Sadler's Wells

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Irish choreographer and theatre maker Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Nobodaddy is an anarchic, fragmentary work that uses the theme of death to celebrate life

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Dancer and choreographer Akram Khan brings his latest work, GIGENIS: The Generation of the Earth to Sadler’s Wells, following its world premiere at last summer’s Aix-en-Provence festival

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Puzzling and infuriating in equal measure, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Exit Above has opened at Sadler’s Wells

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In an exciting cross-continents collaboration Pina Bausch’s reading of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring explodes onto the stage at Sadler’s Wells brought by a company of African dancers

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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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Young children can enjoy the full magic of The Nutcracker this festive season with Let's All Dance's specially devised short version of the Christmas ballet

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It’s the most magical season of all: Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman returns to the Peacock Theatre for the 27th year

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Birmingham Royal Ballet delivers a creditable and enjoyable performance of Ashton’s La Fille Mal Gardée at Sadier’s Wells

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In the first of two programmes in its brief Sadler’s Wells residency, Birmingham Royal Ballet presented the London premiere of Luna, its homage to the women of Birmingham

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Hofesh Shechter goes meta in Theatre of Dreams, a work of disturbing ferocity now on at Sadler’s Wells

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The National Ballet of Canada’s Frontiers, now at Sadler’s Wells, is a diverse triple bill designed to showcase the range of the company’s dancers and Canada’s choreographic talent

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Akram Khan’s intense, haunting remake of Giselle for English National Ballet returns to Sadler’s Wells

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Birmingham Royal Ballet brings two contrasting evenings of dance to Sadler's Wells

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The brand new iteration of London City Ballet brought its vibrant inaugural programme, Resurgence, to Sadler’s Wells as part of an extensive international tour

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Brought to Sadler’s Wells directly from China, Wing Chun is a spectacular dance drama centred on the real life figure of Yip Man, a Grandmaster of Chinese martial arts

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Musicals 

Vibrant, funny and often moving, the deeply humane Broadway musical A Chorus Line is rousing audiences at Sadler’s Wells in Leicester Curve’s acclaimed production

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Yet another ill-advised Carmen hit the stage at Sadler’s Wells, this one Carlos Acosta’s new version for his Havana-based Acosta Danza

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The Acrobatic Swan Lake by the Xi'an Acrobatic Troupe is a show like no other, blending classical ballet with breathtaking acrobatics

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This year's edition of the London International Festival of Theatre, LIFT 2024, includes three challenging, but very different, dance pieces

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Northern Ballet’s Romeo & Juliet, now restored to its full glory, comes to Sadler’s Wells as part of an extensive UK tour

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Images Ballet Company 2024 showcases the talent of the latest group of graduates from the London Studio Centre in a programme that comes to the Lilian Baylis studio in June

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ENB picked its Emerging Dancer 2024 in an emotional performance at Sadler’s Wells, soon to be available to the general public on YouTube

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Sadler's Wells annual Flamenco Festival is back, bringing the sunny vitality and artistry of Southern Spain to soggy London

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May B, French choreographer Maguy Marin’s homage to playwright Samuel Beckett, is powerful piece of performance now at Sadler’s Wells

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Scottish Ballet’s gripping adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s play A Streetcar Named Desire, back at Sadler’s Wells, shows a company on exhilarating form

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Breakin’ Convention, the annual festival of all things hip hop, returns to Sadler’s Wells in its 21st year, bigger, brasher and more enjoyable than ever

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As Sadler's Wells prepares to host her seminal work May B, the French choreographer Maguy Marin talks to Culture Whisper

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Birmingham Royal Ballet floods the stage at Sadler's Wells with fine dancing and some magical moments in its landmark production of The Sleeping Beauty

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Let's All Dance presents Goldilocks The Ballet, a charming adventure aimed at budding balletomanes, in Sadler's Wells second house, the Lilian Baylis studio

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The undisputed master of the flamenco guitar, Paco Peña, brings his Dance Company back to Sadler's Wells with Solera, a journey to the very soul of flamenco

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The foremost kathak dancers Aakash Odedra and Aditi Mangaldas served up Mehek, a sensual, emotional and visually dazzling show, at Sadler’s Wells

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English National Ballet’s Carmen is a dreary and uninvolving show that tries but fails to add to our understanding of this popular tragedy