Dance Events

Date

Dance Works

Richard Alston Associate Choreographer of Ballet Rambert

London School of Contemporary Dance breaks last links with Martha Graham

London Contemporary Dance Theatre begins large scale touring

Wayne Sleep founds Dash Dance Co

1980

Death and the Maiden (North), Something to Tell (Davies),
The Singing (Bannerman) for LCDT

Bell High, Rainbow Ripples (Alston),
Preludes and Song (Bruce) for Ballet Rambert

Hot Shoe Show (Sleep)

Robert North becomes Artistic Director of Ballet Rambert until '86

Siobhan Davies founds own company

Phoenix Dance Company founded (Leo Hamilton, Donald Edwards, Villmore James)

Emilyn Claid becomes Director of Extemporary Dance Theatre and moves it away from contemporary dance into more adventurous post-modern choreography.

Lloyd Newson joins Extemporary Dance Th. As dancer and choreographer until '85

1981

Counter Revolution (Gordon) for Extemporary

De Gas (Spink)

Soda Lake (Alston) solo with Michael Clark

Dances of Love and Death (Cohan),

Free Setting (Davies) for LCDT

Rite of Spring (Alston),

Ghost Dances (Bruce),

Lonely Town, Lonely Street (North) for Ballet Rambert

Spiked Sonata (Wagoner)

Second Stride founded by by Richard Alston, Ian Spink, Siobhan Davies (a pun on Alston's earlier company Strider for which Davies had danced)

Christopher Gable opens Central School of Ballet

1982

Carnival (Davies)

Breaking Images (Newson)

Chamber Dances (Cohan) for LCDT

David Bintley becomes company director of Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet

Robert Cohan, Siobahn Davies and Janet Eager jointly direct London Contemporary Dance Theatre (LCDT)

1983

Michael Clark forms his own Dance Co. with Ellen van Schuylenburch

Lea Anderson forms Cholmondeleys

1984

Further and Further into Night (Spink) based on Hitchcock's Notorious

Silent Partners, New Galileo (Davies)

Beauty, Art and the Kitchen Sink (Newson)

Metamorphosis (Bintley)

1985

The Flowers of the Forest, The Sons of Horus (Bintley)

Our caca phony H. our caca phony H. (Clark)

Field Study (Gordon) for Extemporary

Dragon, Baby,Baby,Baby, The Cliches and the Holidays (Anderson)

Flying Lines (Butcher)

Bridge the Distance (Davies) for LCDT

Land (Bruce) for London Festival Ballet

An Occasion for Some Revolutionary Gestures (Wagoner) for Ballet Rambert

Flee as a Bird (Wagoner) for Janet Smith and Dancers

Lloyd Newson founds DV8 Physical Theatre with Nigel Charnock, Michelle Richecouer and later Liz Ranken

Bruce leaves Rambert for London Festival Ballet

Richard Alston becomes Artistic Director of Ballet Rambert converts name to Rambert Dance Company and develops new repertory based on Merce Cunningham technique.

London Contemporary Dance Theatre loses its artistic edge

1986

Pier Rides (Claid) a single evening length work with jazz score from Mike and Kate Westbrook

Bosendorfer Waltzes (Spink) based on The Firebird

No Fire Escape in Hell (Clark)

Marina (Anderson)

Touch the Earth (Butcher)

Ceremonies (Bruce) for Rambert

Galanteries,The Snow Queen (Bintley)

Adventures in Motion Pictures (AMP) founded by ex-Laban centre graduates Emma Galdstone, David Massingham, Matthew Bourne

Christopher Gable becomes artistic Director of nbt after taking lead in Simple Man, concentrates on 'theatre' as much as 'ballet'.

Arc Dance Co. founded by Kim Brandstrup

1987

Bach and Offenbach (Gordon) for Extemporary

Weighing the Heart (Spink)

Swansong (Bruce)

A Simple Man (Lynne) for nbt

Pulcinella (Alston)

My Sex, Our Dance, Deep End, My Body, Your Body(Newson)

Because We Must (Clark)

Swamp (Clark) for Ballet Rambert

Does Your Crimplene Go All Crusty When You Rub? (Bourne)

Fish Wreck, No Joy (Anderson)

Video Life (Cohan)

Allegri Diversi (Bintley)

Siobhan Davies reforms her own dance company.(SDDC)

Ian Spink becomes sole artistic director of Second Stride.

