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World-class dance also featuring Candoco, HUMANHOOD, and English National Ballet.

In this, the first of three Dancing Nation programmes, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Arts and Sadler's Wells present a festival of dance featuring:

Matthew Bourne's New Adventures - Spitfire. Before his legendary Swan Lake, Nutcracker! and Cinderella, Matthew Bourne created his first hit, Spitfire (1988). This hilarious work places the most famous nineteenth-century ballet showstopper Pas De Quatre in the world of men’s underwear advertising.

Candoco Dance Company, choreographed by Yasmeen Godder. A sensual and disturbing ode to intimacy and imagination, expressed through striking images interwoven with daring and uninhibited dance.

Window Shopping, a brand new work from hip-hop dance powerhouse Breakin’ Convention, led by their Artistic Director Jonzi D. Starting from the outside looking in, popping, voguing, flamenco and ballet dancers welcome you into Sadler's Wells.

A new piece, Orbis, by break-through dance company HUMANHOOD. This visually astonishing duet explores the relationship between humankind and the dark side of Earth’s permanent natural satellite, the Moon.

And Hollow, a duet from English National Ballet performed by Emily Suzuki and Victor Prigent. In Stina Quagebeur’s contemporary duet, a couple contend with depression, and the confusion and displacement it causes between them. With fluid, continuous movement, their bodies intertwine, change direction and come into conflict.

Dancing Nation is a three-part celebration of dance featuring many of the UK’s leading dance companies and the most exciting new emerging talent.

Presented by Brenda Emmanus as part of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Arts’ Culture in Quarantine, this unique festival has been curated in lockdown by Sadler’s Wells, London - one of the world’s leading dance houses.

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