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Twitter/ Facebook / Instagram / website CELEBRATING THIRTY YEARS IN DANCE CARLOS ACOSTA

Royal Albert Hall, London 2nd to 5th October 2018, 7.30pm Tickets on sale HERE from 10am on Tuesday 6th February

Following on from his retirement from classical in 2016, and to celebrate 30 years as a professional dancer, internationally renowned Carlos Acosta will return to the London stage this autumn to perform a mixed bill at the Royal Albert Hall from 2nd to 5th October 2018. The full programme for this strictly limited engagement will be announced in due course. Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta was a Principal Guest Artist of 2003–16. He has danced with many of the leading ballet companies in the world. He joined The Royal Ballet in 1998 and became a Principal Guest Artist in 2003. His many roles for the Company included Siegfried (), Albrecht (), The Prince (), Des Grieux (Manon), Prince Florimund (The Sleeping Beauty), Basilio () and . He has staged Don Quixote and created the new work Carmen for the Company. In the 2017/18 Season he returns as Principal Guest Répétiteur for The Royal Ballet.

Acosta was born in and trained at the National Ballet School of Cuba, going on to dance with the , the National Ballet of Cuba and the . The culture and history of his home country have been important influences throughout his career, and in 2003 his show Tocororo – A Cuban Tale, loosely based on his childhood, broke box office records at Sadler’s Wells Theatre. His 2007 autobiography No Way Home was a UK bestseller, and he published his first novel, Pig’s Foot, in 2013. His film appearances include in Day of the Flowers and Our Kind of Traitor. Since leaving The Royal Ballet he has founded the dance company Acosta Danza in Cuba and established his own dance school in Havana which opened its doors to its first students in September 2017. Acosta has received many awards throughout his career, including an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance in 2007, a in 2008 and an Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2014 Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards. In 2014 he was appointed a CBE for services to ballet. -ENDS-

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LISTINGS

CARLOS ACOSTA - A CELEBRATION THIRTY YEARS IN DANCE Twitter/ Facebook / Instagram / website

The Royal Albert Hall Kensington Gore, Kensington, London SW7 2AP

2, 3, 4 and 5 October 2018 at 7.30pm

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