Hofesh Shechter Company Theatre of Dreams
Play TrailerDance beyond your wildest dreams.
This new full-length evening will showcase the physicality and complexity of Hofesh Shechter’s choreography and his inimitable dancers, as they take the audience on a wild headfirst dive into the world of dreams.
Through Hofesh’s ever-unfolding choreography, this new work will delve deep into the world of fantasy and the subconscious, revealing fears, hopes, desires and a myriad of emotions that penetrates not only the dreaming mind but also our waking thoughts. From this uncontrollable wave of chaotic emotions and surreal events emerges a strange sense of clarity and reality – the mind is king.
The dancers’ bodies will bring to life on stage this interplay between poetry and reality, accompanied by live musicians and Shechter’s trademark cinematic sound-score. Hofesh will reunite with lighting designer, Tom Visser, to create a powerful, sculptured space to this dreamscape.
Hofesh last appeared on the Sadler’s Wells Theatre stage in 2021 with Double Murder, featuring Clowns and The Fix. Find out more about Hofesh here.
An audio described programme for this production is available here.
Produced by Hofesh Shechter Company
Commissioned by Théâtre de la Ville – Paris. Co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells London; Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival; Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg; Seongnam Arts Center/Seongnam Cultural Foundation; Danse Danse Montréal; MC2 : Maison de la Culture de Grenoble – Scène nationale; Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen; Central – La Louvière; Shanghai International Dance Center Theater (SIDCT); Théâtre Sénart – Scène Nationale; Torinodanza Festival / Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale; Festspielhaus St. Pölten (AT); La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand scène nationale; Maison de la danse, Lyon – Pôle européen de création; Les Gémeaux – Scène Nationale de Sceaux; Château Rouge, scène conventionnée – Annemasse; Châteauvallon-Liberté, scène nationale; Scène Nationale ALBI-Tarn; Le Carré Sainte-Maxime with support from Theater Rotterdam; Les Salins – Scène Nationale de Martigues; Marche Teatro / Inteatro Festival; La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de –Marne and The Maria Björnson Memorial Fund.
Individual Commissioner: Georgia Rosengarten
Hofesh Shechter Company benefits from the support of BNP Paribas Foundation for the development of its projects and is supported using public funding through Arts Council England.
Header image © Tom Visser
Getting goose bumps is the very least you can expect from a Hofesh Shechter show
LE MONDE
One of the British dance scene’s hottest properties
THE NEW YORK TIMES on Hofesh Shechter
Invigorating
L’ESSENTIART
Theatre of Dreams goes from nightmarish visions to soaring lyricism. The adventure is magnificent, total and utterly engaging
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