is Dance
Autumn 2012
SADLER’S WELLS
Batsheva Ensemble
Rosebery Avenue EC1R 4TN
Monday 19 - Wednesday 21 November
New Adventures Choreographer Award: Showcase
Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company Friday 23 November - Saturday 1 December
Friday 7 September
ZooNation Dance Company San Francisco Ballet
Sunday 2 December
Friday 14 - Sunday 23 September
Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty Sasha Waltz & Guests
Tuesday 4 December - Saturday 26 January
Friday 28 - Sunday 30 September
Akram Khan Company
PEACOCK THEATRE
Tuesday 2 - Tuesday 9 October
Sadler’s Wells in the West End Portugal Street WC2A 2HT
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
British Youth Opera
Thursday 11 - Saturday 13 October
Saturday 8 - Saturday 15 September
Rambert Dance Company
ZooNation Dance Company
Tuesday 16 - Saturday 20 October
Thursday 20 September - Saturday 13 October
Birmingham Royal Ballet
The Snowman
Tuesday 23 - Saturday 27 October
Wednesday 28 November - Sunday 6 January
Russell Maliphant Company
LILIAN BAYLIS STUDIO
Monday 29 - Wednesday 31 October
Rosebery Avenue EC1R 4TN
Philippe Decouflé Company DCA
Kassys
Friday 2 - Sunday 4 November
Thursday 13 & Friday 14 September
Rosas
Jonzi D
Monday 5 - Friday 9 November
Thursday 18 - Saturday 20 October & Thursday 25 - Saturday 27 October
Jasmin Vardimon Company Monday 12 & Tuesday 13 November
Alias Thursday 15 & Friday 16 November
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Toni Jodar Wednesday 7 & Thursday 8 November
Travelling Light & Bristol Old Vic Thursday 20 - Monday 31 December
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HOW TO BOOK Telephone: 0844 871 0090 Online: www.sadlerswells.com Front cover: Dancing Charleston. Bee Jackson, world Charleston dance champion perfoming in front of a mirror. Jackson was the first dancer to popularise the Charleston with white Americans. (Photo by General Photographic Agency / Getty Images)
Welcome to Sadler’s Wells After a thrilling summer featuring an unprecedented collaboration between ourselves and the Barbican to present ten of Pina Bausch’s works, we now look forward to an equally exciting autumn season. Just a few of the highlights include a visit from San Francisco Ballet, the return of ZooNation’s Some Like It Hip Hop, Akram Khan’s Olivier Award-winning masterpiece DESH, Jasmin Vardimon’s new work and the first performances in the UK from Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. Rounding off the season will be the grand finale of New Adventures’ 25th anniversary celebrations with the world premiere of Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty. In October last year, ZooNation premiered their latest production, Some Like It Hip Hop. The five star reviews and multiple award nominations speak for themselves but it was the ecstatic audience reaction that really cemented its success. The way Kate Prince and her phenomenal cast bring together live music, hip hop dance and an enthralling storyline make for an unmissable spectacle. Jasmin Vardimon, another of our Associate Artists, returns with her new work, FREEDOM. Jasmin has a truly unique choreographic voice, imbued with passion, intelligence and an artistic courage which she brings to all her work. I am already looking forward to seeing this latest creation, which will no doubt feature her trademarks of astonishingly physical movement, inventive sets and the embrace of new technology. It is also incredibly exciting when we welcome new companies for the first time. This season will feature Alias, a company based in Geneva who have already been met with acclaim across Europe, and Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. Founded in America nearly a decade ago, Cedar Lake will be presenting works by choreographers already popular with our audience; Hofesh Shechter, Crystal Pite and Alexander Ekman. Drawing our season to a magical close, will be Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty. This year we’ve joined in the festivities marking 25 years of his company New Adventures by staging Nutcracker!, Play Without Words and three of his earliest works. I can’t think of a more fitting way to end 2012 than by premiering what I am sure will be another dazzlingly original interpretation. Here’s to the next 25 years!
Alistair Spalding Artistic Director and Chief Executive
“James Cousins is a major talent with a refreshing desire to entertain and excite audiences combined with a searching choreographic mind” MATTHEW BOURNE
James Cousins New Adventures Choreographer Award: Showcase Friday 7 September Selected from hundreds, James Cousins is the winner of the inaugural New Adventures Choreographer Award (NACA). The evening will feature three world premieres.
Fri at 7.30pm
Cousins’ There We Have Been, takes inspiration from the climax of the 1957 novel, Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet. Presenting a daringly intimate glimpse into a private world of speculation and mistrust, the two performers intensely fold, wrap and balance around each other, with the female partner barely touching the floor.
