Press Release:Acclaimed Berlin-based company Sasha Waltz & Guests bring UK Premiere to Sadler's Wells 11 - 13 November

[Jan McNulty]

Sasha Waltz & Guests

Sacre
UK Premiere
Wednesday 11 - Friday 13 November 2015
Performances at 7.30pm
Tickets: £12 - £29
Ticket Office: 020 7863 8000 or www.sadlerswells.com

 

 

Berlin-based company Sasha Waltz & Guests, known for its innovative choreographic musical theatre performances, presents the UK premiere of a three-part evening entitled Sacre at Sadler’s Wells from 11 - 13 November 2015.

To mark the hundredth anniversary of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, Sasha Waltz premiered her own vision of the piece in 2013. The tension-charged and angular composition is characterised by a strong rhythm and a layering of constantly repeating musical motifs.

 

Earlier large-scale works by Waltz, including her Medea (2007) and Continu (2010), laid the foundations for this new piece, and showcased elements of her research into rites and group dynamics, which now culminate in Sacre.

 

Sacre is presented at Sadler's Wells as part of a three-part evening, together with Sasha Waltz' choreographies of Scéne d'Amour (from Roméo et Juliette) with music by Berlioz, and Debussy's L'Après-midi d'un faune.

 

Sasha Waltz was born in Karlsruhe, Germany. She studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York. From 1992 onwards she was artist in residence at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. There she developed a series of "dialogues" in interdisciplinary projects with dancers, musicians and visual artists – a mode of collaborative creation that has characterised her artistic output ever since. In 1993, she founded her company Sasha Waltz & Guests with Jochen Sandig. 

 

To date, more than 300 artists and ensembles including architects, visual artists, choreographers, filmmakers, designers, musicians, singers and dancers  from 25 countries have collaborated as ‘Guests’ on over 80 productions, projects and films. 

Sasha Waltz & Guests works in an international and constantly evolving network of production and guest performance partners, showing parts of its current repertoire of 20 pieces in about 70 performances around the globe each year. In Berlin, the company cooperates with a wide range of institutions such as municipal theatres, opera houses and museums and has contributed to the establishing of innovative production sites in Berlin for artistic dialogue such as Sophiensaele (1997) and Radialsystem V, Space for Arts & Ideas (2006). 

 

The development of innovative forms of performance and creation in choreographic musical theatre has become the most significant focus of the work of Sasha Waltz & Guests. The company was named an official Cultural ambassador of the European Union for the 2013 anniversary year. The company also received the 2014 George Tabori prize for exceptional artistic achievements over the last 20 years.

 

 

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Listings information

Sasha Waltz & Guests
Sacre
UK Premiere
Wednesday 11 & Friday 13 November 2015
Performances at 7.30pm
Tickets: £12 - £29
Ticket Office: 020 7863 8000 or www.sadlerswells.com

 

About Sadler’s Wells
Sadler's Wells is a world leader in contemporary dance, committed to producing, commissioning and presenting new works and to bringing the very best international and UK dance to London and worldwide audiences. Under the Artistic Directorship of Alistair Spalding the theatre’s acclaimed year-round programme spans dance of every kind, from contemporary to flamenco, Bollywood to ballet, salsa to street dance and tango to tap. Since 2005 it has helped to bring over 90 new dance works to the stage and its international award-winning commissions and collaborative productions regularly tour the world. Sadler’s Wells supports 16 appointed world class Associate Artists, three Resident Companies and an Associate Company and nurtures the next generation of talent through hosting the National Youth Dance Company, its Summer University programme, Wild Card initiative and its New Wave Associates.

 

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.

Sadler’s Wells is an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation and currently receives approximately 9% of its revenue from Arts Council England.