Australian choreographer Stephanie Lake's COLOSSUS will make its UK premiere at Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall, featuring 60 final-year London Contemporary Dance School students performing as one unit.
The Southbank Centre has launched KUNSTY - a brand new series platforming new work from independent British artists working at the boundaries of dance, live art and cabaret.
The Southbank Centre has revealed its Spring / Summer 2025 Performance and Dance programme, offering audiences the unique opportunity to see brave, groundbreaking new work and contemporary collaborations. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.
The Southbank Centre has announced its Autumn/Winter 2023/24 Performance and Dance season, featuring new commissions and premieres from adventurous and influential artists and up-and-coming names from around the world.
Aaron Wright has been appointed Head of Performance and Dance at the Southbank Centre to lead its performance arts programme including dance, theatre, comedy and live art. Currently Artistic Director at Fierce in Birmingham, Aaron will join the Southbank Centre's Artistic Programming team in April and will report to Mark Ball, Artistic Director.
Fierce, the Birmingham biennial festival of international performance, has announced the programme for 2022 - it marks the biggest programme ever for Fierce, celebrating the Festival's 25th anniversary. The programme welcomes international artists from Tokyo to Rio de Janiro as well as from the West Midlands. It embraces the outlandish and the new, presenting over 20 fresh and feisty productions of the kind that the Festival has become acclaimed for.
The Birmingham 2022 Festival and Fierce today announce the programme for Healing Gardens of Bab - a celebration of queer artists from across the Commonwealth, queer culture and histories.
As the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games draws nearer, today a huge cultural programme is launched including major events produced by Fierce. Partnering with Birmingham 2022 Festival, two large-scale public realm projects are amongst many featured highlights in the 6-month cultural programme: Key to the City and The Healing Gardens of Bab
The organisations involved have been successful in securing an initial investment of £500,000 from Arts Council England for a pilot year, following an open call in summer 2019 for a consortium to devise and deliver a brand-new performing arts showcase at the Edinburgh festivals from 2021-2023.
In amongst the stress and bad news Forced Entertainment are delighted to announce that the recipients of the 2020 Forced Entertainment Award (in memory of Huw Chadbourn) are Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas.
Fierce Festival and Stan's Cafe announce new shared city centre premises. Through the support of East Street Arts, the two Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisations will move into Albert House, on Albert Street in Birmingham City Centre, from their former locations in Digbeth, and the Jewelry Quarter, respectively.
The UK's leading biennial festival of live art, Fierce has announced the full programme for its 2019 festival, the second edition under Artistic Director Aaron Wright.
Following his inaugural festival in 2017, Fierce's Artistic Director Aaron Wright today announces three shows in this year's programme which are being presented in association with Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
Forced Entertainment have announced artist and performer Selina Thompson as the second recipient of the Forced Entertainment Award (in memory of Huw Chadbourn). Created in 2018, the award will recognise one artist (or company) a year until 2021 and comprises £10,000 closely linked to a substantial package of mentoring and subsidiary support tailored each time to the needs and situation of the selected artist or group. The recipient of the 2018 inaugural award was Glasgow-based artist Nic Green.
In October The Yard welcomes two weeks of double bills featuring live performance company GETINTHEBACKOFTHEAVAN'S (Soho Theatre, Almeida) apocalyptic Frankenshow, and the UK debut of American cabaret star Erin Markey's sensual late-night show Boner Killer. Fierce vs. The Yard is a collaboration with the acclaimed Birmingham-based international festival of cross-art performance Fierce Festival, and marks Artistic Director Aaron Wright's inaugural programme at Fierce as well as the first time the festival brings work to London.
Today, international festival of performance Fierce announced the full programme of live art, theatre, dance, music, installations, activism, and parties taking over Birmingham from 16 - 22 October 2017.
Playwright Tom Jones is making some changes to his 57-year-old musical THE FANTASTICKS. Mr. Jones has done a little bit of rewriting of the musical number "Round and Round" which he has always felt never quite conveyed the darker elements he intended.
Off Broadway's longest running musical, The Fantasticks will celebrate its 57th Anniversary on Wednesday, May 3rd at 7PM.
Producers of Off-Broadway's THE FANTASTICKS have announced that the long runningmusical will close on June 4, 2017 - in its the 57th year. The production originally opened in 1960.
Abrons Arts Center and UK's Live Art Development Agency (LADA) in collaboration with Chelsea Theatre present Just Like a Woman, (October 23-25), a three day program of performances, installations, cabarets, screenings, panels and book launches that examine the performance of identity - the ways femininity can be 'performed' and how representations of gender can be queered through performance.
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