New Adventures is a British
dance-theatre
The German Tanztheater ("dance theatre") grew out of German Expressionist dance in Weimar Germany and 1920s Vienna. The term first appears around 1927 to identify a particular style of dance emerging from within the new forms of 'expressionist da ...
company. Founded by choreographer
Matthew Bourne
Sir Matthew Christopher Bourne (born 13 January 1960) is an English choreographer whose work includes contemporary dance and dance theatre.
Choreographer
In 2007, Bourne contemplated a gay version of ''Romeo and Juliet''. Despite the succ ...
in 2001, the company developed from an earlier company Adventures in Motion Pictures, now dissolved.
History
Adventures in Motion Pictures (AMP) was established in 1987 by a group of students from London's
Laban Centre,
including Matthew Bourne, Catherine White (now Malone), Emma Gladstone, Susan Lewis, Carrollynne Antoun, David Massingham and Keith Brazil. AMP's productions like ''Spitfire'' (1988), parodied the manners of romantic ballet dancers.
By 1991, the original members of the company were working outside of AMP,
and Bourne held auditions for new dancers, forming a company with six core dancers, including Scott Ambler (later founder artistic associate),
Etta Murfitt
Etta Jane Bertschinger (née Murfitt; born 29 July 1966) is a British dancer, choreographer and the associate director of the New Adventures educational strand. She has worked for Matthew Bourne for over 20 years in a variety of different roles ...
(now associate artistic director), Ben Wright, Ally Fitzpatrick and Jamie Watton. Their first piece together was ''Town & Country'' (1991).
Subsequent AMP productions included ''Nutcracker!'' (1992), ''Highland Fling'' (1994), ''Swan Lake'' (1995), ''Cinderella'' (1997) and ''The Car Man'' (2000).
In 2000, Bourne formed New Adventures with producer Robert Noble, who became co-director of the company.
New Adventures Limited was incorporated in January 2001.
New Adventures Charity (incorporated in 2008)
is a registered charity (charity number: 1125342) that works "To advance the education of young people, dance practitioners and the general public particularly but not exclusively through the provision of workshops and classes with specific but not exclusive reference to the dance choreography of Matthew Bourne".
New Adventures has been a
National Portfolio Organisation
Arts Council England is an arm's length non-departmental public body of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. It is also a registered charity. It was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three se ...
receiving funding from
Arts Council England since 2015.
Awards
Laurence Olivier Awards
AMP or New Adventures have received 12
Laurence Olivier Awards nominations, winning six.
Other awards
References
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Dance companies in the United Kingdom