A dream come true (well for me) - RESTLESS CREATURE comes to Sadler's Wells next July ... :)

[Bruce Wall]

A woman who in many ways changed the face of dance for me - one Wendy Whelan - is still at 46 seeking new avenues of dance.  She is ever brave; ever brilliant.  

 

Her self-commissioned RESTLESS CREATURE programme comes to Sadler's Wells in July.  

 

In response to Judith Mackrell's Guardian request as to what her reading audience might like to see I finished my response by wanting to see RESTLESS CREATURE.

 

'One can dream, huh' I concluded.  

 

Who says dreams don't come true

 

(Ref: last paragraph of Deborah Jowitt's wonderful and obviously very personal review: http://www.artsjournal.com/dancebeat/2013/08/restless-creature/)

[barton22]

I think this is scheduled for the Linbury rather than Sadler's Wells. It was in the ROH new season announcement back in March.

[Bruce Wall]

Thanks Barton22.  That sounds even more appropriate .... Important thing is just a chance to snatch it in UK time.  Bliss.  

[John Mallinson]

Yes, it's the last thing in the Linbury section of the preview schedule.

[Jan McNulty]

Just picked this feature up via Twitter.  Wendy Whelan is to retire from NYCB after Autumn (Fall) 2014:

 

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2013/11/13/whelan-discusses-career-dance/

[alison]

And now there's a film out, too:

 

28th September, 9 pm, I think it was at Vue West End:

UK premiere of the critically-acclaimed documentary Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan about the great American Ballerina Wendy Whelan. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with directors Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/zZOWVFr5yg0

 

You didn't want to be at the first night of Alice, did you, Bruce?