MODE: An Elmhurst Ballet Company Performance

During the year in which Elmhurst Ballet School celebrates 20 years in Birmingham, its graduate year Elmhurst Ballet Company presents Mode. The young company have collaborated with established dance artists and organisations to bring Mode to the stage.

The Company performs Wayne McGregor's FAR, which has toured the world since its premiere in 2010, picking up accolades for McGregor's ever insightful vision. This is the sixth project between Elmhurst Ballet School and Studio Wayne McGregor.

The Company will also dance one of the most celebrated pieces in all of classical ballet when they take on The Kingdom of the Shades from Marius Petipa's La Bayadère. From the first performance in St Petersburg in 1877, the ballet was hailed by contemporary critics and audiences alike as one of Petipa's masterpieces.

A first-time collaboration with Birmingham City University's School of Fashion and Textiles will celebrate all things fashion and catwalks in a new work called À la Mode, choreographed by Daniel Davidson and Chris Penfold, with costumes designed and made by BCU's Fashion Design students.

The company is also showcased in an excerpt from Spartacus by Yuri Grigorovich; Keeping the Faith, a new jazz piece by Elmhurst teacher Cris Penfold; and The Invitation, a new contemporary piece by Elmhurst teacher Sandrine Monin.

New works by choreographer Michael Corder (Fête Galante), and Elmhurst Ballet Company artist Scarlett Brass (Geōmantía) complete the programme.

Curtain up at 7:00 pm.

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