World Premiere of Rambert X (LA)HORDE: Bring Your Own

Rambert presents the world premiere of ‘Bring Your Own’, a new epic collaboration with the incandescent French choreographic trio (LA)HORDE. Opening with a new piece, Hop(e)storm, especially created for the Rambert dancers alongside two restagings of (LA)HORDE’S most iconic pieces – Weather is Sweet and Room with a View, the programme promises to be gritty, sensual, and fiercely real.

Hop(e)storm brings histories, cultures, and bodies into dialogue, creating a shared movement practice rooted in the legacy of Lindy Hop, a dance innovated by African American dancers in Harlem during segregation as an act of joy, resistance, and community. The piece explores how the dance continues to evolve within today’s shifting socio-political climate, where freedom and equality remain contested. 

With nods to their previous works To Da Bone and Marry Me in Bassiani, (LA)HORDE continues its exploration of post-internet dance forms, reflecting on the evolution of tradition and heritage. Hop(e)storm serves both as a tribute and a foundation, bridging the choreographic journey that leads to Weather is Sweet (2023) and Room With A View(2020). 

Drenched in neon lights and inspired by the LA club scene, Weather is Sweet catapults audiences into very contemporary questions over intimacy, consent and sex-positivity. 

Visceral and punchy, A Room with a View forces us to look in the mirror and ask – what do I care about? 

Of working with Rambert on Bring Your Own, (LA)HORDE have said: “Permanent dance companies in Europe today are precious spaces, true heterotopias. Working with Rambert, our first collaboration with another repertoire company, has reaffirmed how these structures create opportunities to work with exceptional dancers in a collective creative process. Rambert reflects our core values of diversity and inclusion, with dancers who bring extraordinary generosity to every step of the artistic journey,” (LA)HORDE, Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, Arthur Harel. 

Rambert X (LA)HORDE: Bring Your Own will be at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, Wed 7 – Saturday 10 May. Tickets are on sale now from £22.00. Book Now.

Bring Your Own, Rambert x (LA)Horde, Photography by Kibwe Tavares, Armando Elias and Vianney Le Caer