The Imagination Museum Returns With New Opportunities This Year
Following a pilot in 2019, The Imagination Museum returns this spring, offering dance and heritage professionals the opportunity to be part a vibrant network and imagine new ways to collaborate and enliven heritage sites and collections with memorable dance activity.
Manchester International Festival Announces 2023 Performance Highlights
Factory International has announced the 2023 edition of Manchester International Festival (MIF) from 29 June to 16 July. Working with partners regionally and across the globe, the wide-ranging programme of original new work by an array of international artists will take place in venues and spaces around the city and at Factory International's much-anticipated new home, which opens its doors for the first time for the Festival, in advance of its official opening in October.
Surf The Wave Waves Goodbye
Three years after it was created by Pavilion Dance South West to initiate change in how dance is showcased and toured in the UK, Surf The Wave now waves goodbye.
Candoco Dance Company Collaborates With Alt-J Lead Vocalist Joe Newman For UK Tour of HOT MESS
This autumn, Candoco Dance Company is to collaborate with internationally renowned choreographer and designer Theo Clinkard and Joe Newman of Mercury Prize winning band alt-J. An unpredictable and anarchic performance set to a pounding, eclectic score, Hot Mess is danced amidst a striking design, as art installation meets dance piece. The explosive new work, by the company that continues to expand perceptions of what dance can be, will mark the first time Newman has written music for the stage.
Wedding Fever Continues This Autumn With Choreographer Didy Veldman's THE KNOT
After world premiere performances of Didy Veldman's The Knot in Ipswich and Guildford in February, and Meghan marrying Harry in May, wedding fever continues this autumn with an 11-venue tour of Veldman's dance theatre take on matrimony. In The Knot, by Dutch-born choreographer and director Veldman, a cast of seven exceptional dancers play the roles of the bride, groom, best man and bridesmaids, and audience members become the wedding guests as the evening and celebrations unfold.
Candoco Dance Company Announces New Dancers
Candoco Dance Company is pleased to announce Mickaella Dantas and Olivia Edginton have joined the permanent company. The new dancers will join Megan Armishaw, Joel Brown, Jason Mabana, Laura Patay and Toke Broni Strandby and will perform with the ensemble for the first time this Autumn when the company will tour a new work.
Cuba's Flagship Contemporary Dance Company Comes to The Marlowe Theatre Next Month
For more than five decades, since the company was founded by Ramiro Guerra in 1959, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba's (DCC) hybrid and hothouse dance blend of African-Caribbean rhythms, jazzy American modernism and influences from classical European ballet has been evoking the sensual heart of the Cuban spirit through vigorous and highly physical contemporary dance.