Archive - Jerwood Proms

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Dance Umbrella launched the initiative Stand Up for Dance, its first 'Proms season' at Sadler's Wells, as part of the 2001 festival. For six years, Dance Umbrella received support from the Jerwood Charitable Foundation to realise the Jerwood Proms at Sadler's Wells as part of the annual Dance Umbrella festival.

Through Stand Up for Dance, Dance Umbrella achieved a long-held aim of making the world's best contemporary dance companies as available as possible from a good vantage point at a price everyone can afford. Tickets for the Proms performances cost just £5.

The Jerwood Proms season enabled up to 500 people per performance to stand in a specially created promenade pit. Using the flexibility of the Sadler's Wells auditorium 229 seats were removed from the front of the stalls to create the standing area.

Jerwood Proms 2006

Rosas:
D'un soir un jour
Repertory Evening

Jerwood Proms 2005

The Forsythe Company:
The Room As It Was / N.N.N.N. / Of Any If And / One Flat Thing, reproduced

Siobhan Davies Dance Company:
Bird Song / White Man Sleeps

Sylvie Guillem / Russell Maliphant:
PUSH

Jerwood Proms 2004

Shen Wei Dance Arts:
Folding / Rite of Spring

Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault:
Joe

Jerwood Proms 2003

Michael Clark:
Oh My Goddess

Trisha Brown Dance Company:
Set and Reset / Geometry of Quiet / Groove and Countermove

Teshigawara/Karas:
Luminous

Jerwood Proms 2002

White Oak Dance Project:
Largo / Early Floating / The Experts / Chacony

Richard Alston Dance Company:
Stampede / Rumours, Visions / Touch and Go

Rosas:
Rain

Stand Up for Dance 2001

Mark Morris Dance Group:
V / I Don't Want to Love / Peccadillos / Grand Duo

Michael Clark Company:
Before and After: The Fall

'The best dance bargain in the country.'
The Times (on the Jerwood Proms)

'Love him or loathe him, Michael Clark has occupied pole position for much of the past two decades and is British dance's true iconoclast…There is simply no one like him. And that was the overwhelming feeling as he unveiled his latest collection of pieces to a packed Sadler's Wells, including several hundred brave souls who thought it worth £5 to stand (part of the successful Jerwood Proms initiative).'
Independent on Sunday

'The Jerwood Foundation's support for the proms season at Sadler's Wells seems to have been resoundingly successful; performances by both Richard Alston's company and Rosas at Sadler's Wells (a larger venue than they are generally accustomed to) were packed and the promenade area at the front of the stalls was heaving (standing tickets were only £5). It looked as though the organisers had finally found the younger audience they are always looking for.'
Ballet.co Magazine

From the audience survey:

'Excellent idea having standing tickets in the stalls for affordable £5 with very good view.'

'The proms feature at Sadler's Wells is an excellent idea and should continue in Dance Umbrella.'

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