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Looking ahead: best dance shows 2017

By CW Contributor on 20/12/2016

Crystal Pite's reign as one of the finest choreographers working today continues at Covent Garden and dance holds hands with technology in the best new dance shows, 2017

Matthew Bourne: The Red Shoes review ★★★★★

As the year begins, Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes continues its long-ago sold out run at Sadler’s Wells, proving - if proof were needed - that the crowd-pleasing choreographer has not lost his touch.

WHEN

06 Dec 2016 – 29 Jan 2017, Matinees on the 10, 11, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 27, 29, 30 & 31 December, and 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 26, 28, 29 January. Times vary.

WHERE

Sadler's Wells
Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R 4TN

Les Enfants Terribles. Zenaida Yanowsky and Edward Watson (© ROH 2016. Photographed by Rick Guest) Image by AKA (© ROH 2016)

Les Enfants Terribles, ROH at Barbican

Choreographer Javier de Frutos, and Royal Ballet principals Zenaida Yanowsky and Edward Watson come together with top contemporary dancers to provide the dancing sections of Philip Glass’s opera Les Enfants Terribles at the Barbican in January. We can barely wait.

WHEN

27 Jan 2017 – 29 Jan 2017, 4pm on the 29th

WHERE

Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS

Ruth Amarante in Masurca Fogo photo Zerrin Aydin-Herwegh

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Masurca Fogo

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch continue their mission to tour the works of their late great choreographer and leading light, this time bringing Masurca Fogo to Sadler’s Wells. One of Bausch’s more light-hearted pieces, it’s a paean to love with an eclectic soundtrack that includes Latin America music and k.d. lang, among many others.

WHEN

09 Feb 2017 – 12 Feb 2017, 19:30 Sun matinee 16:00 End Time TBC

WHERE

Sadler's Wells
Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R 4TN

Scottish Ballet double bill

Absolutely unmissable will be Scottish Ballet’s visit to Sadler’s Wells in June, with a stunning double bill: Angelin Preljocaj’s MC 14/22 (Ceci est mon corps) and Crystal Pite’s Emergence. Kill for a ticket, but leave the children at home.

WHEN

7-10 June

WHERE

Sadler's Wells

After the Rain. Artists of The Royal Ballet ©ROH, 2016. Photographed by Bill Cooper

The Royal Ballet Pite/Dawson/Wheeldon Programme

The Royal Ballet has finally got round to commissioning a piece from Crystal Pite (she’s every these days, and deservedly so!) and that as-yet-unnamed work will be at Covent Garden in March as part of a very strong triple bill that includes tried and tested works by Christopher Wheeldon and David Dawson.

WHEN

16 Mar 2017 – 24 Mar 2017, 19:30 Sat 18th March 19:00 Duration still TBC

WHERE

Royal Opera House
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD

Alexander Whitley Dance Company: 8 Minutes

The cerebral and uncompromising Alexander Whitley brings his company to Sadler’s Wells with 8 Minutes - a work inspired by the infinite scale of space and put together in collaboration with Space Scientists. Not everybody’s cup of tea, obviously, but bound to be challenging and thought-provoking.

WHEN

27 & 28 June

WHERE

Sadler's Wells

Wayne McGregor: Tree of Codes, Sadler’s Wells

Wayne McGregor has a busy year ahead: his own company augmented by dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet will be a Sadler’s with Tree of Codes, inspired by Jonathan Safran Foer’s book of the same name, and already a critical success following its première at the 2015 Manchester International Festival.

WHEN

04 Mar 2017 – 11 Mar 2017, at 4pm on Sunday 5

WHERE

Sadler's Wells
Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R 4TN

Alessandra Ferri and Artists of The Royal Ballet in Woolf Works, The Royal Ballet © 2015 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton

Wayne McGregor's Woolf Works, Royal Opera House ★★★★★

McGregor’s first full length piece, Woolf Works, gets a revival at Covent Garden, with the incomparable Alessandra Ferri starring in some performances.

WHEN

21 Jan 2017 – 14 Feb 2017, Times vary, also 13:30 and 19:00

WHERE

Royal Opera House
Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2E 9DD

Looking ahead: best dance shows 2017

Crystal Pite's reign as one of the finest choreographers working today continues at Covent Garden and dance holds hands with technology in the best new dance shows, 2017

Matthew Bourne: The Red Shoes review ★★★★★

Les Enfants Terribles, ROH at Barbican

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Masurca Fogo

Scottish Ballet double bill

The Royal Ballet Pite/Dawson/Wheeldon Programme

Alexander Whitley Dance Company: 8 Minutes

Wayne McGregor: Tree of Codes, Sadler’s Wells

Wayne McGregor's Woolf Works, Royal Opera House ★★★★★

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