This summer will see Bloomberg dedicate its annual festival at the Camden Roundhouse to introducing new audiences to innovative culture, opening with Utopia, a major new installation. Alongside the installation, the Roundhouse presents two thrilling and enchanting evenings of dance, circus, cabaret and spoken word as part of Utopia Live Lates, a series of evening events that will be based around a different provocation and theme from the installation.
Curated around the concept of a genderless world, Circus Director Paul Evans will premiere a brand new circus aerial piece ‘Don’t Mention The F Word’, and Zoonation Youth Company will be joined by Roundhouse street Circus Collective and Tommy Franzen to perform a mash-up of ballroom and street dance in an electric brand new commission choreographed by the legendary Arlene Phillips.
6 August in particular presents a Late which will celebrate the genderless world through circus and cabaret. The anti-drag queen David Hoyle will bring a special performance that promises to be provocative and highly funny, and performance artist Andie Macario will also take to the stage. Fresh from headlining the Block9 field at Glastonbury this year, infamous international DJ Honey Dijon will take partygoers into the night with her distinct Chicago sound with the deep New York underground, mixing classic house and disco, techno and tech house.
A second Late on 12 August will see money, inheritance and celebrity put in the spotlight through dance, spoken word and live art. Tommy Franzen, ZooNation Youth Company, Roundhouse Street Circus Collective and established ballroom dancers will perform a mash-up of ballroom and street dance in a brand new commission especially created and choreographed for Utopia by Phillips. The commission will bring together dancers of all generations as Phillips will also deliver her impassioned provocation, for a world without material inheritance.