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Sadler’s Wells has announced new dance programming for its four theatres, including Sadler’s Wells Theatre, the Peacock Theatre in the West End, and brand new East London venue Sadler’s Wells East.

The new seasons feature their Associate Artists Crystal Pite, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Alesandra Seutin, Hofesh Shechter, Akram Khan, Sharon Eyal, Jules Cunningham and Michael Keegan-Dolan, and International Associate Company Acosta Danza.

Debuting at Sadler’s Wells for the first time are Ballet Black, Andrea Peña, Armin Hokmi, Copenhagen Collective, Ichi Ni San, Yewande 103, Amit Noy and Sadeck Berrabah.

A number of world premieres will take place, including a triple bill inspired by the work of Nico Muhly, a performance installation that reimagines Western ideas of progress, new work from Sadler’s Wells resident Company of Elders.

Sadler’s Wells will also continue its Composer Series, with the world premiere of Marking Time, which sees Jules Cunningham, Michael Keegan-Dolan and Maud Le Pladec take inspiration from the work of celebrated US musician Nico Muhly.

Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist Alesandra Seutin is presenting the UK premiere of Mimi’s Shebeen, which takes inspiration from South African singer and political activist Miriam Makeba.

Visionary creatives Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney bring their award-winning dance trilogy Figures in Extinction to Sadler’s Wells Theatre, working with the dancers of Nederlands Dans Theater in a Complicité co-production.

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is presenting two works this autumn: the UK premiere of Vlaemsch, and an Accident / a Life, which is a collaboration with Marc Brew.

Another UK premiere is Akram Khan’s Thikra: Night of Remembering, a Sadler’s Wells co-production that features an all-female cast of Bharatanatyam and contemporary dancers in a collaboration with visual artist Manal AlDowayan.

Sharon Eyal is partnering with London-based artist, producer and composer Koreless this season, on an original soundtrack and long-term collaborator Maria Grazia Chiuri on costumes for the physical and sensual Into the Hairy.

International Associate Company Acosta Danza will celebrate 10 years as a company with UK premieres by Javier de Frutos and Goyo Montero and works by George Céspedes, Alexis Fernández and Yaday Ponce.

Other performances include Michael Keegan-Dolan’s How To Be A Dancer In Seventy-Two Thousand Easy Lessons; Hofesh Shechter’s Olivier Award-nominated Theatre of Dreams; and Sadler’s Wells year-round Ballet with Attitude programme, including ballet companies Ballet Black, English National Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet.

Other shows include Armin Hokmi makes his Sadler’s Wells debut with the UK premiere of Shiraz, Toussaint to Move’s FREE, Amit Noy’s A Big Big Room Full of Everybody’s Hope, Breakin’ Convention presents PRISM by Montreal-based company Tentacle Tribe, Dance Umbrella presents Andrea Peña & Artists’ UK debut production BOGOTÁ, Sadeck Berrabah’s Murmuration, Yewande 103’s Many Lifetimes, The Genesis contemporary circus experience.

Autumn half-term shows include Akram Khan’s Chotto Desh, and Ichi Ni San’s Club Ninja.

Also announced today is Chaka Khan musical I’m Every Woman coming to their Peacock Theatre in 2026, and Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Black Sabbath – The Ballet coming to their main home in October.

Sadler’s Wells has also announced its inaugural YFX Youth Festival across two weeks in July 2025, celebrating the youth work being created up and down the country.

Sir Alistair Spalding CBE, Sadler’s Wells Artistic Director and Co-Chief Executive, said in a statement: “Dance really is a universal language, and at Sadler’s Wells we are committed to sharing stories from around the globe. The new shows announced today provide a window on the world with artists and companies from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, France, Iran, Ireland, India, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Morocco, The Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and United States of America. We’re delighted to be able to present world class work by eight of our Associate Artists this autumn. It‘s vital that we can continue to support these artists and provide a home for boundary-pushing work. Some extraordinary choreographers and companies also make their Sadler’s Wells debuts. Over the summer, across our venues, we will shine a spotlight on the incredible work being created with and by young people up and down the country in our brand-new youth festival YFX, in partnership with One Dance UK. As ever, at Sadler’s Wells, audiences will be treated to a kaleidoscope of styles including Bharatanatyam, ballet, contemporary, hip hop, kathak, dance theatre, martial arts and circus.”

Coming to Sadler’s Wells this summer is the hit production of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, from 20 August to 7 September 2025.

Also playing at Sadler’s Wells Theatre is Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell from 10 to 21 June 2025; Quadrophenia, a Mod Ballet from 24 June to 13 July 2025; Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby, from 5 to 16 August 2025; and this Christmas, Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes from 2 December 2025 to 18 January 2026.

Starting this month at their Peacock Theatre in the West End is Bat Out of Hell: The Musical, from 21 May to 7 June 2025; followed by Ghost Stories from 30 September to 8 November 2025; and Christmas favourite The Snowman from 22 November 2025 to 4 January 2026.

More about Black Sabbath The Ballet tickets at Sadler’s Wells London

More about I’m Every Woman – The Chaka Khan Musical at the Peacock Theatre London

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