We now have 10 new shows on sale at Sadler’s Wells Theatre. Between 12th September and 18th November 2017 the new season of ballet and dance at Sadler’s Wells brings a wealth of talent to the London stage.
Hofesh Shechter: Grand Finale at the Sadler’s Wells
This work is part dance, part gig, part theatre and very distinctive. With the balance of the comic, the bleak, the anarchic & the violent there are 10 dancers on stage, with musicians who play an original score. Grand Finale is a cold and powerful vision of a world in freefall, where emotions spiral away as humanity is thrown towards the abyss.
Wayne McGregor – Autobiography at the Sadler’s Wells
Wayne McGregor continues to lead his company onto more radical and challenging innovations. With the Sadler’s Wells Resident Company this is his boldest and most intimate collaboration to date. Combining memoir, documentary and a re-processing of nature’s code through an act of human imagination, this new work charts McGregor’s adventure into his autobiography, and asks how to understand a life.
BalletBoyz – 14 days at the Sadler’s Wells
BalletBoyz are back! This time with an exciting quartet of new works playing with the concept of balance and imbalance. Choreographers Javier de Frutos, Craig Revel Horwood, Ivan Perez and Christopher Wheeldon have teamed up with composers Scott Walker, Charlotte Harding, Joby Talbot and Keaton Henson to create their pieces.
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance – Bayadere -The Ninth Life at the Sadler’s Wells
Ground-breaking dance-maker Shobana Jeyasingh brings her radical imagination to Petipa’s legendary ballet La Bayadère. More than a retelling, it searches for the roots of the Bayadère herself and the allure she exerted in Europe over the centuries. The words of the celebrated French writer Théophile Gautier, who recorded his ambiguous impressions of Indian temple dancers in 1838, add to the rich mix of Gabriel Prokofiev’s specially commissioned score to form a unique and personal work.
Trois Grandes Fugues at the Sadler’s Wells
Three acclaimed choreographers each create inimitable dance works to the same piece of music, Beethoven’s Grande Fugue op. 133. Lucinda Childs’ interpretation exemplifies her meticulous precision and cool, complex classicism. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker responds with an uninhibited, masculine and non-classical vocabulary, whilst Maguy Marin creates an exhilarating whirlwind where life is reduced to a race against death. Trois Grandes Fugues marks a welcome return for the world class dancers of Lyon Opera Ballet who last performed at Sadler’s Wells more than a decade ago.
Jasmin Vardimon – Pinocchio at the Sadler’s Wells
This is Pinoccho, the classic fairy tale, but with a different take. Using clever humour, engaging drama and witty observations this takes us on a magical adventure, with Pinnocchio, as he finds out what it is like to be human. In true Jasmin Vardimon style the choreography is breath-taking as dancers bring to life the world of this enchanting famous puppet.
Birmingham Royal Ballet – Aladdin at the Sadler’s Wells
From one enchanting fairy tale to another. A cave of riches is waiting to be explored in David Bintley’s glittering production of the classic story of Aladdin and his adventures with the magic lamp.
Featuring lavish sets and costumes, stunning special effects, beautiful choreography and a larger-than-life Chinese lion. It also boasts a score by BAFTA awardwinning composer Carl Davis, played live by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, and dazzling designs from Dick Bird and Sue Blane.
Birmingham Royal Ballet – Mixed Bill at the Sadler’s Wells
A mixed programme of new work and much loved pieces. The ancient god Pan is unleashed in Birmingham Royal Ballet’s first artist Ruth Brill’s Arcadia, created to a score from saxophonist John Harle. Michael Corder’s Le Baiser de la fée is a beautiful interpretation of this classic fairy tale. Finally, a morris-dancing flea, a ballroom-dancing ram and many more endangered animals seek shelter from the storm in David Bintley’s ‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Café.
Until Our Hearts Stop at the Sadler’s Wells
Acclaimed American choreographer, Meg Stuart’s work is constantly shifting, developing a language and set of rules for every piece. With Until Our Hearts Stop, Stuart drew inspiration from the people who create their own, fantastical, rules as they retreat from real life.
Six performers and three musicians find themselves in a place that is both a nightclub and an arena: a place of desire and illusion experiencing extreme intimacy at each other’s hands in their high-octane refuge. To the sound of throbbing basses, piano and drums, they connect and explore each other, and draw the audience into their immersive world.
Kyle Abraham Pavement at the Sadler’s Wells
The creation and presentation of Pavement is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts in co-operation with the New England Foundation for the Arts through the National Dance Project. Major support for NDP is provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation. Support from the NEA provides funding for choreographers in the early stages of their careers.
Inspired by the 1991 John Singleton film, Boyz N The Hood, the writings of American civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois and Abraham’s own childhood, Pavement takes seven dancers through a culture plagued by discrimination and genocide in Pittsburgh’s historically black neighbourhoods, set to an eclectic mix of Bach, Benjamin Britten, Sam Cooke and Donny Hathaway.