BalletBoyz
Moving Pictures
Our new cinema programme Moving Pictures sees us curate selections of short form dance work created specifically for camera, shared with audiences in nationwide cinemas four times a year
​Moving Pictures, presented in association with Sadler's Wells Digital Stage, was launched in January 2025, and the first public screening will be held on Monday 10 March, showing BalletBoyz' productions Bradley 4:18, Ripple, and The Principles of Classical Dance (produced with support by the Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement).
This brand new platform for dance makers and audiences aims to achieve two separate but equally important goals:
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Open additional opportunities for small scale companies, large scale companies, and independent artists from a variety of backgrounds to produce and create work with distinct purpose for a specific platform, enabling greater creative fulfilment in terms of visibility and reach as well as quality of execution of the original idea and intention.
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Create new possibilities for existing audiences in both metropolitan cities and rural regions, during what can be considered a live-touring drought, to consume and interact with cutting-edge performance and innovative creative expression, as well as developing new audiences for dance and performance by targeting and exposing NT Live, RBO Live, and mainstream cinema goers to a greater degree of variety in the art they experience.
BalletBoyz
England On Fire
In autumn 2023, BalletBoyz collaborated with over forty artists in the company’s most ambitious, audacious, and political creation to date.
With stunning visuals and live music from folk to punk and everything in-between, England on Fire united a kaleidoscopic group of the UK’s hottest talent.
Under the distinctive BalletBoyz banner, choreographer Holly Blakey, choreographer and performer Edd Arnold, dance, mime, theatre and drag company Thick & Tight, multi award-winner Russell Maliphant, choreographer and performer Vidya Patel, Stopgap Dance co-Artistic Director Lucy Bennett joined forces with theatre director Ola Ince and choreographer Shelley Maxwell to create a live experience like no other.
With performances by post-punk band Gag Salon, the extraordinary soundscape also featured new creations from Charlotte Harding, Cassie Kinoshi, Mukul, Keaton Henson, Joe Zeitlin, and Gwilym Gold.
Inspired by the mind-blowing book England on Fire by Stephen Ellcock and Mat Osman, England on Fire constituted a search for meaning amid the challenges of life in the modern and ancient worlds.
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England on Fire was performed at Sadler's Wells 8-11 November 2023, and is now in development for a feature film.
Ten musicians. One rock band. Twelve dancers. Four performances. Burning the dance floor.