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Welcome to Sadler’s Wells

Welcome to these world premiere performances of Atomos.

Wayne McGregor has consistently explored the relationship between the dancing body and scientific and cognitive research, and in this new work he has turned to one of the smallest of life’s component parts to influence and inform the making process. What this will produce is tantalising, and we won’t really find out until these opening performances.

What we do know is that we will see another set of ambitious collaborations including music from A Winged Victory for the Sullen played live for these performances, and groundbreaking wearable technologies designed by Studio XO. We also know that we will see all of this set in the remarkable dances of Random Photo: Hugo Glendinning Dance Company.

I would like to thank the The Monument Trust and our major donors for supporting co-productions and new commissions at Sadler’s Wells.

I hope you enjoy this evening’s performance.

Alistair Spalding CBE Chief Executive & Artistic Director

Front cover photo: Rick Guest with Olivia Pomp Wayne McGregor | Random Dance

Concept, Direction & Set Wayne McGregor Atomos is co-produced by Sadler’s Wells; Peak Performances Choreography Wayne McGregor in @ Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA; Movimentos collaboration with the dancers Festwochen der Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany; Festival Montpellier Danse 2014. Music A Winged Victory For The Sullen Atomos is co-commissioned by Fondazione I Teatri, Lighting Design Lucy Carter Reggio Emilia, Italy; Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Film & Set Photography Ravi Deepres Music and Dance, London, UK. Costume Design Studio XO Atomos is supported by The Idlewild Trust.

Dancers Musicians Becoming design and programming by Marc Downie (OpenEnded Group) and Nick Rothwell (Cassiel) Catarina Carvalho Dustin O’Halloran Travis Clausen-Knight (PIANO, GUITAR, ELECTRONICS) Imagery by Rick Guest with Olivia Pomp Alvaro Dule Thanks to: Production Resource Group UK Ltd Michael-John Harper (PIANO, GUITAR, ELECTRONICS) The Lighting Designer would like to thank: Louis McMiller Sophie Bayet (VIOLIN) Charlotte Danhier Maria Klochkova, Andi Davis, Jenny Kershaw, Daniela Neugebauer The Trinity Laban production team Anna Nowak (CELLO) Christelle Heinen The filmic creations for Atomos were made with James Pett (CELLO) Fukiko Takase Ravi Deepres’ artistic and technical long-term collaborators Margaret Hermant Luke Unsworth and Steven Spencer, with photographic and Jessica Wright (VIOLIN, HARP, PIANO) animation assistance by Alicia Clarke and Evy Dutheil. Neil Leiter (VIOLA) Rehearsal Director Wayne McGregor | Random Dance is supported Odette Hughes Technical Director by Arts Council and is Resident Company Rehearsal Assistant Christopher Charles of Sadler’s Wells. Catarina Carvalho Technical Manager Thanks to the Quercus Trust for their ongoing support.

Colin Everitt Atomos is approximately 65 minutes Production in length with no interval. Electrician/Relighter Ashley Bolitho Design Assistant Catherine Smith Artistic Director Wayne McGregor Executive Producer Rebecca Marshall Associate Director Odette Hughes Creative Learning Director Jasmine Wilson Administrative Director Hazel Singleton Head of Development Jen McLachlan R-Research Director Scott deLahunta R-Research Advisor Dr Philip Barnard R-Research Associate David Kirsh Anthropologist James Leach Technical Director Christopher Charles Media & Marketing Manager Polly Hunt Company Manager Jess Sayers Touring & Projects Manager Emily Winfield Creative Learning Project Manager Ellie Douglas-Allan Administrator Samantha Lewis Fundraising Intern Anneza Pitsialis

Wayne McGregor | Random Dance Board of Directors Dr. Joanne Butterworth, Chair Delia Barker Sean Egan Anupam Ganguli Uzma Hameed Sarah Seddon Jenner Peter Kenyon Aleks Krotoski Caroline Miller www.randomdance.org What is a body?

What are the irreducible elements of the human? What are with - kinaesthetically compelling, not just the atoms that together make humanity present? Awareness aesthetically. You see, Wayne McGregor has of others, empathy, memories of our entwined lives, the long been concerned to explore the edges of obligations and connections that emerge as part of the what it is to be with another body, what is elicited relations between us? And then what is a body, a human body, by the presence of other bodies, and how they effect other than the site and possibility of these relations? movement, change and emotion in us. By introducing an entity that elicits response without being human, mimicking We feel bodies. They have presence. Their stance, position, some aspects of the human without representing a human intention, emotion, desire, reach, shame, passion, expansion form, his company has been able to discover (more) of what and contraction are recognisable and compelling because this the intelligences and understandings are that bodies have movement, this life, is already part of the common shared of others’ presences; what elements they have, what atoms space. The only way the self is known and experienced is might be combined and recombined to make a dance. with others, as presences or absences. The material that the company creates has this quality. Wayne McGregor offers an exploration of the intelligence of the body. With his dancers he explores the body in its ability Wayne McGregor manipulates and organises, challenges and to elicit response, to feel and know, to move and be moved, plays with the edges of what we know about bodies as human with and around others. What speaks to us is a recognition of entities. Here is a manipulation of something that is about our own thinking, presence, effect and humanity, organised in what it is to be constituted in and by the social presences of ways that ask questions of that inner knowing, of our body as others. Bodies do not and cannot finish at the skin because human movement. they reach into others’ lives, their minds and their movements, as a necessity. Think for a moment about what you know that McGregor insists the body is fascinating. He insists it is is not a part of a relation to other people. Then think about intelligent. It thinks, solves, makes and creates. He strives to your own body and who and what have grown it, made it real recognise and organise this intelligence - an intelligence that is and present. Sensors now trace and track the responses each in and between the dancers, emergent from the relation not the body has to others and make data of what we feel in another’s individual. His work both reveals and challenges our sense of presence. The deep experience of these constitutive others in what it is to be a human with others, a body that is always there one’s very experience of space and life is perhaps the material in its concern with, constitution by, and presence among our own of the art. and other kinds. Thinking is also movement.

As with many of Wayne McGregor’s works, Atomos has James Leach is a social anthropologist who works in Papua New an innovation built into its creation process. In this case, Guinea, and more recently, with Wayne McGregor | Random the dancers worked with the presence of an artificially Dance on the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded intelligent, life size, digitally rendered ‘body’ in the project ‘Enhancing Choreographic Objects’. He is Professor and studio. This body mimics the growth and movement Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of that makes bodies, well, bodies. It is compelling to be Western Australia.

