Theatre Royal: Rambert

Ghost Dances, Flight, and Tomorrow arrive

Rambert, Britain’s national dance company, returns to Theatre Royal Brighton with an exciting programme combining classic repertoire alongside new work.

The programme features the much anticipated revival of Christopher Bruce’s Ghost Dances, returning to UK stages for the first time in over 13 years. Originally created in 1981 as a tribute to the victims of political oppression in South America, it is widely regarded as one of the most celebrated contemporary dance works of its generation. It tells stories of love and compassion as death, in the form of the iconic ‘ghost dancers’, interrupts the lives of a series of ordinary people. Visually referencing Day of the Dead celebrations and set to the bewitching rhythms of traditional Latin American songs it is a moving, intensely human work.

Flight is a new work by former Rambert dancer Malgorzata Dzierzon that reflects on ideas of migration and borders.

Set to the bewitching rhythms of traditional Latin American songs

Dzierzon’s first work for the company is inspired by her own experiences of travel and migration as well as other stories, images and overheard conversations. A moving set and multimedia projections by video designer Luke Halls create an ever shifting backdrop as the dancers dramatise the mix of hope and fear that make up the migrant experience of leaving one home in search of another.

Completing the programme is Tomorrow by Lucy Guerin, which inhabits the dark and dangerous world of Macbeth. This abstract re-telling of one of Shakespeare’s seminal works focuses on some of the main driving themes of the play – fate and inevitability.

Rambert, Theatre Royal Brighton
Wed 1 – Sat 4 March, 7.30pm | Thu 2 March, 1.30pm
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