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Future Movement – Runway of Life
Future Movement work together to discover what culture and creativity mean to them and the role it might play in their future lives. This year young people in Lambeth, Liverpool, Mansfield and Rochdale have been working to explore costuming and identity. They worked with sustainable fashion designer Patrick McDowell, whose Spring / Summer 2024 collection is inspired by the Rambert Archive, and featured Rambert dancers as models.
Future Movement 2024 – Final Four Locations
Future Movement is at full speed in 2024 with a weekly programme in four locations – Lambeth, Liverpool, Mansfield, and Rochdale for ages 16-19. Over three terms, participants discover what culture and creativity mean to them. They build creative skills, experience new opportunities, gain a network of professional role models, and create something tangible.
Peaky Blinders: The Shelbys are Back
The Shelbies are back on tour in 2024. Following the huge success of the previous tour, it’s time for you to secure your seat in a city near you.
Rambert X Vogue World
FKA Twigs performs Opus III’s “It’s a Fine Day” with Rambert at Vogue World: London. Providing one of the first live performances of the night, FKA Twigs hit the stage wearing a sexy black cut-out bodysuit by the New York designer LaQuan Smith, while the Rambert dancers sported traditional black, form-fitting dance wear around her.
Robots of Brixton – a film by Kibwe Tavares
Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London’s new robot workforce – robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of Brixton has rocketed, resulting in unplanned, cheap, and quick additions to the skyline.
The film follows the trials and tribulations of young robots surviving at the sharp end of inner city life, living the predictable existence of a populous hemmed in by poverty, disillusionment, and mass unemployment. When the Police invade the one space which the robots can call their own, the fierce and strained relationship between the two sides explodes into an outbreak of violence echoing that of 1981.
With Support from:
Kibwe Tavares – Direction, animation, modeling, lighting, texturing
David Hoffman – Photographer Brixton riots
Mourad Bennacer – Sound Designer
DJ Hiatus “The Great Insurrection”
Rambert X H Magazine
All the World’s Alive Again is a collaboration between Rambert’s Artistic Director Benoit Swan Pouffer, photographer Mariano Vivanco and creative director Hassan Al-Saleh. It’s performed by Rambert’s Max Day, Conor Kerrigan, Naya Lovell, Guillaume Queau and Aishwarya Raut,
The film is set to the soundtrack of Max Richter’s hugely popular recomposed interpretation of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
Future Movement – Comfort Food
S1 E3 Comfort Food
What shapes our cultural identity? Future Movement London talk to Rambert dancers Naya Lovell and Antonello Sangirardi and visit the home of broadcast journalist Ben Hunte.
This film was made by and features:
Augustin Shaw
Estelle Sannoh
Hilary Senou
Chatchan Khabthong
Annabelle Montagu
Erhus Digba
Andria Digba
Rose Marie Stephenson
Dami Telefusi
Neithan Chua
Tallulah Miel
Savannah Wilson
Maria Mintah
Directed and edited by: Emily Badescu
Co-produced by: Chloe Young & Daniel Fulvio
Executive Producer: Helen Shute
Filmed by: Emily Badescu
Additional filming: Darryl Daniel
Drone filming Mike Rumsey
Camera Assistant: Acacia Daniel
Sound mix: Ben Sims
Colour grade: Lita Bosch
Death Trap Playlist – Nina Simone Classics
For Rambert’s Death Trap, Ben Duke took inspiration from watching footage of the onstage intensity of Nina Simone, who appeared to suffer and exult through every emotion of every song she sang.
To celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth, we’re sharing Death Trap’s tracklist so you’ll find some Nina Simone classics. Enjoy.
Will Kemp & Brenda Lee Grech S2E2
In this episode of Super Humans, Rambert dancer Brenda Lee Grech chats with dancer turned actor, Will Kemp. As a principal dancer with AMP, Will danced The Swan in Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, before transitioning to a successful career in Hollywood, acting alongside the likes of Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale in Van Helsing, and Val Kilmer and Christian Slater in Mindhunters.
Here, Will and Brenda recount their journey into dance and dance training, which Will brilliantly describes as ‘the army in tights’. They talk about the confidence of youth (is it ignorance or arrogance, and why do we lose it?), the ‘Boys Dance Too’ movement, as well as the pressures of the professional dance world, particularly for women. It’s a conversation full of funny anecdotes, as well as vulnerability. How outside events impact the choices we make, the value of creativity during the adversity of adolescence, and finding inspiration in the day-to-day.
Notes for the listener:
Brenda mentions in the podcast the brilliant Helen McCrory, who she worked with on Peaky Blinders. This podcast was recorded before Helen’s sad passing, and our thoughts are with her family.
This podcast was recorded in one sitting, but you’ll notice Brenda’s microphone sound changes about ¾ of the way through due to her switching headphones.