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faun | sidi larbi cherkaoui

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui | Faun With dancers James O’Hara and Daisy Phillips, and music by Debussy and Nitin Sawhney. Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Ballets Russes, Sadler’s Wells commissioned four choreographers to create a work honouring the legacy of impresario Sergei Diaghilev. In the Spirit of Diaghilev featured new pieces by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Russell Maliphant, Wayne McGregor and Javier De Frutos….

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crystal pite | polaris

Crystal Pite | Polaris Created in response to Thomas Adès’ vast and formidable Polaris. A cast of 60 dancers in the spiralling structures inspired by Adès’ creation, and an ensemble of 65 musicians playing in the orchestra pit and in the auditorium. Filmed with three cameras, clear and crisp sound recording throughout the auditorium by brilliant Mike Hatch of Floating…

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we jive like this | and the sea was red..

Performance poet Siphiwe Ngwenya filmed on a Soweto street for We Jive Like This, a documentary made in the 90’s in the interegnum between Apartheid and democracy. An extraordinary time which saw an explosion of creativity in the black townships: with every back yard, empty shop, after-hours schoolroom, abandoned warehouse or dusty street corner occupied by culture…