Sadler’s Wells Theatre Lilian Baylis Studio Welcome to the Get Connected Sign up to our newsletter for the latest news Sadler’s Wells and more: sadlerswells.com/register Darbar Festival 2017 Facebook / YouTube / Pinterest: sadlerswells Spring 2018 Twitter / Instagram: @sadlers_wells season Other Ways to Save For adult groups of 8+, save 20%: For full show info, videos, photos sadlerswells.com/groups and to book: sadlerswells.com School & college groups of 10+, £12 seats and one teacher free per ten pupils: How to Book sadlerswells.com/schoolvisits sadlerswells.com Concessions available for students, unwaged, 9 - 12 November / £12 - £50, 020 7863 8000 over 65s: sadlerswells.com/concessions £195 Festival Pass Sadler’s Wells Ticket Office, Akram Khan curates a programme Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1: Access 10am - 8pm, Monday - Saturday. of dance and talks as part of this For details of our Access Scheme, and to celebration of classical Indian music. Transaction fees apply: £3 for telephone bookings, watch our access film: £1.95 for concessionary and online bookings. No sadlerswells.com/access S Available on most performances T W charge when booking in person. Photo: Devansh Jhaveri, Red Dress Project by Manuela Benini For people with hearing impairments, booking is Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods Maud Le Pladec - Centre How to Save available by minicom/textphone on 020 7863 8015. & Münchner Kammerspiele chorégraphique national UNTIL OUR HEARTS STOP d’Orléans / Okwui Okpokwasili S Save money on all shows displaying this symbol. Assisted performances are available for HUNTED Save 20% with Sadler’s Wells membership, and get some shows: sadlerswells.com/assistedshows 15 November / £12 - £32 16 & 17 November / £17 priority booking. To find out more and to join online, Throbbing basses, piano and drums Dorothée Munyaneza performs a and for full terms and conditions visit Audio BSL accompany six dancers as they powerful solo, using storytelling Described Interpreted sadlerswells.com/membership retreat from real life to a place filled and ritual to reclaim the branding with desire and illusion. of witch. Save 10% with promo code SAVE10 when you book Private wide bay car park is available - book in two or more shows at the same time. Just add advance at Ticket Office. Photo: Iris Janke S T Age guidance 14+ Photo: Caroline Ablain S T SAVE10 in the promo code box before selecting THIS GUIDE IS AVAILABLE IN Kyle Abraham / Rambert and purchasing tickets. For more details and full A LARGE PRINT VERSION. Abraham.In.Motion A Linha Curva, and other terms and conditions visit sadlerswells.com/save Pavement works Extras Print at Home W Workshop/Class T Talk 17 & 18 November / £20 21 - 25 November / £12 - £40,

Show tickets booked online can be printed at Contemporary, ballet and social £8 - £20 (short programme) Workshops, pre- and post-show classes and talks dance moves combine in a work Brazilian carnival sambas onto the home for your convenience. Choose ‘print at home’ are available to complement many productions: inspired by W.E.B. du Bois and the stage in Itzik Galili’s party piece, as option when purchasing tickets. sadlerswells.com/extras 1991 film Boyz n the Hood. part of this lively triple bill.

Photo: Carrie Schneider S T Age guidance 7+ Photo: Chris Nash S T Family Friendly Find us Wild Card Michael Keegan-Dolan / FF Performances with this symbol are suitable Sadler’s Wells Theatre Rosebery Avenue Gianluca Vincentini Teaċ Daṁsa for most ages. Age guidance is given for some & Lilian Baylis Studio: London EC1R 4TN Swan Lake/Loch na hEala shows where relevant. Angel Half-price tickets for children under 16 (maximum Plan your journey: 23 & 24 November / £17 30 November - 2 December / two half price children per one full paying adult), Curator Gianluca Vincentini £12 - £40 sadlerswells.com/travel After its five-star sell-out success, and Family Tickets are available for some showcases promising dance- makers based in the North of this award-winning adaptation of performances. England for his Wild Card. the famous ballet returns. Sadler’s Wells Trust Ltd is a No under 5s admitted unless stated. registered charity 279884 Photo: Danilo Moroni S Photo: Colm Hogan T S Contains adult themes Front cover: Yasmeen Godder’s Face In performed by Candoco Dance Company. Photo: Hugo Glendinning S Save 20%/10% T Talk W Workshop/Class FF Family Friendly Audio Described BSL Interpreted

