We’re 100 — and just getting started.
This is Rambert; now, as we’ve always been; living and breathing dance DNA; committed to putting the spotlight on voices, visions and ideas shaping our world today. Dance that’s alive with urgency, energy and relevance.
For our centenary, we bring together handpicked, bite-size, high-impact works from artists with something urgent to say — including work from (LA)HORDE, Emma Evelein, and a brand-new commission. Works that speak of the now, amplify untold stories, thrive on difference and match the speed and intensity of modern life.
This programme captures what matters right now — a glimpse of the future from the company that has always led the way.
This is Rambert.
A Lowry Partner Company.
Programme
Gallery of Consequence
Airports are unusual places. Every gate tells a story, and every departure marks a choice. Commissioned by Rambert in 2024, Gallery of Consequence is choreographed by Emma Evelein, who reflects on the moments that shape lives through the endless choices and consequences within our internal worlds. With striking sounds and visuals, Rambert’s dancers bring to life the chaos, quiet, and human connections found in transit.
About Emma Evelein
Emma Evelein is a Dutch choreographer and filmmaker whose work blends visceral physicality with cinematic storytelling. Her choreography has been recognised internationally, earning awards including the Kurt Jooss Prize and the Dutch Academy Award for Best Short Film.
Cast & Credits
Choreographer & Director: Emma Evelein
Assistant Choreographer: Emma Farnell-Watson
Cast: Rambert
Sound Designer: Raven Bush
Dramaturg: Amy Baty
Lighting Designer: Ryan Joseph Stafford
Costumes Creative Director: Susan Bender Whitfield
Video Designer: AMIANGELIKA
Sound design: Raven Bush, featuring:
Singularity by Jon Hopkins (Domino Recording Co Ltd)
Come Wander With Me by Bonnie Beecher (Jeff Alexander, Anthony Wilson, original soundtrack rights)
Moth – Four Tet & Burial (Kieran Hebden, William Bevan, Text Records / Hyperdub)
Ola de luz – OKRAA (Juan Carlos Torres Alonso – self‑published)
Merci – Stromae (Thomas Azier, Aron Ottignon, Paul Van Haver – Mosaert / Universal Music Publishing)
Subiendo Part 1 – Camille (Clément Ducol / Camille Dalmais – Editions Bambi Rose / Because Music)
Additional audio from @iamtonytalks (Instagram)
Hop(e)storm by (LA)HORDE
(LA)HORDE's Hop(e)storm channels the rhythms, energy, and spirit of Lindy Hop through a post-internet rave lens. Commissioned by Rambert in 2025 and created in collaboration with the company's dancers, it reawakens Lindy Hop's call for equality, freedom, and collective joy, bringing its infectious energy to the stage with a contemporary, high-octane twist.
About (LA)HORDE
Based in France, (LA)HORDE - Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer and Arthur Harel- are Artistic Directors of Ballet National de Marseille. Known for their groundbreaking concept of pushing the boundaries between social movement and art.
Cast & Credits
Artistic concept and direction: (LA)HORDE - Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, Arthur Harel
Choreography: (LA)HORDE is collaboration with Rambert Dancers and the rehearsal directors
Artistic collaborator choreography: Jacquelyn Elder
Cast: Rambert
Music: Pierre Aviat
Lighting Design: Eric Wurtz
Costume Design: Salomé Poloudenny
Swing Instructor: Simon Selmon
In Crimson
In Crimson moves between what's seen and what's hidden- from the front of the stage to behind the curtain, from what unfolds in full view to what simmers just out of sight. It brings you into those in-between spaces: charged, intimate and alive with the tension of performance.
An intimate work in which seven people are lost in a state of passion.
Director-choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber collaborate across dance, opera, theatre and film. In Crimson is a new collaboration that brings their acclaimed work to the UK for the very first time in a European premiere shaped by the extraordinary physicality and artistry of Rambert’s dancers. With original music by Yonatan Daskal performed live on stage.
About Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber
The work of US based Director-choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber spans dance, opera, theatre and film. Both are alums of Batsheva Dance Company and founding members of the American Modern Opera Company. In Crimson boldly reimagines the duo's acclaimed work Fugue in Crimson for the dancers of Rambert.
Cast & Credits
Choreography: Bobbi Jene Smith & Or Schraiber
Cast: Rambert (cast rotates nightly)
Music:
Train, Drone, Casio - Original Composition by Yonatan Daskal
Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826: I. Sinfonia by Johan Sebastian Bach
La Solitude by Barbara
Mi Par D’udir Ancora by Georges Bizet, performed by Enrico Caruso
Lighting Design: Nadav Barnea
Set and Costume Design: Bobbi Jene Smith
Restager: Payton Johnson
Hop(e)storm has been generously supported by Cockayne – Grants for the Arts and funds raised by Vogue World London; Gallery of Consequence has been generously supported by the Thistle Trust and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands; a newly commissioned piece has been supported by the Jerwood Foundation. Rambert is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.