Anna Meredith’s iconic orchestral fanfare Nautilus makes its latest outing on the dance stage in October 2025, choreographed by Jörg Mannes for Ein Sommernachtstraum, a ballet after William Shakespeare, at Theater Magdeburg. The ballet, with designs by Florian Parbs and Louise Flanagan, and video by Philipp Contag-Lada, opens on 18 October and is in rep until February 2026 – full details here.
Mannes’ ballet is the track’s fifth choreographic treatment. It was previously staged by The Royal Ballet & London Sinfonietta by Calvin Richardson for the 2019 re-opening of the Linbury Theatre. In 2023 the orchestral version appeared as part of Robert Dekkers’ new show Noble Beast for Post:ballet, produced by Art Haus for Burning Man, and staged around the installation NOSOTRES by artists Simón Malvaez and Brenden Darby.
In 2022 it featured in Burn, Alan Cumming’s solo dance and theatre piece about the life and work of Robert Burns, choreographed by Steven Hoggett and Vicki Manderson. Devised for the National Theatre of Scotland and featuring original music by Meredith, Burn appeared at the Edinburgh International Festival and opened the 2022/23 season of the The Joyce Theatre in New York. Nautilus has also appeared, in a choreography by Jessica McCann, at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre.
Meredith’s Anno for violin, strings, and electronics, returns to the dance stage in April 2026 at CAPE (Centre des Arts Pluriels Ettelbruck) in Luxembourg as part of Elisabeth Schilling’s Florescence in Decay. A group piece for nine dancers, it is a physical meditation on continuity, repetition, and change. The piece premiered at the Grand Théâtre Luxembourg in March 2023, with Corinna Niemayer conducting the Orchestre de Chambre de Luxembourg, and Meredith herself also performing.
Anno juxtaposes Meredith’s work with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Her score overlays and surrounds this music with her own original electronic compositions and soundscapes, in an imaginative recontextualization of Vivaldi’s score. watch a documentary about its creation here.