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RAMBERT DANCE COMPANY

Contemporary dance

SIZE OF COMPANY
Up to 33

SCALE OF VENUE
Medium to large

PERMANENT STAFF
Artistic Director
Mark Baldwin
Chief Executive
Nadia Stern
Music Director
Paul Hoskins
Technical Director
Malcolm Glanville
Company Administrato
Celeste Holder

ARTISTIC POLICY
Rambert Dance Company is one of the world’s most versatile and exciting dance companies and is committed to increasing the audience for contemporary dance by pursuing a policy of innovation, excellence, and access across all its performances and education work.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
Pure quality rises from the stage as soon as the curtain rises on Eternal Light.
Sunday Express
Christopher Bruce’s Swansong and André Gingras’s full-throttle Anatomica #3 – demonstrated again why Rambert’s dancers rank among Britain’s best.
The Times
In less versatile hands, this programme would be impossible – for Rambert, it’s all in a night’s work.
The Scotsman

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Rambert Dance Company usually performs a triple bill of work. The Company’s repertoire is ever changing but current pieces include:
Infinity by Australian Dance Theatre’s Garry Stewart
Explores the dramatic and often brutal passage towards life’s inevitable end. Emotional and intuitive and set to an eclectic and other-worldly musical score.
25 mins approx, 14 on stage
Constant Speed
Inspired by the fizz and sparkle of molecules ricocheting in space, Mark Baldwin’s Constant Speed is performed to the luxuriant music of Franz Lehar.
30 mins approx. 22 on stage
Carnival of the Animals by Siobhan Davies
A popular and endearing work by one of Britain’s most accomplished choreographers it has been re-invigorated for the 21st century and is set to Saint-Saens’ beautiful and melodic music.
30 mins approx, 8 on stage
Eternal Light by Mark Baldwin
Set to an elegiac and uplifting score by composer Howard Goodall, this new work is a heartfelt remembrance of many things, what has been and is now gone, held in our hearts forever.
45 Mins approx, 20 on stage
Swansong
Christopher Bruce’s classic is as relevant and as topical today as when it was first created in 1987. Its theme of torture and interrogation is set to move and inspire a whole new generation of dance audiences.
30 mins approx, 3 on stage
Anatomica 3#
Canadian choreographer André Gingras explores the idea of the human body as an exhibition site in this high energy new work.  
30 mins approx, 18 on stage
Scribblings by Doug Varone
Set to John Adams’ flamboyant Chamber Symphony, Varone creates a daringly complex work set in an off-kilter world with touches of urgency and humour.
25 mins approx, 17 on stage

FUTURE PRODUCTIONS
Hush
By Christopher Bruce (available from April 2009)
A Linha Curva
By Itzik Galili (available from June 2009)

WRAP-AROUND
Rambert has a highly successful and proactive Learning and Participation department. Activity includes; repertoire based workshops for schools and pre and post-performance talks. The Company can also provide bespoke projects and residencies.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2008
Germany, Kölner Philharmonie Cologne: Triple Bill – Swansong, Scribblings, Constant Speed
2007 Germany, Ludwigshafen and Fürth: Triple Bill – Constant Speed, Swamp, Pond Way
2007 Germany, Kurt Weill Festival, Dessau: Judgement of Paris and other works
2006 Spain, Valencia: Triple Bill – Swamp, Dark Elegies, Constant Speed

TOURING AVAILABILITY
Details on request