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Britain's biggest and most exciting touring dance company who often tour two programmes at a time. Dancing to a mixture of musical styles they provide enormously watchable evenings. This is a programme full of gripping drama, world-class dancing and live music throughout. It is Britain's national dance company at its most captivating. Love, desire and betrayal are the ingredients of the shocking true story which inspired Picasso's masterpiece, The Three Dancers. Now Rambert springs Picasso's painting from the canvas to the stage, bringing to life his vivid Cubist imagery and the themes of ecstasy and doom that haunt his work. Choreographed by Didy Veldman, with orchestral music by leading Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin, The 3 Dancers is part of a triple bill. Two lovers meet by moonlight in Transfigured Night. Their confrontation is shown from different points of view, revealing their hopes, fears and secrets. Created by two-time Olivier- Award winning choreographer Kim Brandstrup, it is a cinematic love story told through virtuosic dancing to Schoenberg's achingly beautiful score. The programme is completed by Frames, an inventive and visually-arresting piece by British dance's hottest property Alexander Whitley. Dissecting the process of making theatre, twelve performers skilfully manipulate seventy interlocking metal bars, forming shapes, structures and spaces which, quite literally, frame their dancing in a different light. Frames is created in collaboration with artists Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen with music by Icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnason. Rambert Dance Company website.

Creatives/Company

Company: Rambert Dance Company
Choreographer(s): Didy Veldman (The Three Dancers), Kim Brandstrup (Transfigured), Alexander Whitley (Frames)
Music(s): Elena Kats-Chernin (The Three Dancers), Daniel Bjarnason (Frames)