Sadler's Wells

Well, they're very elegant.

And we might be able to see them at Sadler's Wells.

And, you know, don't they comport themselves very nicely? After Olga Corbett, it was about acrobatics.

And it went from very niche to very popular because of what she did.

And then after that, we worked with South Bank Center.

We also worked with Sadler's Wells, which is a dance venue.

three years with Akram Khan to do dance and music, which was really a very, very insightful experience.

And then recently, for the last five years or more, we're with the Barbican Center.

It is that powerful.

almost as powerful as the silence imposed upon the ballet audience at the Sadler's Wells last night by John Neumeyer's Ghost Light.

The first couple of minutes following Curtain Up, the room was quiet and steady, the audience behaving as expected, if you like.

Nothing strange about a ballerina, not just any ballerina, Alina Koshikaru, single-handedly commanding everyone's focus, even without music.

He visited the Royal Observatory in Greenwich with an astronomer.

He went to bookshops in Piccadilly and even had some fun in local entertainment spots like Sadler's Wells.

and Thomas Jefferson was presented to the king at court, but he was snubbed by George III.

That happened on March 15, 1786.

I absolutely adore it.

So this is at Sadler's Wells.

It's now sadly closed.

But what can you tell us about it?

So this is Casa Poncho's 25th anniversary programme of Ballet Black.

And it's Wow, it was beautiful.

It was a shame you couldn't come and see this one with me, but it was so... poignant and um and and literally I mean you know that it's a vast stage at Sadler's Wells so this is at the original Sadler's Wells not Sadler's Wells East and and as we know that stage is massive and and we've seen it configured in so many different ways from like chorus line to flamenco to

Carmen

I was doing the same as everyone else, but I did slightly different at the end.

And the crowd, again, a bit like earlier, it was the same setting, but it was at Sadler's Wells.

And I was like, Sadler's has always been the dream place to perform.

And I got to it twice.

Yeah, so, you know, Guy with the Misses.

If you guys are not doing anything, I still think they've got tickets going at Sadler's Wells.

It's at Sadler's Wells.

Sadler's Wells.

I might

take tomorrow starts at half seven

She calls them highbrow and feels like a complete Philistine.

They are sitting around drinking gin, discussing Russian plays where the actors walk without feet, and debating the Sadler's Wells ballet.

It's very bohemian.

Very.

A respectable future.

And then he goes to Sadler's Wells.

He sees Samuel Phelps playing Hamlet.

And that does it.