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Kathak's rhythm and storytelling recast as contemporary dance theatre
A British-Bangladeshi choreographer who fuses classical kathak with contemporary dance into some of the most physically demanding storytelling in the field.
Literary narrative recast as psychologically driven movement
A British choreographer known for turning novels and biographies into psychologically detailed narrative ballets, including The Cellist and Jane Eyre.
Hyperextension, speed, and the choreography of cognition
The Royal Ballet's longtime resident choreographer, known for hyperextended movement developed in collaboration with cognitive scientists.
Britain's oldest dance company - and its clearest pivot from ballet to contemporary
Britain's oldest dance company began as a classical ballet troupe and, within its own lifetime, transformed itself into one of the UK's leading contemporary dance companies.
Scotland's national company, remade for bold contemporary theatre
Scotland's national ballet company, historically rooted in classical repertory, remade its public identity around bold, theatrical contemporary storytelling.
Christopher Wheeldon, 2011 - Wonderland reimagined as a three-act spectacle
Christopher Wheeldon's three-act spectacle turns Lewis Carroll's Wonderland into one of the most widely restaged full-length ballets of its era.
Wayne McGregor, 2006 - ten dancers inside a stark white box
Wayne McGregor's 2006 breakthrough for The Royal Ballet, staged in a stark white box designed by architect John Pawson, won the Olivier Award and reshaped what the company's dancers could do.
Helen Pickett, 2019 - Arthur Miller's Salem, told without a word
Scottish Ballet's award-winning full-length adaptation of Arthur Miller's witch-trial drama, built on a classical base but played as taut physical theatre.
Akram Khan, 2011 - one dancer, an inherited homeland
Akram Khan's Olivier Award-winning solo mixes spoken storytelling, animation, and punishing solo dance to trace his relationship to his father and to Bangladesh.
Hofesh Shechter, 2017 - a wild waltz staged among sliding black monoliths
A meditation on conflict and mortality staged among sliding black monoliths, blending Shechter's own score with recomposed classical fragments.
Cathy Marston, 2016 - a novel's interior life given danced form
Cathy Marston's adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's novel for Northern Ballet, staging Jane's inner turmoil through a device of shadow men who trip, obstruct, and carry her.
Hofesh Shechter, 2010 - history's violence played at full volume
A large-scale, deafeningly loud work for a stage packed with dancers, electric guitarists, and drummers, staring directly at authoritarianism and political violence.
Cathy Marston, 2020 - a life, and an instrument, danced as one
Cathy Marston's narrative ballet on cellist Jacqueline du Pré, danced with a partner embodying her cello as a living, physical presence.
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