Sadler’s Wells has announced a spring 2010 season blending old favourites with world and UK premieres, and its regular family, flamenco and hip hop festivals.
Companies and performers including Paco Peña, Rambert Dance Company and Richard Alston Dance Company return to Sadler’s Wells, as do productions Sutra, Gnosis and Eonnagata. The company’s West End home, the Peacock theatre, invites back the popular hip hop staging of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Insane In The Brain, and Cuban dance extravaganza Havana Rakatan.
Both venues host world premieres, with street dance company Blaze taking its first bow at the Peacock theatre and Classical Opera Company debuting its production of Mozart’s Zaide at Sadler’s Wells. The season also sees the UK premieres of work from Ivana Müller, Deepblue, Danza Contemporanea De Cuba, Psy, Les Ballets C De La B, Compagnie Marie Chouinard, Nederlands Dans Theater, Tanguera and the collaboration of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet & Antony Gormley.
The season, which spans almost every form of dance imaginable, also sees Pictures From An Exhibition, which premiered at the Young Vic earlier this year, take to the Sadler’s Wells stage, The Merchants Of Bollywood perform at the Peacock theatre and English Touring Opera make its Sadler’s Wells debut.
Regular festival Sadler’s Wells Sampled opens the season in the last weekend in January, offering audiences a two day taste of the wide ranging world of dance. This year’s festival will also include performances from the winner of the Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest. The annual Flamenco Festival, Family Weekend and Breakin’ Convention all return in 2010, as does Spring Dance at the London Coliseum, which features performances from Ballet Nacional De Cuba, Mark Morris Dance Group, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Ballet Nacional De España.
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