Well Seasoned on Digital Stage
Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage celebrates Black dance online with a specially-curated programme for Well Seasoned.
The programme features world premiere screendance commissions by House of Absolute, Ivan Michael Blackstock, Akeim Toussaint Buck, Jonzi D, L’atisse Rhoden and National Youth Dance Company, with Alesandra Seutin.
In a new podcast, Brenda Emmanus explores how Black culture influences contemporary life through conversations with creatives across fashion, theatre, music, film & tv, dance and art.
Guests Select invites leading Black UK-based artists to share the online works they’re passionate about and a selection of films by international artists tell extraordinary dance stories in Moving Around the World.
All content is free to access.
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Kiss My Black Side
Cool conversations with Black Creatives. Join broadcaster and journalist Brenda Emmanus OBE as she chats with successful Black creatives who have made a significant impact in dance, film, fashion, music, theatre and visual arts.
Commissioned by Sadler’s Wells
Sadler’s Wells presents the world premiere of brand new film commissions by some of the UK’s most exciting Black artists working in dance and film. Watch films by Jonzi D, L’atisse Rhoden, House of Absolute, Akeim Toussaint Buck, Alethia Antonia and FUBUNATION.
Guests Select
Sadler’s Wells hands over the mic in a new series called Guests Select.
We ask leading Black UK-based artists to share the works they’re passionate about, and tell us what they mean to them.
From new and innovative digital creations to familiar movie masterpieces, Guests Select invites you into a specially curated online space to discover, explore and feel inspired.
Speak Volumes
National Youth Dance Company and Guest Artistic Director Alesandra Seutin
A film by Ben Williams, cinematography by Zeta Spyraki
Speak Volumes is a short dance film made for camera. It follows on from the live performance created by the 29 dancers of the National Youth Dance Company in collaboration with Guest Artistic Director Alesandra Seutin. In this iteration the choreography by Alesandra Seutin is re-enacted in a disused school building.
Speak Volumes is an open floor for the voices of the younger ones of these times, a space for their existence and truth to be heard, acknowledged and experienced lights on.
Moving Around the World
No longer available on Digital Stage.
Extraordinary dance stories told by artists from across the world, in a series of short films, from South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, USA and the Netherlands.
Each unique film, including mini documentaries and dance made for screen, shows the power that dance has to change lives, bring us closer together and create a universal language that speaks to us all.
