Press Release: Ballet Cymru - Summer Tour 2015

[Jan McNulty]

Ballet Cymru - Cinderella

 

Ballet Cymru, nominated by the Critics Circle UK National Dance Awards in 2013 as Best Independent Company, and winners of the Best Large Scale Dance Production at the Theatre Critics of Wales Awards, presents a sparkling and refreshing ballet based on the eternal fairy tale.  

 

Ballet Cymru prides itself on being different and Cinderella will be no exception, with a brand new music score and circus elements combined with the finest classical dance. Ballet Cymru will be working with award winning composer Jack White and Circus Company Citrus Arts to conjure a surprising world of wonder and magic.

 

Featuring choreography by Creative Wales Award winner Darius James and costumes by Welsh designer Steve Denton, Ballet Cymru bring to life this timeless story using the company’s unique blend of classical technique and storytelling.

 

 

‘These young dancers created a taut, committed atmosphere on stage, and the audience, comprised of every age group from 5 to 95, were gripped from start to finish.

Ballet Cymru, I salute you!’

Amanda Jennings, Dance Europe

‘Not too short, and not too long, the evening was a complete delight from start to finish’

Jonathan Gray, Dancing Times

 

‘It’s a small enterprise with a great deal to shout about. The formula is winning, deftly translating each sentence of the story into vivacious, easily decipherable dance sequences.’

Deborah Weiss, Dance Europe

 

‘The dance is mature, elegant, sophisticated, refreshing; and dazzlingly alive.

A few minutes with Ballet Cymru lifts the spirits.’

Roderic Dunnett 

 

Cinderella is a co production between Ballet Cymru and The Riverfront Theatre, in association with Citrus Arts.

 

About Ballet Cymru

 

Ballet Cymru are a young, vital group of dancers who are pushing back the barriers of classical ballet. Using powerful and timeless stories the company challenges its dancers to interpret some of the finest characters in literature.

 

Ballet Cymru is a chamber ballet for Wales, committed to inclusion and innovation in dance and classical ballet, and to the highest standard of collaboration with dancers, choreographers, designers, composers and musicians.

www.welshballet.co.uk

 

 

Tour Dates:

 

May

8,9: Newport, The Riverfront  01633 656757

 

12: Borehamwood, Ark Theatre  0208 238 7288

15: Blackwood, Blackwood Miners Institute  01495 227206

18: Llandudno, Venue Cymru  01492 872000

19: Hexham, Queen`s Hall  01434 652477

20: Newcastle Under Lyme, New Victoria Theatre 01782 717962

21: Ayr, The Gaiety  01292 288235

29: Abergavenny, Borough Theatre  01873 850805

June
1: Stevenage, Gordon Craig Theatre  01438 363200

6: Spalding, The South Holland Centre  01775 764777

10: Newbury, The Corn Exchange  0845 5218 218

11: Tewkesbury, Roses Theatre  01684 295 074

12: Burnham On Sea, The Princess Theatre and Arts Centre  01278 784464

14: Lincoln, Lincoln Performing Arts Centre  01522 837600

17: Milford Haven, Torch Theatre  01646 695 267

19: Basingstoke, Haymarket Theatre  01256 844244

24: Hereford, The Courtyard  01432 340555

27: Llanelli, Ffwrnes  0845 226 3510

[Jan McNulty]

Ballet Cymru present

TIR / CELTIC CONCERTO

AN OUTSTANDING DOUBLE BILL OF NEW WELSH DANCE

Featuring Cerys Matthews, Catrin Finch and Sinfonia Cymru

 

14th May 2015 - Sherman Cymru - 02920 646900 or online at www.shermancymru.co.uk 

 

2nd June 2015 - Stevenage - (without live music) - 01438 363200

 

Critics Circle Award winning company, Ballet Cymru, present an extraordinary double bill of new work featuring some of Wales most outstanding artists.

 

TIR

 

Following the sell out success of Ballet Cymru’s team up last year with Cerys Matthews’, the company reprise this iconic work for one night only. Cerys’ iconic album of Welsh Folk Music is the inspiration for TIR and choreographers Darius James and Amy Doughty have used 11 of the songs from the album to create a unique work especially for the dancers of Ballet Cymru. Cerys herself is playing the music live on stage with the company.

 

Cerys Matthews fronted one of the biggest Welsh pop bands to emerge in the Britpop era of the 1990s. Catatonia released five albums, but their biggest success came in 1998 with their third album International Velvet.

 

CELTIC CONCERTO

Ballet Cymru will be teaming up with harpist and composer Catrin Finch and orchestra Sinfonia Cymru to produce a new work based on Catrin’s first composition “Celtic Concerto”.

Featured on the No 1 selling album “Blessing“, Celtic Concerto is a once only opportunity to see Ballet Cymru dance with Catrin Finch and 10 members of Sinfonia Cymru live on stage.

 

Ballet Cymru are a young, vital group of dancers who are pushing back the barriers of classical ballet.

 

“These young ballet pioneers deserve wider support. Catch them if you can.”

The Dancing Times.