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Everything and Nothing is a dynamic collaboration between James Cousins, lighting designer Lee Curran and set designer Colin Falconer. Through the magnifying glass of the quantum world this breathtaking production is performed to an original score fusing electronic and classical sound worlds by composer Seymour Milton. NACA runner-up Tom Jackson Greaves premieres Vanity Fowl which observes one man’s journey from grace to disgrace. With a pioneering score by Peter Lyons, this intimate solo is performed by the choreographer himself.
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Photo: Mikah Smillie
“British Youth Opera is about star-spotting: they showcase the cream of young talent after music college, but just before the agents swoop” THE TIMES
British Youth Opera The Bartered Bride / A Night at the Chinese Opera Saturday 8 - Saturday 15 September British Youth Opera celebrates its 25th anniversary with two new productions in association with Southbank Sinfonia, bursting with talent from the next generation of opera professionals selected through nationwide auditions from over 400 singers. Smetana’s comic masterpiece, inspired by folk tales from his native Bohemia, tells of The Bartered Bride whose arranged marriage is thwarted by her true love’s cunning. An opera of in-laws, secret identities and circuses, its inventiveness and humour have made The Bartered Bride an audience favourite. A Night at the Chinese Opera is a colourful depiction of China in the time of Kublai Khan, Marco Polo and the ‘Orphan of Zhao’, whose tragic tale of military invasion and personal vendetta is mirrored by Judith Weir’s theatrically turbocharged comic-opera-within-an-opera.
The Bartered Bride: Sat 8, Tue 11 & Fri 14 at 7pm Sung in English A Night at the Chinese Opera: Wed 12 at 7.30pm & Sat 15 at 7pm Sung in English £12 - £40 Free Pre-Show Talk: Tue 11, Fri 14 & Sat 15 at 5.45pm, Wed 12 at 6.15pm
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“The most remarkable first full-length opera to have reached the British public in at least a decade. On no account to be missed wherever it turns up” FINANCIAL TIMES on A Night at the Chinese Opera
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Photo: Clive Barda / ArenaPAL, Le nozze di Figaro, BYO 2011
“No other American company covers an equal range of international ballet styles; none surpass it for overall elegance and finesse of execution; no other has a greater number of ballerinas worthy of the leading roles of its repertory� NEW YORK TIMES
Photos: Frances Chung and Isaac Hernandez in Possokhov's Classical Symphony and San Francisco Ballet in Wheeldon's Within The Golden Hour by Erik Tomasson
“Intelligent, versatile and brave, they can [apparently] dance whatever any choreographer gives them” THE GUARDIAN
San Francisco Ballet Three Mixed Bills Friday 14 - Sunday 23 September San Francisco Ballet has a worldwide reputation for its vast and rich repertory, performed by some of the finest ballet dancers today. This autumn, they arrive in London to present three programmes over two weeks, performing some of their most popular works of recent years. Programme A features Edwaard Liang’s abstract ballet Symphonic Dances, set to Rachmaninov’s last composition, George Balanchine’s work for Mozart’s chamber piece, Divertimento No.15 and Christopher Wheeldon’s uplifting Number Nine. Programme B brings together Wheeldon’s atmospheric 2010 work Ghosts, Ashley Page’s highly physical Guide to Strange Places set to music by John Adams and a triptych ballet Trio, choreographed by San Francisco Ballet artistic director Helgi Tomasson and set to Tchaikovsky’s glorious Souvenir de Florence. Programme C is comprised of Mark Morris’ Beaux, Yuri Possokhov’s interpretation of Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony, Possokhov’s multimedia dance theatre work RAkU, based on the burning of Kyoto’s Golden Pavilion in 1950; and Christopher Wheeldon’s ethereal Within the Golden Hour, set to music by Ezio Bosso and Vivaldi.
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Programme A Fri 14 & Tue 18 at 7.30pm Sun 23 at 4pm Programme B Sat 15 & Fri 21 at 7.30pm Sun 16 at 4pm Programme C Wed 19, Thu 20 & Sat 22 at 7.30pm £12 - £45 Sadler’s Wells Supporters’ Event: Wed
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Kassys Cadavre Exquis
UK PREMIERE
Thursday 13 & Friday 14 September A Cadavre Exquis is a poem written by several poets, without knowing what the others have written. The first writer composes a line of poetry on a piece of paper. Then he or she folds the paper so that only the last word is visible. The second writer continues, guided by that last word. The third writer follows and so on.
Thu & Fri at 8pm
For this performance, four theatre companies have come together to create a live Cadavre Exquis on stage. Each will create a 15 minute section that starts with the last image of the previous part, without knowing what has taken place previously. In a completely open situation, the set may be changed or even destroyed, a dance performance can suddenly become a film and the story can go any number of unexpected ways.
