Alistair Spalding

Sir Alistair Spalding CBE (born 25 August 1957, Stotfold, Bedfordshire) has been the Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Sadler's Wells theatre since 2004.

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.

In March 2005, he announced a new commissioning and co-producing policy at Sadler's Wells, and has since appointed Matthew Bourne, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Sharon Eyal, Jonzi D, Sylvie Guillem (who became Associate Artist Emeritus on retiring at the end of 2015), Akram Khan (dancer), lighting designer Michael Hulls, Michael Keegan-Dolan, Russell Maliphant, Wayne McGregor, Crystal Pite, BalletBoyz (Michael Nunn and William Trevitt), Kate Prince, Nitin Sawhney, Hofesh Shechter, Jasmin Vardimon, and Christopher Wheeldon as Associate Artists at the theatre.

He was a member of the Arts Council England Dance advisory panel between 1995 and 2003 and he is an external advisor on the City University Validation Board for the Laban centre London degree courses.