Matthew Bourne's award-winning Swan Lake at The Lowry
Matthew Bourne’s
Swan Lake
Mon 1 – Sat 6 March 2010
Press night: Mon 1 March 2010, 7.30pm
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A Matthew Bourne syndicated interview is available on request
Matthew Bourne’s triumphant modern re-interpretation of Swan Lake turned tradition upside down, taking the dance world by storm. This multi award-winning hit returns to The Lowry for one week only.
Now firmly crowned as a modern-day classic, this iconic production is perhaps best-known for replacing the traditional female corps de ballet with a menacing male ensemble.
Collecting over 30 international theatre awards including three Tonys, Swan Lake has been acclaimed as a landmark achievement on the international stage. It has become the longest running ballet in the West End and on Broadway and enjoyed four hugely successful tours in the UK and thrilled audiences all over the world.
Casting for the 2009 revival includes a mix of established New Adventures performers and newcomers. Richard Winsor and Jonathan Ollivier will both be making their debuts in the coveted role of The Swan.
Richard Winsor is one of New Adventures dance company’s leading performers having created the title roles in both Edward Scissorhands (2005) and Dorian Gray (2008). He was also in the original cast of Bourne’s Play Without Words (2002) and was seen as Angelo in The Car Man and the title role in Nutcracker!. This summer he is starring in his first major film, Street Dance, the first British movie to be shot in 3D, which will be released next spring.
Jonathan Ollivier is making his debut with New Adventures. After graduating from The Rambert School in 1996, he joined The Cape Town City Ballet Company. He became a principle before returning to England in 1999 to join Northern Ballet Theatre. Here he created many leading roles, most notably Stanley Kowalski in Didy Veldman’s contemporary ballet of A Streetcar Named Desire and Heathcliffe in David Nixon’s Wuthering Heights. Ollivier joined the Alberta Ballet Company as a Principle dancer in 2007 and returned to the UK to pursue a freelance career in 2009.
Posted on Tuesday, 02 February 2010 under Press Theatre Press