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To its struggles, beauty and its people. Those with us and no longer with us. It is a prayer for guidance.
Choreographer Mthuthuzeli November won the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production in 2020 for his creation Ingoma with Ballet Black. In 2021 he made the short film What Used To, No Longer Is for Northern Ballet.
Watch his new work Wailers exclusively in Leeds and London this autumn as part of our mixed programme Made in Leeds: Three Short Ballets.
Photos by Emma Kauldhar, George Liang and Mthuthuzeli November.