Preview: Rambert at Newcastle Theatre Royal

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RAMBERT TO BREW UP A PERFECT STORM OF ART, SCIENCE AND NATURE  

Rambert

Newcastle Theatre Royal

Tuesday 2^nd – Thursday 4^th February 2016

Rambert rehearse at the Theatre Royal

Photo: Joanne Oliver / Carliol Photography

Joanne Oliver, of Newcastle based Carliol Photography (Carliol Photography Weblink), went along to take photos of Rambert's rehearsal today at the Theatre Royal "They are amazing, the music is really beautiful and the way the dance is choreographed makes everything flow and fit so well. It's truly mesmerising. I would recommend anyone who likes dance, or who is a little apprehensive about dance, to get along to the Theatre Royal. You will not be disappointed."

Adam Parks

Photo: Joanne Oliver /

Carliol Photography

The UK’s longest established contemporary dance powerhouse, Rambert are back in Newcastle this year with a brand new show celebrating the dual forces of nature and art.  Thought provoking, visually stunning, and featuring Tyneside-born dancer Adam Park, the new tour is set to blow audiences away at Newcastle Theatre Royal this week.

The tour programme features two new pieces – the Picasso-inspired The 3 Dancers and Frames, which takes us into a choreographer’s world, and a third piece, which was one of the huge successes of 2014 - The Strange Charm of Mother Nature.

Rambert rehearse at the

Theatre Royal

Photo: Joanne Oliver /

 Carliol Photography

The 3 Dancers is inspired by the tragic love triangle behind Picasso’s masterpiece of the same name.  A new work from former Rambert dancer Didy Veldman, it will explore the eternal themes of the painter’s work: love, desire and death. An internationally-renowned choreographer, Veldman uses a total of six dancers, three dressed in white and three as their shadows or darker selves in order to delve into the social, psychological and human elements of Picasso’s work.

Rambert rehearse at the Theatre Royal

Photo: Joanne Oliver /  Carliol Photography

Veldman, well known for her theatrical style and earthy choreography, reveals how Cubism can be applied to movement to create the fragmented world which is so characteristic of Picasso’s work. The 3 Dancers features an original score by Australia’s leading composer Elena Kats-Chernin.

Rambert rehearse at the Theatre Royal

Photo: Joanne Oliver / Carliol Photography

Frames is a new work from another Rambert alumni, Alexander Whitley, which lays bare the process of making a dance performance. Twelve performers assemble and dismantle the set, move lighting and change angles, constantly creating new spaces and playing with what’s revealed and what’s hidden in their sequences of highly technical dancing.

This thought-provoking work, which sees dancers create a stage within a stage, is a continuation of Whitley’s collaboration with award-winning visual artists Tuur Van Balen and Revital Cohen and is accompanied by a new score from Icelandic composer Daníel Bjarnason.

Rambert rehearse at the Theatre Royal

Photo: Joanne Oliver / Carliol Photography

The Strange Charm of Mother Nature, which premiered in September 2014, is inspired by particle physics and the recent discovery of the Higgs boson ‘God Particle’. Continuing choreographer Mark Baldwin’s fascination with science which has seen previous pieces inspired by the theories of Einstein and Darwin, the show sees dancers fizz with the energy of the miniscule building blocks that created life, the universe and everything. The work is set to a musical score of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.3, Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks and a new piece by Cheryl Frances-Hoad.

Rambert rehearse at the

Theatre Royal

Photo: Joanne Oliver /

 Carliol Photography

This season, the company once again features north-east born dancer Adam Park, aged 24, of Jesmond who trained at Dame Allan’s and Dance City and has been in the company for four years.  Adam last performed with Rambert at Newcastle Theatre Royal in 2012 as part of the Seven for a Secret tour.

Original North East Theatre Guide Preview: http://nomorepanicbutton.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/preview-rambert-at-newcastle-theatre.html

Tickets:

Rambert appears at Newcastle Theatre Royal from Tuesday 2^nd– Thursday 4^th February 2016 (Evenings: 7.30pm, Matinee: Thursday 2pm). Tickets are from £12.00

(pay less online) and can be purchased at www.theatreroyal.co.uk or from the Theatre Royal Box Office on 08448 11 21 21 (calls cost 7ppm plus your phone company’s access charge).