28 января Сэдлерс Веллс устраивает пир на весь мир.
Spitfire – an advertisement divertissement
New Adventures / Choreography: Matthew Bourne
This hilarious work places the most famous nineteenth-century ballet showstopper ‘Pas De Quatre’ in the world of men’s underwear advertising.
Face In (Excerpt)
Candoco Dance Company / Choreography: Yasmeen Godder
A sensual and disturbing ode to intimacy and imagination, expressed through striking images interwoven, daring and uninhibited dance, and set to an urban indie score.
Window Shopping
Curated by Breakin’ Convention
Starting from the outside looking in, popping, voguing, flamenco and ballet dancers welcome you into Sadler’s Wells’ theatre building.
Mud of Sorrow: Touch
Choreography: Akram Khan
In is a re-imagining of a duet from Khan’s critically acclaimed collaboration with Sylvie Guillem, Sacred Monsters, Akram Khan and Royal Ballet principal Natalia Osipova, perform together for this first time.
Hollow
English National Ballet / Choreography: Stina Quagebeur
In this contemporary duet, a couple contend with depression, and the confusion and displacement it causes between them.
ORBIS (Excerpt)
HUMANHOOD / Choreography: Júlia Robert and Rudi Cole
This is visually astonishing duet exploring the relationship between humankind and the dark side of Earth’s permanent natural satellite, the Moon.
SPHERA (Excerpt)
HUMANHOOD / Choreography: Júlia Robert and Rudi Cole
In this sister work of ORBIS (above) the dancers explore the relationship between the visible bright side of the moon and humankind.
BLKDOG (Excerpt)
Far From The Norm / Choreography: Botis Seva
A genre-defying blend of hip-hop dance, this work is a haunting commentary on surviving adulthood as a childlike artist.
Lazuli Sky (Excerpt)
Birmingham Royal Ballet / Choreography: Will Tuckett
Lazuli Sky is a hopeful and regenerative ballet. The title, Lazuli Sky, is inspired by the deep, speckled blue of lapis lazuli, the base for one the most precious and expensive colours in a Renaissance painter’s palette.
Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus
Choreography: Oona Doherty
Adopting multiple personas of disaffected male youth, this powerful dance-theatre work created and performed by Oona Doherty, invites audiences to look behind the mask of ego and affectation.
Blak Whyte Gray
Boy Blue / Choreography: Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy and Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante
This is a fierce, bold and galvanising hip hop dance work set to a multi-layered electronic score. It reflects themes of identity, oppression and transcendence.
Shades of Blue (Excerpt)
Matsena Productions / Choreography: Anthony Matsena and Kel Matsena
This work takes us into the heat of a protest and looks at the effects of COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement on a generation that longs for freedom and peace.
States of Mind (Excerpt)
Northern Ballet / Choreography: Kenneth Tindall
Inspired by a collection of thoughts, feelings and news headlines from lockdown, this new work is an abstract response through movement to a selection of situations
Contagion (Excerpt)
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance / Choreography: Shobana Jeyasingh
Contagion explores the nature and spread of the unseen flu virus which caused the ‘Spanish flu’ pandemic in 1918.
Rouge (Excerpt)
Rambert / Choreography: Marion Motin
A fresh and bold hip-hop influenced work with four-to-the floor beats, tight unison bodies and glorious costumes.