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This innovative international project is being led by Kassys theatre company (Holland), who will create the first and final sections. The intervening parts will be contributed by Nature Theater of Oklahoma (US), Tim Crouch (UK) and Nicole Beutler (Germany / Holland).
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Photo: Liesbeth Gritter
Sasha Waltz & Guests Continu
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Friday 28 - Sunday 30 September Based in Berlin, Sasha Waltz & Guests are known for developing highly original choreographic musical theatre performances. They have collaborated with more than 250 artists and ensembles, from 25 countries on nearly 20 productions since being founded in 1993.
Fri & Sat at 7.30pm Sun at 4pm
Sasha Waltz’s Continu is a full length dance performance partly inspired by her work on two major projects for museums, the artistic inaugurations for David Chipperfield’s Neues Museum in Berlin, and Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI in Rome. Developed with 24 dancers, at the core of Continu is Arcana, a stirringly dramatic symphonic work composed in 1927 by Edgar Varèse, a composer who was renowned for combining artistic and scientific content.
Sadler’s Wells Supporters’ Event: Fri
£12 - £38
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Continu features elegant and modern costume design by Bernd Skodzig, scenography by regular collaborators Thomas Schenk and Pia Maier Schriever, lighting by Martin Hauk and additional music by Iannis Xenakis and Claude Vivier.
“Ms. Waltz has a sculptor's eye. Just how she can ring fresh changes on the seemingly limited capacity of the human body to move this way and that is a mystery to me” NEW YORK TIMES
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Photo: Sebastian Bolesch
“A belter of a show” THE GUARDIAN
ZooNation Dance Company Some Like It Hip Hop Thursday 20 September - Saturday 13 October ZooNation’s Some Like It Hip Hop was one of the most successful new shows to hit the West End last year, wowing audiences and prompting widespread critical praise, five star reviews and standing ovations with its infectious “wit, heart and magnificent energy” (The Independent). Already following in the footsteps of its phenomenal 2006 smash hit Into the Hoods, Some Like It Hip Hop unites truly sensational dancing with a typically clever and engrossing storyline. Fast becoming a modern classic, the show makes a triumphant return to the Peacock Theatre for a limited run before it sets off on its first UK tour, having been nominated for multiple awards including two Oliviers and a South Bank Award. With a nod to Billy Wilder’s film and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, it tells a comical tale of love, mistaken identity, cross-dressing and revolution; all played out in ZooNation’s trademark style of hip hop, comedy and physical theatre.
Tue - Sat at 7.30pm Sat Mat at 2.30pm Sun 23 Mat at 2.30pm Sun 23 at 7.30pm Sun 30 & Sun 7 at 4pm £12 - £38 Under 16s: Half-price tickets on all performances
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Directed by Kate Prince, Some Like It Hip Hop also features ground shaking original music by Josh Cohen and DJ Walde.
“Zany and zippy, hilarious and heartwarming. A WINNER” THE TIMES
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Photos: Ed Miller & Simon Prince
“Technically ingenious, theatrically unsettling and emotionally unbearable” EVENING STANDARD
“The most urgent, beautiful and confident work of Akram Khan’s career” THE GUARDIAN
Akram Khan Company DESH Tuesday 2 - Tuesday 9 October Akram Khan’s latest work made its world premiere in 2011 to unanimous critical praise. His most personal work to date, DESH is a full length contemporary solo that has already been declared “a masterpiece” (The Observer) and won an Olivier Award for best new dance production. Meaning “homeland” in Bengali, DESH draws on multiple tales of land, nation and resistance, all converging in the body and voice of one man trying to find his balance in an unstable world. Moving between Britain and Bangladesh, Khan weaves threads of memory, experience and myth into a surreal world of surprising connection. A collaboration of extraordinary proportions, Khan joined forces with visual artist Tim Yip (production designer for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), award-winning lighting designer Michael Hulls, writer and poet Karthika Nair, Olivier Award-winning composer Jocelyn Pook and slam poet PolarBear to create “the most urgent, beautiful and confident work of his career” (The Guardian).
Tue - Tue at 7.30pm No perf Thu & Sun £12 - £36 Captioned Performance by Stage Text: Wed
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“Akram Khan’s best show yet – poignant, thrilling, magical, moving and utterly transfixing” DAILY TELEGRAPH
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Photos: Richard Haughton
“A team of wonderful performers, always impressive in their articulation and intensity” NEW YORK TIMES
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet Mixed Bill UK PREMIERE Thursday 11 - Saturday 13 October Making their much anticipated UK premiere New York's Cedar Lake is one of the world’s most exciting dance companies. Led by artistic director Benoit-Swan Pouffer, they combine powerful physicality with classical technique in works created by some of today’s most provocative dance makers.
