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Dateline: 28th October, 2011
25 Years of New Adventures Matthew Bourne's New Adventures will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2012 with some revivals and a new production. The revivals begin this year with Nutcracker! (which received its London premiere in 1993), playing as Sadler's Wells from 14th December (previews from 6th) until 22nd January. This will be followed, in May 2012, by Early Adventures, a mixed bill of three of Bourne’s early works: the Olivier-nominated Town And Country (1991), Bourne's first hit Spitfire (1988) and The Infernal Galop (1989). July will bring the first revival of Play Without Words, Harold Pinter’s The Servant, which won the Olivier Awards for Best Entertainment and Best Theatre Choreographer after premiering at the National Theatre in 2002. Finally the year climaxes with a brand new work, Bourne's own interpretation of Sleeping Beauty at the end of 2012. Talking of this new production, Bourne said, "Perrault's timeless fairy tale, about a young girl cursed to sleep for one hundred years, was turned into a legendary ballet by Tchaikovsky and choreographer Marius Petipa in 1890. I have taken this as a starting point, setting the Christening of Aurora, the story's heroine, in the year of the ballet's first performance; the height of the Fin-de-Siècle period when fairies, vampires and decadent opulence fed the gothic imagination. As Aurora grows into a young woman, we move forwards in time to the more rigid, uptight Edwardian era; a mythical golden age of long Summer afternoons, croquet on the lawn and new dance crazes. Years later, awakening from her century long slumber, Aurora finds herself in the modern day; a world more mysterious and wonderful than any Fairy story!" All the productions will run at Sadler's Wells where Bourne was appointed an Associate Artist in March 2005 and New Adventures became a Resident Company of the theatre in October 2006. Alistair Spalding, Artistic Director of Sadler's Wells, said, "I am delighted that we will be recognising Matthew Bourne's incredible contribution and achievements at Sadler's Wells next year. No other artist in dance has succeeded in bringing so many new audiences to the form. For the past decade the success of Sadler's Wells and New Adventures have gone hand in hand, with the company's regular Christmas and summer seasons introducing a new, wider audience to the theatre, who we have in turn been able to bring to other productions in our programme. "The beauty of the relationship is a shared vision for dance, in bringing the best quality performance to the widest range of people, and next year will be a suitable celebration of this."
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