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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.

An excellent initiative from New Adventures to commission new storytelling dance films by female choreographers.

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. 

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.

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.

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

Matthew Bourne and New Adventures surpass all expectations in Lord of the Flies at the Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, and the results are magnificent.

You know it’s going to be different the moment the recorded music begins and words appear on the frontispiece setting the story. Among the recognised musical strains can be heard the cry of a baby, and it is this baby who revolutionises Matthew Bourne’s new vision of the iconic Russian classical ballet masterpiece Sleeping Beauty.

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.