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The Cunning Little Vixen
Opens: 19/03/2010 Closes: 01/04/2010
Royal Opera House, London
This is a beautiful and heartfelt production that can be enjoyed by young and old. The story, inspired by a cartoon starring Vixen Sharp-Ears, centres on the antics of the young fox and the characters she encounters in the forest. A wonderful depiction of the triumphs and challenges of fictional canidae life.
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Katya Kabanova
Opens: 15/03/2010 Closes: 27/03/2010
ENO, London
Following the double Olivier Award-winning Jenůfa, David Alden stages Katya Kabanova, which is supposedly inspired by composer Janáček's desire for a younger woman. Patricia Racette, Clive Bayley and Susan Bickley lead this dramatic production. Mark Wigglesworth conducts its enchanting accompanying music.
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Wuthering Heights
Opens: 11/03/2010 Closes: 20/03/2010
Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
Emily Brontë’s romantic tour de force is lovingly adapted in this Northern Ballet Theatre production. The stormy moors of Yorkshire provide the thematic setting for Cathy and Heathcliff’s unruly love. Claude-Michel Schönberg (of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon fame) provides an original score.
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Richard Alston Dance Company
Opens: 11/03/2010 Closes: 26/05/2010
UK tour
As one of Britain’s leading choreographers, Richard Alston is known for an instinctively musical approach. This innovative contemporary dance tour presents an energetic triple bill that centres on Alston’s Movements of Petrushka. Overdrive and To Dance and Skylark (by Martin Lawrence) complete the production.
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Disgo
Opens: 10/03/2010 Closes: 18/03/2010
UK tour
Fleur Darkin is a rising star of British choreography. She researched intensively, at the Royal Opera House and PARTS Brussels, in the creation of Disgo, an immersive piece devised to bypass the conscious mind. Be prepared to share the performance space with the dancers.
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Danza Contemporánea de Cuba
Opens: 10/03/2010 Closes: 20/03/2010
UK tour
Celebrating an exceptional 50 years as one of the world’s finest dance companies, Danza Contemporánea de Cuba present their first major UK tour. Afro-Caribbean and Spanish styles combine for a unique and passionate mix of exemplary contemporary performance.
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Circa
Opens: 09/03/2010 Closes: 14/03/2010
Barbican Theatre, London
Having won high acclaim thanks to performances in more than 18 countries since 2006, Brisbane-based Circa has established itself as a spectacular blend of circus and contemporary dance. This specially developed show at the Barbican demonstrates a poetic, emotive edge alongside adventurous physicality.
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La Fille Mal Gardée
Opens: 09/03/2010 Closes: 28/04/2010
Royal Opera House, London
Frederick Ashton’s timeless classic is brought to life by the Royal Ballet for its 50th anniversary, and will charm seasoned ballet fans and newcomers alike. Marianela Nuñez is famed for the warmth and graceful energy of her interpretation, and this is a chance to see a truly memorable piece that will leave you floating on air.
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Tamerlano
Opens: 05/03/2010 Closes: 20/03/2010
Royal Opera House, London
Featuring Kurt Streit and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, this production of one of Handel's most lauded operas is not to be missed. A Baroque piece relaying Tamerlano's conquests and Bajazet's downfall, it is a potent marriage of elegance and high drama.
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Babel
Opens: 04/03/2010 Closes: 06/03/2010
The Place, London
A distinctly ‘now' production, Babel seeks to address motifs of modernity in a way that might arouse suspicion and admiration in equal measure. The credentials of those responsible should blunt cynicism, however: sometime Complicite collaborators Liam Steel and Rob Tannion hook up with Whitbread Award winning novelist Patrick Neate.
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