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Dance
An award-winning work of minimalist rigour, Australian company Chunky Move’s 4/4 had its UK premiere at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
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Dance
The Southbank performance programme for 2025 showcases international avant-garde dance
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Dance
QDance Company celebrates the music and culture of Nigeria’s youth in Re:INCARNATION, which had its UK premiere at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
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Dance
Canada's top street dancers explore the impact of ageing on their performance in Crazy Smooth: In My Body, a rousin and inspirational show at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
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Dance
The dance section of the London International Festival of Theatre kicked off with France-based Ivorian choreographer Nadia Beugré’s L’Homme rare, a provocative study of buttocks and their putative meaning
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Dance
Hofesh Shechter's international youth dance company, Shechter II, comes to the QEH with From England with Love, a characteristically punchy look at England today
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Dance
Roommates, a mixed bill of six short pieces presented by Ballet National de Marseille at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, was a game of two halves.
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Classical Music
Big names from music, dance, visual arts and AI come together at the Southbank for a daringly reimagined concert production of Szymanowski's Harnasie
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Dance
Starchitects by the dance-circus company Motionhouse is a thoroughly enjoyable show with much to delight the whole family
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Festival
Southbank's famous Imagine Children's Festival returns this winter half-term with a huge range of programmes for children and their grown-ups
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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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Dance
Back at its former home in the Southbank, English National Ballet presents Solstice, a programme of highlights from its extensive repertoire showcasing the excellence of its dancers
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Dance
The Southbank's Unlimited Festival is a five-day online jamboree celebrating the artistic vision of disabled artists. Here are the dance highlights
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Dance
Holly Blakey’s Cowpuncher My Ass, a post-punk deconstruction of Western movies dressed by the Vivienne Westwood House, provided a fun outing at the Southbank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall
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Dance
Belfast in all its complexity took centre-stage at the Southbank for one performance only of Oona Doherty’s Hard to Be Soft, as part of DU19
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Lifestyle
While away those long summer days (and nights!) in our favourite river-side spots
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Musicals
Tony Award-winning musical The Light in the Piazza comes to the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall this summer, starring Renée Fleming, Dove Cameron and Alex Jennings
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Opera
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Donnerstag aus Licht (Thursday from Light) is a must for devotees of either electronic avant-garde or mammoth opera
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Festival
Underbelly Festival Southbank is back – featuring comedy, circus and much more
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Dance
ZooNation Youth Company make an explosive return to the Southbank with The Next Generation 2018, a show by the young, for the young
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Things to do
From a Finnish rooftop sauna to sure-to-sell out theatre, long, winter nights are bright along the South Bank; here're the best things to do and see this Christmas
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Festival
Part of the year-long Nordic Matters festival on the Southbank, Finland's Tero Saarinen Company brought its intriguing Morphed to the Riverside Terrace
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Dance
Immerse yourself in an all-consuming celebration of dance, art and music when Iceland Dance Company present the UK premiere of Sacrifice
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Things to do
Three of the best London food pop-ups to book now
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Food
This two-floor pop-up will stage evening supper clubs with river views, and will add to the eclectic mix of places to eat on the Southbank
Things To Do
The EFG London Jazz Festival 2016 is back with star-studded performances all over the capital this November
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Talks
Expect fun filth and feminism: Caitlin Moran brings girls between ages of 11-18 her Moranifesto at the Southbank Centre
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Festival
16 days, 80 films: the UK Jewish Film Festival coming in November has something for everyone.
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Kids
Children learn about the art of performance as the Southbank Sinfonia Family Concert players take control and try to play without the conductor