25th Anniversary Celebrations Announced
Posted on Wednesday 26 October 2011
PRESS RELEASE>
26TH OCTOBER 2011
MATTHEW BOURNE and NEW ADVENTURES
TO COMMEMORATE 25 YEARS
WITH A YEAR LONG CELEBRATION
INCLUDING
NUTCRACKER!, EARLY ADVENTURES, PLAY WITHOUT WORDS
AND THE WORLD PREMIERE OF
MATTHEW BOURNE’S SLEEPING BEAUTY
Matthew Bourne and New Adventures are delighted to announce a year long celebration of work and special events to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the company’s first performance in 1987. New Adventures (formerly Adventures in Motion Pictures) gave it’s first performances in the late eighties under the direction of Bourne, Emma Gladstone and David Massingham. In 1991 Bourne became the sole Artistic Director and guided the company from a small scale touring troupe to a worldwide dance phenomenon, making Bourne himself a star choreographer with an international reputation. The name change to New Adventures in 2002 brought further success, guided by co-director, Robert Noble, and a new repertoire of popular premieres, major revivals and extraordinary audience development.
Throughout their anniversary year, New Adventures will play over 300 performances at a record 32 UK venues, several of them more than once. This will include 20 weeks (over the 4 productions) at the company’s resident home Sadler’s Wells. The productions will feature over 80 dancers and 30 musicians.
Matthew Bourne said today “When a group of friends and graduates from the Laban Centre decided to create a new dance company together in 1987, none of them would have dared to dream what lay ahead. From those unpaid early days of small scale touring in a minibus, equipped with a dance floor, an iron and a dodgy sound system, grew a company that eventually conquered the West End, Broadway and turned a whole new audience of theatre goers into dance lovers. Of this, I am both grateful and incredibly proud. After 25 years, it really does seem like something worth celebrating!”
PRESS COVERAGE
"Matthew Bourne awakens Sleeping Beauty in the 21st Century"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/oct/26/matthew-bourne-sleeping-beauty
"Bourne Again: Ballet's Enfant Terrible bites back!"
"Sleeping Beauty roused by a gothic kiss"
"Matthew Bourne to re-interpret Sleeping Beauty"
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