Figures in Extinction comes to London November 2025
We are delighted to announce that our ‘textured, varied, utterly beautiful’ (The Observer) dance trilogy Figures in Extinction will make its London debut at Sadler’s Wells in November 2025.
The complete triptych is the culmination of a major new collaboration between world-renowned international artists Simon McBurney and Crystal Pite, and the astounding NDT 1 dancers.
Figures in Extinction is a cross-continental conversation split into an evening of three startling, half-hour works which fuse dance, performance, spoken word, documentary and music to explore how artists can meaningfully create in the face of mass destruction.
Crystal Pite with Simon McBurney: Figures in Extinction [1.0] the list (Winner of the most impressive dance production at the 2022 Nederlandse Dansdagen) is a study of the species and environments we have lost and are losing. This piece was previously seen at Sadler’s Wells in 2023.
Simon McBurney with Crystal Pite: Figures in Extinction [2.0] but then you come to the humans is a searing look at our need for connection in a separated world.
Simon McBurney and Crystal Pite: Figures in Extinction [3.0] requiem is a meditation on grief, and our relationship with the dead.
Sadler’s Wells, London.
Strictly limited run 5 – 8 November 2025.
Public booking opens Monday 19th May.
A co-production with Nederlands Dans Theater. Co-commissioned by Factory International.
Co-produced by Schrit_tmacher Festival, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and Montpellier Danse.