Sadler's Wells has announced its programme for the second half of 2009.
Matthew Bourne's Dorian Gray
Tuesday 7 - Sunday 19 July
Carlos Acosta & Guest Artists
London Coliseum
Wednesday 22 - Saturday 25 July
Shall We Dance
A Tribute to Richard Rodgers
Starring Adam Cooper
World premiere
Thursday 23 July - Sunday 30 August
Flamenco sin Fronteras
Paco Peña
World premiere
Tuesday 1 - Saturday 5 September
Rossini Double Bill / The Rake's Progress
British Youth Opera
Friday 4 - Saturday 12 September
Rosas danst Rosas / Zeitung
Rosas
UK premiere
Tuesday 8 - Saturday 12 September
Insane in the Brain
Bounce E
Tuesday 15 September - Saturday 3 October
Lost Action
Crystal Pite's Kidd Pivot
UK premiere
Thursday 17 & Friday 18 September
Stillen
Lotte van den Berg
UK premiere
Thursday 24 & Friday 25 September
bahok
Akram Khan Company
Friday 25 & Saturday 26 September
Scottish Ballet
40th Anniversary Tour
Thursday 1 - Saturday 3 October
Rubies is one of Balanchine's most notorious pieces, with dancers
adorned in bejewelled costumes set to jazz inspired music by Igor
Stravinsky. Performed to the slow-building arch of Berio's Duetti
for two violins William Forsythe's Workwithinwork is a new
addition to Scottish Ballet's repertoire.
Performed for the first time in London, Krzysztof Pastor's celebrated
In Light and Shadow begins with a duet to the Aria from Bach's
Goldberg Variations, the piece builds with solos, duets and
ensemble work set to Bach's Third Orchestral Suite.
Family Weekend
Mischief & Oogly Boogly
Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 October
At the Peacock Theatre, children's theatre company Theatre-Rites and
choreographer Arthur Pita present Mischief, a Sadler's Wells
co-production and winner of the TMA award for Achievement in Dance
2008. At the Lilian Baylis Studio Oogly Boogly involves up
to eight babies and four adult performers, allowing parents and carers
to relax and enjoy watching their child create their own movement.
Inside Out
Cirkus Cirkör
UK premiere
Wednesday 14 - Saturday 31 October
In the Spirit of Diaghilev
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui / Javier De Frutos / Russell Maliphant / Wayne
McGregor
World premiere
Tuesday 13 - Saturday 17 October
Each artist, working with all or part of his own company, gives their
own original response to the famous challenge that Diaghilev once
issued to Jean Cocteau: "Surprise me!"
Wayne McGregor: Dyad 1909
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Faun
Russell Maliphant: AfterLight
Javier De Frutos: Eternal Damnation to Sancho and Sanchez
Mixed Bill
Morphoses / The Wheeldon Company
World premiere
Wednesday 21 - Saturday 24 October
Mixed Programme
Mark Morris Dance Group
UK premiere
Tuesday 27 - Saturday 31 October
Rambert Dance Company
Tuesday 3 - Saturday 7 November
Mark Baldwin: Comedy of Change
Siobhan Davie: Carnival of the Animals
Henri Oguike: a new work
Jump
Tuesday 3 - Saturday 21 November
Quantum Leaps / Cyrano
Birmingham Royal Ballet
Tuesday 10 - Saturday 14 November
Svapnagata India Festival
Monday 16 - Saturday 28 November
Meaning 'dreaming' in Sanskrit, Svapnagata is a two-week festival
of Indian music and dance curated by multi award-winning artists;
dancer and choreographer Akram Khan and composer Nitin Sawhney. With
a wide range of events taking place in the main house and the Lilian
Baylis Studio, the festival offers an array of performances from some
of the finest Indian musicians, dancers and choreographers working
today.
it includes the world premiere of Khan's Gnosis (16 November)
Carlos Acosta
Apollo and Other Works
Tuesday 1 - Saturday 5 December
The Snowman
Wednesday 2 December 2009 - Sunday 10 January 2010
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
Tuesday 10 December 2009 - Sunday 24 January 2010
Spring Dance at the London Coliseum
Swan Lake/ / Magia de la Danza
Ballet Nacional de Cuba
Tuesday 30 March - Sunday 11 April 2010
L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
Mark Morris Dance Group
Wednesday 14 - Saturday 17 April 2010
