New Adventures

New Adventures
Formation	2002
Purpose/focus	Dance Company
Location	Sadler's Wells Theatre
Region served	UK and Internationally
Artistic Director	Matthew Bourne
Affiliations	Sadler's Wells Theatre
Website	Official website

For the spin-off novels based on Doctor Who, see Virgin New Adventures.

New Adventures is a British dance company, specialising in contemporary dance. Founded by the choreographer Matthew Bourne 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, England. 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. 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
• Swan Lake
• Edward Scissorhands stage dance adaption of film
• Dorian Gray

Associate Artists

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

Company Members

• Scott Ambler
• Sam Archer
• Valentina Formenti
• Nina Goldman
• Michela Meazza
• Etta Murfitt
• Dominic North
• Jonathan Ollivier
• Richard Winsor