Name: MODE: An Elmhurst Ballet Company Performance
Start: 2024-05-18T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-05-18T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Elmhurst Ballet School

MODE: An Elmhurst Ballet Company Performance

Elmhurst Ballet School is commemorating its Centenary in 2023 and is a world leader in ballet training and education, inspiring, nurturing and celebrating young ballet dancers with the talent, commitment and passion to become exceptional dance professionals.Expert staff deliver elite training in state-of-the-art facilities, an experience enriched by a highly-esteemed association with Birmingham Royal Ballet and an ongoing relationship with Studio Wayne McGregor.Elite but not elitist, Elmhurst believes that talent is classless and its exceptional training opportunities should be available to young dancers regardless of their financial, social and cultural backgrounds.While Elmhurst is an independent school, typically some 80% of students benefit from Government support and in-house bursaries to train with at the school. Unfortunately, this is never enough and the school is reliant on the generosity of donors to enable it to continue to train the most talented young people in need of support.Her Majesty The Queen Consort, who has supported the school since 2006, visited Elmhurst on 14 March 2023 to celebrate its 100th anniversary.Registered Charity Number: 1040286

Elmhurst Ballet School

During the year in which Elmhurst Ballet School celebrates 20 years in Birmingham, its graduate year Elmhurst Ballet Company presents Mode. The young company have collaborated with established dance artists and organisations to bring Mode to the stage. The Company performs Wayne McGregor's FAR, which has toured the world since its premiere in 2010, picking up accolades for McGregor's ever insightful vision. This is the sixth project between Elmhurst Ballet School and Studio Wayne McGregor.The Company will also dance one of the most celebrated pieces in all of classical ballet when they take on The Kingdom of the Shades from Marius Petipa's La Bayadère. From the first performance in St Petersburg in 1877, the ballet was hailed by contemporary critics and audiences alike as one of Petipa's masterpieces.A first-time collaboration with Birmingham City University's School of Fashion and Textiles will celebrate all things fashion and catwalks in a new work called À la Mode, choreographed by Christopher Tendai and Cris Penfold, with costumes designed and made by BCU's Fashion Design students.The company is also showcased in an excerpt from Spartacus by Yuri Grigorovich; Keeping the Faith, a new jazz piece by Elmhurst teacher Cris Penfold; and The Invitation, a new contemporary piece by Elmhurst teacher Sandrine Monin.New works by choreographer Michael Corder (Fête Galante), and Elmhurst Ballet Company artist Scarlett Brass (Geōmantía) complete the programme. Doors will open at 6.30pm, curtain up at 7:00 pm. Please note that parking on-site is limited. There is further parking available a short walk away at Midlands Arts Centre.For guests requiring accessible seating and/or disabled parking, please book your seats using Eventbrite, then email your requirements to development@elmhurstdance.co.uk.

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