New English Ballet Theatre Coming to Latitude Festival, 7/16

On July 16th NEW ENGLISH BALLET THEATRE will perform three of its most popular works for audiences at the tenth anniversary of Latitude Festival at 1.30pm on the Waterfront Stage. The three ballets are: Lonesome Gun and Mad Women choreographed by Royal Ballet Soloist Kristen McNally and Wundarra choreographed by former Dutch National Ballet dancer Daniela Cardim.

Latitude Festival, Henham Park, near Southwold, Suffolk - www.latitudefestival.com
The Waterfront Stage is programmed by Sadler's Wells.

Lonesome Gun was premiered in 2012 as part of NEBT's debut season. The ballet had been created by Kristen McNally for the Royal Ballet's Draft Works programme; she then used the young dancers of NEBT to develop the piece further. "A big love of mine is the desert: the landscape, the smell, the heat, the sounds and, most of all, the cowboys!" says Kristen. "I could watch Westerns all day long; I think it was only a matter of time before I used the theme as inspiration for a piece."

Daniela Cardim's Wundarra was created for the Ignition Festival in 2015; Cardim has choreographed a playful pas de deux to a selection of aboriginal music that she has always wanted to use. The ballet explores the juxtaposition of the unusual sound and the classical ballet language.

The last piece in the Latitude programme is Kristen McNally's Mad Women. The work was inspired by an exhibition of photographs by fashion photographer and artist Miles Aldridge. This uniquely topical piece reflects a world where modified women are visually perfect objects of desire but the piece suggests that this isn't a man's world; it's very much a woman's one.