Tag Archives: Sadler’s Wells

MALPASO AT THE WALLIS

In its Los Angeles debut just over a year ago, Malpaso Dance Company performed a contemporary program and at one point were joined onstage at the Dorothy Chandler by Arturo O’Farrill and his Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble.

For their return this week—three nights at the comparatively intimate Bram Goldsmith Theater at The Wallis—the Cuban troupe investigates the archives of high modernism. The performances will open with Jamie Scott’s restaging of Merce Cunningham’s FIELDING SIXES—music by John Cage—which premiered at Sadler’s Wells in 1980.

Ohad Naharin went to Havana last year to collaborate with Malpaso in its restaging of Naharin’s thirty-year-old masterwork TABULA RASA, which will close the shows.

Rounding out the program are Malpaso artistic director and co-founder Osnel Delgado’s OCASO, and company member Beatriz García’s new work SER (BEING).

On opening night, join the artists for a post-performance talk-back.

MALPASO DANCE COMPANY

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, March 28, 29, and 30.

All shows at 7:30 pm.

Bram Goldsmith Theater

Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

9390 Santa Monica Boulevard North, Beverly Hills.

Malpaso Dance Company. Photographs by Lawrence K. Ho.

THE SWAN AT SADLER’S WELLS

It’s been over twenty years since the American premiere of MATTHEW BOURNE’S SWAN LAKE at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, and Bourne has reimagined and redesigned his signature work for an eight-week season at Sadler’s Wells.

Initially trangressive in its use of an all-male wedge of threatening swans—replacing the traditional female corps de ballet—the world has caught up with Bourne’s vision as new audiences discover this enduring masterpiece.

In London, The Swan will be alternately danced by Matthew Ball, Will Dozier, and Max Westwell. The Prince will be played by Liam Mower, Dominic North, and—making his professional debut—James Lovell.

MATTHEW BOURNE’S SWAN LAKE

Through January 27.

Sadler’s Wells, Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell, London.

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake in performance.

From top:

Freya Field and Will Bozier.

Nicole Kabera.

Liam Mower.

Mower and Kabera.

Matthew Ball (left) and Mower.

Photographs by Johan Persson.

Image credit: New Adventures and Sadler’s Wells.

AKRAM KHAN’S LAST DANCE

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XENOS, the new solo work by Akram Khan, is the great dancer-choreographer’s last performance in a full-length piece.

Now at Sadler’s Wells, Khan will continue to tour with XENOS through February 2019, with stops in Montpellier, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Leicester, Ottawa, Toronto, and Montréal.

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AKRAM KHAN—XENOS, through June 9.

SADLER’S WELLS THEATRE, Rosebery Avenue, Clerkenwell, London.

sadlerswells.com/akram-khan-company-xenos

akramkhancompany.net/xenos

See: theguardian.com/akram-khan-to-retire-from-full-length-dance-performances

Akram Khan Company, Xenos. All photographs © Jean-Louis Fernandez.

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