Matthew Bourne

"We are honoured to have Matthew Bourne, one of the most current and prolific Choreographers of our time in Contemporary Dance/Drama and Musical Theatre as our Patron. With the emergence of his company - New Adventures, dance has broken out of the elitist mould and stormed into the mainstream. We thank him for his affiliation and support". For more information go to: www.new-adventures.net Bio Matthew Bourne is widely hailed as the UK's most popular and successful Choreographer/ Director. He is the creator of the world's longest running ballet production, a five - time Olivier Award winner, and the only British director to have won the Tony Award for both Best Choreographer and Best Director of a Musical. Bourne's dance-thriller The Car Man returned in 2007 proving more popular than ever with audiences in London and around the UK. During this highly successful tour, Bourne was presented with the Theatre Managers Association (TMA) Special Award for services to Dance, touring and audience development... Matthew Bourne is a Resident Artist at Sadlers Wells Theatre. His company, New Adventures, has enjoyed a special relationship with the theatre and its audiences for nearly 20 years and was invited to be Resident Company in 2006... Matthew has also created choreography for several major revivals of classic musicals including Cameron Mackintosh’s productions of Oliver! (1994 and 2009 Olivier nomination) and My Fair Lady (2002- Olivier Award) as well as the National Theatre's revival of South Pacific (2002). In 2004 Matthew co-directed (with Richard Eyre) and choreographed (with Stephen Mear) the hit West End musical Mary Poppins for which he won an Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer. It went on to premiere on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre in 2006 (where it is still running) earning Bourne another two Tony nominations... He has collaborated on projects with leading directors, Trevor Nunn, Richard Eyre, Sam Mendes, Yukio Ninagawa and John Caird and has created dances and roles for such wide-ranging performers as Jonathan Pryce, Lynn Seymour, Dawn French, Adam Cooper, David Walliams, Julie Walters, Michael Sheen and Rowan Atkinson... His film work includes television productions of his stage work including Swan Lake (1996 Emmy nomination and 2011 in 3D), The Car Man (2001) and Nutcracker! (2003) and original work such as the John Betjeman inspired Late Flowering Lust (1993) with Sir Nigel Hawthorne and his own AMP Company. Matthew was the subject of a South Bank Show in 1997 and in 1999 he presented Channel 4's Dance 4 Series. The channel 4 documentary Bourne to Dance, which he also presented, was broadcast on Christmas Day 2001. His production of Swan Lake is featured in Stephen Daldry's hit film Billy Elliot. Other theatre and dance work includes; As You Like It (RSC/John Caird), Children of Eden (West End/John Caird), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Aix en Provence/Robert Carsen), The Tempest (NYT), Show Boat (Malmo Stadsteater, Sweden), Peer Gynt (Barbican/Yukio Ninagawa), Watch With Mother (NYDC), Boutique and The Infernal Galop (Images of Dance and The Sarasota Ballet), Watch Your Step (Irving Berlin Gala), French and Saunders Live in 2000 (UK tour), Dearest Love (Ballet Boyz)... In 1999 Faber and Faber published Matthew Bourne and his Adventures in Motion Pictures, edited by theatre and dance writer, Alastair Macaulay. The second edition will bring the story up to date when it is published later this year. In 1997 he was made an Honorary Fellow of his former college, The Laban Centre, and in 2007 received Honarary Doctorates from The Open University and The De Montford University in Leicester. in 2010 he received the same honour from both Plymouth and Kingston Universities and in 2011 from Roehampton University. Later this year he will be made a Companion of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance... Matthew Bourne has twice been nominated as Best Director at the Olivier Awards and his achievements in choreography have been recognized with over 30 international awards including The Evening Standard Award, South Bank Show Award, Time Out Award and the Astaire Award for Dance on Broadway. In the 2001 New Years Honours, Matthew was awarded an OBE for Services to Dance and in 2003 he was the recipient of the prestigious Hamburg Shakespeare Prize for the Arts (only the second dance recipient after Dame Margot Fonteyn!) In 2010 he was the first recipient of The British Inspiration Award (in the