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LONDON CITY BALLET 2025
PROGRAMME
London City Ballet has launched its
2025 UK and international tour with a
new programme entitled Momentum,
which opened at Blackpool Grand
Theatre on July 12. The tour continues
to venues including Theatre Royal Bath,
Birmingham Rep, Sadler’s Wells London,
Oxford New Theatre, and York Theatre
Royal. A separate programme, Rebirth,
will be performed at the Royal Opera
House’s Linbury Theatre in November.
Momentum showcases a bold
repertoire of rarely seen works.
Highlights include George Balanchine’s
Haieff Divertimento, performed for the
first time outside the USA, and Alexei
Ratmansky’s Pictures at an Exhibition,
set to Mussorgsky’s music with visuals
inspired by Kandinsky. Liam Scarlett’s
Consolations & Liebestraum, unseen in
the UK since 2009, offers a moving
portrayal of love and loss.
New work by Florent Melac brings
fluid, inventive choreography to the
stage, while emerging choreographer
Tash Chu’s pieces will be developed and
featured in future seasons.
Returning dancers include Alejandro
Virelles and Cira Robinson, joined by
new talent from international companies.
Star ballerina Alina Cojocaru returns as
guest artist for select performances.
Visit the website for further details
www.londoncityballet.com
ACOSTA DANZA
A DECADE IN MOTION
Dance legend Carlos Acosta
celebrates the tenth anniversary of his
dance company Acosta Danza with a
mixed bill in London this autumn. A
Decade in Motion, which includes two
UK premieres, comes to Sadler’s Wells
Theatre from 23 – 27 September.
Carlos Acosta’s brainchild, Acosta
Danza was created after his retirement
from The Royal Ballet with the aim of
harnessing and developing the young
creative dance talent emerging from
Cuba. The company celebrates ten years
of nurturing dancers who combine
classical and contemporary to create a
repertory built on Cuban’s history and
culture where they stretch dance
boundaries.
With A Decade in Motion, Acosta
brings his Sadler’s Wells International
Associate Company to London to
showcase an ode to Cuban dance
through the pieces of five major
choreographers:
La Ecuación (The equation) by
celebrated Cuban choreographer George
Céspedes opens the evening’s
programme. He has created his own
style of social dance which embraces
Cuban flair alongside mathematical
precision.
98 Días, by Olivier Award winning
Spanish Venezuelan choreographer
Javier de Frutos, is set in 1920s Cuba
and inspired by the life of Spanish
playwright Federico García Lorca. This
work explores how it feels to fall in love
with a place far away from home.
Llamada (Gesture) was created for
Acosta Danza in 2023 by acclaimed
Spanish choreographer Goyo Montero.
Federico García Lorca is also the source
of inspiration for this piece, which is
drawing on his poem ‘Ode to Walt
Whitman’ and explores sexuality, rage
and faith.
De Punta a Cabo (From end to end)
by Alexis Fernández and Yaday Ponce,
performed by the entire ensemble,
closes the evening. The piece is set
against the Malecón esplanade – an
iconic five miles stretch featuring
landmarks of Cuba’s architecture along
the Havana coast.
De Punta A Cabo by Alexis Fernández and Yaday Ponce.
Photo: H Glendinning
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