Becoming

McGregor and his collaborators have worked for several years on the development of an interactive digital object to support dance making in the studio. The latest version, Becoming, has been re- imagined less as an object or a tool, and more as a body - as another dancer provoking new movement creation in the studio. Becoming (2013) - Marc Downie (OpenEndedGroup) / Nick Rothwell (Cassiel); in collaboration with with Wayne MGregor | Random Dance Image by Ravi Deepres Image by Rick Guest with Olivia Pomp

Designs by Studio XO Wayne McGregor Photo: Nick Mead Photo: Concept, Direction, Set & Choreography

Wayne McGregor is a multi-award- including the Grammy-nominated Lotus winning British choreographer and Flower video for , and Ingenue director, internationally renowned for for Atoms for Peace. He has also directed his physically testing choreography and opera for La Scala, Milan and the Royal groundbreaking collaborations across Opera House, London, and choreographed dance, film, music, visual art, technology for plays, musicals, fashion shows and and science. He is Artistic Director of art galleries including site specific Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, installations at the Hayward Gallery, Resident Company at Sadler’s Wells, and Saatchi Gallery, National Gallery, Canary Resident Choreographer of The Royal Wharf, Glastonbury, the Pompidou Centre (appointed 2006). and for Secret Cinema. In July 2012 he created a large-scale public dance work McGregor has created new works for with 1000 performers, Big Dance Trafalgar , , Square, part of London 2012 Festival. Ballet, Ballet, Most recently he choreographed Australian Ballet, English National Raven Girl for and Ballet, NDT1, Borderlands for San Francisco Ballet. among others. His works are also in the repertories of the leading ballet McGregor’s work has earned him three companies in the world including the Critics’ Circle Awards, two Time Out Bolshoi, Royal Danish Ballet, National Awards, two South Bank Show Awards, two Ballet of Canada, Boston Ballet Olivier Awards, a and Joffrey Ballet. He has directed and a Critics’ Prize at the Golden Mask movement for theatre and film including Awards. In January 2011 McGregor was Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire, awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order and has choreographed music videos of the British Empire) for Services to Dance. A Winged Victory For The Sullen Music

A Winged Victory For The Sullen is the collaboration between founder, Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie, and Los Angeles composer, Dustin O’Halloran. On 24 May 2007, in Bologna, Italy, Adam was on tour and playing with the late Mark Linkous & , on what would be their final European tour.

That night Adam invited friend and colleague Francesco Donadello to see the concert, and Francesco’s guest this evening was composer Dustin O’Halloran. Through a strange twist of backstage conversations, a curious friendship began that now has brought forth an offspring of truly curative compositions for the world to savour.

The duo agreed to leave the comfort zone of their home studios and develop the recordings with the help of large acoustic spaces, including the famed Grunewald Church in Berlin and the historic East Berlin DDR radio studios along the River Spree. The final result was seven landscapes of harmonic imagination.

Since 2011 they have toured the world playing almost 100 concerts, and last year they caught the ear of Wayne McGregor. Wayne used the music as warm up for his Random dancers, realizing they were the perfect fit to fill the musical side of Atomos. Photo by Sapphire Goss Sapphire by Photo Lucy Carter Studio XO Lighting Design Costume Design

Knight of Illumination Award for Dance 2008 for . Studio XO is a fashion and technology company that creates and engineers interactive fashion experiences at the crossroads of Lucy’s many collaborations with Wayne McGregor include: the digital-physical revolution. They have established themselves Borderlands (San Francisco Ballet), FAR, Dyad 1909, Entity, as leaders in the wearable technology market and pioneers in Amu, AtaXia, Nemesis, Digito1 (Wayne McGregor | Random “the internet of everything” for the body. Studio XO technologies Dance); Raven Girl, Live Fire Exercise, Limen, Infra, Chroma, are set to disrupt the way we consume clothing in the next Qualia (Royal Ballet, London); Dido and Aeneas and Acis and decade. In 2011 XO set up their fashion laboratory in London with Galatea (Royal Opera/Royal Ballet); Outlier (New York City a portfolio of fashioned systems and clothing components. Ballet); Dyad 1929 (Australian Ballet); Kirikou and Karaba (musical); L’Anatomie de la Sensation, Genus (Paris Opéra Studio XO collaborates with the arts, entertainment, gaming Ballet); Skindex and Renature (Netherlands Dance Theatre); and fashion industries to develop strategically positioned 2 Human (ENB); Yantra and Nautilus (); Chroma ‘Hero’ technologies. Studio XO delivers interactive and (Bolshoi, Canadian National Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Royal transformative clothing to generation digital. Their knowledge Danish Ballet); Infra (Joffrey Ballet, Chicago). of fashioned technology confirms their position as leaders in this emerging market. Current and recent opera: Wasp Factory by Ben Frost, text by David Pountney based on the novel by Iain Banks (Bregenz Studio XO’s clients include Philips Lighting, Philips Design, The Festival, Linbury at the ROH and Berlin Hebbel Theatre); Wellcome Trust, UK Sport, University Of The Arts, Tord Brontje, Grimes on the Beach (Aldeburgh Festival 2013) dir. Tim Sir Clive Sinclair and Black Eyed Peas. They have recently been Albery; Lohengrin (Welsh National Opera and Warsaw); Maria announced as part of TechHaus, the technical division of Lady Stuarda (Opera North) dir. Antony McDonald; The Adventures Gaga’s Haus of Gaga. of Mr Broucek (Opera North and Scottish Opera) dir. John Fulljames; Parthenogenis (ROH2) dir Katie Mitchell; SUM (ROH2) with dir. Wayne McGregor.

