Jan McNulty

OOOOOO FizzieLou - I've just followed you!

Thanks Aileen. Here's the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01jk9nw/Arts_Troubleshooter_Episode_1/ If you've watched it, I would love to hear your thoughts. It's definitely worth a look.

Oh no - not something else to look out for! Sorry this has happened to you - something we should all watch for though.

Daniel de Andrade, ballet master at NB and currently on leave of absence for the Clore Fellowship, has put his own views on the documentary on his blog. http://danieldeandrade.wordpress.com/blog/ It should be stressed that these are his own views and not those of the company.

Tescos were selling gorgeous hanging baskets for £5 last week. My friend's husband said that the garden centres/supermarkets were overstocked because the bad weather we had been having meant no-one was buying anything. Our weeds are looking glorious!

I'll lock this thread and would appreciate any more comments on the thread started on the Performances forum. Thanks for contributing on this one Rowan. Edited to add that I have moved the "discussion posts" to the new thread: http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/topic/1053-northern-ballet-on-beeb-2/

I would normally agree with Norman's comments about consultants but I did think that his comments about how you say something were pertinent. Sometimes you are just too close to your own words to realise how they can come across to others. I worked quite a lot with contractors and soon realised that you should always try and put a positive slant on everything because people want to feel they are backing a winner. It wasn't obvious from the programme but the entry level for the sponsorship is £30 and not £50. Every little helps! I think the other thing is that a low entry level means that everyone, and not just wealthy people, trusts and corporations feel they can help. I must say that I have always found the dancers at NB really appreciate the support of their audience and hopefully the administrators have realised just how wonderful the dancers are as ambassadors for the company. As, indeed, is David Nixon. I remember years ago sitting with a friend in the cafe at Sadler's Wells. We were thrilled when David waved over to us from the doorway and totally gobsmacked when he came over and thanked us for all our support because he had noticed us in the audience at various venues. I wanted to hand over the keys to my bank on the spot!! I was pleasantly surprised after another recent documentary series at how supportive of NB this programme was. Well done to all the dancers interviewed for being so articulate and passionate about the company.

Yes, the dancers were very glamorous and it was a lovely evening! My niece was roaring with laughter when she noticed me as one of the audience watching the "performance". I will be happy to sign autographs! I thought the documentary gave a very positive view of the company. It concentrated on the British members of the company but there were some really nice glimpses of the whole company in class and performance. Very thought provoking.

Me toooooooooooo please!

This isn't a repeat, it's just that most of the filming was done last year. Looks better than the offerings on either BBC1 or ITV1! Please watch and report back!

I can't comment on ENB but both Scottish Ballet and NDCW are touted as the national company of Scotland and Wales respectively and blummin' good they are too. As, of course, is ENB.

Northern Ballet have posted the casting for I Got Rhythm for the rest of the week in Leeds: http://northernballet.com/index.php?q=i-got-rhythm/cast-leeds-2012

The Stage enjoys Northern Ballet's I Got Rhythm: http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/36275/i-got-rhythm

If you want to come out of a performance uplifted, full of excitement and fulfilled after a fantastic show, then go and see Northern Ballet's I Got Rhythm!! I've just seen three performances of I Got Rhythm in Leeds and they were all fabulous. This production has two acts, each act consisting of a longer Gershwin suite to start, some individual songs and a suite to finish. The suites are American in Paris, Cuban Overture, Rhapsody in Blue and finally Girl Crazy. The dancers perform with panache and obvious enjoyment and there's some lovely choreography. Because so much is involved most of the company are on somewhere in every performance and it gives some of the younger dancers good opportunities. Personal highlights: Martha Leebolt - glorious in everything she did Toby Batley - sensational in everything he did Sebastian Loe and Hiro Takahashi - hilarious in I Got Rhythm Again Sebastian Loe in I got plenty of nuthin The Girl Crazy finale It may be light, frothy and showbiz but this is a fantastic production with fabulous performances. Go and see it! It's on in Leeds till tomorrow night and then in Norwich next week.

