Birmingham Royal Ballet is to return to Sadler’s Wells Theatre with a triple bill, Into the Music which celebrates “the marriage of music and movement.”
Birmingham Royal Ballet director Carlos Acosta said, “we were delighted to take our Don Quixote to packed houses at Sadler’s Wells and can’t wait to return with our ambitious triple bill Into the Music. It’s been my ambition to programme this triple bill ever since I joined the company and it will showcase some of the most important contemporary and classic choreographers as well as UK and world premières, so I’m very excited to share it with London audiences.”
The programme showcases neoclassical and contemporary ballets, celebrated international choreographers rarely seen in the UK, BRB’s orchestra the Royal Ballet Sinfonia and the fresh direction Carlos Acosta is pursuing for BRB.
The triple bill opens with Jiří Kylián’s Forgotten Land with a “gripping journey into memory and loss set to Benjamin Britten’s magnificent Sinfonia da Requiem”.
Choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple and composer Mikael Karlsson will team up for the world première of Hotel, a “surreal journey into the secrets and lies that live behind closed doors”. It features stage design by Sami Fendall for which she won the Linbury Prize.
The triple bill will close with a work by the late German choreographer Uwe Scholz.
Into The Music will run at Sadler’s Wells Theatre from Wednesday 2 until Saturday 5 November.