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 … [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 … [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 … [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 … [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 … [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 … [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 … [Read more...]
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – Since She – Dimitris Papaioannou
Since She should be a bridge to the future for the contemporary dance company created by the legendary German choreographer Pina Bausch who died ten years ago. Half of the company performs in this new piece devised and choreographed by Dimitris Papaioannou, the other half will be in the other new piece of work to be performed later in the month and devised by Alan … [Read more...]
New Adventures – Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake at Sadler’s Wells
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake at Sadler’s Wells is a glittering, extravagant Christmas Show, immaculately performed by star dancers with humour and palace interiors enough to satisfy a seasonal audience. It’s twenty-three years since the opening of the first production of this Swan Lake famous for replacing the original graceful female swans of composer Tchaikovsky’s … [Read more...]