Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! follows Clara’s bittersweet journey from Christmas Eve at Dr. Dross’s Orphanage, through a shimmering winter wonderland, to the scrumptious candy kingdom of Sweetieland. Influenced by the lavish Hollywood musicals of the 1930s, Nutcracker! features dollops of Bourne’s more
The Red Shoes is a tale of obsession, possession and one girl's dream to be the greatest dancer in the world. Victoria Page lives to dance but her ambitions become a battleground between the two men who inspire her passion. Set more
Inspired by the Unicorn Theatre's 2019 five-star hit show, Anansi the Spider, about the infamous mischief-maker and master spinner of yarns, Anansi Re-Spun adapts these classic West African and Caribbean tales for an online audience. more
Based on the internationally acclaimed stage production and drawing on the Gecko Theatre's reputation for generating unique worlds, intoxicatingly beautiful scenes and breath-taking choreography, we produced a visually captivating and poetic film on the dissection more
Matthew Bourne's Romeo + Juliet is a passionate and contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare's classic love story. Confined against their will by a society that seeks to divide, our two young lovers must follow their hearts as they risk everything to more
First seen in 1995, Matthew Bourne's iconic Swan Lake was revived and re-made in 2019 and filmed by Illuminations for cinema screenings and for Sky Arts. In his re-imagining of the classic tale, Bourne replaced the female ensemble with more more
Hofesh Shechter’s Clowns is a dance film that is a macabre comedy of murder and desire, asking how far will we go in the name of entertainment. Directed, choreographed, and composed by Hofesh Shechter, Clowns is reimagined for the first time on screen more
Phyllida Lloyd’s innovative take on three of Shakespeare’s key plays for the Donmar Warehouse features a diverse all-women cast, including Harriet Walter. Shaped by work in prisons and with ex-offenders, her interpretations draw on inmates’ stories of deprivation, violence, more
Performance Live continues on BBC Two with a spectrum of some of the most exciting artists working in performance today. During World War Two the paintings in London’s National Gallery were taken for safety to a slate mine in Wales. Winged more
Illuminations continues the relationship with New Adventures and Sadler’s Wells with the filming of Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella for BBC2. Set in London during the Second World War, Cinderella is a thrilling and evocative war-time romance which sees a chance more