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Dance

London dance 2022 highlights

By Teresa Guerreiro on 15/12/2021

2022 promises to be a bumper year for dance. Here are some of the shows we're looking forward to

Raymonda, English National Ballet © Jason Bell

Raymonda, English National Ballet, Coliseum

The year starts with ENB director Tamara Rojo's Raymonda, her first ballet as a choreographer, which transposes the eponymous Russian classic from the early Middle Ages to the Crimea war. It's inspired by Florence Nightingale.

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WHEN
Thursday 13 – Sunday 23 January, 7:30pm. Many matinees available – consult website. Dur.: 2 hours 40 mins inc 2 intervals
WHERE
London Coliseum, St Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4ES
Gandini Juggling, Life, A Love Letter to Merce Cunningham, part of LIMF 2022

LIMF – Gandini Juggling, Life, Lilian Baylis Studio

Genre-bending troupe Gandini Juggling kicks off the London International Mime Festival with its new work Life, an homage to the American giant of contemporary dance, Merce Cunningham.

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WHEN
Wednesday 12 – Saturday 15 January 2022, 8pm; Saturday matinees, 3pm. Dur.: 1 hour no interval
WHERE
Sadler's Wells, Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4TN
Mark Bruce Company, Phantoms. Photo: Mark Bruce

Mark Bruce Company, Phantoms triple bill, Wilton's Music Hall

Mark Bruce's work is never less than thrilling, and so much is expected from his new triple bill Phantoms, which will again take the Mark Bruce Company to the perfect setting of Wilton's Music Hall.

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WHEN
Thursday 24 Feb – Saturday 5 March 2022, 7:30pm. Saturday matinees 2:30pm. Dur.: 1 hour 20 mins + interval
WHERE
Wilton's Music Hall, 1 Graces Alley, London E1 8JB
Acosta Danza, Paysage, soudain, la nuit. Photo: Johan Persson

Acosta Danza, 100% Cuban, Sadler's Wells

Acosta Danza, the dynamic young company set up by the Cuban ballet superstar Carlos Acosta, returns to London with a programme of works old and new that showcases the sheer brilliance of these dancers.

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WHEN
Wednesday 9 – Saturday 12 February 2022, 7:30pm. Dur.; TBC
WHERE
Sadler's Wells, Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4TN
Deluxe presented by BalletBoyz

BalletBoyz Deluxe 2022, Sadler's Wells

Fears that Covid-19 and its prolonged lockdowns had killed BalletBoyz were dispelled with the announcement that this exciting all-male company was returning from the dead with new personnel and a reprise of its exciting programme Deluxe.

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WHEN
24 – 26 March 2022, 7:30pm; Saturday matinees at 2:30pm. Dur.: 1 hour 30 mins inc one interval
WHERE
Sadler's Wells, Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4TN
Francesca Hayward as Odette in Swan Lake © ROH 2020 Photo: Helen Maybanks

The Royal Ballet, Swan Lake 2022, ROH

The Royal Ballet's sumptuous production of possibly the world's best-loved ballet, Swan Lake, returns to Covent Garden for an extended run with a variety of exciting casts.

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WHEN
Tuesday 1 March – Saturday 28 May 2022, 7:30pm. Some 7pm starts. Matinees available – consult website. Dur.: 3 hours inc 2 intervals
WHERE
Royal Opera House, Bow Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD
Christopher Wheeldon.  Photo: Johan Persson

The Royal Ballet, Like Water for Chocolate, ROH

Christopher Wheeldon's much-anticipated new full-length ballet, Like Water for Chocolate, is an adaptation of an involving story of thwarted love and obsessive cooking in 1900s Mexico.

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WHEN
Thursday 2 – Friday 17 June 2022, 7:30pm; Thursday 2 & Saturday 4 at 7pm. Saturday 4, matinee at 1pm. Dur.: TBC
WHERE
Royal Opera House, Bow Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD
Matthew Bourne's The Car Man.  Photo: Johan Persson 2015 production

Matthew Bourne's The Car Man, Royal Albert Hall

Postponed from last year, Matthew Bourne's raunchy The Car Man is scheduled finally to come to the Royal Albert Hall in the summer, in a brand-new production that adapts this radical remake of Carmen to the vast space of the West London house.

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WHEN
Thursday 9 – Sunday 19 June 2022, 7:30pm. Weekend matinees 2:30pm. Dur.: 2 hours 20 mins inc one interval
WHERE
Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AP

Dance Highlights 2022

ENB

Raymonda

Gandini Juggling

Life

Mark Bruce Company

Phantoms

Acosta Danza

100% Cuban

BalletBoyz

Deluxe

Swan Lake

The Royal Ballet

Like Water for Chocolate

Christopher Wheeldon

Matthew Bourne

Car Man

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  • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre in Alvin Ailey's Revelations. Photo: Christopher Duggan

    BBC dance programmes 2022

  • LIMF, Vanishing Point Interiors © Niall Walker

    London International Mime Festival, LIMF 2022

  • Matthew Bourne's The Car Man. Photo Chris Mann 2015 production

    Bourne to Dance New Adventures podcast



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