Birmingham Repertory Theatre Jakop Ahlbom Company & The Snowman ™ Alamo Race Track Lebensraum 23 November - 31 December / £15 - £36 1 - 3 February / £15 - £29 This festive tale about a boy and his A robot maid creates havoc for magical snowman celebrates its her inventors in this show inspired record-breaking 20th year at The by Buster Keaton. Part of London Peacock. International Mime Festival. Family ticket: £115 (four tickets S FF T Age guidance: 7+ including at least one under 16). Photo: Tristram Kenton Suitable for all ages Photo: Stephan van Hesteren

Zippos Masters of Choreography Cirque Berserk! Beats on Pointe Real Circus made for theatre Spring 2018

5 - 17 February / £15 - £38 20 - 24 February / £15 - £40 30 spectacular performers Classical ballet and skilled street celebrate circus’ 250th anniversary dancers go toe-to-toe before with adrenaline-fuelled stunts, finding common ground in this including the Globe of Death. fun-fuelled fusion.

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German Cornejo’s Tango After Dark Charge

28 February - 17 March / £15 - £42 21 - 24 March / £15 - £29 As night falls, the music of Fusing art and science, Piazzolla merges with the stirring Motionhouse exposes the spark performance of world class of human life in this fast-paced, Argentinean dancers. dance-circus multi-media show.

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English National Ballet and London Children’s Ballet School The Canterville Ghost My First Ballet: Swan Lake

29 March - 7 April / £10 - £25 19 - 22 April / £14 - £55 The popular series of ballets David Fielding’s charming adapted for children returns, with adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s witty Tchaikovsky’s music and a narrator tale, performed by an all-child cast, to guide the young audience. is perfect for families.

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Phoenix Dance Theatre Windrush: Movement of the People - part of a mixed programme of work

26 - 28 April / £15 - £29 Sharon Watson’s new piece marks 70 years since the Empire Windrush docked, plus work by Christopher Bruce and Sandrine Monin.

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Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Antony National Youth Dance New Adventures Gormley with monks from the Company / Sharon Eyal Shaolin Temple Used To Be Blonde Matthew Bourne’s Sutra 26 - 28 March / £12 - £40 7 April / £12 (£6 concs) Cinderella The breath-taking spectacle The combination of guest artistic exploring the Shaolin tradition director Sharon Eyal and the and its relationship with kung fu young dancers’ talent will create returns for its tenth anniversary. a mesmerising new work.

Photo: Hugo Glendinning S Photo: Johan Persson English National 9 December - 27 January / £12 - £69 With a magnificent score by Prokofiev, Ballet this thrilling and evocative love story set in London during the Second World War Voices of America is the perfect treat for Christmas. Robbins / Forsythe / Family Ticket: £190 (four tickets, including at least one child. S Available on selected prices/performances) Photo: Hugo Glendinning Barton

Arthur Pita Gandini Juggling The Little Match Girl Sigma 12 - 21 April / £12 - £60 Four works packed with the audacious 13 - 24 December / attitude of American-style neo-classical £18 (£12 children) 15 & 16 January / £20 (£12 concs) Based on Hans Christian Juggling meets bharatanatyam ballet, including a world premiere from Andersen’s tale, this magical in this unique collaboration with William Forsythe. dance theatre show makes a Seeta Patel. Part of London welcome return for Christmas. International Mime Festival. S Age guidance: Photo: Phil Conrad Photo: ASH S On £18 tickets FF Families and T Age guidance: 8+ Photo: Laurent Liotardo children age 5+

