David Bowie's 'Transformation' Expressed Through Dance: Bunkamura and Sadler's Wells International Co-Production to Premiere in Tokyo in 2029
A new dance work reinterpreting David Bowie's transformations, co-produced by Bunkamura and Sadler's Wells, will premiere in Tokyo in 2029.Summary
A new dance work, 'SUBJECT TO CHANGE - A Dance for David Bowie,' has been announced, reinterpreting through dance the creativity of David Bowie, who influenced music, fashion, art, film, and performance. The work is an international co-production by Bunkamura, London-based Sadler's Wells, and Spanish dance company La Veronal. It will have its world premiere at the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg in spring 2028, its UK premiere in London in autumn 2028, and its Asian premiere in Tokyo in spring 2029. Direction and choreography are by Spanish choreographer and director Marcos Morau, who founded La Veronal in 2005 and has gained international acclaim for interdisciplinary stage expression spanning theater, photography, film, and dance. In summer 2026, he will stage an adaptation of Yukio Mishima's novel 'The Temple of the Golden Pavilion' in co-production with Bunkamura, blending Japanese traditional performing arts with contemporary dance. Rather than a biographical portrayal of Bowie, Morau focuses on the creative process by which Bowie continually transformed himself and was reborn as new existences. Bowie created personas such as Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, and the Thin White Duke throughout his career. The original title's phrase 'Subject to Change' means 'liable to change.' Morau describes Bowie as 'an artist who repeated artistic reincarnations,' and the work will depict on stage the very cycle of creation and re-creation that Bowie repeated, refusing fixed identity and embracing constant transformation.
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