New Adventures - Principal Support Programme

December 2024

Matthew Bourne’s production of Swan Lake, The Next Generation

Photo credit: Johan Persson 2024

We are delighted to join with Sir Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures dance company to assist the Principal Support Programme, created this year to nurture the development of the next generation of young dancers at the early stage of their careers.

The programme prepares dancers performing in notoriously challenging and esteemed principal roles within the New Adventures’ production of Swan Lake. 2024/25 marks the major revival of this iconic production for its 30th Anniversary UK Tour, with a focus on celebrating the next generation of talent.

When Matthew Bourne’s reinvention of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece premiered in 1985 at Sadler’s Wells, it caused a sensation and has since become the most successful dance theatre production of all time. In celebration of that production, Swan Lake will take flight once more in this major revival, visiting 19 venues over 29 weeks.
Click here for details of Swan Lake and tour dates

Gillian Lynne and Matthew Bourne were friends and colleagues over many years and it was a delight to welcome Sir Matthew as a Patron of the Lynne and Land Foundation at its inception, and this new collaboration with New Adventures continues that relationship to support emerging talent in dance and the performing arts.

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