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Emanuel Gat Dance: Winter Variations

Booking 02 November 2010 to 03 November 2010
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Winter Variations is the latest work from Israeli choreographer Emanuel Gat. This stunning new piece represents the continuation of themes explored in previous work Winter Voyage, which Gat presented at Sadler’s Wells in 2008.

Set to a soundtrack ranging from Mahler to Riyad Al-Sunbati, Winter Variations is an intimate duet performed on a vast stage. Gat uses the scale to intensify the actions, relations and intentions of the choreography, allowing the space to become almost a third character in itself.
 
Co-created and performed with regular collaborator Roy Assaf, with whom Gat shares a rare physical telepathy, moments of dance from Winter Voyage are developed into full chapters of complex choreography and elaborated sequences of human drama.

Founded in Tel Aviv in 2004, and now based in France, Emanuel Gat Dance is renowned for creating visually alluring choreography, brimming with passion and drama.

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Jasmin Vardimon Company: 7734

Booking 25 November 2010 to 26 November 2010
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Jasmin Vardimon has consistently illustrated the power to grip and seduce audiences; exciting with athletic prowess, lulling through quiet beauty, and tearing our emotions with a gutsy and dramatic voice of intention.
 
Man's inhumanity to man never ceases to stun each generation. 7734 takes a contemporary view of the legacy of brutality and manipulation of power, evoking personal stories from around the world; it questions the human forces and weaknesses that have manufactured hell on earth whilst illuminating both our
capacity for survival and the poetry of hope.
 
For 7734, Vardimon's visceral choreography and use of video integration dramatically combine with text, music and awe-inspiring performances by a nine-strong company. Drawing the worlds of dance and new writing together, 7734 is co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells and Soho Theatre.
 
Following the sell-out success of Yesterday at the Peacock Theatre, 7734 marks the company's highly anticipated debut on the Sadler's Wells main stage.

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Rambert Dance Company

Booking 09 November 2010 to 13 November 2010
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Constantly evolving, Rambert Dance Company remains one of Britain’s finest and most popular modern dance companies. This November its unique heritage collides with two brand new creations, in a programme of four powerful and exhilarating works at Sadler´s Wells.

Christopher Bruce’s classic and ever popular Swansong makes a triumphant return to the Company’s repertoire. As relevant and as topical today as when it was first created in 1987, Swansong’s theme of torture and interrogation for three dancers is set to move and inspire a whole new generation of audiences. 

Making its London premiere is Australian choreographer Garry Stewart’s high energy new work, Infinity, which explores the dramatic and often brutal passage towards life’s inevitable end, pitting the dancers against each other in an avalanche of striking and relentless physical imagery.

Gran Partita, by American “punk ballerina” Karole Armitage completes the programme. Set to movements from Mozart’s heart-melting piece of the same name, this luminous, elegant and romantic work allows the audience to dream. 

An exciting addition to the programme is a brand new short work from Rambert dancer/choreographer Melanie Teall, L’eveil. Inspired loosely by aspects of femininity and influenced by the power of the female voice through song, it is performed to Kurt Weill’s Je ne t’aime pas and Leslie Bricusse’s Feeling Good (made famous by Nina Simone), with costumes inspired by world-renowned fashion designer Roland Mouret. L’eveil was created in July this year for Rambert’s 2007 choreographic Workshop Season to great acclaim.

 

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Shoes

Booking 03 September 2010 to 11 September 2010
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Inspired by one of the great passions of the modern age, Shoes explores the gamut of footwear, from the highs of the Louboutin to the lows of the croc. Composed by Richard Thomas, in his first large-scale production since the legendary West End and Broadway hit Jerry Springer - The Opera, and featuring the work of a team of leading choreographers, Shoes is a dance revue that sees life told from street-level perspective with wit, irreverence and affection. 

Shoes features choreography and direction by multi-award winning Stephen Mear (Mary Poppins, Sweet Charity, The Little Mermaid), acclaimed as “the best showbiz choreographer we have” (Guardian). Alongside Mear, Sadler’s Wells has invited leading choreographers Aletta Collins (Bloom, The Tempest, Jesus Christ Superstar) Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Zero Degrees, Sutra) and Kate Prince (Into the Hoods) to create dance numbers inspired by Thomas’s songs.

Featuring a cast of 12 dancers, four singers, including Australian singing sensation Kate Miller-Heidke, Olivier Award nominee Alison Jiear, So You Think You Can Dance’s Chloe Campbell, Mandy Montanez and Drew Maconie, plus Zoonation’s Teneisha Bonner and winner of the Critics Circle prize for Best Newcomer Aaron Sillis and a live band, the show also includes films by artist and music video director Tim Hope (videos for Coldplay and R.E.M and projections for The Mighty Boosh UK tour). 

