Richard Alston Dance Company

Proudly celebrating its twentieth year, Richard Alston Dance Company comes to the Richmond Theatre with a knock-out new programme showcasing Alston’s superbly skilled choreography.

Brisk Singing celebrates the music of Jean Phillippe Rameau, genius of the French baroque. Alston has revived this uplifting dance for 8 dancers, carried along by the warmth and lightness of spirit in Rameau’s music.

Martin Lawrance’s extraordinary Burning premiered in September 2014 to standing ovations and five star reviews. A smouldering dance as passionate and turbulent as its music, the Dante Sonata of Franz Liszt.

Richard Alston’s brand new piece, Nomadic, mixes Asian-influenced traditional Romany singing with the toughness of an urban beat. To explore the interaction between gypsy music and urban sound, Alston has collaborated with the young choreographer Ajani Johnson-Goffe in a career first.

**** ‘Quite the tour de force’
Evening Standard(Jan 2015)

‘Alston’s versatile, athletic company are a knockout’
Sunday Times (Jan 2015)