In 2014 Lucy will light La Finta Giardinera for Glyndebourne Festival, dir. Frederick Wake Walker. vi a R Film &Set Photography choreographers, directors andinstitutions including Saburo extensively with Wayne McGregor aswell asother and GuangzhouPhotography Festival. Hehascollaborated Lowry, Rencontres d’Arles, Ignite 08 Photos, Impressions Gallery, Ikon Touring, Cornerhouse, The and internationally includingatHatton Gallery, Magnum and exhibited insolo andgroup shows across theUK His photographic and film work hasbeen commissioned multi faceted andexpressively layered works. and approaches incollaboration withselect designers to create and technology. Heoften combines different artisticmediums complemented by interests in issues of identity, history, science approaches to documentary, narrative andaesthetics, and kinetic works. His ideas are formulated through conceptual psychological perspective, resulting inhighlychoreographic profoundly onhumanbehaviour from asubconscious and work isinfluenced by the resonances of space which impact Ravi isanaward winningfilmandphotographic artist whose

Deepres

Photo by Neil Griffiths On Speed. Capture4 season, ICA andChicks for Channel4, BBC1, Mute Records, Other commissions have beencreated Olympic Galaceremony curated by McGregor. The Royal Opera House to create anew film for The Clifford. In2012 hewas commissioned by LOCOG and collaboration withBafta winningfilmmaker Michael Baig Great Run Moving North Imagecommission, madein festivals around theworld.Ravi was winnerof the prestigious Royal Opera House, Edinburgh Festival andintheatres and innovative conceptual collaborative work for thePalais Garnier, Teshigawara, MichaelClarkandPhyllida Lloyd, creating Photo by Ravi Deepres Ravi by Photo Deepres Ravi by Photo Deepres Ravi by Photo Catarina Travis Alvaro Dule

Carvalho Clausen-Knight Alvaro was born in Albania. After winning Catarina was born in Lisbon where she Born in Cape Town, South Africa, Travis a scholarship, he began her dance training with teacher moved to England and graduated graduated in 2007 from the state academy Anna Mascolo. She then went to France from the Arts Educational School, of the John Cranko School (Stuttgart, to continue her training for six years at Tring Park, in 2009. Whilst in training Germany) and from an Italian high school. the École Supérieure de Danse de Cannes he won several awards for dance In the same year he joined Zurich Ballet Rosella Hightower, with a scholarship and choreography within the school under the direction of Heinz Spoerli, from the Ambrosoli Foundation. After and outside including the National where he danced classical repertoire graduating, Catarina joined Ballet du Rhin Youth Ballet and the International including , , as an apprentice and performed works Competition of Dance, Spoleto. Since La Sylphide and Don Quixote, as well as by Bertrand d’At. She also worked with graduating, Travis has performed with works by William Forsythe, Heinz Spoerli Javier de Frutos, Vasco Wellenkamp, ’s world tour of Swan and Uwe Scholz. In 2009 he joined the Benvindo Fonseca, Cézar Moniz and Lake and featured in the 3D film of the National Ballet of Portugal under the Rui Horta among others. Catarina has production. He was involved in Michael direction of Vasco Wallenkamp, where he taught for numerous dance schools and Clark’s TH residency at Tate Modern in danced solo roles in classical repertoire. companies, including Laban Summer 2011, and also performed with Tavaziva From 2010 to 2011 he worked with the School and GDA, and she is a certified Dance in their re-mount of Double Take choreographer Matteo Levaggi in Italy, BASI Pilates Mat work teacher. Catarina and their recent creation Sensual Africa. who created several roles for him which he recently choreographed for Laban CAT Other credits include work with A.D. danced at the International Ballet Festival students’ final year show. She has been Dance and Combination Dance. Travis and Belgrade Dance Festival. In collaborating with Nina Kov since 2010 joined Wayne McGregor | Random 2011 he joined Aterballetto and danced when she performed Divide by Zero, a solo Dance in 2013. many works by Mauro Bigonzetti, who also piece with the interactive visual artists created a piece, Intermezzo, on him. For collective Hellicar & Lewis. Catarina joined the last two years he has been studying Wayne McGregor | Random Dance in history and philosophy at the University of 2008 and took on the role of Rehearsal Modena (Unimore). Alvaro joined Wayne Assistant in 2013. McGregor | Random Dance in 2013. Photo by Ravi Deepres Ravi by Photo Deepres Ravi by Photo Johan Persson by Photo Michael-John Louis McMiller Daniela Neugebauer

Harper Louis was born in the UK, in 1990 and Born in Swizerland, Daniela started her Michael-John was born on the island of started dancing at the age of seven. professional dance training with Cathy Jamaica in 1987, and moved to Florida, He graduated from The Royal Ballet Sharp in Basel. After studying at the John USA at the age of eight. He was an School, in 2010 with Neumeier Ballet School in avid musical theatre student in high a Professional Diploma in dance. He 1997-2001, she changed her focus to school, where, under the direction of danced in the Annual Performances and joined Codarts Lori Sessions, his dance talent was at The Royal Opera House and in Rotterdam, University of the Arts. Between uncovered. He pursued his passion for his graduate year, toured Japan and 2000 and 2003 she was award the Migros- dance and began his training at Michael’s performed in many productions with The Genossenschafts-Bund in Switzerland three Academy for the Performing Arts. After Royal Ballet. Louis is a model for Hollister times. Whilst studying she was involved in graduating high school in 2005, he Co. by Abercrombie & Fitch and in 2012, several professional productions including attended New World School of the Arts in he was a finalist in the ShortList Model dancing with Paul Selvin Norton, Itzik Galili, Miami, Florida, as a scholarship student, Search with Premier Model Management Dylan Newcomb and others. For the 2004-5 and graduated in 2009 with a BFA in and DKNY. Louis joined Wayne McGregor season she joined Ballet Gulbenkian in Lisbon, dance. He then joined the Alvin Ailey II | Random Dance in 2010. under the artistic directorship of Paulo Junior Dance Company in New York with Ribeiro. As well as performing Ribeiro’s work appearances in Innsbruck, Austria and she danced in works by Marie Chouinard, the United States. His dance experience Didy Veldman and in the final performance also includes creative residency at the última dança. Since 2005 she has worked Palucca Schule in Dresden, Germany with several times as a key dancer with Vaclav focus on William Forsythe improvisation Kunes, as well as in other projects techniques; scholarship student at the including with Pablo Ventura. She joined Alonzo King Lines Ballet in San Francisco, Dance Works Rotterdam under artistic California and performances at the director Ton Simons, where she performed 2009 Contemporary Dance Festival in works by Simons, Stephen Petronio, Dana New York with the Thang Dao Dance Casperson, Sjoerd Vreugdenhil and others, Company. Michael-John joined Wayne taking numerous solo roles, many of which McGregor | Random Dance in 2010. were created for her. In 2012 she started studies in Social Sciences at the Open University. Daniela joined Wayne McGregor | Random Dance in 2010. Photo by Ravi Deepres Ravi by Photo Photo by Johan Persson by Photo Photo by Ravi Deepres Ravi by Photo Anna Nowak James Pett Fukiko Takase