Thu - Sat at 7.30pm £12 - £27
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Hofesh Shechter’s Violet Kid examines man’s struggle for harmony within a complex and often horrifying universe. Performed by all 16 dancers, Shechter's original score features recorded audio text performed by the choreographer. Tuplet is a pulsating work for six dancers choreographed by Alexander Ekman posing the question, what is rhythm? Set to a score created in collaboration with the dancers’ own rhythmic impulses and using their bodies as percussion, the soundscape is integrated with electronic music composed by Mikael Karlsson. A former star of Sadler’s Wells’ Debut initiative, Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite’s Grace Engine concludes the bill, continuing her exploration of the familiar storylines that connect mankind.
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Photos: Erez Sabag
“Is it my imagination or are they just getting better and better?” THE TIMES
Rambert Dance Company Featuring Labyrinth of Love Tuesday 16 - Saturday 20 October Unrivalled in their ability to present exciting and new international choreography as well as some of the most memorable masterpieces from the past 100 years, Rambert Dance Company continues to impress audiences and critics alike with their biannual visits to Sadler’s Wells. In October, Irish choreographer Marguerite Donlon makes her Rambert debut with Labyrinth of Love. Both heartbreaking and humorous, it is set to a commissioned score by one of America’s most performed living composers, Michael Daugherty. With designs by renowned visual artist Mat Collishaw and theatre designer Conor Murphy, Labyrinth of Love is beautifully realised by Rambert’s stunning musicians and dancers, accompanied on stage by a soprano. Continuing Rambert’s relationship with Merce Cunningham’s legacy, Sounddance will make its UK revival premiere alongside Roses by Paul Taylor, another American dance master. Richard Alston’s sharp and witty creation, Dutiful Ducks, completes the programme. Live music will be provided by the Rambert orchestra.
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Tue - Sat at 7.30pm £12 - £38 Thu Schools Mat at 2pm Sat Mat at 2.30pm Labyrinth of Love / Sounddance / Dutiful Ducks £8 - £20 Family Ticket: £40 (4 tickets inc at least 1 child, applies to mats only) Free Pre-Show Talk (BSL): Wed 17 at 6.30pm Free Pre-Show Music Talk: Fri 19 at 6.30pm BSL-Interpreted Show: Wed 17
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“The name Jonzi D shouts respect in circles of hip hop dance theatre” THE INDEPENDENT
Jonzi D Lyrikal Fearta – Redux Thursday 18 - Saturday 20 October & Thursday 25 - Saturday 27 October Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Jonzi D returns to his creative roots to perform his Lyrikal Fearta.
Programme A Thu 18 - Sat 20 at 8pm
For many years Jonzi D has been known as the face leading the hip hop revolution that is Breakin’ Convention. Jonzi is now launching out on his own again, returning to the stage after ten years as a creator of sharp, relevant and poetic dance theatre with two programmes of works made up of past hits and new creations. Programme A features vintage Jonzi; Guilty, Shoota, Safe, Aeroplane Man and Silence the Bitchin’. Programme B will include specially commissioned new work, representing Jonzi's ‘choreopoetic’ response to his world today.
Programme B Thu 25 - Sat 27 at 8pm £15 Free Post-Show Talk: Fri 19 & Fri 26 Age Guidance: 12+
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Working with a small team of performers and a live band, both evenings will have music, poetry, movement, politics and wit; promising a rare insight into arguably the best known figure and advocate of UK hip hop dance.
“Jonzi D seems right at home alongside the likes of Matthew Bourne and Wayne McGregor at London's leading dance house” METRO
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“Director David Bintley's lovely dancers have a striking sense of unity” DAILY TELEGRAPH
Birmingham Royal Ballet Opposites Attract & Autumn Celebration! Tuesday 23 - Saturday 27 October Birmingham Royal Ballet present two outstanding programmes of work. Opposites Attract features three modern ballets. Lyric Pieces is American choreographer Jessica Lang’s first ballet for a major European company, set to music by Norwegian romantic Edvard Grieg. Take Five is director David Bintley’s personal tribute to jazz icon Dave Brubeck. Completing the bill, one of Hans van Manen’s most famous works, Grösse Fuge, is an invigorating and uplifting experience that has lost none of its power over the last 40 years.
Opposites Attract Tue & Wed at 7.30pm Wed Mat at 2pm
Autumn Celebration! brings together Shakespeare, Noel Coward and an Olympic theme. The Grand Tour by Broadway show choreographer Joe Layton is an amusing take on the celebrities of the 1920s. Faster – a ballet inspired by the Olympic motto, ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger’ from David Bintley and composer Matthew Hindson, focuses on speed, power and athleticism. Finally, The Dream is Frederick Ashton’s elfin comedy based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream performed to Mendelssohn’s instantly recognisable score.
