Alexander Whitley's forthcoming world première and debut work for the Sadlers Wells main stage, 8 Minutes, will open on 27 June in London.
Whitley is currently collaborating with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, the UK's leading space science facility, on the production, which will bring together science and art using movement, film and music to explore complex scientific subjects such as astroparticle physics.
Whitley, New Wave Associate at Sadler's Wells, an associate of Rambert and an Artist Fellow at Queen Mary University London, formerly an associate artist at DanceEast and between 2012-2014 an Affiliate Choreographer of the Royal Ballet Studio Programme, launched the Alexander Whitley Dance Company in 2014 (now based at DanceEast in Ipswich).
His choreographic work to date includes: Pattern Recognition presented by Sadler’s Wells at The Platform Theatre, The Grit in The Oyster, part of the Sadler’s Well’s production See the Music, Hear the Dance, The Measures Taken (Royal Opera House), All That is Solid Melts into Air (Royal Ballet Studio programme), Beheld (Candoco), Frames (Rambert), The Murmuring (Balletboyz) and Kin (BRB).
Whitley aims to broaden the scope of dance as an art form and investigate the relationship of movement to other areas such as music, science and new technologies.