The Next Generation returns to Sadlers Wells Theatre for 30th anniversary tour.
New Adventures is delighted to announce full UK and Ireland tour dates for Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, as it returns for its 30th anniversary with a 2024-25 tour, visiting an incredible 19 venues across 29 weeks, the most touring weeks of any dance company in the UK.
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake tour begins at Theatre Royal Plymouth on 11 November before visiting Lowry, Salford from 19 November, ahead of the 8-week annual Christmas season at Sadler’s Wells from 3 December and a 2025 UK tour.
In 2025, the production will tour to Aberdeen, Sheffield and Dublin, as well the previously announced Birmingham, Nottingham, Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton, Norwich, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Milton Keynes, Cardiff, Canterbury, Bradford and Glasgow. Full tour listings can be found HERE.
Making their debuts as The Swan/The Stranger are rising New Adventures stars, Harrison Dowzell, Jackson Fisch and Rory Macleod, alongside James Lovell, Leonardo McCorkindale and Stephen Murray as The Prince, Nicole Kabera and Ashley Shaw as The Queen, Katrina Lyndon as The Queen and the Girlfriend, and Bryony Wood as the Girlfriend.
The company is completed by Matthew Amos, Benjamin Barlow Bazeley, Alistair Beattie, Ben Brown, Carla Contini, Jade Copas, Anna-Maria de Freitas, Perreira de Jesus Franque, Jamie Duncan-Campbell, Alexander Fadayiro, Savannah Ffrench, Cameron Flynn, Louis Fukuhara, Louis Harris, Kurumi Kamayachi, Sebastien Kapps, Aristide Lyons, Callum Mann, Eleanor McGrath, Jarrod McWilliams, Maisie Mwebe, Mukeni Nel, Eve Ngbokota, George-Murray Nightingale, Harry Ondrak-Wright, Barnaby Quarendon, Molly Shaw-Downie, Nikolas Shikkis, Xavier Andriambolanoro Sotiya, Tom Standing and Christina Walters.
This groundbreaking production of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece caused a sensation when it premiered almost 30 years ago and has now become the most successful dance theatre production of all time, creating new audiences and inspiring generations of young dancers. In celebration of that ongoing impact, Swan Lake will take flight once more in a major new revival for the next generation of dancers, and for audiences who will experience it for the very first time.
Thrilling, bold, witty and emotive, this genre-defining event is still best known for replacing the female corps-de-ballet with a menacing male ensemble, which shattered convention, turning tradition on its head.
Trailer: Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
First staged at Sadler’s Wells in London in 1995, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake took the dance theatre world by storm becoming the longest running full-length dance classic in the West End and on Broadway. It has since been performed across the globe, collecting over thirty international accolades including the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production and three Tony Awards for Best Director of a Musical, Best Choreography and Best Costume Design.
The show that changed the dance landscape FOREVER ★★★★★ THE OBSERVER
Still THRILLING new generations. TERRIFIC ★★★★★ SUNDAY TIMES
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake: 3 December 2024 - 26 January 2025
Venue: Sadler's Wells Theatre, Rosebery Avenue, London, EC1R 4TN
Running Time: 2 hours 20 minutes (including 20 minute interval)
Tickets Prices from: £15.00: - Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake: Sadler's Wells Theatre
Further Information: Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake: The Next Generation