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Solstice

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Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone

The performance will include excerpts from:

Kenneth MacMillan’s The Sleeping BeautyDust by Akram Khan, Three Preludes by Ben Stevenson, Anna-Marie Holmes’ Le Corsaire, after Marius Petipa and Konstantin Sergeyev, Ronald Hynd’s CoppéliaBroken Wings by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Hollow by Stina Quagebeur, Derek Deane’s Swan LakePlaylist (Track 1, 2) by William Forsythe (full performance)

English National Ballet’s dancers and musicians fill Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall with highlights from their repertoire that will leave you buzzing long after the sunset.

Expect dancing fireworks from classics like Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and Le Corsaire; a passionate duet from Broken Wings (Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s ballet on the life of Frida Kahlo) and joyous steps from Coppélia - as well as reflection and tenderness in extracts from Akram Khan’s Dust, Stina Quagebeur's Hollow and Ben Stevenson’s Three Preludes, set to Rachmaninoff’s beautiful music.

The programme hits fever pitch with William Forsythe’s Playlist (Track 1, 2), a high energy work set to neo-soul and house music that will make you want to join in.

Tickets: £15 - £60. On sale from 1st May.

Duration approx 90 minutes.

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