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Stumbling over men dancing
The New Adventures website has published a recent Gaydar Nation interview with Dorian Gray leading man Richard Winsor - good to see the amount of publicity this show is generating in advance of its forthcoming revival.Again, as with the interview in ...
Dorian pair on the power of an all-male duet
Richard Winsor and Jason Piper talk about researching their roles, portraying paranoia and the power of an all-male duet in The Guardian.Richard Winsor: There's a power struggle when two men are dancing together – a manly energy on stage. It feels ...
Finding the gay in Dorian Gray
No one could deny that there is a huge homosexual subtext in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray - so it's good to see that Matthew Bourne's dance version, updated to the modern world of celebrity and media, is milking it for all it's worth.Afte...
Talking Shop: Matthew Bourne
Matthew Bourne talks to the BBC about his production of Dorian Gray...
I See Swans - Beautiful Swans!
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake will return to Sadler's Wells this Christmas for a 7 week season from 10 December.The production received its World Premiere at the 'old' Sadler's Wells in November 1995 and was last seen at the venue for the Christmas Seas...
Dorian Gray's revealing new portrait
New Adventures' Dorian Gray star Richard Winsor has appeared in some revealing shots for the May 'Naked Issue' of gay magazine Attitude.Winsor will be recreated his starring role as Dorian Gray in the much anticipated UK tour of Matthew Bourne's late...
New Lowry Season - Summer-Autumn 2009
The Rain ParadeThis blackly comic and provocative new duet from the award-winning Lost Dog [pictured below] looks forward to the end of the world. Mankind’s last three survivors are left trying to make sense of what happened and piece together some...
Dorian Gray tour 2009
New Adventures have confirmed the first set of dates for the 2009 tour of Dorian Gray.I understand that the show will again feature the very lovely Richard Winsor and Aaron Sillis [pictured below] in the two male lead roles, so I am very much looking...
Dorian Gray star wins 'breakthrough' award
New Adventures company member, Aaron Sillis, has won The Times Breakthrough Award at this years South Bank Show Awards.Last year, Aaron created his first leading role, in New Adventures' Dorian Gray, alongside experienced Company stars, Richard Winso...
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Matthew Bourne born 13 January 1960Matthew Bourne OBE is a choreographer.Matthew was born in Walthamstow, London. At the age of five or six he staged his first production. In 1982 he enrolled at the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, where he was a...
2008 - the Year in Dance
FebruaryNutcracker! - New Adventures at the Lowry ****AprilSwan Lake - Birmingham Royal Ballet at the Lowry *****MayGala Night - Kirov Ballet at the Lowry *****Beauty & the Brut/A Girl in the World/Bloom - Stephen Petronio Company at the Lowry (Q...
Dorian Gray will rise
New Adventures latest hit show, Dorian Gray, returns to Sadlers Wells next year for a limited 2 week season. The award winning production, based on Oscar Wilde's infamous novel, runs from 7th to 19th July 2009.As previously hinted, New Adventures are...
New Lowry Season - Spring 2009
Is there anything more exciting than your favourite theatre announcing details of the forthcoming new season? I think not.As I write, none of these events have been updated on the Lowry website yet so I've got the information from their online brochu...
The YouTube of Dorian Gray
Bourne planning double Lowry visit in 2009?
Both ideas have been mentioned previously - well, the idea that they might be coming back on the road - but I have it on pretty good authority that Matthew Bourne's New Adventures will be bringing their new 2009/2010 touring production of Swan Lake ...
Dorian Gray will rise?
Dorian Gray finishes its short but record-breaking tour tonight (27 September) - ending in Newcastle, after a string of sell-out performances at the Edinburgh International Festival, and in London, Plymouth and Norwich. The show has been one of the m...
Bourne Boxed
The latest DVD release of Matthew Bourne's work is a specially packaged 3 Disc gift set that includes three of his most popular works - Swan Lake, Nutcracker! and The Car Man.For the price of just one of these DVD's, you can now own all three! The pe...
Dance events to look forward to in 2009
Details are sketchy on a few of these but as 2008 is pretty much a done deal as far as companies planning their touring schedules, I'm eagerly looking ahead to what's coming up in 2009 - to see some new things and to see some new (or old) favourites ...
Dorian wins Herald Angel award
Despite some unusually mixed reviews at its Edinburgh Festival debut, Dorian Gray won one of the Herald Newspapers prestigious Herald Angel Awards.Presented in association with the Bank of Scotland at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre on Saturday 30th A...
Dorian Gray reviewed
Edinburgh festival: Dorian Gray - The Guardian **Dorian Gray, King's Theatre, Edinburgh - The Independent ****Dorian Gray is Bourne again - MetroEdinburgh 2008: sad end for Matthew Bourne's lofty ambitions - The Telegraph **Sex, drugs and serial kill...
Dorian Gray breaks Festival record
Press Releases, this week, from the Edinburgh Festival, have confirmed Matthew Bourne's Dorian Gray to be the most highly attended dance production in the festival's 62 year history, two weeks before its premiere performances.Audiences are expected t...
The Rehearsal of Dorian Gray
There are some rehearsal shots from the new production of Dorian Gray on the New Adventures website in advance of the previews and Edinburgh première later this month and it's all looking rather sexy...See them all here...
Clap hands here comes Scissorhands
Matthew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands is presently on tour in Australia but returns to the UK this autumn for a new tour. Dates are: Birmingham - Hippodrome Theatre - 11-15 November 2008 Salford - The Lowry - 18-22 November 2008 London - New Wimbled...
Matthew Bourne discusses forthcoming Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray reimagined as a gay aftershave model for our times? Star choreographer Matthew Bourne tells The Guardian's Judith Mackrell why he couldn't resist Having decided to bring the piece to the present day, the two men had to choose an appropri...
