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Dance
Matthew Bourne's iconoclastic Swan Lake with its corps of aggressive male swans is Sadler's Wells's offering this festive season
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Edward Scissorhands, Matthew Bourne’s stage adaptation of Tim Burton’s emblematic movie, is charming audiences at Sadler’s Wells this Christmas season
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Matthew Bourne's radical take on Romeo and Juliet returns to Sadler's Wells following its sell-out first run there four years ago
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Matthew Bourne's unique, gothic take on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale, already a hit on stage, comes to a cinema near your in the summer
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Matthew Bourne’s gothic and magical take on The Sleeping Beauty is now installed at Sadler’s Wells for the whole of the festive season
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Variety is the spice of Christmas dance
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Dance at its most varied this month
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Students of the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance brought the Next Generation Festival to a close at Linbury with a vibrant, abundant and diverse show
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The Car Man, Matthew Bourne’s reimagining of Bizet’s Carmen, returns to the stage, boosted and enlarged for the vast space of the Royal Albert Hall
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London hosts dance from four continents
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Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! danced with thrilling seasonal sparkle by his New Adventures Company at Sadler’s Wells, is the perfect fun-filled antidote to our fraught times
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Ballet, contemporary and dance-theatre offer a cornucopia of exciting work in 2022
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Dance beyond the lockdown
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Nutcracker, Little Prince and Snowman
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Matthew Bourne’s latest work, The Midnight Bell, is an acutely observed portrayal of lonely individuals seeking companionship in a 1930s Soho tavern
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Opera
London's Victorian temple to the arts comes of age with a year of festive entertainment for all tastes – and looks forward to a full house
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Dance
Dancing Nation is a free all-day festival of British dance presented by Sadler's Wells and BBC Arts
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Dance
Dance returns to the stage on 2021
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Matthew Bourne’s hugely popular dance shows come to your TV in a Festival of Classics, including his seminal Swan Lake, to be broadcast on Sky Arts
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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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London offers dance for the whole family this Christmas, with new works alongside classsics
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Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet will be screened in cinemas nationwide on 22 October, following a sell-out run at Sadler's Wells
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Dance
Matthew Bourne's legendary Swan Lake comes to a screen near you, following a triumphant sell-out run at Sadler's
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Dance
As Sadler's Wells moves into summer, so its programming becomes hot, hot, hot.... Here are some of the highlights
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Themes
There will be Nutcrackers aplenty, but more than that, Christmas Dance 2018 celebrates winter in all its forms. Here are the key shows for London families
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Matthew Bourne’s take on the much-loved story of Cinderella comes to a cinema near you
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Dance
The acclaimed choreographer Matthew Bourne marks the 30th anniversary of his company with a look back on a few early works
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Immerse yourself in the Nutcracker, lace up your Red Shoes and lull yourself into the Beauty of ballet this winter in London
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Looking for Christmas shows for the family? This Matthew Bourne ballet offers a gothic romance to vamp up a classic festive fairytale
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An up and coming choreographer brings Haruki Murakami’s iconic love triangle to London contemporary dance.
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The heat, grease and blood of Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man returns to London, for another thrilling ride.
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Matthew Bourne’s blockbuster stage show of Tim Burton’s gothic classic returns to the London stage.