National Youth Ballet’s Evolving Visions is a series of performances by its 2024 Residential Performance Company, formed each year with promising young dancers aged 9–19 from all over the country.
Evolving Visions will feature Miguel Altunaga’s BLANK, which imagines the sudden absence of the choreographer, Richard Bermange’s Ephemeral Blueprint, which takes audiences on a journey through diverse forms of architecture, and Neus Gil Cortes's Out Loud, which explores how we may learn to confront our inhibitions.
Daniel Davidson goes deep into the sea and into universal feelings of loss in Open Water (Just What You Wanted), and for NYB’s Junior Company, Tierney Lawlor’s Learning The Ropes tells a story of "support, compassion, kindness and fun."
Two of NYB’s Beyond Ballet choreographers will present new work: Amy Groves’s Ready And… and Rosie Mackley’s What You’ve (Already) Got.
The company will also perform a revival of Artistic Director Louise Bennett’s Ada, made for NYB in 2018, which celebrates the life and work of mathematician Ada Lovelace.
The performance at Sadler’s Wells will also feature the NYB All In! Company, featuring dancers with and without disabilities from both National Youth Ballet and Parable Dance, who will perform a short work inspired by Romeo and Juliet choreographed by Beyond Ballet choreographers Ross Black and Hannah George.
It will be at the Crescent Theatre in Birmingham 21–22 August and Sadler's Wells in London 8 September 2024.