Middleton Hall presents Madame Fate, a mysterious fortune teller, has foreseen her own demise at midnight this very day. She has asked for your help in investigating each quirky carnival worker to determine their whereabouts at midnight.
The story is told with highly energetic Commercial Dances throughout.
The award-winning Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company returns to Hull with another spell-binding flamenco show full of emotion, passion and grit.
Back by popular demand, the audience will enjoy compositions from Daniel’s Herald Angel Award winning production Art of Believing as well as other unseen pieces full of music, singing and dance.
If you’re looking to enjoy authentic flamenco from the heart, look no further than the Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company and their spectacular dancer and musicians.
This show is rescheduled from July 2023
Be Amazing presents Peter Pan at Stage @TheDock
It’s Wendy’s last night in the nursery, it’s high time she got ready to start acting like a lady, and join respectable society. The boy who never grows up pays a visit and gives hope and adventure to a generation who lost their childhood due to war.
In this magical adaptation for all the family, J.M. Barrie’s classic is brought to life in Yorkshire during World War Two. Expect all your favourite characters: Captain James Hook, Mr Smee, Tinker Bell, Tiger Lily and all the lost boys in this retelling!
Once Upon a Fairytale at Stage@TheDock!
Goldilocks is missing and we need your help to find her!
Join us at Stage @TheDock for this fabulous, high energy show suitable for all the family! In this show we travel through many of our favourite fairytales and meet some familiar faces along the way! Little Red Riding Hood, The Gingerbread Man and some hungry Bears to name a few!
There are of course some big twists (both with plotlines and dance moves) as well as the classic big energy, interactive performance style that we love to deliver.
Audiences have said: “They had everyone laughing” “Fun for the whole family” “Absolutely amazing!”
Tickets coming soon!
Aimed at 2-8 year olds
Kingston Swing transport you back to the Golden Age of the Swing Dance era in the first of two evenings with dancing and live Jazz music from The Blind Tiger Band (plus DJs).
Hull New Theatre Associate Dance Company McNicol Ballet Collective makes a welcome return following its debut in 2021.
Led by Hull-born Artistic Director Andrew McNicol, the company performs a programme of three modern ballets, devoted to the power of music and dance.
Devotions features a brand-new work, debuting in 2023. ‘Moonbend’ is set to a score by visionary indie pop singer/songwriter Perfume Genius from the album ‘Set My Heart on Fire Immediately’, and features costumes by British designer Louise Flanagan. By turns earthbound and ethereal, this new work demonstrates the company’s passion for the connection between the movement and music.
The programme will also include ‘Of Silence’, an exploration of hope and belonging inspired by the music of Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks, with new costumes for 2023. Plus, a newly extended version of ‘Bates Beats’, an exuberant and energetic work that showcases the virtuosity of the company’s dancers which is set to the music of Mason Bates.
“This company is wide awake and raring to go.” – The Reviews Hub
Argentine Tango King and Strictly Come Dancing legend, Vincent Simone, returns to the stage in 2023 with his brand new show… ‘Tango Passions’. Also starring Argentine Tango specialist Paula Duarte as his leading lady.
Accompanied by world-class Argentine Tango specialists, let the original Italian stallion take you on a journey to Buenos Aires and enjoy his dancing, tales and poetry about the history of the Argentine Tango.
Featuring music from Astor Piazzolla and Gotan Project.
A sexy, steamy, passionate night not to be missed!
Meet & Greet + Show Ticket £70
Running Time: 1 hour 40 mins approx (inc a break)
One Thursday a month, Humber Street Gallery will be showcasing new commissions relating to the themes of exhibitions on display in the venue. Art inspires art and these regular events will take many forms; dance, music, spoken word, performance art and more.
A response to Winner Breaks First, BAIZE MOI is a dance solo by Gareth Chambers that explores the sexual personae of masculine working class archetypes prominent in pop culture.
Gareth Chambers (aka Popperface) transgresses traditional choreographic making methodologies to create performances based heavily in working class experience, queer masculinity and libertarianism. He was a Jerwood Fellow 2022 and is currently a Horizon 2023 artist. Gareth’s work has been showcased in Australia, Berlin, London and Vienna and he currently resides in his hometown of Hull.
Back for 2024!
Providing the audience with high energy dance routines, west-end choreography, audience participation, incredibly toned physiques and larger-than-life personalities, it’s no surprise the Dreamboys have stolen the hearts of millions of fans worldwide.
Dreamboys are all about adventure so join us for the ride of your life. Take a deep breath, enjoy the show, and embrace the irresistible.
Discover the next generation of performers and choreographers as Creative Voice and Hull Dance take over Hull New Theatre.
The evening will showcase work by youth dance companies from Hull and East Riding as well as a piece inspired by repertoire from Balbir Singh Dance Company with students from Hull and Wilberforce Colleges.
Companies involved also include Max Life Dance Company, Ainthorpe Youth Centre, Hull and East Riding Hindu Cultural Association, Pragnya Indian Dance, Freedom Road Creative Arts and Ganton School.
Dance Consortium presents: The Next Generation of Dance
Ailey 2 is universally renowned for merging the spirit and energy of the finest early-career dance talent in the United States with the passion and creative vision of today’s most outstanding and emerging choreographers. Dance Magazine calls Ailey 2 “second to none,” and The New York Times declares, “There’s nothing like an evening spent with Ailey 2, the younger version of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.”