Wed Mat: £10 - £29
Autumn Celebration! Thu - Sat at 7.30pm Sat Mat at 2.30pm £10 - £40
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“Frederick Ashton's The Dream, is a masterpiece of clarity” THE GUARDIAN
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Philippe Decouflé Company DCA Panorama UK PREMIERE Friday 2 - Sunday 4 November The ingenious imagination of Philippe Decouflé has been delighting audiences for nearly 30 years. A choreographer, dancer, mime artist and director, his latest piece, Panorama draws on his company’s extensive repertoire, dating back to 1983 with Vague Café.
Fri & Sat at 7.30pm Sun at 4pm
This is no ordinary retrospective, instead a wholly original new production has emerged in which Decouflé and company ‘re-write’ their past glories with generous helpings of humour and astonishingly full throttled performances.
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£12 - £38
Performed by seven dancers, the evening will take in elements from eight earlier works. Among them will be Codex (1986) and its army of strange flipper-equipped microbes, Triton (1998), which plays with every dance and circus cliché imaginable, Shazam (1998), with its kaleidoscope of frames, surfaces and mirrors and 2006’s Sombrero, mixing video and Chinese shadows to Claude Ponti’s texts. Decouflé’s Panorama is set to be a true spectacle.
“A man who knows how to use the power of illusion to make life tip into dream and beauty” LE MONDE
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Photo: Compagnie DCA
##### “The dancers hang, slide, tumble and contort themselves, while the choreography shapes a language of delight from a vocabulary of torment” EVENING STANDARD
“The Rodin Project is marvelously steeped in the hedonism and heroism of its subject” THE GUARDIAN
Russell Maliphant Company The Rodin Project Monday 29 - Wednesday 31 October Inspired by the works of the great French sculptor, Auguste Rodin, award-winning choreographer Russell Maliphant’s latest work made its UK premiere at Sadler’s Wells as part of British Dance Edition earlier this year. Greeted by a standing ovation, it impressed critics with its “ravishing” lighting (The Guardian), “glorious set” (Daily Telegraph) and dancing “as coldly erotic as it is beautiful” (Evening Standard). After successfully touring across Europe, The Rodin Project returns for three nights, giving audiences a second chance to see this visually arresting piece set to Alexander Zekke’s entrancing score. The Rodin Project also features lighting design by Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Michael Hulls, set design by Es Devlin and Bronia Housman, and costumes by Stevie Stewart.
Mon - Wed at 7.30pm £12 - £27 Sadler’s Wells Supporters’ Event: Mon Pre-Show Director’s Conversation (Live Subtitling): Tue, 6.15 - 7pm (£4, £3 concessions) Contains some nudity
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For this new production, Maliphant has collaborated with a group of extraordinary performers, using a movement vocabulary influenced by the dance forms of popping, breaking and contemporary dance, integrated through Maliphant's language of flow, form and dynamics.
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Photos: Laurent Phillipe
Rosas En Atendant / Cesena
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Monday 5 - Friday 9 November Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and her company Rosas return to Sadler’s Wells with two of their most recent works, En Atendant and Cesena. Cesena is a celebration of dawn, while En Atendant captures the merging of twilight into night. Performed by eight dancers, three musicians and one singer, En Atendant represents De Keersmaeker’s continuing exploration of how music and dance work together, using Ars Subtilior as a starting point. A complex form of 14th century polyphony based on dissonance and contrast, Ars Subtilior was developed in the aftermath of plague and religious conflict in Europe and is cleverly used here to reflect the chaos of our own time.
En Atendant Mon & Tue at 7.30pm Cesena Thu & Fri at 7.30pm £12 - £27 Pre-Show Director’s Conversation (Live Subtitling): Tue, 6 - 6.45pm (£4, £3 concessions)
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For Cesena the company worked closely with Björn Schmelzer and his graindelavoix music ensemble. The stage is shared by 19 dancers and singers who explore the limits of their ability; dancers sing and singers dance. The work unfolds within Ann Veronica Janssen’s set, which provides a sculpture of passing time and hints at the constant transformation of the world around us.
“De Keersmaeker’s artistry and intelligence can’t be overstated” EVENING STANDARD
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Photo: Anne Van Aarschot
Toni Jodar Modern Dance Speaks!
UK PREMIERE
Wednesday 7 & Thursday 8 November Toni Jodar explains the history of dance through the medium of dance itself using a combination of performance and video clips. Audiences will be shown the evolution of the art form from classical through to contemporary as Jodar explains the different genres and forms that the body uses to express itself in movement. He will also reveal the influence and legacy of each generation on the artists that have followed, from Isadora Duncan through to the likes of Pina Bausch.