Arts Catagory) His latest original production for New Adventures, Dorian Gray, received it's World Premiere at The 2008 Edinburgh International Festival, and became the most successful dance production in the Festivals 65 year history. In 2010, he saw Swan Lake return triumphantly to New York at City Center and created a new production of Cinderella which broke all box office records at Sadlers Wells before embarking on a sell-out UK tour playing to over 240,000 people over 200 performances. In 2010 the New Adventures Choreographer Award  (NACA) was created by Matthew's friends and colleagues to celebrate his 50th Birthday. The first award, which helps and mentors a choreographer throughout a year culminating in the creation of  a showcase evening of work, will be announced in July 2011. At the beginning of 2011 he directed the New Adventures and Re:Bourne production of William Golding's Lord Of The Flies at the Glasgow Theatre Royal, which featured young men from local schools with little or no theatrical experience. Later this year see's the 20th Anniversary production of Nutcracker! which will launch a year of celebrations to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the launch of Bourne's companies AMP and New Adventures. STAGE PRODUCTIONS / CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKS 1987: Overlap Lovers, An Intrigue in Three Parts... 1988: Buck and Wing, Spitfire, An Advertisement Divertissement... 1989: The Infernal Galop, A French dance with English subtitles, Terrafirma, As You Like It (RSC), Singer (RSC), Leonce and Lena (Crucible, Sheffield), Within the Quota (National Youth Dance)... 1990: Children of Eden (Prince Edward Theatre), Greenfingers... 1991: Town & Country, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Aix en Provence Festival), The Tempest (National Youth Theatre), Show Boat (Malmo Stadsteater), Watch with Mother (Transitions Dance Company)... 1992: Deadly Serious, "An Hysterical Double-Feature", Nutcracker! (Opera North), The Percys of Fitzrovia, An Arty-Farce... 1994: Peer Gynt (RSC), Highland Fling, A Romantic Wee Ballet, Oliver! (London Palladium)... 1995: Watch Your Step (Irving Berlin Gala), Girls were made to Love and Kiss (AMP Gala), The Swan (AMP Gala), Boutique (Images of Dance), Swan Lake (Revivals and tours 1996-2003)... 1996: Swan Lake (Piccadilly Theatre)... 1997: Cinderella (Piccadilly Theatre)... 1998: Swan Lake (Broadway)... 2000: The Car Man (Old Vic Theatre/Tour 2001, 2002)... 2001: My Fair Lady (NT/Drury Lane), South Pacific (NT)... 2002: Play Without Words (NT), Nutcracker! (Sadler's Wells)... 2003: Play Without Words (Revival NT)... 2004: Swan Lake 10th Anniversary Production (Revival and Tours into 2007)?Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre)... 2005: Highland Fling (Revival)?Edward Scissorhands (Sadler's Wells)... 2006: Edward Scissorhands (Korea/Japan/America)?Swan Lake (Sadler's Wells)?Mary Poppins (Broadway)... 2007: Swan Lake (Russia, Australia, Greece, France)?The Car Man (Sadler's Wells, UK tour), Nutcracker! (Sadler's Wells)... 2008: Nutcracker! (UK tour), Edward Scissorhands (Australia, Paris, Sadlers Wells), The Infernal Galop (Sarasota Ballet), Mary Poppins (UK Tour and Broadway), Dorian Gray - World Premiere Edinburgh Festival, Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane)... 2009: Edward Scissorhands (Athens, Antwerp)?Mary Poppins (Broadway, USA and UK Tour), Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane)?Swan Lake Duet (Sadlers Wells Sampled, Dominic Walsh Dance - Houston and Sarasota Ballet), Dorian Gray (Sadler's Wells, UK Tour, Moscow,Italy etc)?Swan Lake (Sadler's Wells) 2010: Swan Lake (Sadlers Wells, UK Tour, Athens, Seoul, Tokyo, New York, Italy,), Cinderella (Sadlers Wells and UK Tour), Mary Poppins (Broadway, USA Tour, Holland, Australia), Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) 2011: Cinderella (Sadlers Wells, UK Tour, Holland, Italy and Russia), Swan Lake (3D recording for Sky Arts), Mary Poppins (Broadway, USA Tour, Holland, Australia), Oliver! (UK Tour), Nutcracker! (20th Anniversary Revival - Sadlers Wells, UK Tour) FILMOGRAPHY 1993: Late Flowering Lust (BBC2) 1993: Drip, A Narcissistic Love Story (BBC2) 1995: Roald Dahl's "Little Red Riding Hood" 1996: Swan Lake (BBC) 1997: South Bank Show - Matthew Bourne (ITV) 1997; Royal Variety Performance (Swan Lake) 2000: Billy Elliot 2001: The Car Man (C4) 2001: Bourne to Dance (BBC2) 2003: Nutcracker! (BBC1) 2007: The Magic of Nutcracker - South Bank Show (ITV) 2011: Swan Lake 3D (Sky Arts)