Contemporary Dance

6 April 2010 to 11 April 2010

London Coliseum WC2N 4ES[map]

Magia de la Danza is a mixed bill which brings together extracts from seven of the company's most famous ballets including The Nutcracker, Coppélia and Swan Lake. These performances feature a full live orchestra and four special guest appearances from international superstar Carlos Acosta.

28 July 2010 to 7 August 2010

London Coliseum WC2N 4ES[map]

Carlos returns to the London Coliseum with his awe-inspiring Oliver Award winning show which also features new repertoire in a programme which combines classical ballet alongside contemporary works.

14 April 2010 to 17 April 2010

London Coliseum WC2N 4ES[map]

The musical landscape includes Handel's pastoral ode set to the poetry of John Milton. The set design includes inspiration from William Blake's later watercolours illustrating Milton's poems. With 24 dancers, ENOs Orchestra and Chorus, and four vocal soloists.

23 April 2010

Harrow Arts Centre HA5 4EA[map]

Three hip-hop theatre performances, including 'Ikky Wakk', a solo piece by Banxy.

20 July 2010 to 24 July 2010

Sadler's Wells EC1R 4TN[map]

A new collaborative production by Akram Khan and Nitin Sawhney. Confluence fuses Sawhney's music with Khan's unique blend of classical kathak and contemporary technique.

9 June 2010

Millfield Arts Centre N18 1PJ[map]

A collaboration between two percussionists (Camille Rocailleux, Samuel Favre) and two dancer-choreographers (Thomas Guerry, Eléonore Guisnet in which they explore how percussionists dance and dancers sound.

27 March 2010

LSO St Lukes EC1V 9NG[map]

A special performance of traditional and contemporary Balinese music and dance with the LSO St Luke's community gamelan group, LSO musicians, the UK's leading Balinese gamelan group Lila Cita, dancer-choreographer Ni Made Pujawati and dancers from Lila Bhawa. The evening premieres a composition by Nye Parry.

10 April 2010

RADA WC1E 6ED[map]

Ballet Central is proud to bring their 25th anniversary tour offering a varied programme of ballet, contemporary and jazz from some of the world's leading choreographers.

15 April 2010

Rich Mix E1 6LA[map]

This choreographic work challenges notions of normal and abnormal, and draws inspiration from choreographer Anusha Subramanyam's therapy work with people with physical and mental challenges. The work presents a range of raw and sincere dances and uses the emotive and gestural grammar of bharatanatyam and combines it with movement that is both contemporary and classical.

8 June 2010 to 27 June 2010

Peacock Theatre WC2A 2HT[map]

Based on the play by Dale Wasserman and the novel by Ken Kesey, the show features a soundtrack including hits from Missy Elliot, Dizzee Rascal, Gotan Project, David Holmes and Cypress Hill.

12 June 2010

The Mick Jagger Centre DA1 2JZ[map]

The British Red Cross Dance for Life is one of the biggest celebrations of youth dance and is dedicated to bringing schools, youth groups and dance groups throughtout its local communities together in a celebration of dance. Over 400 young performers from across Suffolk and Norfolk will be coming together.

26 March 2010 to 29 March 2010

Pleasance Theatre Islington N7 9EF[map]

Cloud Dance Festival returns with its first festival of the year, bringing you a fresh selection of new, exciting, intriguing and quirky contemporary dance, with a few special guests.

5 May 2010

Purcell Room SE1 9PX[map]

Miguel returns to nottdance with a new work that revisits his African roots.

8 May 2010

Queen Elizabeth Hall SE1 8XX[map]

Gustavia is a work that mixes slapstick humour with big issues, in the process tackling timeless subjects such as womanhood, death, theatre, performance, self-representation and the role of the artist today. In this duet, the two women play one character - Gustavia - who talks, sings and sheds a tear or two as she shares her worries, small catastrophes and the joys of contemporary art and life. Borrowing from the world of classical burlesque and reminiscent of Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers and Peter Sellers, the duo uses trademark techniques such as role reversal and punch-and-dodge, transforming incompetence into an art. Repetition and accident make them unexpected heroes of this story.

22 April 2010

Artsdepot  N12 0GA[map]

A new full-length dance piece by choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh called Just Add Water? It featues six dancers adding their hard-won memories of home cooking in a shifting world to create a contemporary dance work that includes a score by Orlando Gough and text by performer and writer Rani Moorthy.