Anna Nowak was born in Łód´z, Poland. James Pett competed as a gymnast for Fukiko was born in New York in 1984 and She was awarded the prize for Best Ballet ten years, representing Great Britain at raised in Japan by her mother Takako School Graduate in Poland in 2001 as well the World Gymnastrada in Austria in 2007. Takase, herself a respected dancer. as a Prime Minister’s Science Scholarship He trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire Under her mother’s tutelage, Fukiko has for the highest achieving students in of Music and Dance, graduating in 2011 been dancing since the age of two, and the same year. She graduated from the with a first class BA (Hons.) degree and she went on to work for three years as National Music Academy of F. Chopin was awarded The Marion North Award for a freelance dancer and choreographer with honours, taking an MA degree in outstanding achievement in performance. in Japan. She was also a recipient of a art with specialisation in dance teaching. In 2009 he performed at the Roundhouse three-year Cultural Affairs Fellowship from From 2001-2007 Anna danced with the in Underdrome, choreographed by Darren the Japanese government to study at , with repertory Johnston, and worked with Gill Clarke the Codarts Rotterdam Dance Academy by Jiří Kylián, John Cranco and George OBE in Admist for the In The Moment and London Contemporary Dance Balanchine, taking solo roles in all the Festival. In 2010 he worked on a revival, School. In 2006 she gained a Certificate classical repertoire including Swan Lake, with Patricia Lent, of Merce Cunningham’s in Contemporary Dance from the LCDS La Bayadère, Sleeping Beauty, La Fille Scramble, dancing the original Merce solo and she completed her Post-Graduate Mal Garde and others. Anna regularly within the work. In 2011 he worked with Diploma Programme in Contemporary teaches at several dance companies and Kerry Nicholls on a collaborative piece Dance in 2007. From 2006-2010 Fukiko schools in Poland. She choreographed with Meridian Brass, Ave Maris Stella. The worked for Henri Oguike Dance Company, FLUX for the Malta Festival 2013 in work was performed at the Royal Festival assisting Henri Oguike with Tread Softly, a Poznan. She collaborates academically Hall celebrating the 60th anniversary of commission for Rambert Dance Company, with the National University of Music in the 1951 Festival of Britain. During 2011- and Da Gamba for Ballet Black. She also Warsaw. Anna joined Wayne McGregor | 2013 he danced for Richard Alston Dance worked for Darshan Singh Bhuller, Hubert Random Dance in 2008. Appreciative of Company. Within this time he performed Essakow and Russell Maliphant as a the company’s methods of stimulating and in Dance Umbrella 2011, working with freelance dancer. In 2013 she danced with practicing creativity and stretching mind- Robert Cohan on a revival of In Memory Thom Yorke in the Atoms for Peace music body boundaries, she has danced in all of and, in 2012, The Bride and the Bachelors video Ingenue, choreographed by Wayne the company productions since. exhibitions at the Barbican Centre working McGregor. Fukiko’s choreographies include with Jeannie Steele on a collective of Landing, a full-length work for Theatre X Cunningham’s works. James joined Wayne cai in Japan, and Autumn Hunch for the McGregor | Random Dance in 2013. National Theatre, Tokyo. Fukiko joined Wayne McGregor Random Dance in 2011. Photo by Johan Persson by Photo Jessica Wright Odette Hughes Rehearsal Director Jessica was born in Nottingham and Odette joined Wayne McGregor | Random (2010) and (2011). She has trained at Central School of Ballet, Dance in June 1997 following a dance also restaged McGregor’s contemporary London. She went on to work with and technology residency with Wayne pieces for various education theensemblegroup and Mobius Dance. In McGregor in Berlin, becoming the establishments. She has taught 2005 she was selected to join D.A.N.C.E., company’s rehearsal director in 2000. numerous workshops and masterclasses an interdisciplinary programme based in Odette danced for the company for a both nationally and internationally, and Brussels, Aix-en-Provence and Dresden decade before retiring from stage and has extensive experience in community and directed by Wayne McGregor, William is now responsible for the company’s and outreach work for all age and Forsythe, Angelin Preljocaj and Frédéric everyday artistic supervision, overseeing abilities, including commissioned work Flamand. During this time she performed performances and directing rehearsals. with CAT @ Lowry, CAT @ Laban, CAT as a guest dancer with the Forsythe Odette was first assistant choreographer @ NSCD and the students at Ecole de Company in Human Writes and with Ballet to McGregor on Harry Potter and the Danse de Genève. She has acted as Preljocaj in an installation at the Centre Goblet of Fire (2004) and movement external examiner for the London School Pompidou, Paris and danced in two new coach on Harry Potter and the Order of of Contemporary Dance. Odette was creations, Memeri by McGregor and the Phoenix (2006). She was rehearsal on the judging panel at Palcoscenico, A Success Story by Flamand. Since joining director on Michel Ocelot’s musical Italy’s renowned international dance Wayne McGregor | Random Dance she Kirikou et Karaba, which McGregor competition, in 2012 and 2013, and was has been part of the creation of Entity, directed, The Royal Ballet’s Engram asked to be on the panel for the World Dyad 1909, FAR and UNDANCE. In 2005 and ’s Salome, Dance Congress held in St. Petersburg in Jessica also began collaborating with both choreographed by McGregor. She December 2013. Morgann Runacre-Temple, creating dance assisted McGregor on his production of She was appointed Associate Director films and interactive performances. Out Dido and Aeneas at La Scala, Milan, and in 2007. of Hand, their first short, was selected for has restaged numerous McGregor the Cobravision Shorts final. Mishandled including Eden|Eden for San Francisco (2011) was produced by MJW Productions, Ballet (2006), returning to rehearse it One Etunim (2012) was commissioned by for their 75th anniversary Gala in 2008; Dance Ireland and The Keeper (2013) was Genus for Paris Opera Ballet (2009); shown in Random Works at Kings Place, Dyad 1929 for Australian Ballet Theatre London. Jessica joined Wayne McGregor | (2013); and the multi award winning Random Dance in 2008. Chroma for the National Ballet of Canada Wayne McGregor | Random Dance

