Sadé and Kristina Alleyne, Co-Creative Administrators of the award-winning Alleyne Dance have been appointed as the following Visitor Creative Administrators of Nationwide Youth Dance Firm (NYDC) for 2025/26.
Alleyne Dance is a novel and highly effective firm that blends Caribbean, hip hop and kathak, inside a recent dance context. The choreographic language focuses on rhythms and textures with motion that’s athletic, quick paced and dynamic, with infusions of lyrical and fluid movement.
Based in 2014 by sisters, Kristina and Sadé Alleyne, the corporate strives for prime quality and excellence of their three essential goals of Efficiency, Participation and Improvement.
Alleyne Dance has labored with acclaimed firms together with Martha Graham Dance Firm, Trioler Landstheater: Ballet Firm, Phoenix Dance Theatre and 2Faced Dance Firm. Some awards the corporate has obtained embrace Finest Unbiased Firm – Nationwide Dance Awards, Black Feminine Icons of Lewisham – Brockley Max and The Mayor of London and Bench 2019 Ladies of Color Fee. Each Sadé and Kristina have carried out on the Sadler’s Wells stage many instances with numerous acclaimed firms.
Nationwide Youth Dance Firm, run by Sadler’s Wells is England’s flagship firm for younger dancers. Since its inception 364 dancers have joined the corporate, working intensively with famend dance artists as Visitor Creative Administrators together with Boy Blue, Oona Doherty, Wayne McGregor, Alesandra Seutin, Russell Maliphant, Botis Seva, Sharon Eyal, Damien Jalet, Michael Keegan Dolan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Akram Khan & Jasmin Vardimon.
Kristina and Sadé Alleyne stated, “We’re thrilled to step into this position as Visitor Creative Administrators and to form a brand new, vibrant chapter with NYDC. Alleyne Dance has at all times been about pushing bodily, emotional, and artistic boundaries, and we sit up for bringing that very same power and imaginative and prescient to this thrilling journey. We imagine in dance that speaks, challenges, and conjures up, and we are able to’t wait to find the voices that can assist us inform highly effective new tales.“
Hannah Kirkpatrick, Head of Nationwide Youth Dance Firm, stated, “We’re so excited that Kristina and Sadé can be beginning this new chapter with NYDC. They’ve been related to the corporate for the reason that early days having labored as rehearsal administrators when the corporate was led by Akram Khan. They know NYDC nicely and had been a transparent option to observe Boy Blue, as they educated with them after they had been youngsters. It’s set to be a improbable 12 months, they’ve an enormous quantity to share with our younger individuals. We’re searching for dancers from all dance types and backgrounds and may’t wait to fulfill them!”
This 12 months’s NYDC cohort premiered present Visitor Creative Director Boy Blue’s new work Gravity at Leeds Playhouse on Friday 18 April and can embark on a nationwide tour with a efficiency at Sadler’s Wells Theatre on Saturday 19 July in addition to a efficiency at Sadler’s Wells East on Friday 25 July as a part of the brand new annual YFX Competition, which celebrates and showcases the distinctive vary of youth dance work throughout the UK.