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The world we once knew is becoming one we have yet to understand… UNKNOWNREALMS shows us a picture of the world and what is happening now. Rooted in African and contemporary culture, ACE dance and music collaborate with two internationally acclaimed Black male choreographers: Serge Aimé Coulibaly and Vincent Mantsoe. UNKNOWNREALMS is performed against a backdrop of stunning scenography and dynamic sounds by Andy Garbi and Yvan Talbot. Two contrasting works come together to examine the past and present with…
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Academy Award winner Asif Kapadia (Amy, Diego Maradona) transforms a dance piece centred around an artificially created being into an immersive and visceral film. The latest collaboration between the English National Ballet and acclaimed choreographer Akram Khan, this entrancing, dystopian work is set in a dilapidated Artic research station where the creature – stunningly interpreted by dancer Jeffrey Cirio – becomes sentient and falls in love. Drawing on Georg Büchner’s expressionist classic Woyzeck and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the production…
Find out more »Academy Award winner Asif Kapadia (Amy, Diego Maradona) transforms a dance piece centred around an artificially created being into an immersive and visceral film. The latest collaboration between the English National Ballet and acclaimed choreographer Akram Khan, this entrancing, dystopian work is set in a dilapidated Artic research station where the creature – stunningly interpreted by dancer Jeffrey Cirio – becomes sentient and falls in love. Drawing on Georg Büchner’s expressionist classic Woyzeck and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the production…
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Following his sell-out debut tour in 2022, TV dancing sensation and international champion Johannes Radebe is hosting a party like no others in this electrifying brand-new production for 2023. Freedom Unleashed sees the ‘Irresistible’ Johannes joined by a diverse, world-class cast of talented dancers and singers in this melting pot of South African rhythms and huge party anthems - with a touch of ballroom magic thrown in to make this a pulsating and jubilant celebration of culture, passion, and freedom.…
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The Royal Ballet Broadcast Live: Wednesday 24 May 2023, 7:15pm The Sleeping Beauty holds a very special place in The Royal Ballet’s heart and history. It was the first performance given by the Company when the Royal Opera House reopened at Covent Garden in 1946 after World War II. In 2006, this original staging was revived and has been delighting audiences ever since. Frederick Ashton famously cited the pure classicism of Marius Petipa’s 19th-century ballet as a private lesson…
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Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs The most popular storyteller in the world, Roald Dahl, set to music by outstanding composer Paul Patterson and danced by the incomparable Ballet Cymru. Featuring glorious costumes, amazing dancing, and stunning video projections, this laugh out loud production was a huge hit for Ballet Cymru in 2016 and is an exquisite classical ballet for adults and children alike. Ballet Cymru’s reputation for presenting stunning evenings of dance continues to grow…
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In this classic tale of greed and guilt, Flabbergast Theatre’s Macbeth fuses a rigorous and respectful approach to text and storytelling to bring a magical, lucid interpretation of Shakespeare’s blood-soaked tragedy to life. Flabbergast gives us an instinctive view of Shakespeare’s most wretched tragedy, working to draw out the parallels with modern society. At its heart, the dominant recurring theme and fundamental narrative that powers The Tragedy of Macbeth is the masculine fear of feminine power; and in this sense,…
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The Royal Ballet MANON This adaptation of Abbé Prévost’s novel embodies Kenneth MacMillan at his best, his acute insight into human psychology and his mastery of narrative choreography finding full expression in the impassioned duets of the central couple, visceral and urgent in their desire. The heroine’s struggle to escape poverty make Manon one of the most dramatic and devastating of ballets, emphasized by Nicholas Georgiadis’ evocative designs that reflect the juxtaposition between Manon’s impoverished origins and the lavish…
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The Royal Ballet SWAN LAKE Out hunting, Prince Siegfried chances upon a flock of swans. One among them transforms into the beautiful human Odette and he is immediately enamoured. But Odette is bound by a spell which keeps her captive as a swan during the day. Can Siegfried free her? Tchaikovsky’s sensational score combines with the evocative imagination of choreographer Liam Scarlett and designer John Macfarlane to heighten the dramatic pathos of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov’s quintessential ballet…
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A Sadler’s Wells and Universal Music UK production MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE Directed and choreographed by Kate Prince Based on the songs of Sting with ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company The peaceful village of Bebko is alive with joyous celebrations. Suddenly, under attack, everything changes forever. Three siblings, Leto, Mati and Tana, must embark on perilous journeys in order to survive. Message In A Bottle is a spectacular new dance-theatre show from five-time Olivier Award nominee, Kate Prince, inspired by and…
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