Wed & Thu at 7.15pm ÂŁ10 Live Subtitling: Wed
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Designed to raise awareness about dance, this humorous and enlightening work was first presented a decade ago and has appeared in a wide range of venues, including schools, museums, theatres and universities. Toni Jodar trained as a dancer in both Catalonia and New York. He belongs to a group of artists who developed Catalonia as a region famous for leading the way in contemporary dance during the 1980s. This performance is a reflection of his philosophy that dance can, and should, be open to everyone.
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Photo: Toni Roura
“Vardimon is a powerful voice in physical theatre, and the daring movements she creates leave scars on the memory” THE GUARDIAN
Jasmin Vardimon Company FREEDOM Monday 12 & Tuesday 13 November Following sell-out performances at Sadler's Wells with 7734 and Yesterday, award-winning choreographer and Associate Artist Jasmin Vardimon returns with the London premiere of her hotly anticipated new work, FREEDOM. Exploring notions of what keeps our imagination free, this full-length dance theatre production promises breathtaking physicality with brutally visceral characterisation. Powered by Vardimon's beguiling theatricality and provocative daring, FREEDOM will be performed by a versatile company of international dancers.
Mon & Tue at 7.30pm £12 - £27 Free Post-Show Talk: Mon Age Guidance: 14+
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Uniting the creative team behind her previous successes, FREEDOM layers richly intricate visuals and fuses clever animation with live action and inventive set designs. Jasmin Vardimon is one of Britain's leading dance theatre choreographers, renowned for her unique choreographic and directorial style combining physical theatre, cutting edge technologies, text and dance. Vardimon’s work is defined by her acute observations of human behaviour. Her repertoire is performed internationally, across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and most recently the United States.
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Photo: Ben Harries
“A little masterpiece” BAZLER ZEITUNG
Alias Sideways Rain
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Thursday 15 & Friday 16 November Alias is an award-winning contemporary dance company based in Geneva led by choreographer and director Guilherme Botelho. Since its creation, Alias has produced more than 20 new works and performed in Europe, Africa, Asia and North and South America to critical acclaim.
Thu & Fri at 7.30pm
Guilherme Botelho’s Sideways Rain is a metaphor for the primal energy running through all living things. Performed by 16 dancers, they walk, run, fall, rise, stop and then start again, depicting the evolution of man and the human urge to constantly change and move forwards. Set to a chillingly hypnotic score by Mexican artist Fernando Corona best known as Murcof, Sideways Rain is a powerfully visual examination of human nature.
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£12 - £22 Contains some nudity
Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Guilherme Botelho is a former ballet dancer who conceived Alias out of a desire to create dance using a more intuitive approach, teaching his dancers to listen to their bodies, voices and most intimate thoughts to create emotionally resonant work.
“Hypnotic. Striking. Oppressive. Fascinating” LE TEMPS
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Photo: Jean-Yves Genoud
Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company Quimeras Friday 23 November - Saturday 1 December Legendary guitarist, composer, dramatist and producer Paco Peña presents his 2010 work Quimeras, directed by Southbank Centre artistic director Jude Kelly. Exploring the lure of travel and the dream of a better life, Quimeras tells the story of a group of migrants who have come to Spain from Africa in search of work.
Tue - Sat at 7.30pm Sat Mat at 2.30pm Sun at 4pm
Over a career spanning more than four decades, Peña has expanded the possibilities of flamenco and changed perceptions of the art form by mining the richness of its traditions while continuing to be inspired by contemporary culture. With Quimeras, he draws on his own experience of living in Andalusia, a gateway to Europe for many north African immigrants.
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The result is a marriage of both traditional Spanish and African music and dance, creating a spectacle of virtuoso performances and intimate storytelling which was described as “breathtakingly beautiful” (Daily Telegraph) after its world premiere two years ago.
“The dance – by turns flamenco and high energy African movement – is superb” DAILY TELEGRAPH
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Photos: Andy Phillipson & Murdo Macleod
“Naharin has an exhilaratingly physical movement style that propels dancers into geometric angles and calligraphic curves” NEW YORK TIMES
Batsheva Ensemble Deca Dance Monday 19 - Wednesday 21 November Batsheva Ensemble is the younger branch of Israel’s world-renowned contemporary dance group, Batsheva Dance Company. Led by artistic director Ohad Naharin, they have been described as “acrobats of God” (San Francisco Chronicle) who “dance like demons” (New York Times). The Ensemble’s members are selected annually by Naharin from a pool of around 300 dancers, many of whom are recent graduates from the most prestigious dance schools in the world, from Juilliard to the Paris Conservatory. Batsheva Ensemble are proud to be independent from Batsheva Dance Company, presenting dynamic and technically superb performances in their own right.
Mon - Wed at 7.30pm £12 - £32 Sadler’s Wells Supporters’ Event: Tue Free Post-Show Talk: Mon
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For their first appearance in the UK, they will perform Deca Dance, a work which brings together the most memorable and best-loved segments of Naharin’s creations from the last 20 years. Set to an eclectic mix of music from Vivaldi to the The Beach Boys, the piece is constantly updated and so offers a fresh look at the work created by Batsheva every time it is performed.