PRESS RELEASE: 24 May 2012 Dance GB: 3 National Dance Companies, 1 unforgettable experience A ground-breaking national celebration of dance inspired by the London 2012 Olympics Dance GB, UK Tour 19 June - 8 July The UK’s three national dance companies - Scottish Ballet, English National Ballet and National Dance Company Wales, will perform together for the first time in a Olympian inspired programme featuring three specially commissioned works from leading contemporary choreographers. Dance GB premières in Glasgow before touring to Cardiff and London. Scottish Ballet: Run For It Set to the propulsive rhythms of John Adams’ Son of Chamber Symphony, Martin Lawrance’s Run For It is a high energy work inspired by the power of Olympic athletes. This dynamic piece features a striking sculptural installation created by Glasgow-born visual artist Martin Boyce built on an aesthetic concept sparked by creative workshops with the Company, and which was further developed into his recent Turner Prize winning piece. ”I’m working on movement-base phrases that represent the discus, the pole vault and more and with the dancers seeing how we can translate this into dance terms. The piece will start and end with a real fast tracked energy but there is also a beautiful slow movement in the middle. I want to show the resistance and determination; the muscularity of an athlete.” Martin Lawrance. National Dance Company Wales: New Work With sly musical references to Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean’s sensational 1984 Sarajevo Olympics win, Christopher Bruce’s piece is a heartfelt tribute to the sporting bravado and a tongue-in-cheek celebration of this event. Bruce’s witty and powerful piece weaves together both the London 2012 Olympics and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in a unique piece celebrating the sheer enjoyment of physical movement. English National Ballet: And the Earth Shall Bear Again The finale And the Earth Shall Bear Again is provided by celebrated choreographer Itzik Galili’s. Inspired by John Cage’s prepared music for piano, Galili’s piece attempts to turn Cage’s rich and versatile music into an extraordinary but accessible piece of dance. It promises to be a challenging piece of choreography, asking a lot of the dancers who are using the bodies in a very new way. “The title sounds epic and enigmatic”, says Galili, “2012 is a year of many beginnings, with potential for new world records...To me, it’s like the earth having its birth again.” Get Involved As part of Dance GB Scottish Ballet will be hosting a special Family Dance Challenge Day (Saturday 16 June) and a Youth Dance Challenge Day (Sunday 17 June) at the Company’s Headquarters at Tramway, Glasgow when participants can take part in a fun and creative dance workshop to challenge their strength and agility with a range of exciting Body Works Sports Stations. Going Live To celebrate this unique coming together, there will be a live broadcast of company class with all three Companies broadcast live online at www.dancegb.co.uk at 1.30pm on Friday 22 June from the Peter Darrell Studio at Scottish Ballet’s headquarters. The class will be followed by a Q&A session with dancers from each company, giving viewers the chance to answer questions live online. Tweet your questions @ScottishBallet or #DanceGB Editors Notes Screened with the performances is Dancing Parallel, an awe-inspiring film created and directed by Nic Sandiland featuring 60 young dancers from England, Scotland and Wales on a journey through classical ballet, contemporary dance and parkour. The young performers have created site-specific choreography drawing inspiration from the contrasting environments of their home cities. The Dancing Parallel project is part of Big Dance 2012, which is part of the London 2012 Festival. Dance GB Listings Scottish Ballet, Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow 16 June Dance GB Family Challenge Day (£4 per person) 17 June Youth Challenge Day (£15 per person including a ticket to Dance GB) For more information or to book tickets please call 0141 331 2931 or email christine.halsall@scottishballet.co.uk Glasgow Theatre Royal 19-23 June 7.30pm, 23 June 2.30pm, Tickets from £12, Box Office 0844 871 7647 Wales Millennium Centre 26 - 30 June 7.30pm, 30 June 2.30pm The Big Top Tent, the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London 4 – 7 July, 7.30pm, 8 July, 2.30pm For further information please check www.dancegb.co.uk

