Varmints
Post-Show Talk with Sally Cookson
Saturday 18 May, 2.30pm
Lilian Baylis Studio, Free to same-day ticket-holders

Director Sally Cookson and choreographer Wilkie Branson, who is one of Sadler’s Wells’ New Wave Associates, will be talking alongside others from the creative team.

Daniel Linehan
Post-Show Talk (BSL)
Tuesday 21 May, 8pm
Lilian Baylis Studio, Free to same-day ticket-holders

Sadler’s Wells New Wave Associate Daniel Linehan will discuss his new work and the evolution of his sharp, witty and distinctive style.

Akram Khan Company
Pre-Show Director’s Conversation (Live Subtitling)
Wednesday 29 May, 6 - 6.45pm
Lilian Baylis Studio, (£4, £3 concessions)

Alistair Spalding in conversation with Akram Khan, Jocelyn Pook, Nitin Sawhney and Ben Frost on the second of three commissions celebrating the centenary of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.

Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
Post-Show Talk
Friday 27 September

Post-show talk in the auditorium. Free to same day ticket holders.

body:language talk
Michael Hulls and Russell Maliphant: Body Light
Monday 30 September, 7pm
Lilian Baylis Studio, £7.50

Choreographer Russell Maliphant and lighting designer Michael Hulls have been collaborating for twenty years. This talk will discuss why light is such an elemental factor in creating a performance environment for dance, and how light technology and the body interact in different ways.

Wayne McGregor | Random Dance
EChO Seminar
Thursday 3 October, 7pm
Lilian Baylis Studio, £7.50

The Choreographic Language Agent (CLA) is a prototype interactive notebook for choreographers and dancers. Initiated in 2007, this unique piece of software was developed as one result of long-term research around the creative process of Wayne McGregor.‘Enhancing Choreographic Objects’ (EChO) is a research project that draws on social science expertise for the further development of the CLA.

Wayne McGregor | Random Dance
Director’s Conversation
Thursday 10 October
6 - 6.45pm, £4

Pre-Show Director’s Conversation with live subtitling.

Mentoring Talk
Frank Bock
Monday 28 October, 7pm
Lilian Baylis Studio, £7.50

Frank Bock, curator at Independent Dance, has been engaged in an enquiry for the past year, and will be joined by other artists as he explores the issues around mentoring.

Hofesh Shechter
Post-Show Talk
Friday 1 November, 7pm

Post-show talk between Hofesh Shechter and Sadler’s Wells Artistic Director Alistair Spalding in the auditorium. Free to same day ticket holders.

Sinéad Rushe - Drama between Theatre and Dance

Monday 11 November, 7pm
Lilian Baylis Studio, £7.50

A talk by Sinéad Rushe, theatre director and Lecturer in Acting and Movement at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, followed by a discussion with Guilherme Botelho, artistic director of Alias Dance Company.

body:language talk
Ruth Little: Body Dramaturgy Monday 18 November, 7pm
Lilian Baylis Studio, £7.50

This public interview between Guy Cools and Ruth Little is a unique opportunity to get understand the powers and limits of body dramaturgy.

Pre-show interview with Mark Morris
Saturday 30 November, 6 - 7pm
Rosebery Room, £4

Mark Morris in conversation with Stephanie Jordan, Research Professor in Dance, University of Roehampton.

body:language talk
Antony Gormley: Body Sculpture
Monday 9 December, 7pm
Lilian Baylis Studio, £7.50

Antony Gormley has put his creativity to the service of choreographers such as Sadler’s Wells’ Associate Artists Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Hofesh Shechter. This much-anticipated talk is the finale of the body:language series.