Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Reveals Full Cast for A LIFE IN FOUR SEASONS
Tinuke Craig directs the Vivaldi-inspired work with choreography by Alexzandra Sarmiento and score by DJ Walde
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre has announced the full cast of dancers for A Life in Four Seasons. Vivaldi's masterpiece is reimagined in an electric new contemporary dance work directed by Tinuke Craig with choreography by Alexzandra Sarmiento and a recorded musical score by composer DJ Walde. The production runs from 11 – 14 June, with a press performance on Friday 12 June 2026.
The dancers are Tanesha Aba, Kazmin Borrer, Robia Brown, Emi Ichikawa, Carrie-Anne Ingrouille, Jacqui Jameson, Susan Kempster, Louis Mackrodt, Christie Lee Manning, Michael Naylor, Laura Dawn Pyatt, Mark Smith, Nadia Sohawon, Beryl Tay, Mami Tomotani and Ethan Vijn.
Tinuke Craig, Associate Artistic Director of Regent's Park Open Air Theatre and Director of A Life in Four Seasons said: “I'm so thrilled to be working on this new and exciting piece of dance with such an accomplished team of artists. It's a real honour to work with this company who are bringing such a wealth of experience, such a breadth of styles and approaches and such a generosity of spirit to this project, which aims to examine who we are, what we can change and what we can't, and how we can grow to love ourselves and each other over the course of a life.”
Alexzandra Sarmiento, choreographer said: “The audiences of Regent's Park Open Air Theatre have delighted in experiencing storytelling through an incredible canon of plays, musicals, operas, and other fantastic forms of performance. I'm so pleased that dance is being added to that canon and I can't wait to share with you what we are cooking up with our incredible company of dancers.”
DJ Walde, composer said: “It's always a pleasure to collaborate with the amazing Tinuke Craig. I'm looking forward to working alongside and creating with this amazing bunch of creatives and these wonderful dancers.”
Creatives include Will Burry (Casting Coordinator); Will Burton (Casting Director); Tinuke Craig (Director); Zeynep Kepekli (Lighting Designer); Ryan Dawson Laight (Set & Costume Designer); Georgia Nosal (Associate Wigs, Hair & Make Up Designer & Supervisor); Max Pappenheim (Sound Designer); Alexzandra Sarmiento (Choreographer); DJ Walde (Composition & Arrangements, based on Vivaldi's original work) and Samuel Wilson-Freeman (Associate Director & Choreographer).
Three friends spring across a vibrant city, life is new, exciting and undiscovered. As summer speeds towards them they grasp the metropolis and push, push, push through to autumn. What will be discovered and what will life bring as they reach the depths of winter?
This pulsating new version of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons is created by Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Associate Artistic Director Tinuke Craig (Noughts & Crosses; A Raisin in the Sun, UK Tour) with choreography by Alexzandra Sarmiento (Scissorhandz, Southwark Playhouse; 42 Balloons, West End) and a recorded musical score by award-winning composer DJ Walde (The Importance of Being Earnest, National Theatre & West End; Sylvia, Old Vic).
An audacious evening of contemporary dance set to an electric re-working of one of the world's musical masterpieces.
