Press Release: Northern Ballet announces spring 2022 season

[Jan McNulty]

 

Tuesday 7 September 2021
For immediate release

 

Northern Ballet announces spring 2022 season

 

Northern Ballet dancers in Casanova and The Great Gatsby. Photos Guy Farrow
 

Casanova – Leeds, Sheffield, London, Salford
The Great Gatsby – Edinburgh, Milton Keynes, Cardiff
Pinocchio – Touring nationally

 

Northern Ballet’s spring 2022 tour will revive two of their most popular ballets Casanova and The Great Gatsby and see children’s ballet Pinocchio embark on a national tour of over 20 cities.

Northern Ballet dancers in Casanova. Photo Caroline Holden.

The season will open with Kenneth Tindall’s Casanova at Leeds Grand Theatre. This sumptuous ballet hasn’t been seen on stage since 2017, although it has enjoyed success with TV broadcast on Sky Arts and on demand via Digital Theatre. Tindall’s first full-length work, Casanova takes us into the heart and mind of one of the most notorious figures in history. Follow Casanova through his romantic and scholarly endeavours as he winds his way through the scandal and excess of 18thcentury high society. With a cinematic score by Kerry Muzzey and opulent sets and costumes by Christopher Oram, Casanova is a visual and sensual feast. Following its Leeds opening, the ballet will tour to Sheffield Lyceum Theatre, Sadler’s Wells, London and The Lowry, Salford between March and June.

 

 
Northern Ballet dancers in The Great Gatsby. Photo Emma Kauldhar.

 

David Nixon OBE steps down from his role as Artistic Director of Northern Ballet at the end of 2021, but audiences will be able to continue enjoying his work as The Great Gatsby tours to Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Milton Keynes Theatre and Cardiff New Theatre between April and June 2022. Nothing brings back the heady days of the 1920s better than F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great American novel, and David Nixon OBE’s ballet perfectly evokes this glamorous and decadent era. The tragic story of Daisy and Gatsby plays out to its inevitable conclusion with Chanel inspired costumes and a score by the legendary Sir Richard Rodney Bennett CBE.

Children’s ballet Pinocchio is choreographed by Northern Ballet Junior Soloist Gavin McCaig. This delightful production for young children re-tells the original story by Carlo Collodi, reminding us all that where there is love and honesty there is always magic. 

 

All Northern Ballet’s productions are accompanied by live music performed by Northern Ballet Sinfonia. 

 

For more information, on sale dates and booking details for performances until June 2022, see northernballet.com/whatson. More dates for Casanova and The Great Gatsby will be announced later in the year as part of Northern Ballet’s autumn 2022 tour.
 

Notes to Editors

Spring 2022 Tour Dates

 

Casanova

Leeds Grand Theatre                       Box Office 0113 243 0808
10 – 19 March 2022                          leedsgrandtheatre.com
On general sale 17 September 2021
 

Sheffield Lyceum Theatre                Box Office 0114 249 6000
22 – 26 March 2022                           sheffieldtheatres.co.uk
On general sale 16 October 2021
 

Sadler’s Wells                                       Box Office 020 7863 8000
10 – 14 May 2022                                sadlerswells.com
On sale soon

Salford The Lowry                             Box Office 0843 208 6000
18 – 21 May 2022                                thelowry.com
On general sale 17 September 2021

 

The Great Gatsby

Edinburgh Festival Theatre                 Box Office 0131 529 6000
21 – 23 April 2022                                   edtheatres.com
On general sale 22 September 2021

Milton Keynes Theatre                          Box Office 0844 871 7652*
24 – 28 May 2022                                   atgtickets.com/MiltonKeynes
On sale soon

Cardiff New Theatre                               Box Office 0343 310 0041
7 – 11 June 2022                                     newtheatrecardiff.co.uk
On sale soon

 

Pinocchio                

Details of the national tour to be announced soon northernballet.com/pinocchio

*Calls cost 7p per minute plus your phone company’s access charge

 

Northern Ballet

Northern Ballet is one of the UK’s leading ballet companies and the widest touring ballet company in the UK. Bold and innovative in its approach, Northern Ballet is prolific at creating new full-length work with a unique blend of strong classical technique and impressive storytelling. Northern Ballet’s repertoire embraces popular culture and takes inspiration from literature, legend, opera and the classics, pushing the boundaries of what stories can be told through dance.

 

A champion for the cultural exports of the North, Leeds-based Northern Ballet is dedicated to bringing ballet to as many people and places as possible. Northern Ballet’s Company of dancers performs a combination of its full-length ballets and specially created ballets for children at more than 40 venues annually.

 

Launched in 2019, Northern Ballet’s digital dance platform ensures more people can access their work, from full-length films of popular ballets through to exciting short dance films by up-and-coming choreographers and filmmakers. Visit digitaldance.org to discover more.

For more details of Northern Ballet's tour, on sale dates and booking information, please visit northernballet.com/whats-on

[DanJL]

Wonderful news that Great Gatsby is coming to Cardiff 😊

[Jan McNulty]

A nice feature about Casanova:

 

https://leeds-list.com/culture/why-northern-ballets-casanova-is-so-sensational-you-wont-believe-its-real/?fbclid=IwAR2v-h8tZQgwz1g9PgpuObjWTPp3W4NaeeB-l8SvF5rGVmn8Yk8W-DuwDIc

 

[FionaM]

On 07/09/2021 at 14:47, DanJL said:

Wonderful news that Great Gatsby is coming to Cardiff 😊

yes I liked that too!  I’ll be booking for this.  One hour drive from Bristol where I live.