Glug Presents World First Grime Ballet With Lioness and Alexander Whitley

Glug, announces it has teamed up with Boxpark Wembley to produce the world’s first grime ballet London Sketchbook.

London Sketchbook comprises brand new original music and choreography produced as part of a collaboration between critically acclaimed leading lady of grime Lioness and world renowned and classically trained choreographer Alexander Whitley. It is a unique world debut performance combining two very diverse, yet equally important, art forms.

The track is being produced by British songwriter, record producer and poet Nat Powers, who has previously worked with artist like Giggs, Run DMC and D Double E.

London Sketchbook’s global premiere will be a ticketed event at Boxpark Wembley on 30th January.

The performance also incorporates music and live accompaniment from The Grime Violinist (Tanya Cracknell), the classically trained musician best known for her violin covers of grime tracks.

Lioness will also perform a solo set of tracks including her upcoming single from her much-anticipated new EP 'Overdraft'.

Other stuff going on at the event includes: the London premiere of Alexander Whitley Dance Company’s interactive performance installation Strange Stranger which features music by DJ and Producer Beatrice Dillon, a panel discussion on the future of grime, workshops on classical ballet, rap and contemporary dance and DJ sets.