Rambert: Dark Arteries plus other works

Rambert has never sounded quite like this before. Britain’s national dance company brings brass band-powered dance to the Festival Theatre. Joined live on stage by the full ranks of Whitburn Band, reigning Scottish Brass Band Champions, Rambert presents Dark Arteries, a powerful, emotion-filled work about community and change, inspired by the 30th anniversary of the end of the miners’ strike. It is a dance which draws you into its emotional heart while the music lifts the hairs on the back of your neck, then raises the roof. Read more …

Dark Arteries forms the centrepiece of a triple bill of stunning dance, which also includes Transfigured Night. In Transfigured Night two lovers meet by moonlight, and a dark secret threatens to tear them apart. Created by two-time Olivier-award winning choreographer Kim Brandstrup, it is a dramatic love story, with intimate duets and spectacular ensemble dancing amplifying the beauty and romance of its Schoenberg score.

The programme is completed by The 3 Dancers, based on one of Picasso’s greatest paintings, and the tragic love triangle that inspired it. Choreographer Didy Veldman and composer Elena Kats-Chernin bring to life Picasso’s vivid Cubist imagery and the themes of love, desire and doom which fill his work.

Packed with thought-provoking drama, superb live music and world-class dancing, this is Britain’s national dance company at its most captivating.