SADLER’S WELLS’ BRITISH BOLLYWOOD MUSICAL WAH! WAH! GIRLS JOINS THE LINE UP FOR THE 2012 LATITUDE FESTIVAL Sadler’s Wells will present extracts from its new British Bollywood musical Wah! Wah! Girls at this year’s Latitude Festival on Saturday 14 July 2012, completing a diverse and exciting programme of dance events on the Waterfront Stage. Wah! Wah! Girls is the first theatre collaboration between Sadler’s Wells, Kneehigh and Theatre Royal Stratford East (in association with Hall for Cornwall) as part of World Stages London and brings together the award-winning artistic director of Kneehigh, Emma Rice (The Red Shoes, Brief Encounter), and acclaimed playwright Tanika Gupta (Sugar Mummies Royal Court, Sanctuary National Theatre) with composer Niraj Chag and designer Keith Kahn, alongside choreographers Gauri Sharma Tripathi and Javed Sanadi. Set in present day East London, the show tells a story of love against the odds, with music that combines Bollywood hits with contemporary pop-influenced songs. The Latitude performances will follow the world premiere run at the Peacock Theatre from 24 May to 23 June. Also joining the line-up is French hip hop dance crew Serial Stepperz, who showcase house dance. House dance is a newer hip hop dance style, devised from the dance floor and born out of club culture. Serial Stepperz have competed in some of the most prestigious battles around the world and earlier in the year were part of Breakin’ Convention’sinternational line-up. Serial Stepperz performs on Friday 13 July, seeing Sadler’s Wells programme performances at Latitude on the Friday as well as over the weekend for the first time. The full programme presented this year compliment both Sadler’s Wells’ and Latitude’s artistic vision, appealing to audiences of all ages and reflecting the theatre’s reputation for exhibiting world class dance in all its forms. Latitude Festival’s Curator of the Arts Tania Harrison comments: “As the UK’s leading dance house Sadler’s Wells brings the most exciting dance companies and performers to Latitude and this is a brilliant partnership for the festival. Whether it is hip hop, contemporary, ballet or kathak, the audiences at Latitude have embraced each and every bill. It has always been inspirational and absolutely worth it. Seeing new audiences discover the beauty and brilliance of dance at Latitude has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my festival programming career.” Also included in the Sadler’s Wells line-up is an excerpt from the hugely popular Sadler’s Wells Production, The Most Incredible Thing on Sunday 15 July 2012. A collaboration between pop legends Pet Shop Boys and choreographer/director Javier De Frutos, The Most Incredible Thing won the Evening Standard’s inaugural Beyond Theatre Award after its premiere in 2011, and recently enjoyed a return run at the theatre this Spring. The Latitude performance features soloists from the original production; South Bank Show Breakthrough Award winner Aaron Sillis and Clemmie Sveaas. Featured in this year’s programme is Candoco Dance Company, the UK’s leading contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled dancers. They perform Set and Reset/Reset a restaging of the celebrated American choreographer Trisha Brown’s signature work, Set and Reset which was premiered in 1983. Using the original concepts from her playful choreography, the work is set to a score from Laurie Anderson’s album Long Time No See. Completing the line-up for Saturday and Sunday is Aeroplane Man, a hip hop dance piece created by Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist and hip-hop pioneer Jonzi D, Artistic Director and curator of Breakin’ Convention and Jonzi D Projects. Aeroplane Man explores through hip hop dance the concept of ‘home’; based on the true story of a black man’s journey from East London on a global quest to find his spiritual homeland. With a unique fusion of rhyme, lyrically motivated movement, classical and modern black dance forms, plus live breakbeats; the universal theme of detachment is delivered with Jonzi’s trademark brazen, ironic wit. Emma Gladstone, Sadler’s Wells Artistic Programmer and Producer comments: “We are excited to be returning to Latitude for our fifth year, to the cracking atmosphere, enthusiastic audience, and fine location of the Waterfront stage. Latitude Festival continues to provide us with a platform to present dance to a wider audience beyond our theatre and I hope this year’s exciting and varied programme of dance with its strong music influences, will appeal to all Latitude goers and dance enthusiasts alike.” LISTINGS: Latitude Festival Thursday 12 – Sunday 15 July 2012 Sadler’s Wells at Latitude Waterfront Stage Friday 13 - Sunday 15 July 2012 Performance schedule Friday 13 July 2012 Serial Stepperz Saturday 14 July 2012 Candoco Dance Company Jonzi D Wah! Wah! Girls Sunday 15 July 2012 The Most Incredible Thing Jonzi D Candoco Dance Company Tickets: www.latitudefestival.co.uk Notes for editors: Sadler’s Wells Offsite Sadler’s Wells first took dance to festivals in 2007 with a mixed programme at Glastonbury, followed by presentations at Glastonbury in 2008 and Latitude in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. Committed to delivering dance to the widest possible audiences both at home and abroad, Sadler’s Wells has presented off site works in the UK at venues including Tate Modern, Roundhouse, Young Vic, Trafalgar Square, London Coliseum, Fabric nightclub and Village Underground. The theatre’s annual international festival of hip hop dance theatre Breakin’ Convention will embark on its fourth UK tour in 2012. About Sadler’s Wells Sadler's Wells is the UK's leading dance house, committed to producing, commissioning and presenting new works and to bringing the very best international and UK dance to London audiences. Under the Artistic Directorship of Alistair Spalding the theatre’s cutting edge programme spans dance in all its forms, from contemporary to flamenco, bollywood to ballet, salsa to street dance and tango to tap. Its international award-winning collaborative productions and commissions include Sutra, zero degrees, and PUSH. Sadler’s Wells also provides a home to world class Associate Artists and Resident Companies including Sylvie