Making its much anticipated UK premiere New York's Cedar Lake is one of the world’s most exciting dance companies. Led by artistic director Benoit-Swan Pouffer the company, which has a particularly European sensibility, is renowned for  dancers who combine powerful physicality with classical technique in works created by some of today’s most provocative dance makers. As its reputation has gone from strength to strength Cedar Lake has excelled with its mission to integrate ballet into contemporary and popular forms, to the extent that in 2011 the company had a starring role in the Hollywood film The Adjustment Bureau.

Hofesh Shechter’s Violet Kid examines man’s struggle for harmony within a complex and often horrifying universe. Performed by all 16 dancers, Shechter's  original score will be played live and accompanied by recorded audio text performed by the choreographer.  

Tuplet is a pulsating work for six dancers choreographed by Alexander Ekman  posing the question, what is rhythm? Set to a score created in collaboration with the dancers own rhythmic impulses and using their bodies as percussion, the soundscape is integrated with electronic music composed by Mikael Karlsson.

A former star of Sadler’s Wells Debut initiative, Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite’s noirish Grace Engine concludes the bill, continuing her exploration of the familiar storylines that connect mankind. 

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