Free ENB dance matinée at Sadler's Wells

Published: 17 April 2018
Reporter: Vera Liber

English National Ballet will present Dance Journeys Matinee Takeover, showcasing the choreographic voices of young people on the main stage at Sadler’s Wells during the Company’s Voices of America season, featuring performances from ENB Youth Co, English National Ballet School and ENB performing an extract from William Forsythe’s Approximate Sonata 2016.

Dance Journeys, supported by John Lyon’s Charity, gives young people the opportunity to work as a professional company and gain experience of the production process. 100 young dancers from west London schools—Copthall School, Friern Barnet School, Hammersmith Academy, Hampstead School—will join English National Ballet’s ENBYouthCo to perform Chrysalis at Sadler’s Wells.

Chrysalis takes its inspiration from Aszure Barton’s Fantastic Beings, set to an original score by Thomas Hewitt Jones recorded by young musicians from the Royal College of Music Junior Department Contemporary Ensemble conducted by Jacques Cohen.

Tamara Rojo CBE, Artistic Director of English National Ballet, said, “by nurturing and encouraging new talent through projects such as English National Ballet’s Dance Journeys, we can further develop our art forms, attracting new audiences and offering the chance to create art and artists of the future.”

ENBYouthCo will perform Life of the Party, a reaction to Kenneth MacMillan’s Song of the Earth which looks at the ideas of loneliness and memory from the perspective of a group of young people, choreographed by New Adventures company member Tom Jackson-Greves.

English National Ballet School students Vania De Rosas, Victor González Pérez, Lauren Mitchell, Kirica Takahashi and Valerio Zaffalon will perform their choreography Volts inspired by the work of William Forsythe.

ENB will also perform an extract from William Forsythe’s Approximate Sonata 2016 from the Company’s Voices of America programme.

Dance Journeys is a free, ticketed performance. For ticket enquires, contact [email protected].

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