Ballet Black returns to Leeds
Ballet Black
Friday 15 & Saturday 16 November
Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Leeds
Award-winning dance company and Leeds favourites, Ballet Black, return to the city next month with a triple bill of bold and inventive dance in Ingoma, Pendulum and CLICK! They will be performing at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre on Friday 15 and Saturday 16 November 2019.
The Company’s 2019 programme will feature inventive storytelling in a lively showcase of three modern ballets, beginning with Ingoma (song) by Company dancer and choreographer Mthuthuzeli November. A fusion of ballet, African dance and singing, this world première, and Barbican co-commission, portrays a milestone in South African history and imagines the struggles of black South African miners and their families in 1946, when 60,000 of them took courageous strike action.
The second ballet of the programme is a revival of Martin Lawrance’s Pendulum, an intimate duet that originally premièred in 2009 and was the choreographer’s first work for the Company. CLICK!, an up-beat piece by Scottish Ballet’s chorographer-in-residence Sophie Laplane, also a world première, completes the triple bill.
Cassa Pancho, Founder and Artistic Director of Ballet Black, says: ‘Our 2019 programme is a particularly exciting one for us. I am really excited that we have been able to offer one of our own dancers, Mthuthuzeli November, a main stage commission. This is an extremely important aspect of Ballet Black: diversifying the world of British ballet – not only in the visible landscape on stage, but throughout the art form, including diverse choreographic voices telling stories from a new perspective.’
Limited tickets remain for Ballet Black at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Leeds, please call the Box Office on 0113 220 8008 for availability.