Dust
Akram Khan and Tamara Rojo teamed up to perform Dust as part of English National Ballet‘s production Lest We Forget, which commemorates the centenary of the First World War. Akram Khan‘s work Dust is about the empowerment of women in…
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English National Ballet is a classical ballet company founded by Dame Alicia Markova and Sir Anton Dolin as London Festival Ballet and based in London, England. Along with The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Northern Ballet and Scottish Ballet, it is one of the five major ballet companies in Great Britain.
Song of the Earth
In Autumn 2017, English National Ballet performed Kenneth MacMillan‘s Song of the Earth for the first time ever. This work is indisputably a masterpiece. The story of love, loss and inescapable death told through MacMillan’s beautiful, sparse choreography and Mahler’s…
Nora
Nora is a one-act ballet inspired by the lead character in Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House, a woman on the path to independence. When past choices catch up with her and reveal a new side to her husband, Nora…
Giselle
In this acclaimed version by Akram Khan, the greatest Romantic ballet and its story of love, betrayal and redemption are reimagined. As the curtain rises, dancers in shadow push against a large wall. From that moment on, Akram Khan‘s Giselle…
Dancing Nation 1
World-class dance also featuring Candoco, HUMANHOOD, and English National Ballet. In this, the first of three Dancing Nation programmes, BBC Arts and Sadler’s Wells present a festival of dance featuring: Matthew Bourne‘s New Adventures – Spitfire. Before his legendary Swan…
Fantastic Beings
In 2016, choreographer Aszure Barton created Fantastic Beings as part of our She Said triple bill of works by female choreographers. The piece was reworked in 2018 and performed as part of our Voices of America programme at Sadler’s Wells, when this performance was filmed. Choreographer…
Broken Wings
English National Ballet presents Annabelle Lopez Ochoa‘s critically acclaimed Broken Wings, featuring Tamara Rojo in the role of Frida Kahlo alongside legendary ballet star Irek Mukhamedov as Diego Rivera. The music, by Peter Salem, the show is performed by English…
Le Train Bleu
Back in 1924, this vibrant production brought together some the greatest creative minds of its time – choreographer Bronislava Nijinska, writer Jean Cocteau, artist Pablo Picasso, designer Gabrielle Chanel and composer Darius Milhaud – to blend dance, visual art, fashion…
Creature (film)
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Based on the acclaimed English National Ballet production, choreographed by Akram Khan and directed by Academy Award-winning director Asif Kapadia (Senna, Amy, The Warrior), Creature is a genre-busting collaboration that fuses film and contemporary dance. Following English National Ballet‘s 2021…