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Siobhan Davies Dance and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art have announced the CONTINUOUS Network with UK-wide partners and funding from Arts Council England, an expansion of their four-year partnership. The CONTINUOUS Network will incorporate institutions around the country, including galleries Bluecoat (Liverpool), Nottingham Contemporary, The Tetley (Leeds), Tramway (Glasgow) and Turner Contemporary (Margate), and dance organisations Dance4 (Nottingham) and Yorkshire Dance (Leeds). The partnership will continue until 2022 and is set to include four additional galleries. Continue reading Siobhan Davies Dance and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

From the award-winning creative team behind the company’s hit shows ImMortal, tabu, and Bianco, NoFit State Circus’s LEXICON is a stunning production which brings together world class circus performers and musicians in a daring and mischievous take on contemporary circus. It returns to the Roundhouse for a strictly limited season from 3–18 January 2020. Continue reading NoFit State Circus

The Queen’s Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, which recently closed for renovation, will be renamed the Sondheim Theatre when it reopens. The space is currently home to Les Misérables, and will change its name to honour the award-winning composer Stephen Sondheim when he turns 90 in March. The move makes Sondheim the only living artist to have a theatre named in his honour on both Broadway and in the West End. Continue reading A new name for the Queen’s Theatre

The 200-seat Turbine Theatre will open this summer beside Battersea Power Station, enabling world class artists to tell their stories and enchant their audiences. It forms part of a trend for new venues in the UK capital, with Soho’s Boulevard Theatre and Troubadour Wembley Park due to open in the autumn as well. Continue reading New London theatre to open next month

Wednesday 17 July saw a “Cast Album Karaoke” night for the hit musical Waitress. In addition to it serving the goods in London’s Theatreland, it also gave fans the chance to fully embrace the show in all its glory. Perfect for those who love to belt out their favourite number on the West End stage, in front of the mirror with a prop for a microphone. Continue reading Waitress karaoke night

Thursday 11 July saw, for the first time in its history, English National Ballet performing at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow. The company performed Akram Khan’s Giselle on the New Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, as part of the Chekov International Festival. Performing for four days, the shows were the Company’s first performances at the prestigious venue, marking an important moment in the company’s history. Continue reading English National Ballet performs at the Bolshoi Theatre for the first time

Following performances in New York, Lyon and Sydney, and its world premiere at Sadler’s Wells in 2018, and Natalia Osipova’s Pure Dance returns from Tuesday 22 – Saturday 26 October. Continue reading Natalia Osipova – Pure Dance

Auditioning, for vocational courses and – ultimately – jobs, can be a rather daunting process. Dancers can make this as enjoyable as possible by heeding a few pointers that can aid their audition experience. Continue reading Auditioning – the basics

Breakin’ Convention, the influential festival of hip hop dance theatre, announced its national tour for 2020, from Saturday 2 May – Saturday 6 June at various venues. Continue reading Breakin’ Convention on tour

Dance Consortium has announced spring 2020 tour dates across the UK for Carlos Acosta’s critically acclaimed Cuban company Acosta Danza. Named Evolution, the 2020 tour commences at Mayflower Theatre in Southampton on 3 March with performances in Cardiff, Inverness, Bradford, Brighton, Canterbury, Salford, Plymouth and Newcastle, and concludes in Nottingham on 11 April. Continue reading Dance Consortium presents Acosta Danza’s spring tour