For their return to the UK, Ailey 2 brings an exciting repertory featuring Francesca Harper’s futuristic Freedom Series (excerpt), Robert Battle’s thrilling The Hunt, the incredible energy of William Forsythe’s Enemy in the Figure (excerpt), and Alvin Ailey’s beloved masterpiece Revelations.
Founded by Alvin Ailey, the company embodies his pioneering mission to establish an extended cultural community that provides dance performances, training, and community programs for all people. Since its 1974 inception, Ailey 2 has flourished into one of the most popular modern dance companies, combining a rigorous touring schedule with extensive community outreach programs. Today, with new Artistic Director Francesca Harper at the helm, she brings fresh perspectives to Mr. Ailey’s legacy, while nurturing new creative voices and propelling the company forward.
Francesca Harper, Artistic Director
Hull New Theatre
Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet gives Shakespeare’s timeless story of forbidden love a scintillating injection of raw passion and youthful vitality. Confined against their will by a society that seeks to divide, our two young lovers must follow their hearts as they risk everything to be together. A masterful re-telling of an ageless tale of teenage discovery and the madness of first love, Romeo and Juliet garnered universal critical acclaim when it premiered in 2019, and now returns to the New Adventures repertoire alongside the very best of Bourne’s world renowned dance theatre productions.
Directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne, collaborating with the New Adventures Artistic team; Etta Murfitt (Associate Artistic Director), Lez Brotherston (Set and Costume design), Paule Constable (Lighting Design), Paul Groothuis (Sound Design) and Arielle Smith (Associate Choreographer) with Terry Davies’ thrillingly fresh orchestrations of Prokofiev’s dynamic score.
The production contains loud sound effects including a gun shot and has flashing lights in sections (not strobe). The production contains scenes of a disturbing and a sexual nature, including stabbing and strangulation. More details can be provided if required.
Hull Truck Theatre presents Swinging at The Cotton Club.
Take a step back into 1920s & ’30s New York City and through the doors of Harlem’s hottest nightclub, ‘The Cotton Club’!
‘Swinging at The Cotton Club’ is the action-packed show celebrating the music and dance of the Cotton Club – New York’s most celebrated nightclub of the 1920s and ‘30s.
Performances by Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Fats Waller would have had the club swinging – whilst dancers such as Bojangles Robinson and the Nicholas Brothers lit-up the stage with their breathtaking routines.
In the show the exhilarating dance and music of the Cotton Club is recreated by the fabulous Lindy Hop Dance Company, alongside The Harry Strutters Hot Rhythm Orchestra, featuring American vocalist Marlene Hill and compere/vocalist Megs Etherington.
SURGE
SURGE gives life to a future human on the bridge between the digital and organic worlds
Four stellar artists collaborate to create a brand-new staged concept album.
An immersive, audio-visual, genre-breaking performance, touring exclusive new music from British music producer ITAL TEK.
Tom Dale brings to life a duet between dancer and animated light in a gripping kinesthetic relationship. A character pushed to their limits to ‘feel’ – to ‘sense’ – to ‘exist’.
Featuring live vocals from the performer Jemima Brown and digital design by Vent Media.
SUB:VERSION
Ten dance sketches: bold and bristling with the urgency of undiluted connection to WEN’s experimental club music.
TDC’s new group piece is an elegant selection of dance work that weaves a hypnotic journey through an array of electronic music sub-genres using WEN’s album EPHEM:ERA –“a sophomore album study on the mercurial warp and weft of modern UK dance music” boomkat
The evolution of both Dance and Electronic Music are inseparable and TOM DALE COMPANY’s new group piece SUB:VERSION takes its inspiration from the weft and warp of these connections.
Using music from WEN’s album Ephem:era, SUB:VERSION is a series of electronic dance studies – an elegant exploration of movement and melody, space and form, full of temporal pauses – exploring the connections between transient and momentary experiences.
The album offers a framework for performers to connect with their bodies and each other – exploring the pleasure of moving to music in a score which evokes rather than dictates. This compulsion to move and connect is crafted by Tom and the dancers adding an experiential layer to the music.
We move through hypnotic club music to gossamer-like melodies through to dissonant and then weightless ambiance collecting together different, distinct moods all explored in the physical form. The result is a core celebration of dance itself: the body, and the limitless possibilities that music can evoke.
Hull Truck Theatre, 18 April 2023
Yorkshire in 1687: a company of flea-bitten actors try and fail to live up to their on-stagepersonas. A bawd, a hopeless romantic and a pus-filled buffoon fight impressively for yourattention. A raucous, surreal comedy about desire, the struggle for freedom and queer love.
Using a blend of physical theatre and Restoration theatrical flourishes, award-winning Dirty Corset encapsulates the essence of the 17th century, a sometimes forgotten period, in all of its disgusting glory.
Hull Truck Theatre, 28 April, 2023
Britain’s most-successful dance group, Diversity, have announced their brand-new UK and Ireland tour, Supernova.
Supernova follows Diversity’s sold-out Connected tour earlier this year, which combined playful, comedic routines with powerful statements on human connectivity. Big, relentless, and energetic, the tour dazzled fans across the UK.
Diversity took the nation by storm when they won the third series of Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 and have since sold out multiple UK and Irish tours, with countless television and live performances. Alongside preparing for their brand-new tour, and in keeping with their progressive, innovative nature, Diversity are currently preparing to launch Diversity Studios, which will offer in person and live streamed dance classes.
Diversity’s illustrious career shows how they continue to innovate, grow, and achieve. Collectively Diversity recently won Virgin Media’s Must-See Moment of 2020 at the British Academy Television Awards for their incredible Britain’s Got Talent routine, watch here.
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