New programming at Sadler’s Wells announced for 2025 including world premiere of first Christmas show at Sadler’s Wells East, Ebony Scrooge

Sadler’s Wells today announces Ebony Scrooge, a brand-new take on Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol, as the first Christmas show at its new venue Sadler’s Wells East in Stratford. A ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company production, the hip hop dance theatre show is brought to life by ZooNation’s Associate Artistic Director Dannielle “Rhimes” LeCointe. Ebony Scrooge follows a fashion designer as she is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future and rediscovers her Caribbean roots. The production will be created and rehearsed in-house at Sadler’s Wells East and features original music from Boy Blue Co-Artistic Director Michael 'Mikey J' Asante MBE. 
 
Also at Christmas, Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures’ Olivier Award-winning adaptation of The Red Shoes returns to Sadler’s Wells Theatre from December, while Birmingham Rep’s much loved production of The Snowman takes flight once more – the production has been a stalwart at Sadler’s Wells home in the West End, the Peacock Theatre, for the last 28 years. 
 
Breakin’ Convention Festival is back this Spring, hosting the very best international hip hop dance theatre. New for 2025, the Festival includes a family weekend at Sadler’s Wells East with free performances on The Dance Floor, and an Opening Night hosted by BBC 1Xtra DJ Fee Mak at Sadler’s Wells Theatre. Highlights announced so far include S.T.U.C.K by international waacking icon and model Mounia Nassangar, and The Ruggeds, currently the most successful b-boy crew in the world, who return to Breakin’ Convention to celebrate their 20-year anniversary with a brand-new show, featuring live music and Olympic standard breaking.   

The Flamenco Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary with dance and music across two weeks this summer in both Islington and Stratford. Highlights include the UK premieres of shows from ‘the queen of flamenco’ Sara Baras, new work from Manuel Liñán, and performances by Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía. 
 
Kontakthof – Echoes of ’78, a Sadler’s Wells, Pina Bausch Foundation and Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch production, has been selected for the prestigious Theatertreffen in Berlin in May 2025. The 62nd edition of Berliner Festspiele’s Theatertreffen presents ten of the most remarkable productions from the last season, chosen by a jury of seven critics, to provide an insight into the German-language theatre landscape. It is very rare for a dance production to have an invitation – the last time Pina Bausch had one was 40 years ago. Kontakthof – Echoes of ’78 received its world premiere to great acclaim at the Opernhaus Wuppertal in autumn 2024. Sadler’s Wells today announces the production will tour to Festspielhaus St. Pölten, Austria and Amare, The Hague, Netherlands in autumn 2025, following the presentation in Berlin, Germany. The production comes to Sadler’s Wells Theatre in spring 2026, with more international dates to be announced soon.   
 
After a hugely successful inaugural year that included a world tour, the resurgent London City Ballet returns with a new repertoire titled Momentum, which includes an early George Balanchine work and a piece by New York City Ballet’s artist in residence Alexei Ratmansky, set against a backdrop of a Wassily Kandinsky masterpiece. 
 
Sadler’s Wells Artistic Associate Jasmin Vardimon’s re-imagining of Alice in Wonderland ALiCE, co-commissioned by Sadler’s Wells, is back by popular demand. ALiCE at Sadler’s Wells Theatre forms part of the company’s 25th anniversary celebrations, alongside NOW, which is playing at Sadler’s Wells East in March. 
 
Second Hand Dance presents The Sticky Dance in Studio 1 at Sadler’s Wells East. Co-created by Rosie Heafford and Takeshi Matsumoto, it’s an interactive, engaging and colourful installation for children and their carers involving a tapestry of sticky tape.  
 
THE HEAT, a Sadler’s Wells commission, is a surreal piece of dance theatre by Becky Naumgauds, presented in the Lilian Baylis Studio, which transforms the home into a dreamscape of tension and primal energy.