Sadler’s Wells Theatre is a London performing arts venue, located in Rosebery Avenue, Islington. The present-day theatre is the sixth on the site. Sadler’s Wells grew out of a late 17th-century pleasure garden and was opened as a theatre building in the 1680s.
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…
Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young, joint creators behind The Guardian’s Best Dance Show of the 21st Century and the Olivier Award-winning Betroffenheit, return to Sadler’s Wells. For their new dance-theatre collaboration, Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Crystal Pite and writer and performer Jonathon Young, together with Pite’s company Kidd Pivot, turn their brilliant…
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…
A moment with Pina Bausch‘s The Rite of Spring A beach of white sand. The light bleaching from the sky. A girl lying on a red cloth. An eerie bassoon piercing the silence. This is the way in which audiences…
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of this iconic work by Pina Bausch watch a performance capture on the beach in Senegal and an intimate portrait of the work on stage at Sadler’s Wells, presented by Pina Bausch Foundation, École des…
A snowy stage sets the scene for an icy cold Christmas eve, where the little match girl paces the emptying streets, trying to sell her matches. Cold, hungry and with just one final match flame to keep her warm, she…
Sadler’s Wells and Universal Music UK present Message In A Bottle, the breathtaking new dance-theatre production by triple Olivier Award nominee, Kate Prince, to the music of 17-time Grammy Award winner, Sting. The peaceful village of Bebko is alive with…
Taking creative points of departure from film, music and biometric data, Wayne McGregor‘s choreography for Atomos is woven into an intense 70 minute film, performed by the incredible dancers of Company Wayne McGregor in his distinctive style – sculptural, rigorous,…
Russell Maliphant performed with DV8 Physical Theatre, Michael Clark Company, Rosemary Butcher and Laurie Booth – with whom he was awarded a Time Out Live award for ‘raising improvisational dance to new heights’ in 1991. He formed Russell Maliphant Dance…
