Storyville/Running Silent/Together, Alone/Captured - Ballet Black
- Composer:
- Alex Baranowski/Shostakovitch
- Management:
- Ballet Black and ROH2
- Cast:
- Cira Robinson, Jazmon Voss, Damien Johnson, Sarah Kundi, Kanika Carr, Sayaka Ichikawa, Joseph Poulton
- Design:
- Gary Harris
- Choreography:
- Christopher Hampton/Jonathan Goddard/Jonathan Watkins/Martin Lawrence
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Despite its small size and modest funding, Ballet Black is a textbook case of how to run a dance troupe. Founder and director Casa Pancho has a strong sense of artistic priorities, hiring able choreographers while avoiding expensive costumes and sets. In this, the company's eleventh year, she has commissioned no less than four new works, from Royal Ballet dancer Jonathan Watkins, Rambert dancer Jonathan Goddard, Richard Alston dancer Martin Lawrance, and Scottish Ballet's new artistic director Christopher Hampson. It's an impressive list, and they have created for Ballet Black exactly the kind of small-scale low-key pieces that show the dancers at their best...
Run sheet
- Royal Opera House, Linbury Studio London
- February 29-March 7
- Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds
- March 29-30
- Northcott Exeter
- May 2- 3
- Brewhouse Taunton
- May 10
- Curve Leicester
- May 19-20
- Arts Cambridge
- June 12-13
- Lakeside Arts Centre Nottingham
- June 19
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