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Thirty years after its original production, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake makes its return to the stage championed by an impressive ensemble of dance artists from Bourne’s own company New Adventures.

In The Midnight Bell, Sir Matthew Bourne has produced some of his best choreography, loose and free-flowing but tense with desire and mixed with dread.

Bourne has created an extraordinary legacy.  His Swan Lake will remain relevant for generations to come.

Sir Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures brought its groundbreaking Romeo and Juliet to Tokyo for the first time and wowed the audience with its magical storytelling.

Bourne's Edward Scissorhands may not have quite the dramatic impact of his Romeo and Juliet or Swan Lake, but there is much to applaud and enjoy.

Matthew Bourne's Romeo and Juliet is a triumph of theatre, offering mesmerising leading performances that will move you to tears.

Forget tutus and pointework. Sir Matthew Bourne is a great storyteller and his Sleeping Beauty is packed with a punchy narrative... and a vampiric twist. 

Great storytelling and passionate performances infuse this transfer of Sir Matthew Bourne's dance theatre classic to the RAH arena. 

A triumphant revival against all the odds as Sir Matthew Bourne's Sweetieland festivities return – briefly – to the stage. 

A world premiere for New Adventures is much less dance than theatre but, when needed, Bourne's choreography carries the story along outstandingly.

Matthew Bourne's brilliant rendition of Swan Lake makes this classic story ballet refreshing, contemporary and emotional.

A commitment to youth brings another palpable hit to the New Adventures' repertoire. 

The director's world-renowned 1991 conception of Benjamin Britten's 1960 operaA Midsummer Night's Dream finally makes it to America. 

Bourne's radical reworking of Swan Lake returns to Sadler's Wells, 23 years after its premiere. 

Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake was controversial twenty-three years ago. These days it seems pretty tame - but the swans aren't!

Matthew Bourne offers a cleverly structured blockbuster that looks and sounds ravishing.

Taken at face value and ignoring its shortcomings, The Red Shoes still succeeds as entertainment.

Matthew Bourne is a master at creating theatrical splendor with the aid of a very healthy budget, an amazingly talented production staff and cast of dancers. His new ballet The Red Shoes is a set designer's dream.

Discovering the early works that created Matthew Bourne's style.

Mathhew Bourne's The Red Shoes seduces London as it opens at Sadler's Wells

Matthew Bourne's exhilarating, witty reimagining of the Russian classic Sleeping Beauty returns to London. Ashley Shaw makes a radiant Aurora.

A trip down memory lane sends our man in Aix into raptures as Robert Carsen's production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream comes home to Provence. 

ABT's Marcelo Gomes stars in Matthew Bourne's <em>Swan Lake</em>, his Swan a sensational success in Tokyo!

Matthew Bourne’s company is back at Sadler’s Wells this month, with its award winning production of Swan Lake. An expected box office sell-out for the theatre that housed the premiere in 1995, and an exciting opportunity for dance lovers to see again the show that once took London by storm.

From the disturbing to the comical, the beautiful to the weird, David Hughes Dance brought four very different dances to the Lemon Tree theatre in Aberdeen last Saturday. Artistic director, David Hughes, has compiled works from four different choreographers which – as the title Something Old, Something New...

The comedic Scots ditty “Donald Where’s Your Troosers?” is not your typical balletic overture, but then Matthew Bourne’s Highland Fling is not your typical Scottish Ballet production.

Matthew Bourne’s Play Without Words is exactly that, a narrative conveyed through movement rather than speech. Bourne was inspired by Joseph Losey’s film The Servant, starring Dirk Bogarde. Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay and the brooding ambiguity of the film triggered the idea of this intimate dance theatre piece.

Upon discovering that Prokofiev had written the score for Cinderella during the second world war, Matthew Bourne was inspired to set his production of the classic fairytale in London during the Blitz, drawing heavily upon the influence of the films of the period. It was a brilliant move.