DANCE & PHYSICAL THEATRE DAWNS A THEATR GORFFOROL
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LIVE LIN KS TO THE B OLSHOI B ALLET Screened in our cinema in hd
Thurs 9 – Fri 10 February Iau 9 – Gwener 10 Chwefror 7.30pm £12.50 (£10.50) CC £11 £10 Groups £8
N ational D ance C ompany Wales Wales’ national dance company makes a welcome return with a ravishing and entrancing triple bill of international work. This programme pushes the Company’s 12 dancers to the limit revealing both their supreme talent and individuality. World-famous choreographer Ohad Naharin contrasts a hypnotic female duet set to Ravel’s famous music in B/olero with a ceremonial dance encapsulating the physicality of the five male dancers in Black Milk. Itzik Galili, renowned for creating passionate and dynamic choreography, returns with another new commission after delighting audiences with Romance Inverse in spring 2010 while Phantoms Of Us is a powerful new work from Eleesha Drennan, accompanied by evocative visuals from artist Sue Williams. Artists and photographers are invited to sketch or photograph the dancers in a special Open Class. Workshops also available, contact participation@ndcwales.co.uk
Croesewir cwmni dawns cenedlaethol Cymru yn ôl i’r Ganolfan gyda thri darn hyfryd o waith ysbrydoledig ar themâu rhyngwladol sy’n gwthio’r ffiniau.
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Thurs 1 March Iau 1 Mawrth 7.45pm £6.50 (£4.50)
Mr and Mrs Clark
N ine Directed by Sean Tuan John Design Suzi Dorey A unique piece of interactive dance theatre that uses a combination of performance styles and film to deliver a searching pastiche on modern living in NINE individual scenes. The audience have the power to choose not only the order of the show as it unfolds but also to see sections repeated as many times as they wish to establish and manipulate the underlying narrative. Mr and Mrs Clark make physical theatre with strong dance and music elements. They toured Europe with Welsh Independent Dance and have presented their work at the Weston, Wales Millennium Centre and The Clore Studio in Royal Opera House. Mr and Mrs Clark were part of the National Theatre Wales production, For Mountain Sand and Sea and are associate artist of Volcano Theatre Company. Darn unigryw o theatr ddawns ryngweithiol sy’n defnyddio cyfuniad o ddulliau perfformio a ffilm i gyflwyno portread gafaelgar o fywyd cyfoes mewn naw golygfa.
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Mon 12 - Tues 13 March Llun 12 - Mawrth 13 Mawrth 7.30pm £11.50 (£10.50) CC £11 (£10)
Earthfall
A t S wim T w o Boys To coincide with the 10th anniversary of the novel by Jamie O’Neill, Earthfall revive their award-winning production. Staged entirely in water, and set against the backdrop of the Easter Rising in Ireland, the work juxtaposes the developing love affair between two young men with political turmoil in Ireland and the slaughter on the Western Front – contrasting the dream of national liberation and the search for personal freedom. The production is staged in a slowly filling lake in front of a waterfall, with episodes from the book woven together through a fusion of extreme physicality, original live music and film. ‘Violence, tenderness, passion and humour collide in this super, charged performance’ The Times Llwyfennir y cynhyrchiad hwn yn ei gyfanrwydd mewn dwˆ r gyda’r thema yn cael ei chyflwyno trwy gyfuniad o theatr gorfforol hynod effeithiol, cerddoriaeth fyw wreiddiol a ffilm. Post show talk Monday. Workshops available.
Tues 1 – Weds 2 May Mawrth 1 – Mercher 2 Mai 7.30pm £14 (£13) CC £12.50 (£11.50)
Hofesh Shechter Company Choreography and Music: Hofesh Shechter Uprising In Uprising seven men emerge from the shadows to bombard the stage with furious energy, bonding and sparring, making up and falling out. This highly charged work, set to a throbbing percussive score also composed by Shechter himself, leaves audiences buzzing. ‘Pure Pleasure’ The Herald, 2006 Uprising was made possible with support from the Robin Howard Foundation Commission 2006, Arts Council England and Jerwood Changing Stages Choreolab at DanceXchange.
Sun 11 March Sul 11 Mawrth 3pm £15 (£13) LE CORSAIRE Adolphe Adam A swashbuckling romantic tale of the rescue of a beautiful slave from her tyrannical master by a handsome pirate – with some of ballet’s most famous individual passages, including the famous Pas de Deux. Sun 29 April Sul 29 Ebrill 4pm £15 (£13) THE BRIGHT STREAM Shostakovitch
The Art of Not Looking Back A work by Shechter that is inspired by, and made for, the world-class female dancers of the company. Physical, complex and unrelenting Shechter’s favoured theme of ‘man against the world’ is presented in a different and entrancing light.
One of the funniest ballets ever seen on stage, when a big city dance troupe visits a collective farm to perform for the bemused workers.
‘Shechter is a true original’ The Guardian
Sun 24 June Sul 24 Mehefin 4pm £15 (£13) RAYMONDA Glazunov
‘Beautifully exhilarating, exhilaratingly beautiful!’ Post show talk Tuesday. Workshops available. Dau ddarn dawns cyferbyniol. Yn y darn cyntaf ymddengys saith dyn o’r cysgodion i lenwi’r llwyfan gydag egni crai sy’n syfdanu’r gynulleidfa. Dyfeisiwyd yr ail ar gyfer dawnswragedd gwych y cwmni.
Raymonda tells the tale of a French noblewoman betrothed to a Crusader Knight, and her attempted abduction by a spurned Saracen rival for her affections.
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