Alistair spalding biography
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Dance ‘outsider’ tells of pride at being knight
Sir Alistair Spalding
THE artistic director of the dance theatre Sadler’s Wells has described being knighted in the New Year honours as one of his proudest achievements as he recalled his working-class roots.
Alistair Spalding, whose father was a miner and a steel factory worker and whose mother was a dinner lady, said having built his career on being an “outsider” it was a new experience being part of the “establishment”.
Sir Alistair, who left school at 16 before working in a solicitors’ office and as a teacher in his “long journey” to dance, didn’t have an arts background before he started working for an arts centre in Crawley, where he had his eureka moment and realised he had found his lifelong passion.
While initially he was working across the arts, he said it wasn’t long before he was drawn towards dance. “Dance began to attract me more and more than any other discipline and gradually I specialised in it. Being an artistic director of a dance theatre without any dance training – whether a dancer or choreographer – is quite rare.
“But as a ‘non-dancer’ it allows me to see it from an audience’s perspective. After 30 years I’ve built up a knowledge of what works and doesn’t work for an audience. I don’t get entangle
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Alistair Spalding
Sir Alistair SpaldingCBE (born 25 August 1957, Stotfold, Bedfordshire) has been the Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Sadler's Wells theatre since 2004.
Early career
[edit]Spalding's first job in arts management was at the Hawth Theatre, Crawley, where he was a programmer from 1988 to 1994.
Southbank Centre
[edit]Over six years between 1994 and 2000 Spalding was the Head of Dance and Performance at the Southbank Centre in London where he developed both the presentation and commissioning of national and international dance and performance companies. As well as increasing the number of performances and audience attendance for dance at the centre he developed strong co-producing relationships with a number of national and international companies and artists including DV8, Alain Platel, Jonathan Burrows, Javier de Frutos and Rosas Dance Company. The South Bank Centre won the Time Out award for best dance production in both 1998 for Alain Platel and in 1999 for the New York Ballet Stars project.
Sadler's Wells
[edit]He has been responsible for programming at the theatre since February 2000 (when he joined as Director of Programming, becoming Artistic Director and Chief Executive in October 2004). During that time he has presented compa