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Yllana Productions, Flamenc Oh.
Photo: Pablo Lorente
FLAMENC OH! RETURNS TO THE
PEACOCK THEATRE
The company behind acclaimed
comedy musical The Opera Locos will
return to the Peacock Theatre, Sadler's
Wells' home in the West End, this
autumn with their latest show combining
world-class flamenco dancing and live
music with comedy and physical theatre
from 30 September to 10 October.
The production, co-commissioned by
Spanish dance theatre company Yllana
and Sadler’s Wells, is a comedic show
about love, passion and revenge that
follows a family of flamenco artists while
they’re on tour.
Their family is helmed by a fiercely
traditional patriarch whose world
unravels when his children begin to
challenge the old rules and, in order to
attract new audiences, experiment by
fusing flamenco with other modern
music and dance styles. However, as
audiences will discover, beneath their
father’s determined defence of tradition
he hides a deep secret.
The show lovingly sends up the
flamenco tradition and includes a unique
blend of many dance styles and musical
genres, featuring live music and singing
across traditional flamenco, rock, pop,
hip-hop, and country.
www.sadlerswells.com
BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET
PERFORM SWAN LAKE
Following this summer’s celebrations
of 100 years of their Founding Director
Laureate and one of ballet’s most
influential directors and choreographers,
Sir Peter Wright, this autumn,
Birmingham Royal Ballet will revive his
beloved and spectacular production of
Swan Lake.
One of the Company’s most popular
productions in its repertoire, Swan Lake
will play at Birmingham Hippodrome
from 23 September to 3 October. The
production will then transfer to London’s
Sadler’s Wells Theatre from 28 to
31 October.
Birmingham Royal Ballet Director,
Carlos Acosta said: ‘In this year where
we celebrate 100 years of the
magnificent contributions of our
Founding Director Laureate, Sir Peter
Wright, we couldn’t not bring his
cherished and spectacular production of
Swan Lake back to the stage. Not only
one of the world’s favourite ballets, this
specific production has been beloved for
decades and over generations –
bringing many to ballet for the very first
time. We look forward to being back on
the stage in Birmingham and London
this autumn with this unmissable show.’
Prince Siegfried is out hunting one
night when he happens upon a flock of
graceful swans. When one of them turns
into a beautiful woman, the Prince is
utterly smitten – but Odette explains that
she has fallen under an evil spell cast by
Baron von Rothbart, which keeps her in
swan form from dawn to dusk. Can
Siegfried’s love break the spell?
Tickets on sale at brb.org.uk
Birmingham Royal Ballet is one of
the UK’s leading classical ballet
companies, celebrated for its worldclass dancers, outstanding live music
and imaginative productions. Based at
Birmingham Hippodrome, the company
tours extensively, presenting much-loved
classics alongside bold new works and
introducing audiences across the
country to the artistry and excitement of
ballet.
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