Press Story
15 Aug 2022
After a scorching summer season of performance, London’s leading centre for dance performance and creation The Place is delighted to be launching its electrifying autumn season, with must-see highlights including the UK premiere of Georgia Tegou & Michalis Theophanous’ Reverie (part of Dance Umbrella Festival 2022), The Place’s Work Place Artist Anders Duckworth’s Mapping Gender, the return of Igor x Moreno’s acclaimed solo BEAT, and Far From Home by Alleyne Dance.
The Place’s autumn season will also feature work presented by The Place’s new Producing and Touring arm: SAY’s the album and LAVAELO’s Is This A Dance?
“The Place is delighted to be sharing such a wide range of captivating dance work with its audiences this autumn. We’re excited to present powerful, urgent work from fantastic companies and choreographers including Lea Anderson, Seke Chimutengwende, Emilyn Claid and Vincent Dance Theatre. The Place had a brilliant summer season, with new and existing audiences lapping up our festival of new choreography Resolution and the world-class A Festival of Korean Dance. We can't wait to welcome audiences back this autumn to end this year on a high.” The Place Programming Team
Other performances within the season include dazzling family shows, London Contemporary Dance School collaborations, the very special return of the much-loved annual youth dance showcase Fresh, and the most anticipated family event in the dance Christmas show calendar: Snowed In by the award-winning duo Anna Williams and Tom Roden of Anatomical.
Highlights of the season include:
- Mapping Gender by The Place’s Work Place Artist Anders Duckworth (28 SEP)
- Georgia Tegou & Michalis Theophanous’ Reverie, part of Dance Umbrella Festival 2022 (7 – 8 OCT)
- LCDS alum Joseph Toonga’s Born to Exist: The Woman I Know (25 – 26 OCT)
- BEAT by Igor x Moreno (1 NOV)
- Far From Home by Alleyne Dance (4 – 5 NOV)
- Anatomical’s Snowed In (14 – 24 DEC)
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