Breakin’ Convention, the influential festival of hip hop dance theatre, announces its national tour for 2020, from Saturday 2 May – Saturday 6 June. Hosted and curated by UK hip hop theatre legend, Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist and Breakin’ Convention Artistic Director Jonzi D, the festival features DJs, graffiti artists and freestyle sessions taking place all over its venues. The tour takes in venues from London to Doncaster, and Poole to Brighton. See below for further … [Read more...]
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National Youth Dance Company (NYDC) / Botis Seva MADHEAD UK Tour
National Youth Dance Company (NYDC) returns for its seventh year with a new intake of 28 young dancers who join the 10 dancers returning from previous cohorts. The newly commissioned work choreographed by Botis Seva, premiered at DanceEast in Ipswich on 20 April. Between June - July, MADHEAD tours to Plymouth, Newcastle, Essex, Brighton, Birmingham and closes at Sadler’s Wells on 19 July. MADHEAD is a feeling and state which draws on Seva’s and the dancers’ autobiographical experiences of … [Read more...]
Beats on Pointe – Masters of Choreography at The Peacock Theatre
Returning to Sadlers Wells after a triumphant short run last year, Beats on Pointe is the ultimate mash-up of classical ballet and modern street dance. The opposing dance worlds collide in this high energy, colourful show. Produced by the Australian dance company, Masters of Choreography which was formed by Jennifer and Milo Masters in 2014, Beats on Pointe has been thrilling audiences in Australia and is now set to take London by storm for a strictly limited run of just four weeks. A fusion … [Read more...]
BalletBoyz announces its West End debut with Them/Us
This summer, the internationally lauded dance troupe BalletBoyz will make its West End debut with its critically-acclaimed Them/Us, an innovative double bill and a brand-new collaboration from the company’s own dancers and the Olivier Award-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. A co-production with Sadler’s Wells, Them/Us played at Sadler’s Wells in March as part of a recently completed UK tour. The production will run from 3-15 June at the Vaudeville theatre, with opening night for press … [Read more...]
Israel Galván’s La Fiesta at Sadler’s Wells | Review
Israel Galvan’s La Fiesta is genuinely creative, transcending the categorising genre of Flamenco in its anarchistic deconstruction of rhythm and expectations in front of your eyes, to build it up to something different, something modern while acknowledging its root. It all starts with nine performers mixed in age and talents and a cafe background, summoning a village in Spain, Pina Bausch’s Cafe Muller. Galvan, who conceived, choreographed and performs in this work says it was conceived as a … [Read more...]
Russell Maliphant & Vangelis – The Thread at Sadler’s Wells
The ending was thrilling, the dancers' bodies had become whirling tumblers on precipices thrown by Michael Hulls' clever lighting as Vangelis’s music brought a compulsive frenzy of rhythm and tune still resonating when walking away through the dark streets of Islington. Finally, the work was moving, the choreography was exciting, the dancing stunning but it turned out the show was over. Send the audience out with something stunning and maybe they’ll forget the rest. Perhaps The Thread was … [Read more...]
BalletBoyz’ Them/Us at Sadler’s Wells | Review
Us, the piece which constitutes the second half of this show is choreographed by Royal Ballet artistic associate Christopher Wheeldon and is unmissable contemporary dance. From the outset, the ensemble section is thrilling in its dynamism using repetition, pirouettes and intricate footwork. Designed by Katherine Watt the costumes of oversized grey tailcoats complement the movement dynamics perfectly. There’s a short lapse in energy or perhaps it's just audience resistance as the compelling … [Read more...]