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PRESS RELEASE – Friday 26 January 2018 IMAGES CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE @BalletBoyz / Instagram / www.balletboyz.com BALLETBOYZ present FOURTEEN DAYS BALLETBOYZ ANNOUNCE SPRING TOUR DATES FOR FOURTEEN DAYS AND FALLEN The International Emmy Award-winning, all-male dance company BalletBoyz have an- nounced spring tour dates for their latest production Fourteen Days, which opened to ac- claim at Sadler’s Wells in October 2017. The new work from the recent Rose d’Or winners has been created by four internationally celebrated choreographers, alongside four eminent and completely different composers. It comprises of four short pieces, and will run alongside their previously acclaimed Fallen. A coproduction with Sadler’s Wells, and in association with artsdepot, Fourteen Days is on tour from 19 April to 29 May. The production will tour to: Poole, Bristol, Darlington, Nottingham, Colchester, Shrewsbury, Reading, Wolverhampton, Cornwall, Worthing, Swindon and Wycombe as well as returning to Sadler’s Wells in London, where musicians will join the dancers on stage for three of the five pieces. Choreographers Javier De Frutos (London Road), Craig Revel Horwood (West Side Story, Sunset Boulevard), Iván Pérez (Young Men) and Christopher Wheeldon (An American in Paris) have teamed up with composers Scott Walker, Charlotte Harding, Joby Talbot and Keaton Henson, with each pair given just fourteen days to work with the ensemble to create the new pieces. Playing with the concept of balance and imbalance, the result is an exciting and varied programme of dance and music in BalletBoyz’s inimitable style. Fallen forms the second half of the evening, choreographed by regular BalletBoyz collabora- tor and Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Russell Maliphant (Broken Fall), and set to a pow- erful score by French film composer Armand Amar. Fallen won the award for Best Modern Choreography at the 2013 National Dance Awards. Javier De Frutos was born in Caracas and trained at London School of Contemporary Dance and the Merce Cunningham Studio in New York. As director, choreographer and de- signer, his international creations and collaborations have encompassed a variety of different disciplines and scales. He is one of only three artists in the history of the Olivier Awards to have received nominations in all dance categories. In 2000 Javier became one of the first recipients of an Arts Council Fellowship, through which he studied the works of Tennessee Williams. He recently won the Chita Rivera Award for his choreography of the film London Road. Javier has previously worked with BalletBoyz when he choreographed ‘Fiction’ for Life. Craig Revel Horwood is Australian-British dancer, choreographer and theatre director. Having performed across Europe as a singer, dancer and actor, he is most famous for his judging role on Strictly Come Dancing. Craig has also choreographed and directed many shows in the West End including West Side Story and Sunset Boulevard, and has worked with BalletBoyz Artistic Directors Michael Nunn and Wil- liam Trevitt in the past. Iván Pérez is a Spanish choreographer based in the Netherlands. Iván has formerly danced with Netherlands Dance Theater (NDT) and IT Dansa, and received his degree in Performing Arts from the University Rey Juan Carlos. He won the award for ‘Best Interpretation’ during the ‘International Choreography Competition’ New York-Burgos and was nominated for the ‘Swan Best Dancer’ for his role in Indigo Rose by Jiří Kylián (2006). Previously he has worked with BalletBoyz choreographing Young Men. Christopher Wheeldon is a British choreographer who trained at The Royal Ballet School and danced with the Company between 1991 and 1993. In 2007 Christopher founded Mor- phoses/The Wheeldon Company and became the first British choreographer to create a new work for the Bolshoi Ballet. His awards include the Tony Award for Best Choreography for An American in Paris, and he was made an OBE in 2016. Christopher has worked with Bal- letBoyz on numerous occasions in the past, including Mesmerics. Russell Maliphant is a British choreographer who trained at the Royal Ballet School and graduated into Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet before leaving to pursue a career in independent dance. In April 2000, he received an Arts Council Fellowship. In 2003, Russell created Bro- ken Fall with Sylvie Guillem and George Piper Dances (now BalletBoyz). Broken Fall premi- ered at the Royal Opera House in December 2003 and was awarded an Olivier Award. Rise and Fall – an evening of work at Sadler’s Wells including Broken Fall – was awarded a Crit- ics’ Circle National Dance Award for Best Choreography (Modern) in 2006. Scott Walker is an American-born British singer-songwriter, composer and record produc- er. He is noted for his distinctive baritone