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New virtual reality (VR) dance experience Facades will premiere at Phoenix, Leicester in October before touring to BOM, Birmingham, and Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham, in November. This surreal and immersive VR dance piece invites the audience to walk the line between reality and illusion in a beautiful yet unsettling narrative drawing on iconic scenes from... Continue Reading →
New Adventures is delighted to announce their Overture dance artist cohort for 2021/2022. Established in 2016, Overture is the annual New Adventures professional development programme for dance artists and dance teachers from a variety of genres who have been working in community or education settings for less than five years. Each year, the group of... Continue Reading →
Back on our screens and soon to be Back Live On Stage! Strictly Come Dancing’s Karen Hauer and Gorka Marquez are finally able to bring their Latin spectacular FIREDANCE to a stage near you in 2022, in association with Raymond Gubbay & Kilimanjaro Live. Two Latin dancers from rival Houses meet at The Festival of... Continue Reading →
New Adventures is delighted to announce full casting and touring dates for 30th Anniversary, newly designed and reimagined production of Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! The tour opens at Theatre Royal Plymouth on Monday 15 November 2021 ahead of a Christmas Season at Sadler’s Wells, London from Tuesday 7 December 2021 to Sunday 30 January 2022. The... Continue Reading →
This autumn, KVN Dance Company presents its inaugural performances of Kevan Allen’s reimagined version of the classic ballet Coppelia, premiering at The Cockpit from 2 – 11 September. For Coppelia Kevan will expand and develop the existing story, delving deeper into the background of the characters and immersing the audience into the sometimes-unsettling mind of... Continue Reading →
This autumn, a collective of the UK’s leading professional commercial dancers will be offering a brand-new training experience with Bodywork Company’s The Society of Commercial. Representing the cutting edge of a fast-evolving industry, this exclusive training experience will expose participants to new choreography and techniques, honing their craft across an intensive 12-week course. Participants will... Continue Reading →
PDSW have partnered with Yorke Dance Project and New Adventures for a series of unmissable outdoor performances. These free shows are part of their ongoing mission to bring performance to audiences across Bournemouth and to get people dancing in the streets! On 12th June, Pavilion Dance South West will team up with the celebrated Yorke... Continue Reading →
Arlene Phillips CBE is best known as one the UK’s top choreographers, an international theatre director, talent scout, TV judge, presenter, and dancer who has worked with legends from Elton John and Diana Ross to Tom Cruise and Clint Eastwood. Now at an intimate event in the West End she promises to share her biggest... Continue Reading →
New Adventures is delighted to announce the World Premiere of Matthew Bourne’s THE MIDNIGHT BELL opening at Cheltenham Everyman on 9 September 2021, as part of a UK tour to 13 venues including a season at Sadler’s Wells from 4 to 9 October 2021. Full tour schedule below. Exploring the under-belly of 1930s London life... Continue Reading →
Constella OperaBallet have worked in partnership with Derbyshire’s Darley Abbey to bring its heritage to life through a series of seven short films with newly commissioned dance, music and drama. Spin A Tale has been made in collaboration with Darley Abbey residents and performed by singers, dancers and actors from Constella OperaBallet with participation from... Continue Reading →
