Sadler's Wells Spring 2014 Season : Our Top Picks

The highly anticipated Sadler’s Wells’ Spring 2014 Season is now open for booking! For the best tickets, be quick. Here are Culture Whisper’s top five recommendations:

1) Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch

1980 – A Piece by Pina Bausch

Pina Bausch is one of the most significant choreographers of the last 40 years. This piece, created following the death of her professional and romantic partner Ralf Borzik, is a wistful elegy, dealing with nostalgia, childhood, life and death.

Fri 7 Feb – Sun 16 Feb

£12-£60

2) Compagnie du Hanneton/James Thierrée

Tabac Rouge

James Thierree, one of Europe's most inventive and unclassifiable artists, shifts towards dance in this piece, although his origins in the circus and flair for theatrical creativity are still in evidence. Tues 25 March – Sat 29 March

£12-£38

3) Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan

Nine Songs/Rice

Cloud Gate, the first contemporary dance company in any Chinese speaking community, performs Nine Songs, which is based on a series of classical Chinese poems, and Rice, a thought-provoking piece featuring folksongs in Hakka, the oldest existing Chinese dialect, and operatic arias from the West.

Fri 21 Feb – Thurs 27 Feb

£12-£38

4) Kidd Pivot/Crystal Pite 

The Tempest Replica

Sadler's Wells' newest Associate Artist, Crystal Pite stages this work, which is based on the themes of revenge and forgiveness, and reality and imagination, from Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Fri 25 April – Sat 26 April

£17.50

5) Russell Maliphant 

Still Current

An evening of work by Sadler's Wells' internationally acclaimed artist Russell Maliphant, which features newly created duets and trios danced by his remarkable company and by Maliphant himself.

Thurs 5 June – Sat 7 June

£12-£27