Sadler's Wells

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Cross-cultural fertilisation doesn’t come more compelling than Layla and Majnun, Mark Morris Dance Group’s collaboration with the Silkroad Ensemble to tell an ancient Eastern love story

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As Sadler's Wells moves into summer, so its programming becomes hot, hot, hot.... Here are some of the highlights

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Booking opens on 5 November for Sadler's Wells Spring 2019 season, a veritable treasure trove of dance from established artists and newcomers. Here are the highlights for March/April

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Dein Perry’s Tap Dogs returns to the London stage with a thrilling show like no other, running for a three-week run at The Peacock Theatre

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Medusa, Jasmin Vardimon's latest work now showing at Sadler’s Wells, is a baffling, often impenetrable jumble of high-minded concepts and platitudes

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The Swedish troupe GöteborgsOperans Danskompani brings contemporary works by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and sculptor Antony Gormley to Sadler's Wells.

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Sadler’s Wells Reckonings is an eclectic showcase for new work, marking the 20th anniversary of the theatre’s current building

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Just-out-of-school budding choreographers get a chance to show their work as Sadler’s Wells Young Associates with decidedly mixed results

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William Forsythe’s A Quiet Evening of Dance is a fascinating, if at times heavy-going small-scale, intimate programme curated by the choreographer himself

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The China National Peking Opera Company returns to Sadler's Wells with two new productions

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The international cross-genre dance artist Marvin Khoo brings his latest project, Man to Monk: Part 1, Man to the Lilian Baylis studio at Sadler’s Wells

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Dance takes pride of place this autumn on the brand new arts and culture online TV service Marquee.TV. Here are some of the highlights

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The contemporary dancer and choreographer Aakash Odedra presents the London premiere of his first company ensemble work, #JeSuis

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The Russian superstar ballerina Natalia Osipova’s latest ‘me’ project, Pure Dance, currently on at Sadler’s Wells, is an eclectic and oddly uneven affair

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Lest We Forget, English National Ballet's commemoration of the centenary of the Great War, returns to the stage

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Scandale, a work by the French choreographer Pierre Rigal investigating the birth of choreography, makes for unsettling viewing

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A unique, challenging and potentially mind-blowing cross-genre work, choreographer Jefta van Dinther’s Dark Field Analysis has its UK premiere in the Lilian Baylis studio

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After a somnolent summer, the autumn sees London dance come alive with a myriad of unmissable events. Here are some of the highlights

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As the Christmas show, The Snowman, marks 21 years on the London stage, Howard Blake, composer of its memorable score, leads Culture Whisper on a trip down memory lane

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It’s the most magical season of all: Richard Briggs’ the Snowman returns to the Peacock Theatre for the 21st consecutive year

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Choreography, live music and theatre unite in Dystopian Dream, an exciting new collaboration from dance duo Wang Ramirez and composer Nitin Sawhney

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Dance will be part of the mix at the 2018 Wilderness Festival, where Sadler’s Wells presents two engaging, yet contrasting shows

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Fans of dance and The Beatles are in for a scrumptious treat in 2019, in the shape of Pepperland, Mark Morris’s homage to Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

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This daring and exhilarating company will thrill audiences with their finely tuned rhythmic stomping and energetic drumming inspired by the fiery character of the Argentinian gaucho

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Grand Finale, choreographer Hofesh Shechter’s attempt to capture the uncertainty of our Zeitgeist, returns to Sadler's Wells this summer

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The second programme of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s visit to Sadler’s Wells, Polarity and Proximity, is a triple bill of deeply contrasting works

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Birmingham Royal Ballet’s brief season at Sadler’s Wells kicked off with its own production of Kenneth MacMillan’s masterpiece, Romeo and Juliet

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Sadler’s Wells introduces the conceptual artist Alexandra Weierstall to London, bringing her challenging work And here we meet to the Lilian Baylis studio

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Akram Khan’s farewell to full length solo performance, Xenos, is a bleak and poignant homage to the largely forgotten colonial soldiers who fought alongside the Allies in World War I

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Life is a Dream, choreographer Kim Brandstrup’s full length work for Rambert, makes for an extraordinary, transporting and haunting evening

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The glam and glitter of Bollywood return to the London stage when the Taj Express extravaganza takes over the Peacock stage once more

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Cult act Gandini Juggling and choreographer Alexander Whitley bring their glorious collaboration Spring to Sadler's Wells, as part of the 2019 London International Mime Festival