Press Release: Twenty-seven perspectives comes to Sadler's Wells for UK premiere this October

[Jan McNulty]

Maud Le Pladec   Twenty-seven perspectives   Monday 30 & Tuesday 31 October  Tickets: £22 - £27  Ticket Office: 020 7863 8000 or www.sadlerswells.com     Maud Le Pladec presents the UK premiere of Twenty-seven perspectives at Sadler’s Wells Theatre on Monday 30 & Tuesday 31 October.     Franz Schubert’s Symphony n.8, famously known as the ‘Unfinished Symphony’, provides the inspiration to Le Pladec for Twenty-seven perspectives.    Pete Harden, composer and director of the KLANG ensemble, presents an original version of Schubert’s work, crafting a series of reinterpreted, distorted fragments to complete the score.     Le Pladec creates her own choreographic response to the revised symphony, entrusting the cast with scaled down and mathematical movement. The production is structured in three distinct parts, with ten performers of varied dance backgrounds hailing from Japan, Belgium, Portugal and France. They perform on a white floor representing the blank canvas where they build on Schubert’s work.    Eric Soyer, who has collaborated with Le Pladec for almost a decade on various projects and has worked on sets of acclaimed French writer Joël Pommerat, creates the light design for this piece.     The title is a nod to the exploratory work of conceptual Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (1943-2005) – 27 esquisses perceptives (27 perceptive sketches) – in which he breaks down a Cézanne painting into its elementary pieces.    Maud Le Pladec returns to Sadler’s Wells after co-directing the solo Hunted in the Lilian Baylis Studio in 2017, and for the first time since her appointment as Director of the Centre chorégraphique national d’Orléans, in France.    Talking about the piece, and its UK premiere in Sadler's Wells, Le Pladec said: ‘I can’t wait to bring Twenty-seven perspectives, a work that I’m really proud of, to London.     “While I’ve shared my work in the Lilian Baylis Studio before, this is the first time I get to show my work on the iconic Sadler’s Wells Theatre stage, which is really exciting for me.     “Since creating the show in 2017, we’ve taken Twenty-seven perspectives on tour internationally to many of the major dance festivals, but this is the first time we’ve presented it to UK audiences – I hope we can revel together in a shared passion of music and dance.”      Recommended age guida 10+

About Maud Le Pladec and Centre chorégraphique national d’Orléans  Following her studies at the National Choreographic Center of Montpellier, Maud Le Pladec danced for choreographers such as Georges Appaix, Loïc Touzé, Mathilde Monnier, Mette Ingvartsen, and Boris Charmatz. In 2010, she premiered her first piece, Professor, first section of a diptych revolving around the music of Fausto Romitelli (Choreographic Revelation Award from the French Union of Theatre, Music and Dance Critics). The second section followed in 2012 with Poetry.  In 2013, Maud Le Pladec became laureate of the French Institute’s Hors les Murs program, and conducted research in New York into American post-minimalist music, leading to her pieces Democracy with TaCtuS Ensemble and Concrete with the Ictus contemporary music ensemble. In 2015, she began a new cycle of works giving voice to women by co-authoring Hunted with the New York choreographer-performance artist Okwui Okpokwasili. In 2016, she worked with the Paris National Opera for Eliogabalo with stage director Thomas Jolly, under the musical direction of Leonardo García Alarcón. In parallel, Maud Le Pladec was Associated Artist at La Briqueterie – CDCN du Val de Marne.  In January 2017, she succeeded to Josef Nadj as director of the Centre chorégraphique national d’Orléans, where she has since premiered Borderline with the stage director Guy Cassiers, Je n’ai jamais eu envie de disparaître with the writer Pierre Ducrozet, the solo Moto-Cross, and Twenty-seven perspectives for the 2018 Festival Montpellier Danse. In 2021, she presented Static shot with the CCN - Ballet de Lorraine, and counting stars with you (musiques femmes), a creation dedicated to women composers in the musical heritage. And in 2022, she creates Silent Legacy at Festival d’Avignon.    About Sadler’s Wells  Sadler's Wells is a world-leading dance organisation. We strive to make and share dance that inspires us all. Our acclaimed year-round programme spans dance of every kind, from contemporary to flamenco, Bollywood to ballet, salsa to street dance and tango to tap.  We commission, produce and present more dance than any other organisation in the world. Since 2005, we have helped to bring more than 200 new dance works to the stage, embracing both the popular and the unknown. Our acclaimed productions tour the world. Since 2005 we’ve produced 64 new full-length works and performed to audiences of more than two million, touring to 51 countries.  Each year, over half a million people visit our three London theatres - Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Lilian Baylis Studio and Peacock Theatre. Millions more attend our touring productions nationally and internationally or explore our digital platforms, including Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage. In 2024 we’re opening a fourth London venue in Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Sadler’s Wells East will house a 550-seat mid-scale theatre, as well as facilities for the Choreographic School and Hip Hop Theatre Academy.  Supporting artists is at the heart of our work. We have associate artists and companies, which nurture some of the most exciting talent working in dance today. We host the National Youth Dance Company, which draws together some of the brightest young dancers from across the country. Sadler’s Wells Breakin' Convention runs professional development programmes to champion and develop the world’s best hip hop artists, as well as producing, programming and touring groundbreaking hip hop performances.    Around 30,000 people take part in our learning and engagement programmes every year. We support schools local to our theatres in Islington and Stratford, designing experiences for children and young people to watch, explore and critically engage with the arts. We also run Company of Elders, a resident performance company of dancers aged over 60 who rehearse with renowned artists to make new work for public performances locally, nationally and internationally.    Sadler’s Wells is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.  www.sadlerswells.com  Stay up to date with everything Sadler’s Wells on social media   Facebook: @SadlersWells   Twitter: @Sadlers_Wells   Instagram: @sadlers_wells   YouTube: Sadler’s Wells Theatre