Wayne McGregor | Random Dance Wayne McGregor | Random Dance was founded in 1992 and became the remains the crucible for McGregor’s instrument upon which McGregor evolved most innovative and pioneering work, his fast and articulate choreographic and collaboration with science and style. The company has since become a technology communities through the byword for its radical approach to new company’s R-Research department has technology, incorporating animation, also fuelled choreography mined from digital film, 3D architecture, electronic radical cognitive research processes. This sound and virtual dancers into live unique, tenacious questioning between choreography. With collaboration at the artists and artistic mediums, across the centre of his practice, McGregor has interface of science and art, through the innovated new work with world class body and mind, has ensured that Wayne Deepres Ravi by Photo (2008). Entity artists including composers Scanner, McGregor | Random Dance has remained Jon Hopkins and Ben Frost; visual artists at the forefront of contemporary arts for Mark Wallinger and rAndom International; the past 20 years. and film-makers Jane and Louise Wilson and Ravi Deepres. Wayne McGregor | Random Dance is Resident Company of Sadler’s Wells, Wayne McGregor has made over 30 works London. Wayne McGregor is Resident for the company which have toured to Choreographer of The Royal Ballet. In over 50 countries, visiting some of the January 2011, McGregor was awarded world’s most prestigious theatres, as well a CBE (Commander of the Order of the as creating site specific performances at British Empire) for Services to Dance. venues such as the Roundhouse, Barbican Deepres Ravi by Photo (2010). FAR Curve, and for Secret Cinema. The www.randomdance.org company has also made several television @WayneMcGregor appearances including Nemesis (BBC www.facebook.com/WMRandomDance Four, 2002); Dice Life (Channel 4, 2004); The Spirit of Diaghilev (BBC Four, 2009); The South Bank Show, Wayne McGregor: Across The Threshold (ITV1, 2009); and The Culture Show (BBC Two, 2010). Entity (2008) was released on DVD and was one of the first dance films to be available to download and stream through Tendu TV.

Deepres Ravi by Photo (2011). UNDANCE Co-Producing and Co-Commissioning Partners

Sadler’s Wells, London, UK Atomos marks the start of new co-producing partnerships “Wayne and I go back a long way! Taking over from the early with Movimentos Festwochen der Autostadt in Wolfsburg, support from John Ashford at The Place, I commissioned his Germany, and Festival Montpellier Danse 2014, France. work several times when I was programming at the South Exciting residencies are being developed at Movimentos Bank Centre in the nineties. Wayne’s work grew in scale where Atomos will have its German premiere in May 2014, and ambition and so did the audience. So when I came to and at Festival Montpellier Danse where is will have its French Sadler’s Wells it was clear that he should be there too, and his premiere in July 2014. company became the first resident company at the theatre in 2001. The rest, as they say, is history. Wayne has continued to Fondazione I Teatri, Reggio Emilia, Italy make intelligent, ambitious, groundbreaking work here ever As part of a flourishing co-commissioning partnership, this since and it is a pleasure and privilege to work with him and autumn Fondazione I Teatri Reggio Emilia presents, alongside his company.” – Alistair Spalding the Italian premiere of Atomos at Teatro Municipale Valli, a joint project with Collezione Maramotti and Max Mara. Part of the Peak Performances @ Montclair State University, NJ, USA 2013 Aperto festival, the world premiere of Wayne McGregor Peak Performances @ Montclair State University has | Random Dance site-specific performance Scavenger will be benefitted profoundly by its relationship with Wayne McGregor performed in the Collezione’s spaces. It marks an opportunity | Random Dance. In addition to co-commissioning FAR and to experience world-class performance and visual arts in a Atomos, Montclair State has collaborated with Random’s uniquely welcoming and history-laden Italian town. R-Research and Creative Learning departments during the development of the company’s Choreographic Thinking Tools Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, UK (now the Mind and Movement resource). The overlap between The connection between imagery and creativity in dance- this pioneering research and the University’s inquiry into making has been a significant focus of the research partnership fostering students’ creative abilities has helped shape the between Trinity Laban and Wayne McGregor | Random development of a new multidisciplinary course, titled Creative Dance. They recently co-hosted an interdisciplinary seminar Thinking. The engagement in the classroom and on stage has on imagery and creativity, placing the artistic process in the been a beneficial and lasting experience for both our on- and spotlight and drawing on approaches in clinical psychology, off-campus communities. sports psychology, cognitive and neuroscience to interrogate the practice. Alongside collaboration in the academic realm, Trinity Laban has also become a second home for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance. Atomos is the fourth production to be developed at Laban Theatre during extensive production time. Performances also allow South East London dance audiences to engage with the work on home ground and on a more intimate scale. Choreographic Mind and Movement is a Thinking Tools new teaching resource from Wayne McGregor | Random Dance designed to develop students’ personal imagination skills in order to enhance the creation of new and original dance movement. Mind and Movement includes a teachers’ guide, five lesson plans, tasks for developing and structuring movement material, information on five Wayne McGregor | Random Dance productions and a poster for use in the classroom or studio.

Creative Learning www.randomdance.org/mindandmovement

The Creative Learning department delivers Wayne McGregor’s Creative Learning programmes to children, young people, adults vision to nurture the creative potential of individuals, whether and community groups. Working in close partnership with a professional or non professional, and to positively impact on the network of educational institutions, dance agencies, venues and landscape of dance – how it is taught, learned and talked about. other cultural organisations the company ensures that all projects can be developed to meet the specific needs of each community Over the last 20 years, Wayne McGregor | Random Dance has and over 70,000 participants have taken part in our projects developed a reputation for delivering high quality and innovative across the UK and internationally.

Choreographic Mind and Movement is a Thinking Tools new teaching resource from Wayne McGregor | Random Dance designed to develop students’ personal imagination skills in order to enhance the creation of new and original dance movement. Mind and Movement includes a teachers’ guide, five lesson plans, tasks for developing and structuring movement material, information on five Wayne McGregor | Random Dance productions and a poster for use in the classroom or studio.

www.randomdance.org/mindandmovement

In September 2013 Wayne McGregor | Random Dance collaborative research with cognitive scientists. This launched Mind and Movement, a brand new choreographic research focuses on the way that McGregor collaborates resource for teachers. with his dancers in the creation of movement material for his performance works. Mind and Movement is the first The resource is based around the choreographic thinking time these choreographic thinking tools have been tools that have emerged from Wayne McGregor’s methods re-purposed into a practical resource for use in a creative in the studio and which are grounded in a decade of learning context. R-Research

