, BBC Young Dancer returns this summer with dancers aged 18-22 representing four styles of dance. The individuals will showcase the energy and electricity of a street dance solo, the versatility of contemporary dance, the grace of ballet and fine detail of South Asian dance.
Rambert, one of the world's leading contemporary dance companies, returns to Latitude with a new work by French choreographer Marion Motin.
Motin's work is hip hop-influenced and often centred around strong female characters. She is best known for her music videos, including Christine and the Queens' Tilted and Dua Lipa's IDGAF. This is the first time she has created work for a contemporary dance company.
This inventive and playful, guitar-driven dance has its world premiere at Sadler's Wells in May 2019.
Eva Martinez, Artistic Programmer and Producer at Sadler's Wells, comments: "It's great to see the Place and Dance Umbrella at Latitude Festival. Having other organisations presenting alongside Sadler's Wells shows a demand for more dance in the mainstream arts."
Wilderness Festival CORNBURY PARK, OXFORDSHIRE
Thursday 1 - Sunday 4 August 2019
Tickets: from £168.50 (Adult weekend ticket)
Wilderness Festival's ever-changing and progressive programme invites the best of the arts to join a diverse four-day festival celebrating the contemporary arts including live music, dance, an array of theatre and talks. This will be Sadler's Wells' fourth year of presenting work at the Oxfordshire-based festival.
For Wilderness, BirdGang stamp their mark on The Atrium with a bespoke hip hop theatre performance packed with hip hop, house and breaking featuring dynamic choreography by Chaldon Williams.
Established in 2015, BirdGang Ltd is a leading UK creative company that creates, teaches and distributes avant garde dance content for stage, theatre and film. Guided by the ethos that dance, like all art-forms, must use a knowledge of its past, fused with previously unexplored possibilities; their mission is to demonstrate that there is an evolving hip hop culture of great artistic and intellectual depth that influences the creation of multidisciplinary work across the contemporary arts.
FREE FESTIVALS
The Great Get Together QUEEN ELIZABETH OLYMPIC PARK
Friday 21 - Sunday 23 June 2019
The Great Get Together is a nationwide event in partnership with the Jo Cox Foundation that celebrates commonality and uniting London's diverse communities. It was inspired by the late Jo Cox MP and has accumulated the support of more than 100 organisations, including Sadler's Wells.
The festival takes place in east London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park close to the Stratford Waterfront site, the planned location of Sadler's Wells fourth venue, Sadler's Wells East.
Part of a new cultural and educational district, alongside buildings for the BBC, UAL's London College of Fashion, the V&A and a major new UCL campus, Sadler's Wells presents a programme of diverse dance works ahead of the construction of a new creative community.
This is the 5th year that Sadler's Wells presents a summer programme of dance in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. More details to be announced soon.
Your Stratford Stage INTERNATIONAL QUARTER LONDON
Tuesday 28 - Wednesday 29 May
Your Stratford Stage is a month long cultural celebration of local talent featuring a programme of free live music, dance and theatre set in Endeavour Square at the heart of IQL (International Quarter London).
The last week of the programme sees Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th May packed with workshops, performances and activities designed for all the family; perfect for keeping little ones busy during half term.
Ahead of opening the doors to Sadler's Wells' new venue along Stratford's East Bank in 2022, we join our East London neighbours with this free programme of live music, dance and theatre. More details to be announced soon.
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