Following the success of their 2021 production Speak Volumes, National Youth Dance Company (NYDC) once again collaborates with internationally renowned choreographer Alesandra Seutin. Quartier Paradis dives into parallel universes where there is no apparent endgame, a place built on the fantasy of an ardent greed for a power that continuously shifts.

A commission from VERVE, NYDC’s postgraduate company. Inspired by Nina Simone’s life as an artist and her music, Seutin’s work imagines what would happen if her spirit came back to see the world she left behind. A vivid celebration of untold stories, unheard voices, and the freedom to move.

Speak Volumes by NYDC 2020-21 Guest Artistic Director Alesandra Seutin premiered at Sadler’s Wells on 24th July 2021 and then toured nationally in August 2021. Speak Volumes is an open floor for the voices of the younger ones of these times, a space for their existence and truth to be heard, acknowledged and experienced lights on.