Yasmine Hugonnet Sadler’s Wells Sampled Cecilia Bengolea & François BalletBoyz Le Récital des Postures Chaignaud FOURTEEN DAYS DFS

2 & 3 February / 19 & 20 January / £20 (£12 concs) £20, £5 ‘proms’ style standing 23 & 24 April / £20 26 - 28 April / £12 - £40 Agility and astonishing strength Enjoy exceptional performances Kingston’s dancehall scene meets Work from Javier de Frutos, Craig combine in this slow-burn in our annual celebration of dance traditional medieval vocal Revel Horwood, Iván Pérez and performance. Part of London for a special low price, with free polyphony in this exuberant work Christopher Wheeldon, created in International Mime Festival. workshops and events. from the award-winning team. just 14 days. Plus Maliphant’s Fallen.

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Tanztheater Wuppertal Sasha Waltz & Guests Breakin’ Convention ’18 Cloud Gate Dance Theatre Pina Bausch Körper International Festival of Hip of Taiwan Viktor Hop Dance Theatre Formosa

8 - 11 February / £12 - £60 1 - 3 March / £12 - £32 5 - 7 May / £24 (£15 standing) 9 - 12 May / £12 - £38 The first of Bausch’s epic Clinical analysis and fantastical The world’s biggest hip hop dance Lin Hwai-min’s new work inspired travelogues, Viktor takes illusions combine in a series of festival returns with an all new line by Taiwan, exploring how writing inspiration from Rome in this dark living tableaux which examine the up of exceptional performances, has a power to distort memories portrayal of the Eternal City. value of our bodies. workshops and more. and erase history.

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Northern Ballet Rambert Flamenco Festival Jane Eyre Life is a Dream London 22 - 26 May / £12 - £45, £10 - £30 15 - 19 May / £12 - £47.50 (Tue preview) Dark secrets unfold and hidden The world premiere of a new work desires are uncovered in Cathy by two time Olivier Award-winner Marston’s adaptation of Charlotte Kim Brandstrup, with design by Brontë’s masterpiece. film-makers the Quay Brothers.

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14 - 25 February / £12 - £45 For the 15th anniversary, discover the Akram Khan characters behind the dramatic façade Company in this showcase of the world’s best musicians and dancers. XENOS sadlerswells.com/flamencofestival

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Ballet British Columbia Candoco Dance Company Emily Molnar / Crystal Pite / Double Bill Sharon Eyal 29 May - 9 June / £12 - £45 Khan conjures the dream of a shell- 6 & 7 March / £12 - £27 9 & 10 March / £12 - £27 Canada’s most cutting-edge dance The renowned contemporary shocked colonial soldier, marking his company brings work by three dance company returns with two final performances as a dancer in a full- extraordinary and adventurous contrasting works by Yasmeen female choreographers. Godder and Hetain Patel. length piece.

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Fabrizio Cassol & Alain Platel Wild Card Requiem pour L. Neon Dance Carmen La Cubana

20 & 21 March / £20 22 March / £17 A world of death and ritual is Dance, live music and light design conjured with jazz, opera and meet in an evening curated by popular African music in this Neon Dance with special guests. reformation of Mozart’s final work. Part of Nils Frahm’s Piano Day.

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Richard Alston balletLORENT Dance Company Rumpelstiltskin Mid Century Modern 1 - 19 August / £15 - £68 23 & 24 March / £12 - £38 30 & 31 March / £18 (£12 children) Bizet’s score gets a Cuban flavour in Alston celebrates 50 years of Family Weekend is back with fun making choreography with new and free activities, and a fantastical this seductive new musical inspired by old work, plus his Carnaval and a tale, retold by Poet Laureate Oscar Hammerstein II’s Broadway hit new piece by Martin Lawrance. Carol Ann Duffy. Carmen Jones. Age guidance: S S On £18 tickets FF Families and Photo: Roy Tan Photo: Khara Pringle children 7+ Photo: Johan Persson S

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