Jan 07 2010: New season of great dance for Sheffield

SOME of the most exciting names in international contemporary dance come to South Yorkshire this spring as Danceworks unveils its first season of 2010.
With everything from knife throwing and circus to exotic tango in a shop window – in shows from some of the giants of dance today - it’s the sort of line-up that guarantees excitement and the unexpected for every audience.
And once again Danceworks goes out on the road with productions across the whole of South Yorkshire.
The season begins with the Bonachela Dance Company’s The Land of Yes and the Land of No at Sheffield’s Lyceum on January 26, the new work from choreographer Rafael Bonachela, the Spaniard who has work on everything from West End musicals to live shows for Kylie Minogue, and composer Ezio Bosso.
Bonachela’s deepest exploration yet of the human psyche, it delves into the power of the imagination and the body’s ability to give physical shape to memory, experience and emotions.
Sheffield favourites Northern Ballet Theatre return to the Lyceum from March 16 to 20 with a revival of artistic director David Nixon’s acclaimed re-working on Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.
The Crucible Theatre welcomes back contemporary dance from March 22 to 24 with Montreal collective Les 7 Doigts de la Main show Traces, a combination of street dance, circus skills, basketball, skateboarding and amazing effects, all to a soundtrack of Hiphop, rock, blues and classical music.
Back at the Lyceum from April 28 to 30, the ever-popular Rambert Dance Company present their Comedy of Change Tour 2010, a brand new work by artistic director Mark Baldwin marking the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s The Origin of Species, with music by Julian Anderson and design by Kader Attia.
Argentinean choreographer and dancer Rodrigo Pardo’s extraordinary and exciting Toilet Rangio comes to Sheffield on May 14 and 15, a piece of pure Latin American passion performed in a city centre shop window – venue yet to be confirmed!
The production comes to South Yorkshire as part of the collaboration between Danceworks and Sheffield City Council as the next phase of the Generate arts project is launched.
One of the most eagerly anticipated events of the dance year comes to the Lyceum on May 18 and 19 as Brazil’s celebrated Companhia de Danca Deborah Colker presents Cruel.
Four movements explore the intricacies of the cruelties of relationships in a work that is big, spectacular and at one point sees two dancers perform on a five metre long revolving table as knives are thrown into it.
Equally welcome is the return to the Lyceum on May 21 and 22 of Danceworks favourite The Michael Clark Company with Come, Been and Gone, a work that celebrates the work of pop icons David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed.
Finally for Sheffield, dance returns to the elegant City Hall Ballroom on June 15 with Funny Bones, a brand new double bill of family-friendly contemporary dance from by Enrique Cabrera and Luca Silverstrini, presented as part of the Sheffield Children’s Festival.
At Barnsley Civic Theatre on February 13, the ever popular Cholmondeleys and the Featherstonehaughs present Dancing on Your Grave, a darkly humorous piece about five deceased and downtrodden Music Hall artistes, The Corpse de Ballet, stuck on an endless purgatorial tour.
And there’s dance in Doncaster on March 25 as the Civic Theatre plays host to New Art Club’s This Is Now, a comic
New work inspired by a 1983 Now That’s What I Call Music LP from 1983.
It’s music from the likes of Bonnie Tyler and Duran Duran and dance by the dance duo billed as the Reeves and Mortimer of contemporary dance
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