Rambert: Theatre Royal

The UKs longest established contemporary dance powerhouse, Rambert are back in Newcastle with a brand new show celebrating the dual forces of nature and art.  Thought provoking, visually stunning, and featuring Tyneside-born dancer Adam Park, the new tour is set to blow audiences away at Newcastle Theatre Royal 2 4 Feb 16. The tour programme features two new pieces the Picasso-inspired The 3 Dancers and Frames, which takes us into a choreographers world, and a third piece, which was one of the huge successes of 2014 - The Strange Charm of Mother Nature. The 3 Dancers is inspired by the tragic love triangle behind Picassos masterpiece of the same name.  A new work from former Rambert dancer Didy Veldman, it will explore the eternal themes of the painters work: love, desire and death. An internationally-renowned choreographer, Veldman uses a total of six dancers, three dressed in white and three as their shadows or darker selves in order to delve into the social, psychological and human elements of Picassos work. Veldman, well known for her theatrical style and earthy choreography, reveals how Cubism can be applied to movement to create the fragmented world which is so characteristic of Picassos work. The 3 Dancers features an original score by Australias leading composer Elena Kats-Chernin. Frames is a new work from another Rambert alumni, Alexander Whitley, which lays bare the process of making a dance performance. Twelve performers assemble and dismantle the set, move lighting and change angles, constantly creating new spaces and playing with whats revealed and whats hidden in their sequences of highly technical dancing. This thought-provoking work, which sees dancers create a stage within a stage, is a continuation of Whitleys collaboration with award-winning visual artists Tuur Van Balen and Revital Cohen and is accompanied by a new score from Icelandic composer Daníel Bjarnason. The Strange Charm of Mother Nature, which premiered in September 2014, is inspired by particle physics and the recent discovery of the Higgs boson God Particle. Continuing choreographer Mark Baldwins fascination with science which has seen previous pieces inspired by the theories of Einstein and Darwin, the show sees dancers fizz with the energy of the miniscule building blocks that created life, the universe and everything. The work is set to a musical score of Bachs Brandenburg Concerto No.3, Stravinskys Dumbarton Oaks and a new piece by Cheryl Frances-Hoad. This season, the company once again features north-east born dancer Adam Park, aged 24, of Jesmond who trained at Dame Allans and Dance City and has been in the company for four years.  Adam last performed with Rambert at Newcastle Theatre Royal in 2012 as part of the Seven for a Secret tour.