Hussein Chalayan: Gravity Fatigue, London
Celebrated fashion designer Hussein Chalayan has already had some connection with the world of dance, creating costumes for Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Faun and Michael Clark’s current/SEE. Now he is appearing in the Wells’s new season as author of his own work. While Damien Jalet is credited as the choreographer, Chalayan initiated the concept, narrative and movement style, as well as its visual imagery and themes of migration, displacement and freedom, in a production made up of 13 dancers, witty set design and a wardrobe of more than 100 costumes.
Sadler’s Wells, EC1, Wed to 31 Oct
The Royal Ballet: Viscera, Afternoon Of A Faun, Tchaikovsky Pas De Deux & Carmen, London
As Carlos Acosta dances his last season with the Royal Ballet, he also makes his choreographic mark with his latest work, a one-act version of Carmen. Set to an arrangement of Bizet by Martin Yates, Acosta pares his narrative down to the dramatic essentials of love, jealousy and revenge, and frames the action within minimalist set designs by Tim Hatley. Sharing the evening is a revival of Liam Scarlett’s Viscera set to Lowell Liebermann’s fast and thrilling Piano Concerto, plus the grandeur of George Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky Pas De Deux and Jerome Robbins’s Afternoon Of A Faun.