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In 2000 Wayne McGregor and his company embarked on a series of Thinking with the Body projects investigating aspects of creativity in dance with researchers from other fields such as cognitive and social science. In autumn 2013, the results of over a decade of collaborative research on choreographic creativity In 2003 McGregor was appointed Research Fellow of the Department can be seen applied in the studio, in dance of Experimental Psychology at Cambridge University. AtaXia (2004) education and to increase public understanding, in arose from the six months he worked with the department exploring a free exhibition at Wellcome Collection. the interface between mind and body, and every subsequent Wayne McGregor | Random Dance production has built on this growing Thinking with the Body: Mind and movement fascination McGregor has for engaging directly with scientists who in the work of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance share their knowledge of the body and mind. is at Wellcome Collection, 19 September - 27 October 2013. In 2008, these projects converged under the heading R-Research with the objective of making the results widely accessible to both www.wellcomecollection.ac.uk/thinking specialists and the broader public. Tour Dates

29, 30 October 2013 28 January 2014 15 April 2014 Edinburgh Festival Theatre, UC Santa Barbara, Granada Theater, Teatro Verdi, Padova, Italy Edinburgh, UK Santa Barbara, CA, USA (Atomos) (UNDANCE - Made at Sadler’s Wells) (FAR) 23 April 2014 1, 2 November 2013 31 January, 1 February 2014 National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Canada Belfast Opera House, Belfast, UK Atlanta Festival, Atlanta, GA, USA (FAR) (UNDANCE - Made at Sadler’s Wells) (FAR excerpt) 26 April 2014 8 November 2013 6, 7, 8 February 2014 Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Byham Theatre, Brighton Dome, Brighton, UK Danse Danse, Théâtre Maisonneuve, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (Atomos) Montreal, Canada (FAR) (FAR) 15 November 2013 1, 2, 3 May 2014 Teatro Valli, Reggio Emilia, Italy 13 February 2014 The Kennedy Center, Eisenhower Theater, (Atomos) OZ Nashville, Nashville, TN, USA Washington DC, USA (FAR) (FAR) 16, 17 November 2013 Collezione Maramotti, 5, 6 March 2014 8, 9 May 2014 Reggio Emilia, Italy Laban Theatre, London, UK Dellal, Israel (Scavenger – site specific) (Atomos) (Atomos)

19 November 2013 12 March 2014 15, 16, 17, 18 May 2014 Lawrence Batley Theatre, Guggenheim, New York, USA Movimentos Festival, Huddersfield, UK (Atomos excerpt) Wolfsburg, Germany (Atomos) (Atomos - German premiere) 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23 March 2014 26 November 2013 Peak Performances, Montclair 2 June 2014 Malvern Theatres, Malvern, UK State University, NJ, USA Pjazza Teatru Rjal, Valletta, Malta (Atomos) (Atomos - US premiere) (Atomos)

14 January 2014 29 March 2014 6, 7, 8 June 2014 Northrop Concerts and Lectures, de Warande, Turnhout, Belgium Taipei, Taiwan Orpheum Theater, MN, USA (Atomos) (FAR) (FAR) 1 April 2014 13, 14 June 2014 17, 18, 19 January 2014 Cultuurcentrum Hasselt, Korea San Francisco Performances, Hasselt, Belgium (FAR) San Francisco, CA, USA (Atomos) (FAR) July 2014 4, 5 April 2014 Montpellier Festival Danse 24, 25 January 2014 DanceEast, Suffolk, UK (Atomos – French premiere) Center for the Art of Performance, (Atomos) Los Angeles, CA, USA (FAR) 12 April 2014 Cremona, Italy (Atomos) RD_80875_FAR_205sq_Pgs 02/05/2013 13:10 Page 26

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Birmingham Royal Ballet returns with two contrasting evenings: Renowned for producing some of the finest choreographic and classic ballet The Sleeping Beauty and three short works from dance talent ever seen in the UK, Rambert’s unrivalled variety of Artistic Director David Bintley. performances and world class company of dancers continue to delight audiences and critics alike. Tombeaux is Bintley’s homage to , a lament on the death of his mentor, the great . E=mc2 is a truly This autumn, Ashley Page, former Artistic Director of , exhilarating experience; exploring Einstein’s celebrated ‘Special returns to Rambert with a world premiere. This striking new work is set Theory of Relativity’ in music and dance. Meet a colourful host of to music by Aphex Twin and award-winning composer Mark-Anthony animals seeking shelter from the storm in Still Life at the Penguin Turnage, whose recent work includes the controversial opera about Anna Café. Be introduced to a morris dancing flea, a ballroom dancing ram, Nicole Smith for the Royal Opera House and UNDANCE at Sadler’s Wells. a woolly monkey and many more. This is a witty and poignant look at a man’s effect on the world. Barak Marshall has presented work across the world but rarely in London. Arresting, original and fevered in style, Barak makes his This breathtaking production of The Sleeping Beauty by Director Rambert debut. Laureate Sir features original choreography by Marius Petipa, and is set to Tchaikovsky’s classic score, performed live by Completing the programme is Mark Baldwin’s The Comedy of Change, the Royal Ballet Sinfonia. originally created to commemorate Darwin Year, and described as a “rare beast: a dance that thinks and imagines on a grand scale” (). £12 – £27 All three works will be accompanied live by the Rambert Orchestra.

“The grandest achievement, the pinnacle of style, amongst £12 – £38 the great classics” SUNDAY TIMES

Buy tickets for two or more participating shows or book two or more programmes by the save 20% same company at the same time. See www.sadlerswells.com/save for details. Terms and conditions apply. Coming Soon to Sadler’s Wells Photo: Jake Walters Photo: Belinda Lawley Hofesh Shechter Sadler’s Wells Liang/Maliphant/Wheeldon Sadler’s Wells Sun An evening featuring Fang-Yi Sheu and Yuan Yuan Tan Wednesday 30 October – Sunday 3 November Thursday 14 – Saturday 16 November

The world is perfect. From the darkness of Hofesh Shechter’s This dynamic programme is a new British-Chinese cultural collaboration emotive and often angry world emerges a bright white light dancing exploring where classical meets contemporary dance, showcasing the out of the smoke and chaos. With an expanded company of 14 world- extraordinary talents of Chinese prima ballerina Yuan Yuan Tan and class dancers and an eclectic soundtrack featuring original music Taiwanese virtuoso Fang-Yi Sheu. The evening premiered in Beijing last by Shechter himself, this exciting new work follows the phenomenal year and includes three UK premieres, choreographed by Taiwanese- success of Political Mother. born American Edwaard Liang, and Sadler’s Wells Associate Artists Russell Maliphant and . A Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist, Shechter is one of the UK’s most exciting contemporary artists, having gained international renown for Finding Light, choreographed by Liang, is danced by San Francisco his raw, honest choreography and highly-charged, atmospheric music Ballet principal dancers Yuan Yuan Tan and Damian Smith. Wheeldon’s scores. The international dancers of Hofesh Shechter Company Five Movements, Three Repeats, is centred around the lumionous have achieved worldwide renown, touring his hit shows Political Mother, music of , and Maliphant presents a specially created new Uprising, The Art of Not Looking Back and In Your Rooms. They return work with lighting design by Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Michael once again to Sadler’s Wells to unveil the hotly anticipated premiere of Hulls. The evening also features two seminal works – Wheeldon’s After Shechter’s latest work, Sun. The Rain and Maliphant’s Two x Two.

