Tredegar & Higgins set for Dark Arteries world premiere

The Sadler's Wells stage in London will play host to the world premiere of Dark Arteries by Gavin Higgins featuring the Rambert Ballet & Tredegar Town Band this week.

Tuesday, 12 May 2015

The stage of the Sadler's Wells Theatre in London will showcase the world premiere of 'Dark Arteries' this week.

Musical boundaries

The project featuring dancers from the Rambert Ballet & Tredegar Town who will be conducted by Ian Porthouse crosses cultural, historical and musical boundaries interwoven with stories of the brass band movement and the miners industry.

The thirtieth anniversary of the 1984 Miner's strike, is taken as a starting point for the creation of this contemporary piece of music and dance, that looks forward as well as back to the 1980s.

Media spotlight

The music is composed by Gavin Higgins who comes from both a mining family and whom played in brass bands.

In advance of the premiere which commences this evening and runs until Saturday, Tredegar travelled to London on Monday for more intensive rehearsals with the exciting new concept creating plenty of media spotlight.

Music Matters, The Times & BBC News

On Saturday, Gavin Higgins and Ian Porthouse along with Rambert Ballet's Artistic Director, Mark Baldwin were featured on BBC Radio 3's 'Music Matters' whilst on Monday, a two page double spread appeared in The Times newspaper.

More media spotlight will come with an appearance on the BBC six and ten o'clock news programmes this as well as appearing in London's flagship newspaper, Evening Standard and a feature on C Radio 4's live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music, 'Front Row'.

Tredegar has been featured on Music Matters, in The Times newspaper and will be on BBC news on Wednesday at 6 & 10pm4BR

BBC News feature

To watch the feature on BBC six o'clock news click on the following link at around 23'52 http://t.co/LRvWaBOCYp

Music Matters

To listen to the Music Matters programme, click on the following link at around 14'30

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tm4h7

Front Row

To listen to Front Row, click on the following link at around 16'40:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tlvbq

Tickets

To see Dark Arteries, tickets can be purchased from the following link:

http://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/2015/rambert

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