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From the Press: "Fantasy, folly and fancy footwork: cosmic dance comes to Manchester" by The Guardian
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Invisible Cities part of Manchester international festival. © Tristram Kenton i
"Performed in a cavernous former railway depot, Invisible Cities features actors, dancers, digital animations and amazing stage designs.In adapting Italo Calvino’s novel of the same name, it aims for sweeping themes such as imagination, power, belonging, morality and mortality. “The question of whether this was one of my best ideas or an act of pure folly remains open,” writes director Leo Warner in the programme. My answer is that it’s both."
To read The Guardian's full review, click here.
Invisible Cities is the winner of the FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet 2019.
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Recognising Impact Beyond the Stage: Dr Thomas Moors Awarded the Van Lawrence Prize
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Sleeping Beauty to be performed this Summer 2020
13 November 2019
New York / United States
FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet Winner of the 1st edition will return to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera as of June 2020. Book your tickets now for this reinterpretation of a timeless story!
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