Contemporary Dance

6 April 2010 to 11 April 2010

London Coliseum WC2N 4ES[map]

Magia de la Danza is a mixed bill which brings together extracts from seven of the company's most famous ballets including The Nutcracker, Coppélia and Swan Lake. These performances feature a full live orchestra and four special guest appearances from international superstar Carlos Acosta.

28 July 2010 to 7 August 2010

London Coliseum WC2N 4ES[map]

Carlos returns to the London Coliseum with his awe-inspiring Oliver Award winning show which also features new repertoire in a programme which combines classical ballet alongside contemporary works.

14 April 2010 to 17 April 2010

London Coliseum WC2N 4ES[map]

The musical landscape includes Handel's pastoral ode set to the poetry of John Milton. The set design includes inspiration from William Blake's later watercolours illustrating Milton's poems. With 24 dancers, ENOs Orchestra and Chorus, and four vocal soloists.

12 March 2010 to 14 March 2010

Royal Albert Hall SW7 2AP[map]

Sara Baras, one of Europe's most celebrated and exciting flamenco dancers, will perform a repertoire drawn from all nine of the shows she has toured with her company over the last eleven years. This is a rare opportunity to experience the powerful presence of Sara Baras. With her brilliant footwork, elegance and passion, she is quite simply one of the world's finest flamenco artists.

28 November 2009

Artsdepot  N12 0GA[map]

Join The Sugarfoot Stompers on a journey through dance from the 1910s to the 1960s with wow-studded performances, social dancing and an opportunity to have a go yourself.

26 November 2009 to 28 November 2009

Sadler's Wells EC1R 4TN[map]

A new collaborative production by Akram Khan and Nitin Sawhney. Confluence fuses Sawhney's music with Khan's unique blend of classical kathak and contemporary technique.

22 February 2010 to 25 February 2010

Peacock Theatre WC2A 2HT[map]

Bold, innovative and technically astonishing, Maria Pagés has shaped modern flamenco in her own image. With this intimate new work she presents a study of herself, inspired by the process that painters follow when creating a self-portrait. Touching and poetic, this is thoroughly contemporary flamenco of the highest order.

8 June 2010 to 27 June 2010

Peacock Theatre WC2A 2HT[map]

Based on the play by Dale Wasserman and the novel by Ken Kesey, the show features a soundtrack including hits from Missy Elliot, Dizzee Rascal, Gotan Project, David Holmes and Cypress Hill.

23 January 2010 to 24 January 2010

Sadler's Wells EC1R 4TN[map]

Award-winning choreographer, performance artist and director Ivana Müller returns with her latest production. In Playing Ensemble Again and Again six performers start off where most other groups finish: with a bow. As they slowly move together through time and space, they think about the piece they have just performed, reconstructing their lives step by step. Time is distorted through spoken word, tableaux and movement to create an intimate performance-within-a performance, which is at once funny, dramatic and sad.

12 March 2010

The Epsom Playhouse KT18 5AL[map]

A performance combining Motionhouse's trademark highly physical dance theatre and mesmerizing aerial imagery with film and graphics. The piece explores our relationship with water and how it surrounds us in different forms throughout our lives. Performed on a huge curved floor, which disappears skywards upstage, itd uses multiple projection technology to create a world in which the dancers move in, on and through the image.

13 February 2010 to 15 February 2010

Peacock Theatre WC2A 2HT[map]

Nuevo Ballet Español is at the forefront of emerging trends in Spanish dance and flamenco, drawing on traditional dance, a 21st century pop sensibility, and folkloric influences from Andalucía. In this new show, choreographers Rojas and Rodríguez deliver a dazzling mix of traditional and contemporary styles, performed by the full company of dancers and musicians.

3 March 2010 to 4 March 2010

Sadler's Wells EC1R 4TN[map]

A performance of three dance pieces. 'Movements From Petrushka' is a skilful reworking of movements from the ballet using Stravinsky's brilliant folk-inspired melodies. 'Overdrive' is wild, energetic and thrilling, powered by the relentless push of Californian composer Terry Riley's Keyboard Studies. Concluding the repertoire is Martin Lawrance's glorious and uplifting ensemble piece 'To Dance and Skylark', performed to two of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos (in F Major and G Major).

18 May 2010 to 19 May 2010

Sadler's Wells EC1R 4TN[map]

Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui presents the UK premiere of Babel (words), the long-awaited final instalment of a triptych of works he started with FOI and Myth. Once again working with Damien Jalet, co-choreographer in the three-part project, Cherkaoui is also collaborate with renowned visual artist Antony Gormley, with whom he has enjoyed enormous success with previous productions zero degrees and Sutra. Continuing his exploration of the links between ethnicity and identity, and the myths that shape our belief systems, in this new work Cherkaoui traces a path between the heavily thematic worlds of FOI and Myth, and the stark, modular aesthetics of zero degrees and Sutra. Language – both spoken and physical – and space emerge as the driving forces behind all human interaction as Cherkaoui and Jalet combine western contemporary dance with different movement styles from around the world, against a soundscape of voice and rhythms.

30 January 2010 to 31 January 2010

Sadler's Wells EC1R 4TN[map]

Sadler's Wells Sampled is a unique event in which an exciting array of dance styles are presented over two days, across the whole building, allowing audiences to take in everything from flamenco and ballet to hip hop and contemporary dance.