Richard Alston Dance Company tours the UK this autumn while celebrating their nominations for two Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards.

The Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards are the pre-eminent industry awards for dance and ballet. For the second year running, Richard Alston Dance Company has been nominated for the Company Prize for Outstanding Repertoire (Modern). Company dancer Jonathan Goddard is nominated as Best Male Dancer, a category whose recent winners include Carlos Acosta and Jonathan Cope.

The winners of the 2007 Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards will be announced at a ceremony at the Royal Opera House on Tuesday 22 January 2008.

The awards recognition is further success for the Company this year, following an earlier pair of nominations for South Bank Show Awards and two successful US tours.

Richard Alston Dance Company’s UK touring this autumn takes them to  Aldeburgh (Snape Maltings Concert Hall), Edinburgh, Cambridge, High Wycombe and Birmingham. Their repertoire includes the two new works created this year by Richard Alston: Fingerprint set to keyboard music by JS Bach and Nigredo set to an original score by Simon Holt. The rep also includes the latest work by Martin Lawrance, Brink, which is to Japanese composer Ayuo’s Eurasian tango music, Lawrance’s earlier work About-Face, and two more recent Alston works which have become firm audience favourites: The Devil in the Detail  and Gypsy Mixture.

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Published: 23 October 2007