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Antonia Franceschi

UNCAGED +

In Association with IMPERMANENCE

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18th - 22nd May, 7.30pm @ The Mount Without

- Matinee, Thursday 21st May, 2pm

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A triple bill of spectacular contemporary ballet.

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Featuring ASYLUM, commissioned by Vildwerk, a solo that explores ritual connections to nature, seeking otherness and altered states.

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Star of the Royal Ballet, Edward Watson OBE, will be performing ASYLUM on Monday & Tuesday.

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The piece will be performed by 2026 National Dance Award Nominee for Best Male Dancer, Harry Alexander, from Wednesday - Friday.

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★★★★★ - The Stage

"Shifting from coiled pathos to angular kicks and thrusts, it has something of early Wayne McGregor about it."

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Alongside this solo work, the evening will feature the first outing of a new Dance Theatre Ballet - UNCAGED - a piece that looks at the life of painters Lee Krasner and husband Jackson Pollock.

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Performed by six Ballet Dancers alongside IMPERMANENCE Directors Roseanna Anderson & Josh Ben-Tovim who will play Lee & Jackson, UNCAGED features music from composer Claire Van Kampen and is written and directed by the award winning Sara Joyce, with choreography from Antonia.

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Sir Mark Rylance is the Executive Producer and there are hopes for the piece to grow into a full length production later in the year in New York.

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The final piece in the evening is a restaged version of KINDERSZENEN- a beautiful ballet for 6 dancers set to the music of Allen Shawn.

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First performed in New York, this work has been in repertoire with Ballet Black and we are thrilled to present this new staging of the piece.

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Antonia Franceschi is a Time Out Award Winner for Outstanding Achievement In Dance and is an alumni of The New York City Ballet.

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She recently choreographed Dr Semmelweis at London’s Harold Pinter Theatre. She wrote Up From The Waste for The Soho Theatre. She choreographed Othello for The Globe Theatre as well as Idaspe for Pittsburgh's Byham Theater. She has choreographed extensively for British and American companies. Works have been created on her by Balanchine, Robbins, Martins, Lubovitch, Baldwin, McGregor, Clarke, Armitage, and Phillips. As a young dancer while still in high school she starred in the films Fame & Grease.