Guillem, Akram Khan, Hofesh Shechter, Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures and ZooNation. Located in Islington in north London, the current theatre is the sixth to have stood on the site since it was first built by Richard Sadler in 1683. The venue has played an illustrious role in the history of theatre ever since with The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and English National Opera all having started at Sadler’s Wells. About Candoco Dance Company Candoco Dance Company was co-founded in 1991 by Celeste Dandeker and Adam Benjamin; since then Candoco Dance Company has commissioned and performed work created by world-class choreographers for national and international touring. Choreographers include Rafael Bonachela, Hofesh Shechter, Nigel Charnock, Arthur Pita, Stephen Petronio, Wendy Houstoun and Sarah Michelson. About Jonzi D Jonzi D has been actively involved in British Hip Hop culture, rapping and b-boying since its genesis in the early eighties. After graduating from the London Contemporary Dance School, he has played a key role in the development of hip hop theatre, creating Lyrikal Fearta in 1995, and Aeroplane Man in 1999 and has performed and created dance theatre pieces all over Europe, North America, Russia, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Cuba, Uganda, and Southern Africa. As an emcee Jonzi has worked with The Roots, Steve Williamson, MC Mell’o’, Wordsworth, Hymphatic Thabs, and toured europe with Jeru Da Damaja and Gangstarr in the early nineties. About Breakin’ Convention Still the only event of its kind in the UK, and curated and directed by Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Jonzi D, Breakin’ Convention returned for its ninth year over the May bank holiday weekend this year. Featuring some of the very best UK and international acts in hip hop dance, Breakin’ Convention offers audiences a range of different styles from breaking and popping to locking, b-boying and newer styles such as house dance, devised from the dance floors and born out of club culture. There are also dozens of extra events in the mix including workshops, film screenings, DJ demos, impromptu foyer freestyle sessions and even live aerosol art. Since its inception in 2004 Breakin’ Convention has showcased over 400 UK and international companies, and a total of over 3,900 performers to audiences in excess of 75,000. For more information please visit: www.breakinconvention.com About The Most Incredible Thing Sadler’s Wells Production, The Most Incredible Thing is an award-winning collaboration between Pop legends Pet Shop Boys and choreographer/director Javier De Frutos. Premiering at Sadler’s Wells in March 2011, this modern fairytale based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fable, adapted by Matthew Dunster, centres on a contest to produce ‘the most incredible thing’, with a prize of half the kingdom and marriage to the princess at stake. The production features South Bank Show Breakthrough Award winner Aaron Sillis, and critically acclaimed Clemmie Sveaas. (only keep this in if they’re confirmed – I’m going on the basis Ivan definitely isn’t free so have removed him completely). The production was created by an impressive team including long-time Pet Shop Boys collaborator Sven Helbig, Tony Award-winning designer Katrina Lindsay (Les Liaisons Dangereuses), and BAFTA-winning film animator, Tal Rosner. As the world’s most successful pop duo, Pet Shop Boys have sold over 50 million records worldwide and amassed 22 top 10 hits, three Brit Awards and six Grammy nominations. For their live shows over the last 20 years, they have collaborated with directors, designers and artists including Derek Jarman, David Alden and David Fielding, Zaha Hadid, Sam Taylor-Wood and Es Devlin, but this new production signalled their first composition for a full-length dance work, their first collaboration with Sadler’s Wells, and became one of the most talked about cultural events of 2011. Multi award-winning director and choreographer Javier De Frutos has directed a dynamic range of theatre productions as well as movement for TV and film. His work is in the repertoire of many ballet and contemporary dance companies including Rambert Dance Company and The Royal Ballet. In 2007 he received an Olivier Award for his choreography in Cabaret. His work for The Most Incredible Thing recently earned him a National Dance Award nomination for Best Modern Choreography. About Wah! Wah! Girls and World Stages London About Kneehigh Kneehigh is celebrated as one of Britain's most innovative touring theatre companies. For 30 years it has created vigorous, popular and challenging theatre for a broad spectrum of audiences throughout the UK and beyond. Using a multi-talented group of performers, Director's, designers, sculptors, engineers, musicians and writers, Kneehigh perform with the joyful anarchy that audiences have come to expect from this groundbreaking theatre company. It uses a wide range of art forms and media as its ‘tool kit' to make new and accessible forms of theatre. A spontaneous sense of risk and adventure produces extraordinary dramatic results. Themes are universal and local, epic and domestic. The company is now acknowledged as a defining theatrical force in the UK. Cornwall is its physical and spiritual home. The Company members draw inspiration from its landscapes, history, people and culture. Wah! Wah! Girls Creative Team: Emma Rice Director Tanika Gupta Writer Niraj Chag Composer Keith Khan Designer Javed Sanadi Choreographer Guari Sharma Tripathi Choreographer Malcolm Rippeth Lighting designer Simon Baker Sound Designer About World Stages London World Stages London is an unprecedented collaboration between eight London producing venues and 12 UK and international co-producers. It is a celebration through theatre of the exhilarating cosmopolitan diversity of London. It is a series of exceptional shows created by leading artists, each drawing on the history and experience of one of London’s cross-cutting cultural communities. World Stages London has been jointly produced by Battersea Arts Centre, the Bush Theatre, the Lyric Hammersmith, the Royal Court Theatre, Sadler's Wells, Somerset House, Theatre Royal Stratford East and the Young Vic. - ENDS -

