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Visual Arts
The Barbican presents The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998, a world first exhibition charting the extraordinarily fertile artistic output of those febrile two decades
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English National Opera launches its new season with three productions, the Royal Opera stages Bernstein rarities, and the piano gets its own festival
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Immersive
The Barbican Theatre becomes jazz club for an immersive performance of Charles Mingus's jazz masterpiece, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
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Immersive
Children’s games bring the Barbican Art Gallery alive in Ricochets, an immersive exhibition of videos by the Mexico-based artist Francis Alÿs
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Dance
Ballet Black brings its vibrant new double bill Heroes to the Barbican
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Dance
High octane perpetual motion is the basis for Boy Blue’s new work, Cycles, now on at the Barbican Theatre
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Visual Arts
The Barbican presents a fascinating look at the place of textiles in everyday life and art history in its new exhibition Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art
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Dance
Contemporary visual theatre returns to London this winter with a new collaborative project between MimeLondon and a number of venues in the capital
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Immersive
In her new immersive piece of dance-theatre, Lay Down Your Burdens, Rhiannon Faith turns the Barbican Pit into your local pub for a touch of community healing
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Musicals
Michael R Jackson’s Pulitzer and Tony-winning play A Strange Loop comes to the Barbican stage with a cast led by the superb Kyle Ramar Freeman
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Dance
Berlin, New York and Johannesburg dance in London
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Opera
The Christmas story is told in grand choruses and virtuosic solos, sung by the finest artists and with thrilling instrumental playing
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Visual Arts
An important and optimistic exhibition on the climate emergency and how we can live more sustainably -
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Theatre
Ivo van Hove returns to the Barbican with another epic trek through history. Age of Rage fuses the myths of ancient Greek dramatists Euripides and Aeschylus
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Dance
Dance for all tastes in April
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Immersive
You are invited to a ball like no other: Le Bal de Paris, a sumptuous virtual reality event with digital costumes by Chanel, courtesy of choreographer Blanca Li
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Dance
A bumper month for dance in London
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Dance
The Barbican screens two dance films that illustrate the history of the extraordinary Indigenous Australian Bangarra Dance Theatre
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Opera
Messiah makes an impact however it is sung. But what's so special about an oratorio written in a rush and using recycled material? Claudia Pritchard explains
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Gigs
EFG London Jazz Festival features everything from jazz icons playing the biggest stages to fledgling greats serenading intimate bars
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Opera
The scintillating American mezzo-soprano gives a solo recital with music inspired by solitude
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Classical Music
The charismatic Chinese virtuoso performs the endlessly fascinating Goldberg Variations
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Immersive
The Bridge Theatre has added new shows to Vox Motus's immersive diorama Flight, which follows two young Afghan brothers’ hazardous journey in search of a better life In London
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Best of
Symphony concerts that open up new horizons, operas that take audiences to another realm .... trust music to transport us out of daily life and make a world of difference
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Opera
Two months of live music performed by leading artists. Listen in person, or be part of the online audience.
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Immersive
After superlative reviews and a sellout run, Complicite's extraordinary exploration of sounds and storytelling will be available to experience online
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Best of
Booking opens at 10AM on Mon 16 March for a full year of first-class music. Here is our pick of the great orchestras, soloists, programmes and premieres
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Dance
American choreographer Pam Tanowitz’s critically acclaimed New Work for Goldberg Variations has its European premiere at the Barbican this spring
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Opera
Friends, colleagues and inveterate music-makers, the great German tenor and Covent Garden conductor give a recital of favourite pieces
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Cinema
Barbican cinema discounts, 2 for 1 tickets and cheap day Tuesday: we round up where to buy and how to get cheap cinema tickets in London
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Best of
A bumper year for opera in both city and country houses, concerts marking 250 years of Beethoven's legacy and a chance to catch the biggest names in music today
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Best of
The UK-Russia Year of Music comes to a brilliant end with concerts featuring Russian artists and masterworks, but much more Russian music lies ahead