Tanguera

Booking to 22 August 2010
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UK premiere this summer

Boasting a company of over 50 dancers and musicians, Tanguera tells a story of unrequited love in early 20th century Buenos Aires.

When Giselle, a young French woman, arrives in Argentina as one of the first waves of European immigrants, she meets Lorenzo, a port worker who falls in love with her at first sight. But as Giselle falls deeper into Buenos Aires' seedy under- world, Lorenzo must fight to win her love.

This is an adrenaline-charged journey through the world of tango with award-winning choreography by renowned Argentinean dance star Mora Godoy, and a seductive score performed by a full orchestra with one of Argentina’s most celebrated tango singers Marianela live on stage.

A huge success in its native Buenos Aires, where it ran for 18 months, this spellbinding new show has dazzled audiences in New York, Paris, Berlin, Madrid and Tokyo. London audiences will be swept up in the drama of the Tanguera as it makes its UK premiere this summer.

"The most celebrated musical in Buenos Aires" - LA GUíA DEL OCIO, Argentina

"A definite must-see" - BERLINER ZEITUNG, Germany

Matthew Bourne's Cinderella

Booking 30 November 2010 to 23 January 2011
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Sadler’s Wells Resident Company Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures returns with a brand new production of the all-time classic fairytale Cinderella.

Set in London during the Second World War, Matthew Bourne's interpretation of Prokofiev 's haunting score has, at its heart, a true wartime romance. A chance meeting results in a magical night for Cinderella and her dashing young RAF pilot, together just long enough to fall in love before being parted by the horrors of the Blitz.
 
First seen in the West End in 1997, but now completely revised in this brand new production featuring Lez Brotherston’s Olivier award winning designs, and new lighting by Neil Austin. The production also features sensational sound design by Paul Groothius, which takes the audience into the heart of Prokofiev ’s magnificent score and the aural world of war-torn London. This will be the first production presented by New Adventures to have a specially commissioned recording of the score in Surround Sound.

Bourne's vivid storytelling has never been more heart-stopping and touching, creating a unique and unforgettable depiction of a familiar and beloved fable.

Bourne has made a war time story accessible to a post war generation…Cinderella has complexity, subtlety and surprises and is a worthy sequel to Swan lake - THE EVENING STANDARD

The music, with its heavy industrial rhythms and ominous orchestration, has always had an intractable harshness for a fairy tale ballet.  Bourne makes us hear it as a wartime score, exploiting all the elements that many other choreographers try to ignore - THE GUARDIAN

Heartbreaking….One leaves the theatre talking of Bourne’s extraordinary overlap of dream and realism: an overlap that takes one back to the core of the Cinderella story and Prokofiev’s score - THE FINANCIAL TIMES

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Akram Khan: Vertical Road

Booking 05 October 2010 to 09 October 2010
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Akram Khan, one of the UK’s most innovative and influential dance talents, returns to Sadler's Wells with his latest full scale contemporary ensemble work, Vertical Road.

Working with a world-class cast of performers from across Asia, Europe and the Middle East, with a specially commissioned score by long-term collaborator Nitin Sawhney, Khan draws inspiration from universal myths of angels that symbolise ‘ascension’ - the road between the earthly and the spiritual, the Vertical Road.

Visually inspiring and spiritually profound, Vertical Road draws on the performers’ different cultural interpretation of the human odyssey. In Akram Khan’s words: “in a world moving so fast, with the growth of technology and information, I am somehow inclined to move against this current, in search of what it might mean to be connected not just spiritually, but also vertically”.

AKRAM KHAN DOES NOT PERFORM IN THIS SHOW. 

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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre

Booking 14 September 2010 to 06 February 2011
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to Sadler's Wells Theatre with two programmes that showcase the extraordinary artistry of a company that has changed the face of American dance over the course of more than half a century.

Both programmes feature the classic Revelations, the most seen modern dance work in the world, choreographed by Alvin Ailey and first performed in 1960. A piece that celebrates and pays tribute to American dance music and history; it explores a journey from deepest grief to unbound joy and continues to inspire audiences whenever it is performed.

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PROGRAMME ONE:

Programme One includes the gripping solo In/Side, plus Dancing Spirit, a piece that fuses movement from Brazil, Cuba and the USA. Suite Otis is a playful battle of the sexes set to some of Otis Redding’s best-loved songs.

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PROGRAMME TWO:

Highlights of Programme Two include a brand new work from acclaimed choreographer Christopher Huggins and Artistic Director Judith Jamison’s 1993 Emmy-award winning production Hymn; a tribute to company founder Alvin Ailey.

