Sadler’s Wells announces more shows for its 2025 season

Dance organisation Sadler’s Wells in London has added more productions to its 2025 season, bringing the total to 79 shows including 3 world premieres and 14 UK premieres.

In a first for the venue, 2025 will see a season across four of its theatres, as its new venue Sadler’s Wells East opens.

This month marks 20 years since Sir Alistair Spalding CBE was appointed Artistic Director of Sadler’s Wells in 2004, after joining the organisation in 2000 as Director of Programming.

Highlights of the new programming include:

In summer 2025, some big blockbusters will hit the venue including Rambert’s Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby (Tuesday 5 – Saturday 16 August 2025), Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell (Tuesday 10 – Saturday 21 June 2025) and the return to London of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Wednesday 20 August – Sunday 7 September 2025).

Coming to the Peacock Theatre, Sadler’s Wells’ home in the West End, will be circus hits GODZ (Wednesday 11 – Saturday 14 June 2025) from Australian company Head First Acrobats, and WAKE (Wednesday 2 – Saturday 5 April 2025) by Irish company THISISPOPBABY.

Specky Clark (Friday 9 – Saturday 10 May 2025) – a new work by Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Oona Doherty exploring her family past, featuring music by Mercury Prize-nominated Lankum and dramaturgy by acclaimed playwright Enda Walsh, and co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells.

The UK premiere of Wayne McGregor’s Deepstaria (Thursday 27 February – Sunday 2 March 2025) – a highly sensory, meditative dance and sound experience inspired by the void and our own mortality – from Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Sir Wayne McGregor CBE.

World premiere of Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Jules Cunningham’s CROW / Pigeons (Thursday 27 – Friday 28 March 2025) as part of Van Cleef & Arpels’ Dance Reflections Festival which returns in March with 8 shows across Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Sadler’s Wells East and the Lilian Baylis Studio. The Festival also features UK premieres of productions by Trisha Brown Dance Company, Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company, (LA)HORDE with Ballet national de Marseille and Soa Ratsifandrihana and a Cunningham programme by Lyon Opera Ballet.

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch returns with iconic production Vollmond (Full Moon) (Friday 14 – Sunday 23 February 2025), last seen in London 12 years ago.

Sadler’s Wells year-round Ballet with Attitude programme continues with English National Ballet’s The Forsythe Programme (Thursday 10 – Saturday 19 April 2025) and Northern Ballet’s Jane Eyre (Tuesday 13 – Saturday 17 May 2025) choreographed by Cathy Marston.

Scottish Ballet presents a double bill of work by Dickson Mbi and Cayetano Soto while Ballet BC (British Columbia) bringing work by Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Crystal Pite and Johan Inger as part of a Dance Consortium tour.

Highlights at Sadler’s Wells this Christmas 2024 include Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, returning to London for its 30th anniversary.

What They Said

Sir Alistair Spalding CBE, Artistic Director and Co-Chief Executive of Sadler’s Wells said: “20 years on, and it keeps getting bigger and better. Audiences were up 30% last year and now is the perfect time to celebrate dance and the magic it brings to audiences by launching our new programme. There are too many highlights over my last 20 years as Artistic Director to single out, but it is wonderful to be at a place now, where we are working across four theatres with such an amazing range of dance, not just on stage but with our learning and community projects, and work on Digital Stage. The programme announced today features new work from our Associate Artists, blockbuster shows of much-loved titles entertaining audiences over summer, and the return of Dance Reflections presented by our partners Van Cleef and Arpels.”

Britannia Morton, Chief Executive and Co-Chief Executive of Sadler’s Wells, said: “We’re so pleased to launch even more programming for our theatres in 2025 today. The breadth and quality of work across these shows caters to the growing popularity of dance, both in the UK and overseas. 2025 promises to be a big year for us as we open a new venue, take our learning and engagement offer up and down the country, and present the world premiere of Quadrophenia: A Mod Ballet. We hope you can join us for it, whether that’s here in London, at one of our regional partners across the United Kingdom, abroad, or online through our Digital Stage platform.”

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