He did the midweek matinee in Sunderland as Franz in March - it was a blissful performance. You can never tell how the casting will work out!

Hi Cabriole, BRB only tend to post the casting about 10 days to 2 weeks before hand. I am hoping Chi will be back for The Dream - he was magnificent in Munich! Joe Caley also excellent. I'll put up the link as soon as I see it on the Company's website.

BRB have set up a mini-site about David Bintley's new ballet Faster (which is being premiered next month). There are a couple of articles including one on the healthcare available to BRB dancers and Jamie Bond and Jenna Roberts talking about injury. http://www.brb.org.uk/faster.html

Northern Ballet have posted the casting for the first three performances of I Got Rhythm in Leeds, which opens tomorrow night. I'm sooooooooo excited! http://northernballet.com/index.php?q=i-got-rhythm/cast-leeds-2012

Shame it's not David Bintley's for BRB!

Gail, I've responded. Thanks

All I can find is the facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Natalia-Kremen-Ballet-School/213478738721914

BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET’S 2012 SUMMER SEASON at BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME David Bintley’s production of Far From the Madding Crowd A mixed bill Summer Celebration Venue and booking information: Birmingham Hippodrome: Tickets: 0844 338 5000 www.birminghamhippodrome.com Birmingham Royal Ballet is delighted to return to the Birmingham Hippodrome stage from 20 – 30 June. The Company will perform its summer season in its home town with two programmes; David Bintley’s captivating production of Far From the Madding Crowd, and a mixed bill Summer Celebration. FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD20 – 23 JUNE Far From the Madding Crowd, created by David Bintley, Company Director and award-winning creator of the Company’s huge Christmas hit Cinderella, enjoyed its world premiere in 1996 performed by Birmingham Royal Ballet at the Birmingham Hippodrome. Now sixteen years later it is once again being performed at the Company’s home theatre. Passions run out of control in this balletic adaption of Thomas Hardy's famous novel. It is an enrapturing story of lust, deceit and murder, with one woman at the centre of it all. Bathsheba Everdene sends ripples through the lives of three men as they compete for her love. The dependable farm-hand Gabriel Oak, the dignified but obsessive William Boldwood and the dashing but deceitful Sergeant Francis Troy, all vie with each other for the heart of the woman they love... Bathsheba's complex relationship with all three leads one to death, one to madness and the other to true love. Adorned in stunningly detailed period costumes and sets by designer Hayden Griffin, and with an evocative score by Paul Reade, composer of the Company's Hobson's Choice, Far from the Madding Crowd makes a very welcome return to the stage. If you are a fan of the worlds of Gone with the Wind, Cranford or The Forsyte Saga, this is a ballet for you. SUMMER CELEBRATION 27 - 30 JUNE (The Grand Tour / Faster / The Dream) A sizzling taste of Shakespeare, Noel Coward and Olympic dreams round off the Company’s 2011/12 season at Birmingham Hippodrome. All aboard for the roaring 20s with The Grand Tour! Setting out for Europe, our heroine, a doughty American spinster, can't believe her luck when she embarks on her cruise and finds herself in the company of a feast of famous faces. However, it turns out that Noël Coward, Gertrude Stein and George Bernard Shaw, to name but a few, aren't necessarily the friendliest of shipmates. Add stowaways and a rather handsome Chief Steward into the mix and things might get a little... complicated. Choreographer of many films and hit Broadway shows, Joe Layton's The Grand Tour is a genuinely funny take on the eccentric celebrities that populated England's stages, screens and newspapers in the 1920s. Accompanied by unique orchestral renditions of Noël Coward songs, the critically-acclaimed The Grand Tour makes a long-overdue return to the stage. Faster is a brand new ballet inspired by the Olympic