Annual Review 2018/19Contents 4 Welcome 6 Jane Eyre 7 The Little Mermaid 8 Mixed Programme 9 The Three Musketeers 10 The Nutcracker 11 Victoria 12 For the Kids 16 Digital Ambitions 18 Other News 20 Dancers of the future 22 Ballet for all 24 Supporting our future 26 At home 28 Leeds Dance Partnership 31 Financial summary Cover: Abigail Prudames and Joseph Taylor in Victoria. Photo Emma Kauldhar Left: Minju Kang in The Three Musketeers. Photo Emma Kauldhar. Northern Ballet Annual Review 2018/19 | 3Winner: > UK Theatre Awards Achievement in Dance > BroadwayWorld UK Award Outstanding Achievement in a New Dance Production The Little Mermaid > Emcees Awards Best Corporate Partnership with first direct Nominated: > National Dance Awards Outstanding Company > National Dance Awards Best Male Dancer (Javier Torres) > UK Theatre Awards Best Presentation of Touring Theatre > UK Theatre Awards Promotion of Diversity Welcome Welcome to our Annual Review for 2018/19 celebrating a year of artistic, training, education and commercial excellence at Northern Ballet. Our Year in Numbers 8 Ballets 7 Awards & Nominations 2 38 1.8M Tour Venues Viewed our ballets on CBeebies Performances Academy Students Fundraising Workshop Participants Saw our digital work 218 719 £1.2M 23,667 2.2M 136,378 Live Audience £3.43M World Premières Gross Box Office 4 | Northern Ballet Annual Review 2018/19 Where we’ve been Belfast Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Berwick-upon-Tweed Blackpool Bradford Bridlington Buxton Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Corby Derby Doncaster Durham Exeter Goole Harrogate Huddersfield Hull Leeds Leicester Lincoln London Mansfield Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Newcastle Norwich Nottingham Peterborough Reading Salford Sheffield Weymouth Woking Yeovil Northern Ballet Annual Review 2018/19 | 5Cathy Marston’s Jane Eyre returned for the first time since its 2016 world première embarking on an extensive UK tour. Telling the infamous story of the fiery Jane and her embattled journey to find love and independence, this tour of Jane Eyre was a smash hit with critics and audiences alike, and garnered prestigious international attention (see page 18). Jane Eyre A ballet by Cathy Marston HHHH ‘This is ballet that packs a punch and tells a grippingly emotional story’ Mail on Sunday Performances 33 Venues 5 Live audience 24,758 Opposite page: Abigail Prudames and Joseph Taylor in The Little Mermaid. This page: Hannah Bateman and Joseph Taylor in Jane Eyre. Photos Emma Kauldhar. 6 | Northern Ballet Annual Review 2018/19 The world première tour of David Nixon OBE’s box office hit The Little Mermaid had final performances in Milton Keynes, where we enjoyed our most successful season in 10 years, followed by Leicester which received one of our large-scale ballets for the first time. This staggeringly popular new ballet, based on the traditional Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, has become one of the most successful original ballets in our repertoire. HHHH ‘Superb’ The Reviews Hub ‘An utter delight and surprisingly moving’ East Midlands Theatre The Little Mermaid A ballet by David Nixon OBE Performances 14 Venues 2 Live audience 10,141 Northern Ballet Annual Review 2018/19 | 7World Première Mixed Programme In September 2018, we staged an exhilarating programme of three new short ballets in a showcase of the dancers’ physicality and emotive power. Featuring The Kingdom of Back by emerging choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple, Mamela…, a choreographic debut by our First Soloist Mlindi Kulashe and The Shape of Sound, a breath-taking work by Kenneth Tindall. Performed in the intimate Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre, Leeds and Doncaster Cast, audiences were treated to a close-up display of contemporary ballet at its finest. HHHH ‘Extraordinary’ The Reviews Hub ‘Pulsing with contemporary energy’ DanceTabs This page: Minju Kang and Matthew Topliss in Mamela... Opposite page: Riku Ito and Ayami Miyata in The Three Musketeers. Photos Emma Kauldhar. Performances 8 Venues 2 Live audience 2,470 8 | Northern Ballet Annual Review 2018/19 Autumn 2018 saw the return of David Nixon OBE’s swashbuckling adventure ballet The Three Musketeers, which returned to the UK stage for the first time in more than 10 years. This fun-filled adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel, packed with larger than life characters, thrilled audiences from Newcastle to Canterbury with the antics of d’Artagnan and his musketeer comrades. The Three Musketeers A ballet by David Nixon OBE ‘The finest possible manifestation of popular dance entertainment’ Dance Europe Performances 23 Venues 4 Live audience 15,503 Northern Ballet Annual Review 2018/19 | 9Next >