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ZooNation Dance Company ZooNation 10th Anniversary Sunday 2 December ZooNation Dance Company is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a jam-packed night of dance at Sadler’s Wells.
Sun at 7.30pm £12 - £22
The evening will feature extracts from ZooNation’s award-winning West End show Into the Hoods and its critically acclaimed smash-hit Some Like It Hip Hop, performances from ZYC (ZooNation Youth Company) and by the ZAD students (ZooNation Academy of Dance), special guests and much more. With over 200 incredible hip hop dancers on stage, the foyers will be packed with DJs, freestyle circles and ten years of ZooNation in photography.
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ZooNation is internationally renowned for creating hip hop dance theatre which tells stories and captures hearts. Events have included the 2008 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Handover Ceremonies, Nelson Mandela's 90th Birthday Celebrations and an extract from West Side Story with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the 2011 Laurence Olivier Awards. Beyond the stage is the ZooNation Academy of Dance for young people and a bespoke agency, connecting hip hop dancers to the commercial sector.
“One of the UK’s hottest dance companies” THE INDEPENDENT
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New Adventures Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty Tuesday 4 December - Saturday 26 January New Adventures’ 25th birthday culminates with the world premiere of Matthew Bourne’s latest re-imagining of a ballet classic. Sleeping Beauty sees Bourne return to the music of Tchaikovsky to complete the trio of ballet masterworks that started with Nutcracker! and the international smash hit, Swan Lake. This timeless fairy tale, about a young girl cursed to sleep for 100 years, was turned into a legendary ballet in 1890. We meet our heroine, Aurora, at her Christening, when fairies and vampires fed the gothic imagination, before the story moves forward a century to the modern day. Featuring designs by Olivier Award-winners Lez Brotherston (set and costumes), Paule Constable (lighting) with sound design by Paul Groothuis, which will take the audience into the heart of Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score in specially recorded surround sound. Matthew Bourne’s haunting new production is a gothic romance for all ages; a supernatural love story that even the passage of time cannot hinder.
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Tue - Sun at 7.30pm Sat & Sun Mats at 2.30pm Thu 27 Dec Mat at 2.30pm Wed 2 & Wed 23 Jan Mat at 2.30pm £12 - £60 Family Ticket: £140 (4 tickets inc at least 1 child, not available for certain performances) Talk with Matthew Bourne (BSL): Sun 9 Dec, 5.15 - 6pm (£4, £3 concessions) Audio-Described performance: Sat 12 Jan at 2.30pm Some scenes may not be suitable for young children
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“Sheer theatrical magic. Go see The Snowman and melt” THE TIMES
Birmingham Repertory Theatre The Snowman Wednesday 28 November - Sunday 6 January When a young boy’s snowman comes to life on Christmas Eve, the two set off on a night-time quest for adventure. On their travels they meet dancing penguins, reindeer and naturally, Father Christmas. Watch spellbound as the Snowman flies through the night sky above you, before escaping the clutches of the evil Jack Frost to return home for Christmas morning. Featuring Howard Blake’s beautiful Walking In the Air, performed by a live orchestra, choreographed by Robert North and directed by Bill Alexander, this is the perfect Christmas treat for all the family. The stage show based on Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman and the subsequent film has become a much-loved festive tradition at the Peacock Theatre. Ruari Murchison’s enchanting design combined with Tim Mitchell’s spectacular lighting has been delighting children for 14 years. With its wonderful mix of storytelling, spectacle and magic, The Snowman is back for a record-breaking 15th year. By arrangement with Snowman Enterprises Limited and Chester Music Limited. The film of The Snowman was directed by Dianne Jackson and produced by John Coates.
PEACOCK THEATRE
11am performances: 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30 Dec 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Jan 2.30pm performances: 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 12, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 Dec 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Jan 7pm performances: 28, 29, 30 Nov 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 22, 26, 28, 30 Dec 1, 2 Jan £12 - £32 Family Ticket: £95 (4 tickets inc at least one child) Audio-Described Performance: Sat 15 at 2.30pm Suitable for all ages
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Travelling Light & Bristol Old Vic BOING! Thursday 20 - Monday 31 December Set on Christmas Eve, BOING! is an energetic and enchanting piece of children’s dance theatre that captures the delirious excitement of waiting for Father Christmas to arrive on the most magical night of the year. Adored by both critics and children when it made its London debut at the Lilian Baylis Studio last year, BOING! was made in collaboration with Travelling Light and Bristol Old Vic. Directed by children’s theatre specialist Sally Cookson and choreographed by award-winning b-boys Wilkie Branson and Joel Daniel, BOING! combines comedy, acrobatics and breakdance to dazzling effect. Too excited to sleep, Wilkie and Joel are drawn into ever more exciting games that turn their bed into a giant trampoline. The ensuing chaos guarantees to leave children bursting with Christmas spirit!
