Set to Beethoven’s final piano sonata No 32 in C Minor this arresting and exploratory dance film was especially written for French ballet superstar, Sylvie Guillem CBE (Swan Lake, Giselle, Don Quixote) and was performed two years before her retirement from the stage in 2015. Directed and choreographed by acclaimed Swedish choreographer, Mats Ek (Manager of Cullberg Ballet and The Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm) it is a poignant self-reflective solo exploring themes of femininity, aging, human connection, and belonging and has a powerful cinematic quality.

Imaginative and exploratory, the dance is performed in street clothes with rigorous precision by Ms.Guillem.  Portraying a sense of urgency throughout, the piece encompasses both classical and contemporary ballet and the choreography is a fusion of these two dance forms.  A striking rectangle of light forms a powerful backdrop on an otherwise bare stage.  

Described by critics at the time as, “exuding a special aura yet blessed with the common touch” Ms Guillem is mesmerizing during her solo performance.  “A virtuoso piece that straddles the line between ballet and modern dance,” the short twenty-two-minute ballet is as thought-provoking as it is compelling to watch.  

A pertinent swansong for one of the greatest living dancers of a generation.

A poignant dance film choreographed and directed by Mats Ek and performed by French ballet superstar Sylvie Guillem. 

Set to contrasting scores by Charlotte Harding and Keaton Henson, Them/Us is an inventive double bill asking where we see ourselves in relation to the “other,” and explores the fine balance between them and us. Them is created through a unique choreographic process by the dancers. The piece explores the versatility of movement which the company has always been known for and proves to be an exciting culmination of the experience gained after 20 years of working with leading artists. Tony and Olivier Award-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon concludes the evening with Us, exploring human connections and culminating in a tender duet.

Them/Us is an inventive double bill asking where we see ourselves in relation to the “other,” and explores the fine balance between them and us.

Them/Us

Adapted from the anti-play Offending the Audience by Austrian playwright Peter Handke and enriched by Ohad Naharin’s innovative, movement language Gaga, the Bessie-award winning Naharin’s Virus exemplifies the choreographer’s aesthetic with the sole purpose of showing the naked reality of a moment in space. The varied soundtrack includes classical music, original music by Karni Postel, and adaptations of traditional Arabic music by Habib Alla Jamal and Shama Khader.

Adapted by Ohad Naharin from the anti-play Offending the Audience by the Nobel-winning Austrian playwright Peter Handke.

Naharin's Virus

A captivating story told through BSL, voice and movement, Unspoken Spoken is performed by a cast of disabled and non-disabled dancers. Created and filmed with support from digital commissioning body The Space, Arts Council England and the BBC, the film seeks to raise awareness of Candoco’s work amongst a digital audience for the first time.

A captivating story told through BSL, voice and movement, Unspoken Spoken is performed by a cast of disabled and non-disabled dancers.

Unspoken Spoken (Audio Described)

Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young reunite for Revisor, a critically acclaimed production that blends contemporary theater and dance.

Reuniting the creators of the internationally acclaimed Betroffenheit (winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production), Revisor is based on the well-known play, The Government Inspector, by Nikolai Gogol. 

Revisor reunites choreographer Crystal Pite and playwright Jonathon Young for a theater/dance hybrid production.

Revisor

Betroffenheit is a word which means trauma, bewilderment and shock. A fitting title for this boundary-stretching hybrid of theater and dance, created by Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young. 

The powerful performance is inspired by Young’s real-life trauma, conjuring art from the pain of losing his daughter, niece and nephew in a fire.  

Combining tap, salsa, spoken word, song and puppetry, Betroffenheit is a witty, tender exploration of isolation and coming to terms with tragedy. It was the recipient of the 2017 Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production and the Outstanding Performance in Modern Dance at the Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards. 

Watch this thrilling performance recorded during its sold out run at London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre.

Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young's Olivier winning BETROFFENHEIT is a bold hybrid of theater and dance that explores trauma, grief and addiction.

Betroffenheit

Unspoken Spoken

After the success of their collaboration in Boxe Boxe (2010), choreographer Mourad Merzouki and the Debussy string quartet once again explore the mixing of genres. This piece transforms boxing into a poetic dance, accompanied by music that channels Brazilian energy through classical string instruments. Although they are improbable, Merzouki and Compagnie Käfig’s crossbreeding of genres and styles consistently prove visionary and exciting. Boxe Boxe Brasil is no exception.

Choreographer Mourad Merzouki and the Debussy string quartet once again explore the mixing of genres

Boxe Boxe Brasil

BalletBoyz perform Liam Scarlett’s Serpent and Russell Maliphant’s Fallen with music by Max Richter and Armand Amar, accompanied by BBC Concert Orchestra.

BalletBoyz perform Liam Scarlett’s Serpent and Russell Maliphant’s Fallen.

Ballet Boyz Live at the Roundhouse

With BiT, Maguy Marin signs her forty-ninth opus in barely forty years. At the center of this brutal charge against ordinary barbarism lies the question of rhythm.

The title refers to the computer term for the unit of measurement of information, this word-syllable gives an initial rhythmic drive, after which the show takes shape, relentless succession of scansions and impulses, twists and tensions orchestrated with the feverish rigor of a dance both joyful and desperate. As a constant in the piece, in an obsessive continuity, the same structure: the farandole, a form of collective dance passed down through the ages, is the recurring motif. All the colors of the human condition slide in, love rites and dances of death. On an exhilarating techno music all in beats, the entire show has no shortage of cruelty on the analysis of contemporary society, in the dark conclusion of the dominations exerted on the intimate as well as the social, a deterioration of which we ourselves are the actors. BiT takes us into the depths of our humanity and questions our individual responsibilities in the turmoil of each passing day.

BiT takes us into the depths of our humanity and questions our individual responsibilities in the turmoil of each passing day.

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