voice and for the unorthodox career path that has taken him from 1960s pop icon to 21st-century avant-garde musician. Walker’s success has largely been in the United Kingdom, where his first three solo albums reached the top ten. Walker has lived in the UK since 1965; he became a British citizen in 1970. Charlotte Harding graduated from the Royal College of Music, London with a first class honours degree. On graduating Charlotte won the prestigious Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother Rosebowl, presented by HRH Prince Charles. Charlotte is passionate about the role music can play in both health and education. She is currently an accompanist with Ballet- Boyz, working for the Parkinson’s CAN Dance classes. Charlotte has also been involved in leading and assisting educational workshops for BBC Symphony Orchestra and Teenage Cancer Trust. Joby Talbot was born in Wimbledon, and studied composition at Royal Holloway and Bed- ford New College. Talbot’s diverse output has included a 60-minute a cappella choral journey along the Camino de Santiago for Nigel Short’s Tenebrae (Path of Miracles, 2005) and a co- production between The Royal Ballet and National Ballet of Canada, Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (2011). Talbot also has considerable experience writing for the screen, including The League of Gentlemen and the feature film The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005). His latest film score is for Sing, the latest animation from Illumination Entertainment (Despicable Me, Minions) and writer-director Garth Jennings, released De- cember 2016. Keaton Henson is an English folk rock musician, visual artist and poet from London. Hen- son has released six studio albums. His music video for “Charon” was shortlisted for a UK MVA award in Best Budget Indie/Rock Category. “Small Hands” won Best Music Video at the Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival in 2012. In November 2012, Henson designed a t-shirt for the Yellow Bird Project to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust. Henson also composed the score for the multi-award-winning film Young Men by BalletBoyz and BBC 2. Armand Amar is a French composer living in Paris. In 1976 he met South African choreographer Peter Goss, who introduced him to dance. In subsequent years he worked with a number of choreographers in contemporary dance. His works are focused particularly on Eastern music and he is the author of several ballets and soundtracks films. The current BalletBoyz Company includes: Harry Price, Marc Galvez, Simone Donati, Edward Pearce, Matthew Sandiford, Flavien Esmieu, Bradley Waller and new- comers Edd Arnold and Sean Flanagan Tickets are now on sale. -ENDS- For further information please contact Maisie Lawrence at The Corner Shop PR on 020 7831 7657 / [email protected] LISTINGS UK TOUR DATES POOLE, Light House 19th April, 19:45pm Box Office 01202 280000 https://www.lighthousepoole.co.uk LONDON, Sadler’s Wells 26th-28th April, 19:30pm Box Office 020 7863 8000 www.sadlerswells.com BRISTOL, Bristol Old Vic 30th April, 19:30pm Box Office 0117 987 7877 http://www.bristololdvic.org.uk/ DARLINGTON, Darlington Hippodrome 2nd May, 19:30pm Box Office 01325 405405 https://www.darlingtonhippodrome.co.uk/ NOTTINGHAM, Nottingham Playhouse 4th May Box Office 0115 941 9419 https://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/ COLCHESTER, Mercury Theatre 7th May, 19:30pm Box Office 01206 573948 https://www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/ SHREWSBURY, Theatre Severn 9th May, 19:30pm Box Office 01743 281281 http://www.theatresevern.co.uk/ READING, The Hexagon 11th May Box Office 0118 960 6060 https://www.readingarts.com/hexagon WOLVERHAMPTON, Wolverhampton Grand Theatre 14th May Box Office 01902 429 212 https://www.grandtheatre.co.uk/ CORNWALL, Hall for Cornwall 16th May Box Office 01872 262466 https://www.hallforcornwall.co.uk/Online/default.asp WORTHING, Connaught Theatre 19th May, 19:30pm Box Office 01903 206206 https://worthingtheatres.co.uk/ SWINDON, Wyvern Theatre 27th May, 19:30pm Box Office 01793 524 481 https://swindontheatres.co.uk/Online/ WYCOMBE, Wycombe Swan 29th May, 19:30pm Box Office 01494 512 000 https://wycombeswan.co.uk/Online/ BalletBoyz present FOURTEEN DAYS ‘The Title is in the Text’ Choreography: Javier de Frutos Music: Responsorie, composed & orchestrated by Scott Walker. Recorded by Peter Walsh. Produced & Mixed by Scott Walker & Peter Walsh. Conducted by Mark Warman. Keyboards, Music Coordination & Additional Orchestration: Mark Warman. Whispered excerpts from Speech! Speech! by Geoffrey Hill: Lisa Dwan. Spoken words written by Scott Walker: Lisa Dwan. Rapper: Killa Impact. Choir: Metro Voices. Choirmaster: Jenny O’Grady. Soloist: Sarah Eyden. Singers: Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, Ann de Renais, Emma Brain Gabbott, Sarah Eyden, Michael Dore, Sebastian