Thu - Mon at 11.30am & 3pm Adults: £12 Children: £7 Thu 20 & Fri 21 £5 schools tickets Age Guidance: 3+
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Travelling Light and Bristol Old Vic both have outstanding reputations for creating theatre for young audiences and are highly regarded locally, nationally and internationally for producing innovative new work.
“Utterly dazzling. Rumbustious, exhilarating dance theatre” THE GUARDIAN
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Transaction Charge: £2.50 for telephone and postal bookings, £1.75 for concessionary and online bookings. No charge when booking in person. Exchanges: Tickets may be exchanged to future performances or a credit note issued in lieu of (valid for 2 years from date of issue) if returned at least 24 hours before scheduled performance time. A £5 booking amendment fee applies. Refunds are not permitted except where the performance is cancelled. Bookings of 8 or more tickets (or part thereof) for the same performance can only be exchanged or issued with a credit note where we have at least three weeks notice. No refunds or exchanges outside of these terms.
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DISCOUNTS & CONCESSIONS
PLANNING YOUR JOURNEY
save 20% when you buy tickets for 2 or more participating shows or book for 2 or more programmes by the same company. Discount applies to an equivalent amount of full price tickets for each eligible show and must be booked at the same time. See www.sadlerswells.com/save
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Disabled Persons:* For members of our Access Scheme a limited number of half-price seats are available. For more information, visit www.sadlerswells.com/access
Students, unwaged, over 60s:* A limited number of £8 seats in Sadler’s Wells rear 2nd circle or Peacock Theatre rear stalls for most performances. Tickets will be held at Ticket Office. Proof of eligibility must be shown, otherwise the full price will be charged. A maximum of 2 tickets per person, per event.
Families: Half-price tickets for children under 16 on selected matinees (excluding Christmas shows where the Family ticket applies for certain performances). Up to 2 half price children per 1 FULL paying adult. Minimum age limits apply on certain shows, please check with Ticket Office. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
Discounted Family Tickets are available on selected shows for groups of four which include at least one child.
Sadler’s Wells & Lilian Baylis Studio Bus: 19, 38 & 341 stop outside Sadler’s Wells. 4, 30, 43, 56, 73, 153, 205, 214, 274, 394 & 476 stop at or near Angel tube station. Tube: Angel (Northern Line) is 5 mins walk. Rail: King’s Cross, St Pancras, Euston, Liverpool Street and Old Street are easily reachable by tube or bus from Angel; Highbury & Islington and Essex Road are 10 mins by bus. Sadler’s Wells Car Park: Private wide bay car park for patrons with disabilities (free), or over 60s (£5). Book in advance at the Ticket Office. Sadler’s Wells is within the congestion charge zone. Bike: there are plenty of bike racks outside and opposite the theatre, plus cycle hire stations within 5 minutes walk.
Peacock Theatre Bus: Kingsway: 1, 59, 68, 91, 168, 171, 188, 243, 521 & X68; High Holborn: 8, 19, 25, 38, 55, 98 & 242; Aldwych / The Strand: 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 26, 76, 77A, 139, 172, 176, 341 & RV1 Tube: Holborn (Central/Piccadilly Lines) is 5 mins walk. Temple (Circle/District Lines) is 10 mins walk. Rail: Charing Cross, Waterloo and Waterloo East are 15 mins walk. Bike: there are plenty of bike racks outside and opposite the theatre, plus cycle hire stations within 5 minutes walk.
Under 5s: Please note for the consideration of our patrons children under the age of 5 are not permitted into performances unless indicated in the show information pages.
ANGEL
Further age limits apply on certain shows, please check with Ticket Office. (Under 2s free entry where admitted - please book aisle seats and leave the auditorium if the child causes disturbance to other patrons. Refunds will not be payable.)
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Standby tickets:* From £17.50 for students, unwaged people, BECTU, MU & Equity card holders, under 16s and over 60s. Cash or card payment only. Available in person only from one hour before the performance. 1 ticket per person. Proof of status required.
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Adult groups of 8+:* 20% off stalls seats (may exclude Fri and Sat evening performances. Some shows may be subject to different group rates).
School groups of 10+:* £12 rear stalls seats, one teacher free per ten pupils, at Schools Discount Performances (see website for details).
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Autumn 2012 Sadler’s Wells & Lilian Baylis Studio, Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4TN Ticket Office: 0844 871 0090 Angel Peacock Theatre, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HT Ticket Office: 0844 871 0091 Holborn
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