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Wednesday 6 - Sunday 10 November A Brief History of Sadler’s Wells

New beginnings sometimes happen quietly and theatre critic, S.R. Littlewood, described it as “a poor, wounded touring , known first as the Sadler’s Wells Theatre sometimes they are announced. On Monday, old playhouse” and in 1915, it closed its doors. Ballet, then the Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet, remained until 1955 and returned from 1970 to 1990 before moving permanently to 7th March 2005 the new director of Sadler’s Wells, It took another decade for the most significant figure in the Birmingham to become the Birmingham Royal Ballet. Alistair Spalding, decided the time had come to modern history of Sadler’s Wells to enter the picture. Since 1898, make a splash. “You’ve got the National Theatre had been presenting drama and opera at the Old By the 1970s Sadler’s Wells’ dance programme had diversified Vic at popular prices. Motivated by a profound belief that great considerably. Alongside Rambert Dance and London for drama, English National Opera for opera and art should belong to everybody, in 1925 she began fundraising Contemporary Dance, who briefly held residencies here, a great I want Sadler’s Wells to perform the same function to rebuild Sadler’s Wells so that the people of north London variety of touring and commercial work was also presented. for contemporary dance.” With those words, could enjoy the same opportunities as those in the south. However audiences began to drift away. he inaugurated a new chapter in the history of Then Baylis met , a striking young Irish When Ian Albery took over as chief executive in 1994 it was clear London’s second oldest theatre: its transformation woman who deeply impressed her. After their interview, Baylis’s that redefinition was needed. He led the campaign to transform into a contemporary dance house. secretary, recorded her saying: “Miss de Valois is going to run Sadler’s Wells into a purpose-built dance theatre. During the her school with the Vic and when we have Sadler’s Wells she’ll two-year rebuild, Sadler’s Wells decamped to Holborn’s Peacock run a wholetime ballet company for us.” The fact that it all came Theatre which it has continued to programme ever since. to pass says much about the abilities of both women.

The rebuilt theatre opened in October 1998 with a design that still incorporates the skeleton of Frank Matcham’s 1931 theatre, Sadler’s Wells was not born of an artistic impulse but the which in turn contained bricks from the Victorian playhouse. It discovery of a mineral spring in 1683. Richard Sadler built a has an expanded 15m² sprung stage, a welcoming 1,500 seat music house around the spring to rival the already fashionable auditorium, and a glass-fronted foyer that captures Lilian Baylis’ Tunbridge and Epsom wells. By the beginning of the 18th De Valois was formally hired in 1928 and the fifth Sadler’s Wells, belief that theatre should embrace everyone. Here no-one enters century, visitors to Sadler’s Wells could see entertainments designed by the prolific theatre architect Frank Matcham, the “gods” through a separate entrance. There are also three that included jugglers, tumblers, ropedancers, ballad singers, opened on 6th January 1931 with John Gielgud and Ralph rehearsal studios and the smaller 200-seat Lilian Baylis studio wrestlers, fighters, dancing dogs and even a singing duck. Richardson in Twelfth Night. For four years, drama productions, theatre for the development and presentation of small-scale work. opera and ballet shuttled between and Sadler’s Wells In 1765 Thomas Rosoman had the theatre rebuilt for the first until Baylis decided to dedicate Sadler’s Wells to opera and But even with the new facilities, it took some time to establish time so that it could mount high-calibre opera productions. ballet for eight months of the year and give the Vic-Wells Ballet the theatre as a force for dance. After a thrilling opening However, it wasn’t long before the beer brewed from the spring a permanent base. The new season opened on 27th September season, which included performances by Pina Bausch’s waters became the primary attraction. By 1801, although a 1935 to great acclaim with one critic noting “the splendid dancing Tanztheater Wuppertal, William Forsythe’s ground-breaking young actor called Edmund Kean and the great clown, Grimaldi, of the young newcomer Miss , who has Ballett Frankfurt, and Rambert Dance, it once again struggled had both appeared on its stage, Sadler’s Wells had become a compelling personality and exceptional gifts, though only just 16.” to find its voice and its audience. more famous for incidents, both devised (spectacular sea battles) and accidental (a terrible stampede in which 18 people Whilst opera continued to be important (Peter Grimes premiered Alistair Spalding took up the challenge to turn things around died) than for work of merit. In the 1830s Dickens wrote: “The at the Wells in 1945), it was in this period that Sadler’s Wells in 2004. He decided that Sadler’s Wells had been at its best theatre was in the condition of being entirely delivered over to as became most strongly associated with dance. It was where De when it had had resident companies and new works being ruffianly an audience as London could shake together…Fights Valois founded here and built both a company of created within its walls. This vision paved the way for an took place anywhere, at every period of the performance.” dancers and a repertory that included her own works and those increasing number of Associate Artists and for companies of Frederick Ashton and . She also founded producing work in the building. Today Sadler’s Wells not only Matters improved in 1843 with the passing of a parliamentary act a school which remained throughout World War II, when the promotes but also commissions and produces outstanding which enabled the actor-manager, Samuel Phelps, to present a theatre was itself acting as a refuge for the homeless. dance. It reflects the best of its history while looking defiantly famous run of Shakespeare. But after he left in 1862, the theatre and brightly towards the future. once more sank into the doldrums, suffering conversion into a At the end of the war, De Valois took her fledging ballet company skating rink and then a cinema. In 1914 the Daily Chronicle’s to Covent Garden to become the Royal Ballet. However, her Sarah Crompton

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Sadler’s Wells Associate Artists Resident Companies

BalletBoyz Michael Hulls Kate Prince Wayne McGregor I Random Dance Matthew Bourne Michael Keegan-Dolan Nitin Sawhney National Youth Dance Company Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Hofesh Shechter New Adventures Jonzi D Russell Maliphant Jasmin Vardimon ZooNation Wayne McGregor Christopher Wheeldon Sadler’s Wells Trust and Foundation

