Artspod Chats: Leonardo McCorkindale, Principle Dancer with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures

Leonardo McCorkindale

Principle Dancer with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures

Starring as ‘Angelo’ in The Carman.

Leo shares insights into his experience with the production ‘The Car Man,’ his dance background, and the importance of storytelling in dance performances.

“Staying strong and doing a class every day keeps you at your best.”

Matthew Bourne’s award-winning The Car Man is back! Loosely based on Bizet’s ever-popular opera, The Car Man has one of the most thrilling and instantly recognisable scores in New Adventures’ repertoire.

The familiar 19^th Century Spanish cigarette factory becomes a greasy 1950’s garage-diner in the American Mid-West where the dreams and passions of a small-town are shattered by the arrival of a handsome and enigmatic stranger. Fuelled by heat and desire, the inhabitants are driven into an unstoppable spiral of greed, lust, betrayal and revenge.

Matthew Bourne’s vivid storytelling combines with one of the most passionately dramatic scores ever written, with music by Terry Davies featuring Rodion Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite (after Bizet’s Carmen), to create a dance thriller like no other.

The Car Man will ignite your senses and leave you breathless.

The Car Man On Tour