Out of Slavery - Gala Night

A memorable evening of music and dance celebrating the abolition of the slave trade, to raise funds for the Ghana charity Ashanti Development.

Royal Ballet dancers including Mara Galeazzi, Yuhui Choe, Thomas Whitehead and Sergei Polunin, come together with Agnes Lopez Rio, Antoine Vereecken and Neil Brown from Wayne McGregor / Random Dance, to present a rich variety of new and recent choreography, interwoven with music composed by ex-slaves and arrangements of spirituals and plantation songs, played by Robert Gibbs, Adrian Bradbury, Oliver Davies and Henry Roche.

The evening will be presented by the former Royal Ballet Principal dancer Bryony Brind.

Programme:

Daphnis and Chloe: Chloe's "rope" solo - Emma Maguire, with Thomas Whitehead
In Between - created and danced by Fernando Montano
Spirituals, arr. Arthur Benjamin, for Cello and Piano
Entity (excerpt) - Agnes Lopez Rio, Antoine Vereecken and Neil Brown (Wayne McGregor | Random Dance0
Pas de 2 (tba) - Mara Galeazzi, Sergei Polunin
2 Cuban Dances for Piano duet by Gottschalk

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Slave pieces for Violin and Piano
What if... (Ernst Meisner) - Melissa Hamilton, Sergei Polunin
Elegy (Samantha Raine) - Kristen McNally, Fernando Montano, Ryoichi Hirano
Negro Melodies by Coleridge-Taylor for Piano Trio
Rushes Pas de 2 (Kim Brandstrup) - Yuhui Choe, Thomas Whitehead
New Ballet by Pietra Mello-Pittman - Caroline Duprot, Emma Maguire

To find out more about Ashanti Development, go to
www.ashanti-development.org

Tickets: £25

(Top image - credit Viacheslav Samodurov)