A richly theatrical dance memoir by Marc Brew and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, exploring the life of a former ballet dancer who became a wheelchair user after a car crash.
Marc Brew brings An Accident, a Life to the King's Theatre on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 November, with both performances starting at 7.30pm. It's a dance memoir that comes from a very specific place: Brew's own experience of becoming paraplegic after a car crash, which turned him from a ballet dancer into a wheelchair user in a split second.
Rather than a traditional dance piece, it's built as visual theatre. It unravels key moments of a life using humour, storytelling, film, music, and dance. The staging is a big part of that: a car hangs suspended over the stage alongside a crash dummy and a wheelchair, the three things that anchor the story. It's a collaboration between Brew and the choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, and this is the first time the two of them share the stage. For Brew, it follows his acclaimed solos For Now I am... and Remember When.
Cherkaoui is a big name in the dance world, currently the artistic director of the Ballet of the Grand Théâtre de Genève and an associate artist at Sadler's Wells, where he staged Sutra and Babel. He also choreographed Alanis Morissette's Broadway musical Jagged Little Pill. The production premiered at the Holland Dance Festival in 2024, where it earned two National Dance Award nominations and went on to win the Sky Arts Award for Dance, with five-star reviews from The Guardian, The Herald, The List and Young(ish) Perspective.
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Both nights run for 1 hour 22 minutes with no interval, and it's suitable for ages 14 and up. Tickets are £20 to £38.
