Sadler's Wells

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Dancing Nation is a free all-day festival of British dance presented by Sadler's Wells and BBC Arts

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Dance returns to the stage on 2021

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There will be Christmas at Sadler's Wells, where Ballo Arthur Pita's family show The Little Match Girl takes to the main stage

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Sadler’s Wells’ annual festival of street dance is back as Breakin’ Convention: Social DisDancing, necessarily diminished but defiant

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Sadler's Wells Global Gala is a glittering virtual celebration of dance, showcasing some of the great artists who have graced its stage over the years

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A couple of Nutcrackers join other seasonal productions in the cornucopia of dance on show in London this Christmas

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Sadler's Wells and Candoco's joint new digital commission, Cuckoo, is a film that interrogates notions of time through the medium of a very special artificial limb

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Birmingham Royal Ballet brought its brand-new, post-lockdown triple bill Lazuli Sky to Sadler’s Wells, marking the theatre’s re-opening after an eight-month lockdown

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Choreographer Alexander Whitley's Overflow has its delayed and much anticipated world premiere at Sadler's Wells this autumn

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Akram Khan’s much anticipated new creation for English National Ballet, Creature, postponed due to Covid-19, has been rescheduled for September 2021

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Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! presented by his company New Adventures, will be Sadler's Wells Christmas show this year

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Dancing at Dusk – A Moment with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring is a unique film event, available to rent on Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage throughout July

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BalletBoyz’ Deluxe will be broadcast on BBC Four, as part of BBC Dance Season 2020

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Revisor, Crystal Pite and Jonathan Young’s unsurpassable marriage of words and movement, is broadcast on BBC Four

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New programmes, workshops and activities have been added to Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage platform

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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, has revealed she regularly exercises with the RAD's Silver Swan classes. Here are details of that programme, alongside other virtual dance classes

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Richard Alston Dance Company bows out at Sadler’s Wells with Final Edition, a reminder – if one was needed – of all we’ll miss when the company is gone forever

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Northern Ballet’s Geisha is an evocative story of sisterhood and sacrifice coming to Sadler’s Wells in the spring as part of a nationwide tour to mark the company’s 50th anniversary

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Alina Cojocaru’s personal project, Alina at Sadler’s Wells, is an original blend of dance and film, conceived as a series of snapshots of her illustrious career

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Message in a Bottle, Kate Prince and Sting’s new show at the Peacock Theatre, is a triumph of effervescent dancing to classical pop tunes, telling an all-too-human story

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Three diverse choreographers respond to Nico Muhly’s music in Drawn Lines, the latest programme in Sadler's Wells' Composer Series

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Breakin’ Convention 2020, the unmissable International Festival of Hip Hop, returns to Sadler’s Wells for a triumphant 17th year running

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Asia’s foremost contemporary dance company, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, returns to Sadler’s Wells with two UK premieres, Dust and 13 Tongues

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The extraordinary ballerina Alina Cojocaru tells Culture Whisper that her forthcoming show at Sadler’s Wells is something very special to her

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Matthew Bourne's very own take on the classic 1948 film The Red Shoes, returns to Sadler's Wells for Christmas, following its acclaimed debut there three years ago

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Acosta Danza’s Evolution, currently at Sadler’s Wells, is a mixed bill made up of three enjoyable works and one monumental dud

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Dorrance Dance, aka tap dance for the 21st century, returned to Sadler’s Wells with the triple bill Myelination and other works

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Rambert’s junior company, Rambert2, took to the stage at Sadler’s Wells with an idiosyncratic triple bill that does its talented young dancers no favours

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Birmingham Royal Ballet ends a brief residency at Sadler's Wells with its accomplished and deeply affecting production of Giselle

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Birmingham Royal Ballet joined forces with Ballet Black to present a mixed bill that dealt with memories, love and revenge, and ballroom dancing

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In his new work, Silent Lines, Russell Maliphant continues his exploration of bodies in movement, to create a piece where old and new blend to mesmerising effect

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Rambert become the latest company to mark Merce Cunningham’s centenary with Rambert Event, a thrilling programme bringing together big names in dance, music and art