Sadler’s Wells Trust Directors Sadler’s Wells Foundation Chairman Honorary Members Rab Bennetts OBE Carol Lake Sir David Bell Valerie Colgan Chairman Sue Butcher Harry MacAuslan President Robert Kahn Sir David Bell Marco Compagnoni Robin Saunders Lady Solti Directors Martin Klute Joachim Fleury Sandi Ulrich Rab Bennetts OBE Robert Glick Honorary Vice President Josè Breña Honorary Clerk Ian Albery Celeste Fenichel Kathy Honeywood Ian Hay Davidson Celia Rodrigues Clerk to the Foundation Staff Alistair Spalding

Chief Executive & Press Officer Head of HR Technicians Events Manager STAGE DOOR Artistic Director Rob James Clair Kelly Matthew Coombes, Neil McGovern, Georgie Mackie Receptionist Alistair Spalding CBE Press Office Co-ordinator Work Opportunities Manager Andy Pye, Ben Walker, Colin Wilson Events Executive, Corporate Joann Peek Executive Director Eugénie Dunster Hannah Nicholson PEACOCK THEATRE Laura Hannay Stage Door Keepers Laura Stevenson DEVELOPMENT HR Officer Technical Manager Events Executive Marie-Claire Adriaenessens, Joel Executive Assistant Head of Development Danuta Trestka Andrew Gorman Alessio Romani Cottrell, Mark Duff, Ida Hanselaer, Amanda Joy Hamble Wallace HR Co-ordinator Senior Technician Events Co-ordinator Ian Marshall, Chloe O’Sullivan, Development Manager, Rosalind Glass Laura Hook Rosie Legg Tina Ramdeen, Rosannah Smith BRAND, COMMUNICATIONS Trusts & Foundations Technician FRONT OF HOUSE HOUSEKEEPING & SECURITY & DEVELOPMENT Terrie McCann PRODUCING & TOURING Dave Judd, James Kazwini Senior House Manager Support Services Manager Director of Brand, Capital Fundraising Manager Executive Producer LILIAN BAYLIS STUDIO Marguerite Bullard Howard Clark Communications & Development Miranda Schnitger Suzanne Walker Technical Manager House Manager Cleaning & Housekeeping Georgie Shields Manager, Corporate Partnerships Tour Producer Roman Bezdyk Hannah Sless Supervisors Director of Marketing & Sales Nick Marsden Dawn Prentice Technician Deputy House Managers Fabian Arias, Ken Debidin Sebastian Cheswright Development Officer, Producers Fraser Thompson-Noble Louise Bailey, Dara Brooks, Housekeeping MARKETING Syndicates & Special Projects Louise Shand-Brown, Larry Harrison-Mateeba, Jeffrey Balighot, Marino Bathan, Marketing Manager Anna Clark Ghislaine Granger VISITOR SERVICES & ESTATES Janine Kaufman Fortunato Carian, Kelly Dago, Sammie Squire Development Co-ordinator, Technical Production Manager Director of Visitor Services & Front of House Sales Jesiel Da Silva, Akissi Kouassi, Marketing Manager (Touring) Individual Giving Adam Carrée Estates Administrator Jose Lary Legario, Anthony Lucy White Hannah Bishop Production Accountant Britannia Morton Chris Harmer Osagiede, Oumar-Florent Sam, Marketing Officers Nanette Daniels BUILDING SERVICES Performance Cashiers Mercan Sahin, Celestin Trah, Sally Daniels, Ben Stanley CREATIVE LEARNING Producing & Touring Building Services Manager Dara Brooks, Robert Churchill, Amani Yoboue Marketing Publications Officer Co-Directors of Co-ordinators Clive Howells Chris Harmer, Kurt Muda, SECURITY Maxwell Baker Creative Learning Fanny Bannet, Sandra Castell-Garcia Visitor Services & Estates Co- Larry Harrison-Mateeba Security Officers Publications Assistant Jane Hackett, Fiona Ross Producing & Touring Assistant ordinator Front of House Sales Assistants Hasan Eldabash, Junaid Iqbal, Milly Youngman Youth and Community Joel Cottrell Charlotte Meyer Marie-Claire Adriaenessens, Josiane Luke Radford, Raja Riaz, MULTIMEDIA Programme Manager Project Co-ordinator Adriaenessens-Gardes, Makiko Jerome Tracey Web Manager Hannah Evans PROGRAMMING Roger Spence Aoyama, Emili Astrom, Lisa , Dominic Berry, Lachlan Bond, Lorea Technical Lighting Supplier Mark Doerfel NYDC Company Manager Director of Programme Building Services Supervisor Burge, Jane Chan, Joel Cottrell, Multimedia Officer Hannah Kirkpatrick Katy Arnander Ilia Constantinides Helen Doyle, Barney Evans-Doran, Robin Clark Access Officer Artistic Programmer & Producer Building Services Technicians With thanks to our colleagues Jonas Falter, Evie Fordham, Polly Web Editor (LondonDance.com) Sarah Howard Eva Martinez Richard Emmett, Wayne Lawrence, at the London School of Frame, Sarah Galbraithadd, Katy Carmel Smith Creative Learning Programming Manager Ghion Mekonnen, Win Tun Economics: Gibson, Hannah Gipp, Luca TICKET OFFICE Programme Manager Anneliese Graham Facilities Manager – The Place Head of Conference Guarnieri, Sally Hacking, Jacob Hall, Ticket Office Sales & Molly Sanders Projects Manager Roy Adkins & Events Martin Harper, Anna Harrison, Geber Services Manager Creative Learning Co-ordinators Emily Jameson Maintenance Technician – The Rachel Ward Sandoval Heredia, Vera Hochkofler, Zahir Jaffer Fleur Taylor-Sutton Programming Co-ordinator Place LSE Theatre Manager Amy Hyde, Katsura Isobe, Alice Ticket Office Systems Manager Zara Rush Richard Cross Barry Daley Sam Gaid Kilkenny, Delphine Klockner, Lizzie Brian Kearney Programming Assistant Maintenance Technician – Klotz, Ewa Lamond, Ljiljana Lemajic, Ticket Office Supervisors Amy Welch Peacock Theatre Mobile phones must be switched off Vivien Loh, On Yee Lo, Claire Marty, Barbara Birch, Mark Hammond, FINANCE & IT BREAKIN’ CONVENTION Daniel Knapton before entering the auditorium. 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