Swan Lake Take Flight
Overview
In 2024-25, New Adventures is touring its pioneering production of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake.
Alongside the show, we are working with theatres across the UK to offer a range of free dance activities and experiences for young people inspired by Swan Lake.
Soon you will be able to select the city closest to you below to explore the activities we have planned in your area.
About Swan Lake Take Flight
To coincide with this 30th anniversary tour of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, New Adventures has developed Swan Lake Take Flight, an ambitious dance project which seeks to reach over 2,500 young people in the UK. The activities that make up this project, which include regional dance-artist training and employment, community movement workshops and in-theatre experience days, are inspired by Swan Lake and will engage young people who may or may not have ever experienced dance before. The activities will focus on how connecting, creating, and moving together can improve wellbeing. Furthermore, through a pioneering research partnership with The Centre for Health and Wellbeing across the Lifecourse at Brunel University London, New Adventures will identify the conditions and mechanisms by which Swan Lake Take Flight achieves its wellbeing outcomes.
The project will be delivered with New Adventures’ Placemaking partners, including Mayflower Theatre and MAST Mayflower Studios, Norwich Theatre, The Alhambra Bradford, Theatre Royal Plymouth, The Marlowe Canterbury, Theatre Royal Newcastle and Farnham Maltings, as New Adventures aims to support relationships between venues and local community groups and bring new audiences into theatres across the country.
Etta Murfitt, Associate Artistic Director of New Adventures, said,
“Now, more than ever, young people need dance and dance needs young people! Just as our production of Swan Lake embraces the next generation, Swan Lake Take Flight will get today’s generation of children and young people moving and excited about dance and validate the impact of dance on wellbeing to support the future of our industry and generations to come. I could not be prouder of this pioneering programme and look forward to working with our venue partners throughout the UK to make it a success.”
Related Jobs and Opportunities
Funded PhD Studentship in Dance, Communities and Wellbeing
The Centre for Health and Wellbeing across the Life course at Brunel University London is offering a fully funded PhD studentship in partnership with New Adventures to build a programme theory of wellbeing for Swan Lake Take Flight.
Find out more about this opportunity.
Contact our team
If you need more information about Swan Lake Take Flight or would like the information in an alternative format, please email Swan Lake Take Flight Producer Leah Fox leah@new-adventures.net, or call 07821 110170.