Lea Anderson founds Featherstonehaughs

Second Stride begin 3 year residency in Basildon, Essex

1988

Still Life at the Penguin Café (Bintley)

The Amazing Adventures of Don Quixote (Gable / Pink /Petipa)

White Man Sleeps, Wyoming (Davies)

Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men (Newson)

A Mouthful of Birds/Fugue (Spink/Churchill)

Suddenly Out of the Blue (Various/Extemporary)

Dancing and Shouting (Spink)

I am Curious Orange (Clark)

Extemporary Dance Theatre announce new policy moving from 'abstract exploration of movement' towards 'dance as a theatrical tradition of performance'

Ricochet Dance Co. founded by Kate Gowar and Karin Potisk to create work with the leading contemporary choreographers.

Robert Cohan gives control of LCDT to Dan Wagoner after 21 years of Graham-based, socio-theatrical style dominating the repertory.

1989

Hobson's Choice (Bintley)

Cover Him With Grass (Davies)

1990

Two Falling Too Far (Murphy) with Sue Cox

Longevity (Lambert) for Phoenix

Spitfire (Bourne)

Giselle (Coralli / Perrot / Gable)

Different Trains (Davies) to Reich score

Roughcut (Alston) for Rambert to Reich score.

Extemporary Dance Theatre's grant is withdrawn and company disbands

V-tol founded by Mark Murphy

CandoCo founded by Celeste Dandeker and Adam Benjamin

1991

Rooster (Bruce)

Romeo and Juliet (Gable / Moricone)

Crash & Burn, Time Spent in the Company of Bad People (Murphy)

For Starters (Benjamin / Dandeker / Hewison)

The Edge of the Forest (Marks) for CandoCo

Cantalope Reel (Benjamin)

Arctic Heart (Davies)

Mark Baldwin Dance Company founded

Random Dance Company founded by Wayne McGregor

1992

The Hard Nut (Morris)

Making Maps (Jeyasingh)

Headshot (Murphy)

Town & Country (Bourne)

White Bird Featherless (Davies)

Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues (Davies) for Rambert

A Christmas Carol (Gable / Moricone)

Swan Lake (Gable / Wayne)

Christy Don't Leave so Soon, Human Race (Benjamin, Dandeker / Parkinson)

1993

32 feet per second per second (Murphy)

The Nutcracker, Double Bill (The Infernal Gallop, Percy's of Fitzrovia) (Bourne)

Deadly Serious (Bourne) a tribute to Hitchcock

Wanting to Tell Stories (Davies)

Flying in the Face of.. (Benjamin / Parkinson)

Back to Front with Sideshows (Claid) To Please the Desert (Falk) for CandoCo

Christopher Bruce takes over as Artristic Director of Rambert Dance Company

Richard Alston starts his own company

1994

Strange Fish (Newson)

Rumours, Visions, Lachrymae (Alston)

Highland Fling (Bourne) based on La Sylphide

The Glass Blew In (Davies)

Between the National and the Bristol (Davies), Once Upon a Time in England (Singh-Buller), A Flock Apart (Benjamin) for CandoCo

London Contemporary Dance Theatre scaled down into Richard Alston's Dance Co.

Retina Dance founded by ex-Random Dancers Sacha Lee and Filip Van Huffel

1995

Enter Achilles (Newson)

In the Privacy of My Own, Where Angels Fear to Tread (Murphy)

Swan Lake (Bourne)

The Brontes (Lynne / Gable)

Wild Translations, The Art of Touch (Davies)

Cantador (Falk), You Are Now Entering the State of Love (Parkinson) for CandoCo

Trades and Trusts (Botelho), Across Your Heart (Claid) for CandoCo

Overexposed (Van Huffel)

Battery, Crave (Lee / Van Huffel)

Janet Smith dancers disbanded

Jeremy James founds own company after DV8 (95-96) SDDC (92-95) and Rambert Dance (87-9)

1997

Labyrinth (Baldwin)

