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Productions

Our programmes will resonate with the diverse communities of Wales and working with others we will ignite the spark of interest in dance with the widest range of promoters in every corner of the nation, building audiences for dance.

Current

November - December 2024

It’s Christmas Eve and everyone in the village is snuggled up at home. Nobody notices the lonely little deer left outside in the cold...

Autumn 2024

This entrancing hour long family and schools experience from choreographer Lea Anderson MBE combines all the fun of the fair with acrobatics and dance.

Past

Skinners by Melanie Lane: We live in a digital age. Beyond the fantasies that technology makes possible, our humanity remains. 

November - December 2024

It’s Christmas Eve and everyone in the village is snuggled up at home. Nobody notices the lonely little deer left outside in the cold...

AUGUST by Matthew William Robinson. "As the sun set everything changed" 

"Catachory," by Boram Kim is a neon and powerful exploration to find the invisible light within us all.

Autumn 2024

This entrancing hour long family and schools experience from choreographer Lea Anderson MBE combines all the fun of the fair with acrobatics and dance.
SEPTEMBER by Matthew William Robinson is about wanting to live in a moment forever, and the relentless pace of life dragging us forwards. It is about love and saying goodbye. It is a physical poem and a cascade of emotions. 
A relentlessly physical, visual and sonic feast, emphasising SAY's (Sarah Golding and Yikiko Masui) passion for making movement to music that makes the whole room want to get up and groove.
In Waltz by Marcos Morau ballroom music sounds in the distance, obscured in time and trapped in the past, a shining creature emerge from the ashes.
Weary and frustrated with the world today, an office worker, a student and a lonely old man each find their inner strength. Elegant, energetic and emotive dance by Thomas Carsley
They were ready to party, but nobody else was. Expect thrilling dancing up close, in this bitesize dance work by Matthew Robinson. 
Wild Thoughts by Andrea Costanzo Martini is fearless dancing full of playful wit calling our bodies back to movement, pleasure, and joy.
Ludo by Caroline Finn is a darkly funny and high-energy dance work about of the importance of play.

'Moving is everywhere, forever' by Faye Tan. A satisfying ode to the act of dancing; an invitation to yield to the irresistible impulse of grooving, to the soundtrack by Welsh electronic duo Larch.

Dream by the brilliant Christopher Bruce CBE is a heart-warming, charming and nostalgic dance piece inspired by bygone schools sports days and Jubilee street parties.

2067: Time and Time and Time by Alexandra Waierstall is elegant. Dancers reveal a shimmering poem about the relationship between the history of time and the poetry of destiny.

Lunatic by Nigel Charnock is an energetic riot. It is fun, relevant and fired up.

Rygbi: Annwyl / Dear by Fearghus Ó Conchúir celebrates rugby in Wales and highlights the hopes, glory and passion of rallying together on and off the pitch. Rygbi was created with input from rugby fans and players across Wales so that the dance really echoes the sport.

Écrit by Nikita Goile was inspired by a letter from iconic artist Frida Kahlo to her partner Diego.

Codi emerges from the ashes to inspire us in 2022 with a powerful and energetic story about the strength in communities banding together to tackle the hardships of life through troubled times. Built on the foundations of Welsh mining stories told though dance, song, poetry and theatre, the audience is wrapped in a blanket of darkness before being led towards a light of hope and celebration.

Rygbi: Annwyl i mi / Dear to me is a short outdoor dance performance that celebrates rugby in Wales and the hopes, glory and passion of rallying together on and off the pitch.

Rugby and dance are connected through their expertise in movement and through dedicated performances of power and emotion.

Afterimage is a dance of fleeting images; that uses mirrors to create a unique and beautiful experience of appearance and disappearance. Afterimage shows the audience a series of scenes to evoke a personal response from each person without providing a single narrative.

 

 

Rugby is a game that connects different communities across the country and in an international arena where Welsh bodies perform with power, passion and skill.

In this searingly beautiful and sensuous work for voice and body, dance and opera meld to form an intimate portrayal of the pain and passion of two lovers forced apart to separate worlds.

Pascal Dusapin's gleaming, shifting score, performed by the London Sinfonietta, conveys a timeless world within which the movement of dancers and singers can play out this universal story of grief and desire.

Delve into a world of ritual, decadence and excess inspired by iconic religious paintings. Curious characters come together, bringing their surroundings to life through charismatic and compelling choreography.

Bernadette by NDCWales’ resident choreographer Caroline Finn is like watching the outtakes from  Great British Bake off, both hilarious and really, very  tragic. This piece of comedic dance is very messy,  both physically and emotionally: flour and feelings  everywhere.

A radical retelling of the 1917 surreal ballet Parade. This re imagining was performed as part of the Russia 17 season across Wales.
This high energy, vibrant piece captures the intensity of nature’s elements during a storm, set against the power generated by an alternative rock music concert.

They Seek To Find The Happiness They Seem is an exploration of the separation and disconnection that can occur within a relationship. It uses reconfigured snippets of imagery from popular culture that connect with us all on a subconscious level.

Omertà is about the role of women in Italian Mafia society, and, historically, how their lives, experience and stories were often kept hidden.

Playful, vibrant and provocative. Profundis dares us to ask questions about what things are, and what they are not. Roy Assaf's thoughtful movement is accompanied by whimsical wordplay a a soundtrack featuring Egypt's Umm Kulthum.

Tuplet is a swift, pulsating 18-minute tour de force for six dancers. Utilising a score created in collaboration with the dancers’ own rhythmic impulses and employing their individual bodies as percussion instruments, the soundscape is integrated with original electronic music composed by Mikael Karlsson.

Atalaÿ is a watch tower from which far off lands can be seen from four points; a contagious dance influenced by the warmth of the Mediterranean.

Tundra is a barren landscape where ultra-modern creativity blinks into life and tears pages from history books about Russian folk dance, the USSR and revolution.

Marcos Morau’s bold style draws inspiration from art and cinema. Tundra takes old ideas and uses contemporary dance to give them renewed meaning.

Nominee at the UK Theatre Awards 2018 (Best Achievement in Dance).

Best Dance Wales Theatre Awards 2017.

Caroline Finn takes us on a nostalgic journey, asking us to peer into The Green House. On a twisted TV set, characters discover the fine line between fantasy and reality.

Folk is a vintage fairy-tale, set in a rich fantastical world under the boughs of an upside-down tree, as darkly whimsical as it is enchanting.