SUBJECT TO CHANGE A Dance for David Bowie
Created by Marcos Morau
A Bunkamura, Sadler’s Wells and La Veronal production
A landmark new production by visionary choreographer Marcos Morau.
SUBJECT TO CHANGE draws inspiration from David Bowie and his fearless reinvention. From Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane to the Thin White Duke and beyond, each persona had its own distinct character, a specific relationship between voice, body, and identity.
Award-winning Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau explores transformation through Bowie’s music. His iconic songs and original vocals are reimagined and interwoven with choral sounds from across the globe and acclaimed vocalist María Arnal. The rich and eclectic score features sound design and musical direction by Alex Röser Vatiché and Ben Meerwein of OZCUR.
Known for creating visually arresting worlds, Morau collaborates with Max Glaenzel (Set Design) and Sylvia Delagneau (Costume Design), inviting you to step into a world of endless becoming where materials, bodies and identities shift, merge and transform.
Everything changes… turn and face the strange.
Premieres in March 2028 then touring internationally.
Co-producing partners include Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, La Biennale di Venezia – Biennale Danza, Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisboa/PT) with more to be announced.
Header image description: A dancer in a black and white jumpsuit with balloon leg trousers and red boots jumps against a white background casting a long shadow.
What is fixed is the principle: same soul, new body.
Marcos Morau
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About Marcos Morau
Award-winning Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau, associate choreographer with Nederlands Dans Theater, has created works for Paris Opera Ballet and Royal Ballet of Flanders while directing his own company, La Veronal, since 2004. He was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2023 by the French Ministry of Culture and selected as Best Choreographer of the Year in 2023 and 2025 by German magazine Tanz. He received the National Dance Award from the Spanish Ministry of Culture (2013), and the National Culture Award of Catalonia (2025).
Image © Kazuyoshi Shimomura
About David Bowie
David Bowie (1947-2016) revolutionised popular music and culture through five decades of fearless experimentation and reinvention.
Between the late 1960s and mid-1970s, Bowie pioneered multi-media performance art while recording groundbreaking albums including Space Oddity (1969), The Man Who Sold The World (1970), The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), Aladdin Sane (1973), Diamond Dogs (1974), Young Americans (1975), and Station to Station (1976). His single “Fame” from Young Americans became his first US No. 1 hit.
In 1976, Bowie relocated to Berlin, where he collaborated with Brian Eno and Tony Visconti on the influential “Berlin Trilogy”: Low (1977), “Heroes” (1977), and Lodger (1979). In 1980, he made his Broadway debut in The Elephant Man and released Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) with Visconti, followed by the Nile Rodgers-produced Let’s Dance (1983).
Throughout the mid-1980s and early 1990s, Bowie formed the band Tin Machine, collaborated with dance company La La La Human Steps, and composed music for Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia (1993).
In 1992, he created Jump, one of rock’s first CD-ROMs (Enhanced CD). Reuniting with Eno in 1995, he produced the experimental Outside, followed by Earthling (1997) and ‘hours…’ (1999). That same year, he was honoured as Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
In 2002, Bowie collaborated again with Tony Visconti on Heathen, performing the album in full alongside the seminal Low during European and American tours. Reality followed in 2003, launched with the world’s largest interactive live-by-satellite event, followed by the critically acclaimed “A Reality Tour.”
Bowie’s film credits include iconic roles in Nic Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983), Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Tony Scott’s The Hunger(1983), and Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige (2006).
In May 2007, he curated the inaugural 10-day High Line Festival in New York. The following month, he received the Webby Lifetime Achievement Award for pioneering the intersection of art and technology. Later that year, he starred as himself in an acclaimed episode of Ricky Gervais’s HBO series Extras.
In 2012, a plaque was erected on Heddon Street, London, the site of the Ziggy Stardust album cover, commemorating his extraordinary influence. That following year, the Victoria and Albert Museum received unprecedented access to the David Bowie Archive for a groundbreaking exhibition that broke attendance records in London, the US, Berlin, and Paris.
On January 8, 2013, Bowie surprised the world by releasing “Where Are We Now?” and announcing The Next Day, his 30th studio album and first in 10 years. The album received universal critical acclaim. In 2014, the compilation Nothing Has Changed celebrated his 50th year in music, followed by the experimental “Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)” with the Maria Schneider Orchestra and “Tis a Pity She Was a Whore.”
Spring 2015 brought Lazarus, an off-Broadway production co-created with playwright Enda Walsh and directed by Ivo van Hove, which later transferred to London’s Kings Cross Theatre.
★ (Blackstar), Bowie’s 28th studio album, was released on his 69th birthday, January 8, 2016. Co-produced with Visconti and featuring saxophonist Donny McCaslin and his quartet, ★ received overwhelming critical acclaim, among the best reviews of Bowie’s entire career. It became his first album to reach No. 1 in the US, topped charts in over 20 countries, and later won five Grammy Awards.
On January 10, 2016, David Bowie died peacefully, surrounded by his family, after an 18-month battle with cancer. His body of work, multi-generational influence, and legacy of fearless innovation and endless reinvention continue to inspire artists and audiences worldwide.
Image © Masayoshi Sukita
Get in touch
If you’re interested in booking this production for a venue or festival, we’d love to hear from you.
Aristea Charalampidou
Tour Producer
aristea.charalampidou@sadlerswells.com
Header Image and Teaser Credit
Choreographer: Marcos Morau
Dancer: Shaked Heller
Creative Director / Art Director: Masami Shimizu
Costume: Kansai Yamamoto, Inc.
Photographer: Kazuyosho Shimomura
Photo Producer: Maki Tsuchimoto
Camera Man: Atsutomo Hino
Hair & Make Up: Katsuhiko Kuwamoto
Video Producer: Maki Tsuchimoto
Video Production Staff: Kumiko Yamamoto / Akiko Okano
Video Editor: Chewboy Productions
Music:
“Space Oddity”
Written by David Bowie
Performed by David Bowie
Published by Onward Music LTD
Courtesy of RZO Music