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support the work of the charity and provide a cushion in lean years when the company may
not be generating as much earned income.
Examples of the range of work include Sacred Monsters (2006), a duet with Sylvie Guillem,
exploring the boundaries between two classical dance forms, kathak and ballet with additional
choreography by Lin Hwai Min, artistic director of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan. In
2007 a reciprocal collaborative arrangement saw Akram working with Cloud Gate: Lost
Shadows which was premiered in Taipei.
Akram was also invited by Kylie Minogue in summer 2006 to choreograph a section of her
new Showgirl concert, which opened in Australia in November 2006, and tours to the UK
(London and Manchester) in January 2007.
Akram’s latest work – in-i – is a collaboration with Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche,
visual design by Anish Kapoor and music composition by Philip Sheppard. It premiered in
September 2008 at the National Theatre, and tours internationally in 2009.
bahok, originally a collaboration with the National Ballet of China and composer Nitin
Sawhney was premiered in Beijing in January 2008. It has gained international acclaim on its
subsequent world tour. Due to its success, bahok will tour again internationally in 2009/2010.
New Adventures
Matthew Bourne's company, initially called Adventures in Motion Pictures, began its life as a
small-scale contemporary dance company, touring arts centres and small theatres around the
country. With the support of initially Opera North, which commissioned the company to
produce Nutcracker and then Swan Lake, which was produced with commercial investors
alongside support from the Arts Council, this saw an immediate rise in scale for the company
which included the longest run of a ballet ever seen in the West End, a season on Broadway
and international awards, including Tony and Olivier awards.
From then, New Adventures has worked in conjunction with Arts Council England in
delivering further productions within a public/private capacity – Arts Council monies
supporting the project alongside commercial monies raised by the company. If profits are
made, the proportion of capitalisation supported by the Arts Council goes back to the
company, thereby enabling the company to continue to generate product.
New Adventures has now become an important economic component within the ecology of
dance, not only with its Christmas seasons of eight weeks at Sadler’s Wells every Christmas
since 2002 but its touring weeks here in the UK (normally approximately 20 weeks a year)
and internationally to Europe, Asia, America and Australia.
DanceEast
Fundraising for dance, particularly from the private sector, has always been challenging and
most organisations, outside the large-scale companies have, for the most part, focussed their
energies on trusts and foundations with little success with corporate and individual giving for
revenue and capital funding. The days of large sums of lottery capital are now over
and without private philanthropy, capital projects can’t get off the ground unless strategically
bank-rolled by local authorities.
DanceEast took the challenge of raising £8.9 million for its new DanceHouse in Ipswich, with
a target of £1.6 million from the private sector, which it has achieved. Without a base of
donors, DanceEast started from the ground up and developed a pool of friends and
supporters through board members and staff. Through the Red Shoe Appeal, a strong
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