LATITUDE

Alleyne Dance is a unique, powerful multi-award-winning company that blends Caribbean, Hip Hop and Kathak within a contemporary dance context, with whom we’ve built a longstanding relationship through performances and work with young people.

This dance production, which you may have seen performed at DanceEast in April 2023, explores the topic of immigration and the consequences the search for a better life has for those forced to seek it due to social or political devastations.

Bringing Alleyne Dance’s dynamic, powerhouse style to the stage, Far From Home is a hard hitting, atmospheric, abstract narrative dance production. Alleyne Dance are also Guest Artistic Directors for this year’s National Youth Dance Company show, Memory Keepers, and recently worked with our Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) students on their 2025 End of Year Show.

DanceEast presents Le Patin Libre (“the free skate”), an internationally recognised contemporary skating company turned figure skating revolution. Its virtuosic skaters ditch sparkles and medals to explore an urban, contemporary and sometimes acrobatic approach to their passion for gliding — here swapping ice skates for roller skates.

In Wheels & Cello, one performer switches skates for strings, while the others exchange blades for wheels. This playful and poetic work transforms the stage into a rolling, musical playground and includes moments of audience interaction. The company have previously performed as part of Dance Umbrella festival.

The show radiates joyfulness, camaraderie, and emancipated pride, while never abandoning the refined grace and musicality that define Le Patin Libre’s work.

Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures’ Doorstep Duets and an excerpt from Swan Lake.

Swan Lake is an audacious reinvention of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece which caused a sensation when it premiered nearly 30 years ago and has since become the most successful dance theatre production of all time. Thrilling, bold, witty and emotive, it is best known for replacing the female corps-de-ballet with a menacing male ensemble, shattering convention and turning tradition on its head. First staged at Sadler’s Wells in London in 1995, it became the longest-running full-length dance classic in the West End and Broadway. Experience a rare chance to see an excerpt performed by stars of New Adventures.

Doorstep Duets is a 20-minute performance centred on the theme of growth, where a group of exceptional dancers take audiences on a journey of self-discovery, exploring confidence, understanding and how communities can flourish together. Blending joy, wonder and storytelling, the work creates an intimate, accessible dance-theatre experience.

You can also join Sir Matthew Bourne OBE in conversation with Anthony Missen, Chief Executive & Creative Director of DanceEast, at the Listening Post; an opportunity to hear from one of the UK’s most celebrated choreographers and directors about his work and career.