A Double Bill Soirée | Poppy & An Olympic Dream

24th November 2024

Poppy

2014 marked the centenary of the First World War. The war, it was proclaimed, to end all wars! The London Ballet Company’s production starkly portrays the havoc wreaked by global war on ordinary people. Seen through the innocent eyes of the child Poppy, we follow a family struggling to come to terms with the cataclysmic turn of events of 1914, as they seek to do their duty and rally to their nations cause. The turmoil of family life forever changed, innocence lost, Poppy remains, like the flower for whom she was named, a symbol of hope and of remembrance. To this day it is the evocative power of the Poppy which reminds and remonstrates the “civilised” world with loss of life involved in conflict.

An Olympic Dream

The 2024 Summer Olympic Games officially “the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad”, took place in Paris this Summer from the 26th July to the 11th

August, 2024. Athletes from 206 nations participated. An estimated 10,500 athletes competed. There were 329 events in 32 sports.

By the dancers of the London Ballet Company and inspired by the Olympics, we zip, through the eyes of an inspired child’s eyes, from the origins in Greece to a packed metro train on a journey through to the athletes in training. Newspapers proclaim the great event, and the flame nears its’ journeys end……At last, the opening ceremony. A proud moment. Let the games begin!

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