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Doctor Who

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, see Virgin New Adventures

Virgin New Adventures

The Virgin New Adventures were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who...

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New Adventures is a British dance company

Dance company

A dance troupe or dance company is a group of dancers and associated personnel who work together to perform dances as a spectacle or entertainment.-Members:*Artistic Director*Choreographers*Dancers*Board of Directors*Education administrator...

, specialising in contemporary dance

Contemporary dance

Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...

. Founded by the choreographer Matthew Bourne

Matthew Bourne

Matthew Bourne OBE is a British classical and contemporary ballet and dance choreographer.-Biography:Matthew Bourne was born in Hackney, London in 1960. He went to William Fitt and Sir George Monoux School in Walthamstow, London...

 in 2002, the company developed from an earlier company Adventures in Motion Pictures, which was later dissolved.

Adventures in Motion Pictures

Adventures in Motion Pictures (AMP), was a dance company formed in 1987 by a group of students from Laban, a leading vocational dance school based in London

London

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, England

England

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. The company began as a repertory ensemble, staging a variety of small scale works produced by different choreographers. It was particularly noted for works created by Matthew Bourne

Matthew Bourne

Matthew Bourne OBE is a British classical and contemporary ballet and dance choreographer.-Biography:Matthew Bourne was born in Hackney, London in 1960. He went to William Fitt and Sir George Monoux School in Walthamstow, London...

. Some of the company's better-known works include Infernal Galop, Deadly Serious, Spitfire, Town and Country and its revisions of classical ballets such as The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Cinderella. Possibly as a result of his individual success, Bourne left the company in 2001 to form New Adventures. AMP was dissolved in 2004, with all performance rights for Bourne's works transferred to New Adventures.

New Adventures

In 2002 Bourne broke away to form New Adventures for whose debut he created Play Without Words

Repertoire

• The Car Man
• Cinderella
• Dorian Gray
• Highland Fling
• Nutcracker!
• Play Without Words
  Play Without Words
  Play Without Words is a 2002 ballet by English choreographer Matthew Bourne with music by Terry Davies. The work is an adaptation of the Joseph Losey film, The Servant after the Robin Maugham novel of the same title.-External links:...
  
  
• Swan Lake
• Edward Scissorhands
  Edward Scissorhands
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    stage dance adaption of film
• Dorian Gray
  Dorian Gray
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Associate Artists

• Scott Ambler
• Lez Brotherston
• Paule Constable
  Paule Constable
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• Terry Davies
• Etta Murfitt

Company Members

• Scott Ambler
• Sam Archer
• Valentina Formenti
• Nina Goldman
• Michela Meazza
• Etta Murfitt
• Dominic North
  Dominic North
  Dominic Andrew North is a British danseur.-Biography:He trained at in Bingley and Central School of Ballet in Londonwhere he gained a Diploma in Dance & Related Studies. Awards whilst training included Boy's Award and Best All-rounder & Musicality Award...
  
  
• Jonathan Ollivier
  Jonathan Ollivier
  -Biography:Born in Northampton, he studied both classical ballet and contemporary at the Rambert Ballet School. After graduating in 1996, he joined CAPAB . He became a principal before returning to England in 1999 to join the Northern Ballet Company as Principal...
  
  
• Richard Winsor