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Birmingham Royal Ballet

Booking 12 October 2010 to 16 October 2010
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Birmingham Royal Ballet returns to Sadler´s Wells with two contrasting evenings – the all time classic love story Romeo and Juliet, and triple bill Pointes of View.

Programme 1: Romeo and Juliet

It’s love at first dance when Romeo Montague tricks his way into the Capulet’s masked ball and falls madly in love with the beautiful Juliet. The passion between them is forbidden but the star-crossed lovers hatch a perilous plot to be together. With a sweeping score by Prokofiev and soaring choreography by Kenneth MacMillan.

Programme 2: Pointes of View

includes: Concerto / Slaughter on 10th Avenue / In the Upper Room

Pointes of View features MacMillan’s uplifting Concerto, a sparkling display of classical ballet. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue was created as part of the Rodgers and Hart musical On Your Toes, and is a tale of a happygo-lucky hero who literally has to dance for his life. In the Upper Room is an exhilarating, athletic ballet by American dance phenomenon Twyla Tharp. Philip Glass’s score builds to an emotional peak with dancing that critics described as ‘quick witted and even quicker footed’.

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Rosas: The Song

Booking 19 October 2010 to 21 October 2010
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A leading light in contemporary dance, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker returns to Sadler’s Wells with her company Rosas to present the UK premiere of The Song.

The Song is about a world that is rushing in on itself, moving at an ever faster tempo. At the heart of this whirlwind of change stands the human body, at the eye of the storm.

Created in collaboration with visual artists Ann Veronica Janssens and Michel François, The Song is performed by ten dancers – nine men and one woman – on an empty stage, which has been stripped to the essentials of light, sound and movement. This arid landscape gives life to new possibilities of movement, with the performers creating constantly shifting patterns – a combination of mathematical precision and human inventiveness.

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Russell Maliphant Company: Afterlight

Booking 28 September 2010 to 29 September 2010
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Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Russell Maliphant returns with a brand new work, presented for two nights only.

This new full evening work titled AfterLight contains the solo AfterLight (Part One) which was shown at West End in October 2009 as part of In the Spirit of Diaghilev. The 15 minute solo, nominated for the 2010 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, has now been developed into a full-length piece for three dancers.
 
Using photographs of Vaslav Nijinksy and his geometric drawings as inspiration, AfterLight (Part One) was developed by Maliphant with lighting designer Michael Hulls and with projections evolved in collaboration with Es Devlin, onedotzero and animator Jan Urbanowski. It features Satie's music, Gnosiennes 1-4.

AfterLight continues the relationship with dancer Daniel Proietto, who is now joined by 2 female dancers. The new work features music by Andy Cowton, composer of the hugely successful Maliphant pieces Two and Push, and animation work by James Chorley.

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Pina Bausch – Iphigenie auf Tauris

Booking 27 October 2010 to 31 October 2010
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One of the most influential choreographers of our time, Pina Bausch has inspired generations of audiences and artists with an impact that is hard to overestimate. Her death in 2009 leaves a legacy that will be felt for generations to come.
 
Her company Tanztheater Wuppertal returns to Sadler’s Wells with Iphigenie auf Tauris, based on Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera. First created in 1974 and very rarely performed, Iphigenie comes to London for the first time.
 
Regarded by many as Gluck’s masterpiece, Iphigenie fuses dance, music, chorus and solo arias into adramatic whole. Gluck conceived the work as Greek tragedy, dealing with the most profound and intense emotions.

Pina Bausch’s staging uses her full company to convey the drama of the opera, with the singers ranged at either side of the stage. The grandeur and purity of the score is conveyed through dance images of extraordinary beauty and power; this is Bausch’s choreography at its most harmonious and lyrical.

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Wayne McGregor | Random Dance : FAR

Booking 17 November 2010 to 20 November 2010
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WORLD PREMIERE

Wayne McGregor’s dynamic style and ground-breaking collaborative approach across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science has seen him create a string of truly unique, interdisciplinary work over the years. His latest work FAR is no exception.

Danced by an ensemble of ten incredible performers and the finest exponents of McGregor’s singular style, FAR is set to a new, haunting score by electronic superstar Ben Frost.

A prolific dance maker, and the first Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet to come from contemporary dance, in the past year alone McGregor has delivered world premieres for New York City Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and The Royal Opera. He has choreographed movies (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) and created headlining sets for Glastonbury. In 2011, McGregor will make his debut with Bolshoi Ballet. His company Wayne McGregor | Random Dance is a Resident Company of Sadler’s Wells.
 

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