motto ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger’, and comes from the award-winning team behind E=mc². After winning the last ever South Bank Show Dance award in 2010 with E=mc², Company Director David Bintley embarks on a second collaboration with renowned Australian composer Matthew Hindson. This ballet of speed, power and athleticism will be a fitting creation for the lead-up to London 2012. Rounding off the Summer Celebration triple bill is The Dream. The course of true love never did run smooth... certainly not if a group of mischievous fairies have anything to do with it! In Frederick Ashton's The Dream, having argued with beautiful Titania, Oberon, king of the fairies, seeks a suitable revenge. He orders the fairy Puck to transform a dopey local peasant into a donkey and cause Titania to fall in love with it. This he does, but things soon get out of hand - over-use of the love potion pits friend against friend and hilariously embroils four poor mortals in the fairies' games. Felix Mendelsson's tuneful and instantly recognisable music to A Midsummer Night's Dream becomes the basis for Ashton's elfin comedy, as he shows his mastery of dance, theatre and humour, weaving and unravelling an other-worldly web of mischief. PERFORMANCE DIARY FOR THE 2012 BIRMINGHAM SUMMER SEASON FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD Birmingham Hippodrome: Wednesday 20 – Saturday 23 June Daily at 7.30pm plus matinees at 2pm on Thursday and 2.30pm on Saturday SUMMER CELEBRATION (THE GRAND TOUR/ FASTER/ THE DREAM) Birmingham Hippodrome: Wednesday 27 – Saturday 30 June Daily at 7.30pm plus matinees at 2pm on Thursday and 2.30pm on Saturday Venue and booking information: Birmingham Hippodrome: Tickets: 0844 338 5000 www.birminghamhippodrome.com

Northern Ballet and Dep Arts pairing continues The first Dep Arts season of contemporary dance at Northern Ballet concludes this month with a performance from London-based Company Pair Dance. Formed in 2006 by choreographer Harriet Macauley and sound design artist Richard Leonard, this exciting company has performed nationally and internationally as far afield as New York; Canada; Turkey and Spain, where they won the Masdanza International Dance Contest in 2010. Harriet's choreographic works are created with original sound scores written, arranged and produced by Richard. Her work explores the relationship between movement and sound with performers working on the brink of their limits both mentally and physically. Performing their fast-paced new work Duality, they use digital media and illusion to bring dance and technology together to interact and exist simultaneously. The performance will be the final part of the spring season of contemporary dance from Dep Arts in collaboration with Northern Ballet. After a highly successful season that has brought Joss Arnott Dance, James Wilton Dance, Rosie Kay Dance Company and now Pair Dance to Leeds, the relationship continues to go from strength to strength with an exciting autumn season soon to be announced. Information about performances and details on how to book can be found at theatreleeds.com or by phoning 0113 220 8008. ENDS Notes to editors The Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre is situated in the award-winning home of Northern Ballet and Phoenix Dance Theatre, on Quarry Hill in central Leeds. The theatre seats up to 230 people and offers a unique and intimate environment in which to see live dance, as well as a range of live music, comedy and theatre. Dep Arts are one of the UK's leading contemporary dance & live arts producers, working with more than 20 dance companies across the country and internationally. The spring 2012 programme will act as a pilot season of work with the aim to develop the partnership further, programming an autumn and spring season of work each year. Dance Listings 23 May Dep Arts in association with Northern Ballet present Pair Dance Duality Performance 7.30pm Tickets £10 & Concessions £8 Groups 8+ £8 per ticket plus 1 free in every 10 bought. 13 July Phoenix Youth Platform Performance 7.30pm Tickets £6 & Concessions £3.50