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Autumn Tour 2010 29.07.10
National Dance Company Wales embarks on a major UK tour in September with works by two of the biggest names in the business, both created at the flagship arts organisation's Cardiff home.
The double bill will comprise Romance Inverse from Netherlands-based choreographer Itzik Galili and a new Stephen Petronio work created in the summer with the NDCWales team.
Works by both Petronio (Strange Attractors) and Galili (Peeled) were presented to great acclaim in the Company's 25th anniversary tour in 2008.
Galili's work has been championed by NDCWales and this new creation has delighted audiences in venues where it has been performed in the spring. Petronio's new work marks the Company's first commission from the hip New Yorker. It will have all his hallmark excitement and fluidity, racing pace and glorious fashion, with a unique and distinct Welsh choral flavour.
This new collaboration was created with the Company's 11 international dancers during August and September and previewed at the arts flagship organisation's home, Dance House at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff before going on the road.
Artistic Director Ann Sholem will then take the show on tour from September to November with the first public performances at The Riverfront, Newport on 28 September.
The tour follows the Company's hugely successful Spring 2010 season that ranged from performances across the UK and Ireland to a prestigious tour to Switzerland that followed on from visiting China in autumn 2009.
NDCWales was the only UK company invited to perform at Switzerland's STEPS International Dance Festival. The Company performed in Lucerne, Baden, Bern, Delémont, Chiasso, Zug and Zurich to large, enthusiastic audiences.
The Company performed a mixed programmes comprising >>FORM<< by Stijn Celis, Veil of Stars by Andonis Foniadakis and Lunatic by Nigel Charnock.
There are also new dancers joining the artistic team. They are Ygal Tsur who joins the Company from France and Gareth Mole and Harriet Bone both apprentices from The Place, London. Also Welsh Emma Lewis joins the company as the new Rehearsal Director.
Artistic Director Ann Sholem said; "This is going to be an exciting new season with two energetic, imaginative and sympathetic choreographers whose work I have followed closely and been keen to introduce to UK audiences".
"Peeled has been loved by our audiences as far afield as Bilbao and Brecon, Milan and Mold, and I am delighted the new work Romance Inverse is proving as popular. We took the work on our spring tour and wherever we performed the reaction was just sensational. It is great to be taking it to even more audiences in more venues throughout the autumn."
The programme
Ann Sholem has commissioned the dances from two international choreographers who are at the top of their game.
Galili's new work uses hip composer Steve Reich's 'Six Marimbas' and a new score commissioned from Percossa. This is the group that created the unforgettable music for Peeled in 2006. Galili is also working with the same lighting and costume design team.
The instinctive choreographer uses boards which are used on stage to create the space in which dancers, all of one gender, move with no physical interaction between them. Then the dancers break into duets and ensemble work as they move together as the work advances.
Galili fans will enjoy references to his recent work Six and the way his elegant and eclectic style dares to challenge audience and dancer alike. The work is also theatrical and daring with exquisite use of lighting.
Stephen Petronio's choreographic debut with the Company will be a celebration of the beauty and physicality of the dancer and dance. The music is also ravishing including Welsh choral music and at some venues live singing.
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Western Mail
"Impressively adventurous" The Guardian
"Grasps us through vision and emotion" Western Mail
"Brilliantly executed" Jersey Evening Post
"Electric" Dance Europe
