Snow White returns to the original Brothers Grimm fairytale where Snow White’s real mother (rather than her stepmother, as in most versions of the tale) becomes consumed with her jealousy towards the beautiful daughter that she had longed for. Liv Lorent has been reunited with the team of world renowned collaborators who created Rapunzel: Dame Carol Ann Duffy (Whitbread, T.S. Eliot and Pinter Prize winner); five-time BAFTA nominated composer Murray Gold (Doctor Who); set designer Phil Eddolls (joint TMA award winner for Improbable’s The Hanging Man); OBIE and Outer Critics Circle award-winning lighting designer Malcolm Rippeth; and the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the UK’s only full time professional chamber orchestra.

balletLORENT also welcomes three new collaborators to the artistic team for Snow White: Olivier Award-winning actress Lindsay Duncan CBE (Narrator), costume illustrator for HBO’s Game of Thrones Libby Everall and renowned soprano Elin Manahan Thomas, who performed at the Paralympics Opening Ceremony in London, 2012.

balletLORENT’s cast of 11 professional dancers will be joined by 12 local children aged 6-9 who were found through an open audition. Liv Lorent says of the young performers, “The age range we have worked with in this project is a profoundly important key formative stage in a child’s development, because their sense of self-awareness, empowerment and movement is still developing. At this age, they often have innate talent, a lack of self-consciousness, physical beauty in movement, and an urgency for self-expression which can be captured and channeled to great effect through projects like ours.”