Sadler’s Wells, The Lowry and Birmingham Hippodrome have formed a collaborative producing partnership, The Movement, to develop and deliver a programme of large-scale dance.
The Movement has been awarded a grant of £749,948 from Arts Council England’s Ambition for Excellence fund for a two-year pilot initiative, which launches at Birmingham Hippodrome on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 May with Dance: Sampled as part of the International Dance Festival Birmingham 2016.
Dance: Sampled is based on the Sampled format pioneered by Sadler’s Wells which offers a selection of different dance styles in one programme. The production will then run for two nights at The Lowry in February 2017.
The line-up includes Company Wayne McGregor, Birmingham Royal Ballet, BBC Young Dancer finalist Vidya Patel, world tango champions German Cornejo and Gisela Galeassi from Buenos Aires, French hip hop company Pockemon Crew and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Faun.