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The Head Wrap

Digital dramas with new dance show

This autumn, enjoy a season of dance shows, as the Rural Touring Dance Initiative (RTDI) goes digital for a series of online events…

Dazed New World online theatre festival

Dazed New World Festival brings theatre into the home

Embrace the arts this autumn, with two weeks of performances featuring dance, spoken word, comedy and puppets…

Catch Me

Watch a socially-distanced dance duet

This month, watch a live outdoor dance-acrobatics show, playfully challenging expectations of relationships across generations, gender and ethnicity…

Greenwich+Docklands International Festival 2020 - Black Victorians

Giant metal tripods and a fire garden at London festival

Are you ready for two weeks of immersive installations, colourful dance performances, and eclectic travelling and pop-up events?

Squad Goals, Caspa Productions, by Zac Cooke Photography

Dance and drama at Dagenham & Redbridge Football Ground

Ready to kick-off your theatre-going experiences again? Then a new immersive show in a stadium might just give you the dose of drama you’re looking for…

Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, Contagion, photo Jane Hobson

Dance installation commemorates pandemic centenary

This summer, watch Shobana Jeyasingh Dance’s intense and moving Contagion, commemorating the centenary of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic…

Manch UK

Stories and performances from the South Asian dance community

A new virtual platform, Manch UK, is sharing inspirational stories and short performances from the South Asian dance community…

Rosemary Lee, Common Dance

The power of gathering, cooperation and belonging explored in dance film

This month, watch a moving dance piece performed by an inter-generational cast of 50 professional and non-professional dancers…

Locked down. Locked in. But living

Dance is locked down but alive

This autumn, enjoy three specially choreographed dance performances on the theme of isolation, created by UK dance companies during lockdown…

Protein Invisible Dancing ©JaneHobson

Heavy hitting issues and humour collide in dance shows

This summer, as part of dance company Protein’s 21st anniversary celebrations, audiences will be able to enjoy an array of new and acclaimed dance shows…

Up My Street - Online!

Online show could be right up your street

This summer, four new dance performances and an invitation to get moving will launch online, in a bid to help tackle cultural inequality and loneliness…

Cautionary Tale

Help bring a musical tale to life

This month, help bring an extraordinary musical tale to life by recording music, choreography and sketches from the safety of your home…

Protein Border Tales Production Shoot © Jane Hobson

Watch a poignant dance performance with Border Tales

This evening, Luca Silvestrini’s Protein will be streaming their hit show Border Tales as part of The Place’s weekly streaming programme…

James Cousins Company, Within Her Eyes

Dance productions re-choreographed for online premiere

James Cousins Company will be hosting the online premiere of a series of short dance films, specially re-choreographed for camera…

Folk Weekend: Oxford

Oxford’s Folk Weekend goes online for 2020

This year’s Oxford Folk Weekend will be going ahead, bringing the usual combination of song, high-energy dance and raucous music, direct to your house…

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Curiosity of the Week

Woodhenge, Stonehenge’s lesser-known neighbour
Woodhenge - ©English Heritage, Historic England Photo Library

You have heard of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, but have you heard of its lesser known neighbour, Woodhenge? Find out more in our latest Curiosity of the Week…

Top Story

The World Egg Throwing Championships are no yolk
World Egg Throwing Championship 2016

Are you a tosser? If so, you may want to head to Lincolnshire this weekend as the 15th World Egg Throwing Championships takes place…

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