Rambert’s autumn tour this year forms part of its 'Rambert at 90' celebrations, a nationwide programme to mark the company’s 90th anniversary year, which celebrates a range of Rambert’s work. Highlights of the tour include a special double programme of work at Sadler’s Wells in London in November, and the return of Christopher Bruce’s iconic Ghost Dances.
The piece Contemporaries, and the London premiere of The Creation, will be shown as two separate programmes at Sadler's Wells in November. The Creation features choreography by Rambert’s Artistic Director Mark Baldwin as a new staging of Haydn’s celebrated oratorio; it is one of Rambert’s largest works to date featuring over 100 performers. Over 35 dancers from Rambert and the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance will be included, as well as 70 singers and musicians.
Contemporaries, a triple bill of work from a new generation of dance makers, will feature the London premieres of Dzierzon’s Flight and Hydrargyrum by Patricia Okenwa, alongside Alexander Whitley’s 2015 work Frames. A piece for eight dancers, Hydrargyrum looks at ideas of connection and disconnection, the individual and the mass, set to an original score by Aleksandra Vrebalov. Dzierzon, Okenwa and Whitley are former Rambert dancers who have all been supported by the company’s choreographic development programme and are members of New Movement Collective.
Also later this year, audiences will see the revival of one of the most requested works from Rambert’s historic repertoire – Christopher Bruce’s Ghost Dances, first performed in 1981. Last seen on a UK stage in 2003, Ghost Dances is Bruce’s response to political oppression in South America, set to Latin American folk music, and often studied during GCSE Dance. Stories of love and compassion unfold among a series of ordinary people, as death – depicted as the iconic ‘ghosts’ - disrupts their lives. Receiving its revival premiere at Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Ghost Dances will then tour throughout 2017.
Other works in the company’s repertoire to be presented in 2016 are: Dark Arteries, A Linha Curva, Tomorrow and Transfigured Night.
Rambert’s autumn tour
Stacey MacNaught |
Rambert’s autumn tour this year forms part of its 'Rambert at 90' celebrations, a nationwide programme to mark the company’s 90th anniversary year, which celebrates a range of Rambert’s work. Highlights of the tour include a special double programme of work at Sadler’s Wells in London in November, and the return of Christopher Bruce’s iconic Ghost Dances.
The piece Contemporaries, and the London premiere of The Creation, will be shown as two separate programmes at Sadler's Wells in November. The Creation features choreography by Rambert’s Artistic Director Mark Baldwin as a new staging of Haydn’s celebrated oratorio; it is one of Rambert’s largest works to date featuring over 100 performers. Over 35 dancers from Rambert and the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance will be included, as well as 70 singers and musicians.
Contemporaries, a triple bill of work from a new generation of dance makers, will feature the London premieres of Dzierzon’s Flight and Hydrargyrum by Patricia Okenwa, alongside Alexander Whitley’s 2015 work Frames. A piece for eight dancers, Hydrargyrum looks at ideas of connection and disconnection, the individual and the mass, set to an original score by Aleksandra Vrebalov. Dzierzon, Okenwa and Whitley are former Rambert dancers who have all been supported by the company’s choreographic development programme and are members of New Movement Collective.
Also later this year, audiences will see the revival of one of the most requested works from Rambert’s historic repertoire – Christopher Bruce’s Ghost Dances, first performed in 1981. Last seen on a UK stage in 2003, Ghost Dances is Bruce’s response to political oppression in South America, set to Latin American folk music, and often studied during GCSE Dance. Stories of love and compassion unfold among a series of ordinary people, as death – depicted as the iconic ‘ghosts’ - disrupts their lives. Receiving its revival premiere at Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Ghost Dances will then tour throughout 2017.
Other works in the company’s repertoire to be presented in 2016 are: Dark Arteries, A Linha Curva, Tomorrow and Transfigured Night.