Gaps, Lapse and Relapse (James) for Rambert Dance

Extra Minty, Juice, My Big Pants, Keith (James)

Brisk Singing (Alston)

Giselle (Coralli / Perrot / Gable / Pink)

Flesh and Blood (Anderson)

Castle Blanca, Blue Heart (Murphy) latter is for Churchill's play at Royal Court

Cinderella (Bourne)

Bank (Davies)

Millenarium (water) (McGregor)

Pit (Lee / Van Huffel)

Christopher Gable dies

1998

Four Scenes (Bruce)

Out on the Windy Beach (Anderson)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Gable / Pink)

Running Scared, …and nothing but the truth…(Murphy)

Eighty Eight (Davies)

Tweeling (Lee / Van Huffel)

Out of Here (Arden / Houben), Deuce (Dandeker and Sue Smith) for CandoCo

Stefano Giannetti appointed as artistic director of nbt

Robert North appointed artistic director for Scottish Ballet

1999

The Soul Cages (Spink) a mixed media collaboration

Sportorama, Smithereens (Anderson)

The Happiest Day of My Life (Newson)

More Curly (James)

Sub Culture (James) collaboration with film-maker for a nightclub piece

Without Trace (Murphy)

Tonic (Sue Smith) for CandoCo

Wild Air (Davies)

Fine Frenzy (Jeyasingh) score by Django Bates

Thirteen Different Keys (Davies) collaboration with Artangel and Royal ballet dancers

Dracula (Pink / Gable)

Sulphur 16 (fire) (McGregor)

Overexposed v.2 (Van Huffel)

Hard Shoulder (Lee / Van Huffel)

God's Plenty (Bruce)

Lifeforms: Generic Signatures (Booth), Starling Scatter (Elkins) for Union Dance

AMP begin three year residency at the Old Vic Theatre

Siobahn Davies announces an 18 month break to reconsider the way she works with the company

2000

Cheese, Parts and The Day I Stopped & Floppy Affordable (James)

Great Expectations (Giannetti)

Car Man (Bourne)

Thimble Rigging (Lawrance) for R.Alston Dance Co. to score by Scott Walker

I Hastened Through My Death Scene to Catch Your Last Act (De Frutos), Sunbyrne (Elkins) for CandoCo

Of Oil and Water (Davies)

The Signal of a Shake (Alston)

Aeon (earth/air) (McGregor)

Oxygenius (Lee / Van Huffel)

Mark Murphy disbands V-tol to concentrate on film

Stefano Giannetti resigns and David Nixon appointed Artistic Director of nbt

Phoenix Dance Co. loses funding, artistic director Thea Nerissa Barnes leaves, company disbanded to be re-shaped.

New York choreographer Stephen Petronio creates first dance piece to reflect impact of September 11th for Ricochet. David Linton's score being composed in New York as it happened, contains announcements and dead frequency static from radio.

Rambert Dance accused of being trapped in history, Bruce merely recycling the same ideas in "feel-bad ballets"

Water Music, Strange Company (Alston)

Weak Dance Strong Questions (Burrows)

3 (Anderson)

digit01 (McGregor)

At Any Time (Bonachela) to Bach Cello Suites, Twin Suite 2 (Wilkinson) for Rambert

Hurricane for David Hughes (Bruce) to Bob Dylan.

duo:logue (McGregor) with Royal Ballet

toxin (Van Huffel)

Grinning in Your Face (Bruce)

House of Magnet (Petronio) for Ricochet

Elegy (Brandstrup) for Arc

Codex (McGregor) for Ben Ash in First Class Air Male

Robert North to leave Scottish Ballet replaced by ex-Royal Ballet Ashley Page

Christopher Bruce leaves Rambert replaced by ex- Rambert Mark Baldwin.

2002

Madame Butterfly , I Got Rhythm (Nixon)

Masurca Fogo (Bausch)

Play Without Words (Bourne)

PreSentient (McGregor) for Rambert

Nemesis (McGregor) for Random

Tryst & Polyphonia (Christopher Wheeldon)

Torsion (Russell Maliphant) for George Piper Dances.

Double Concerto (Christopher Hampson)