About Ballet Black: Double Bill

Now in their 23rd year, Cassa Pancho’s Ballet Black return to Hackney Empire with a new double bill.

Ballet Black has transformed the landscape of British ballet, creating a prominent platform for dancers and artists of Black and Asian descent, as well as establishing a new canon of ballet repertoire that resonates with audiences around the world.

As the saying goes, “If you can’t see it, you can’t be it.” Well, where ballet audiences… remain almost invariably overwhelmingly white, this company’s, as Friday proved, are quite the opposite. “What’s the point of Ballet Black?” That is.” The Telegraph

Presented by Ballet Black in association with Hackney Empire.

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