Degas and the Ballet

Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement

17 September – 11 December 2011
In the Main Galleries

Sponsored by BNY Mellon

In the autumn of 2011 the Royal Academy of Arts will stage a landmark exhibition focusing on Edgar Degas’s preoccupation with movement as an artist of the dance. Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement will trace the development of the artist's ballet imagery throughout his career, from the documentary mode of the early 1870s to the sensuous expressiveness of his final years.

The exhibition will be the first to present Degas’s progressive engagement with the figure in movement in the context of parallel advances in photography and early film; indeed, the artist was keenly aware of these technological developments and often directly involved with them.

More info@ http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/degas 

LAMF 2011

9th London African Music Festival 

9-18 September 2011

             
Hear Africa!    Dance Africa!     Feel Africa!

5 VENUES  

Southbank Centre 


Bloomsbury Theatre 


Stratford Circus 


Jazz Cafe

Upstairs at The Ritzy, Brixton 

UPSTAIRS AT THE RITZY

8.30pm  |  £7 / £6 (cons) / £5 Members  

Tickets:08719025739  |  www.upstairsattheritzy.co.uk

DIABEL CISSOKHO   (Senegal)                         

Saturday 10 September

THABANI (Zimbabwe)


Friday 16th September 



YAABA FUNK (Various)

Saturday 17 September 

JAZZ CAFE

7.30pm | £17.50 / £15.00 (cons)

Tickets: 0207 485 6834 | www.jazzcafe.co.uk 

ETIENNE MBAPPE (Cameroon/France)


Friday 9 September 

TERRAKOTA (Angola/Portugal)

Saturday 10 September 

CLAUDE DEPPA’S HORNS UNLIMITED

Sunday 11 September  

BLOOMSBURY THEATRE

7.30pm | £15.00 / £12.50 (cons)


Tickets: 020 7388 8822  |  www.thebloomsbury.com

SONA JOBARTEH (Gambia/UK) + BUMI THOMAS (UK)

Monday 12 September 

OLA ONABULE (UK)

Tuesday 13 September 

STRATFORD CIRCUS

7.30pm  |  £12.50 / £10.00 (cons)


Tickets: 0844 357 2625  |  www.stratford-circus.com

GRUPO LOKITO (Congo/Cuba) 

Wednesday 14 September

NAIJA GROOVE featuring...
BUKKY LEO, AYINKE MARTINS, DIYA OJO
and KUNLE OLASOJU’S NAIJA RHYTHM ORCHESTRA

Thursday 15 September

SOUTHBANK CENTRE

Tickets: 0844 847 9910  |  www.southbankcentre.co.uk 

DAVID O + LEO MKANYIA (Tanzania)

Friday 16 September | RFH Foyer | 1.30pm | Free 

NAHINI DOUMBIA AND LES ESPOIRS DU MALI

Friday 16 September | Front Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hall | 5.00pm | Free

INESS MEZEL (Algeria/France)

Friday 16 September | Purcell Room | 7.30pm | £17.50/£15.00 (cons)

TIKEN JAH FAKOLY (Ivory Coast)

Friday 16 September | Queen Elizabeth Hall | 9.00pm | £20.00/£17.50 (cons) 

KADIALY KOUYATE AND SOUND ARCHIVE

Saturday 17 September | Front Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hall | 1.00pm | Free

THE VOCAL ENSEMBLE OF AFRICA

Saturday 17 September | Purcell Room | 3.00pm | £15.00/£12.50 (cons)

MARCINA ARNOLD (SOUTH AFRICA/UK)

Saturday 17 September | Front Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hall | 5.30pm | Free

FUNMI OLAWUMI (Nigeria)

Saturday 17 September | Purcell Room | 7.30pm | £17.50/£15.00 (cons)

RAY LEMA TRIO and SAKA SAKA ORCHESTRA (Congo/France)

Saturday 17 September | Queen Elizabeth Hall | 9.00pm | £20.00/£17.50 (cons)

RUBY AND THE VINES (Congo/UK)

Sunday 18 September | Front Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hall | 1.00pm

HASSAN ERRAJI (Morocco)

Sunday 18 September | Purcell Room | 3.00pm | £15.00/£12.50 (cons)

THE RHYTHMS

Sunday 18 September | Front Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hall | 5.30pm | Free

DOBET GNAHORE (Ivory Coast)

Sunday 18 September | Purcell Room | 7.30pm| £17.50/£15.00 (cons)

ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE BARBÈS (Algeria/France)

Sunday 18 September | Queen Elizabeth Hall | 9.00pm | £22.50/£20.00 (cons)

More info @  

www.joyfulnoise.co.uk/lamf.html