Producing and Touring
The Place is committed to developing ground-breaking dance from both leading choreographic talent and rising stars. Through its in-house Producing and Touring team, The Place brings bold new work to national and international audiences. There are always opportunities for partners to support and programme our work.
To learn more about Producing and Touring, visit How We Work With Artists.
In Development
Okan - Akeim Toussaint Buck and Ella Mesma
Drawing inspiration from various martial dances and salsa, Okan challenges traditional gender roles and explores the interplay between opposing forces, resulting in a harmonious blend that transcends binaries.
- R&D: September 2023 - November 2023
- Creation: Autumn 2024
- Touring: Spring 2025
- Size: 3 to 4 (2 Dancers, 1 Technician, 1 Producer for some touring dates)
Anatomy of Survival - Vivienne Franzmann & Frauke Requardt
A woman in an orange beanie walks into Greggs. She asks for a pumpkin spiced latte. The person serving her does not understand her request. The woman reacts badly. Mayhem ensues.
Audience: 14+
Format: mid-scale
Length: 60 min
Available for Booking
A Tale of Two Cities - Lost Dog
Placing Lucie Manette at the heart of Dickens’ classic, Lost Dog are restaging A Tale of Two Cities featuring live camera work on-stage, and their acclaimed blend of contemporary dance and theatre. Rediscover Dickens from a whole new perspective.
- Audience: 14+
- Format: mid-scale
- Length: 90 min (no interval)
- Size: 5 performers
Kedeeshah - Sivan Rubinstein
Part of Sivan Rubinstein’s Dance No 2° Climate series, Kedeeshah is a short film that centres around the wisdom of a fascinating young soul as they reflect on our time on this planet.
- Audience: all
- Format: short film
- Length: 7 min
Please get in contact for access to this short film.
Is This A Dance? - Lavaelo
Dance artists Eva Recacha and Lola Maury invite young minds to muse on the idea of dance in an energetic and joyful exploration of what it means to dance, in an engaging introduction to contemporary dance for young people and their families.
- Audience: 4-11 years and their families
- Length: 45 min (no interval)
- Format: small-scale
- Size: 2 performers
the album: Skool Edition - SAY Sarah Golding and Yukiko Masui
Celebrate the joy and innocence of making up dances to exciting new music in SAY's interactive outdoor dance show for young audiences and their families. A 15 minute version of their full length piece, the album: skool edition will inspire audiences to get creative with movement too!
- Audience: 3+ and their families
- Format: outdoor
- Length: 15 min
- Size: 2 performers
the album - SAY Sarah Golding and Yukiko Masui
A trio of pieces that celebrate the joy and innocence of making up dances to popular music. Working closely with new music artists and musicians, SAY's ambition is to recreate the exciting atmosphere found at music gigs and to reach new audiences by setting contemporary dance to underground music.
- Audience: 12+
- Format: small-scale
- Length: 60 min (no interval)
- Size: 2 performers
Dance No 2° - Sivan Rubinstein
Earthy, Minimalist, and Powerful. Dance No 2° is a timeless meditation on our connection to Earth, the changing climate and how human existence is influenced by the water, land and elements we live with.
- Audience: 8+
- Format: small-scale
- Length: 60 min (no interval)
- Size: 4 performers
How to Build a Universe and How to End It - Extended Play
Choreographer Jamaal Burkmar reimagines the formation of our universe in a collision of music and movement. Formed of two parts, How To Build A Universe and How to End It opens with improvisation with guest participants and ends in the culmination of Extended Play's creative process: visually striking, mesmerising dance to intoxicating music.
- Audience: all
- Format: small-scale, outdoor and The Playground Tour
- Length: 60, 30 or 15 minute versions
- Size: 2-7 performers
Download the How to Build a Universe and How to End It Tour Pack
The Album: live - SAY Sarah Golding and Yukiko Masui
In an explosive mix of fast-paced, slick dance routines and incredible music tracks, SAY are bringing the infectious energy of music gigs to the dance world.
SAY invites a guest music artist to perform live at each location during every tour.
- Audience: 8+
- Format: Outdoors
- Length: 15min
- Size: 2 performers
No Land B - Sivan Rubinstein
The powerful story of two dancers exploring our relationship to nature and to each other. No Land B is an uncompromising dance performance, delving into the ever-changing challenging environmental reality our world faces.
- Audience: 8+
- Length: 50min
- Size: 2 performers
The Playground Tour
The Playground Tour offers a double bill of dance shows for young audiences and their families.
Each piece explores friendship in unique ways, considering the challenges we face and ways that we can overcome them through bravery.
- Audience: 3+ and their families
- Format: outdoor
- Length: 45 min (20 min per performance)
- Size: 2 performers per show, 4 performers total
Super Normal Extra Natural - Requardt & Rosenberg
Super Normal Extra Natural is a new performance made with your
local community, from the creators of experiential performances
Future Cargo and DeadClub™.
- Audience: all
- Format: Open public space
- Length: 40 min
Future Cargo - Requardt & Rosenberg
Requardt & Rosenberg's latest show performed from the back of a 40ft haulage truck. Combining large-scale spectacle with surprising intimacy, Future Cargo transports audiences with this other-worldly experience using binaural headphones!
- Audience: all
- Format: outdoor
- Length: 50 min (no interval)
- Size: 4 performers
DONUTS - Extended Play
'Feelgood & fun' (The Guardian), DONUTS is a fusion of jazz, funk and classic sit-coms that rewrites the rulebook of friendship in the first full-length contemporary dance piece from Extended Play.
- Audience: 8+
- Format: small-scale
- Length: 60 min (no interval)
- Size: 3 performers
KARRASEKARE - Igor x Moreno
The latest production in development from artistic duo Igor x Moreno, KARRASEKARE is inspired by pagan carnival traditions from Sardinia and the Basque Country. Raw and surprising, sweaty yet elegant, it explores the catharsis of communal ritual and traditions.
- Audience: 14+
- Length: TBC
- Format: mid-scale
- Size: 7 performers
Book 4 Shorts - Birdgang Ltd
BOOK 4 SHORTS is an interactive and lively show where children are directly involved in the story telling, voting on their favorite character and dancing along. BirdGang Ltd's new show embodies their values of individuality, collaboration, and dedication with Hip Hop as their unifying force, leaving a lasting impact on audiences.
- Audience: 5+
- Format: Outdoors or in theatres
- Length: 21 min (no interval)
- Size: 2 preformers
