Alongside a full day of activities for under 10s, The Place is hosting a range of family-friendly performances and activities throughout the year, including Fagin’s Twist, a contemporary, hip-hop inspired imagining of the Dickens villain’s youth, dance classes for 5- to 15-year-olds, and Joseph Kids, a sole performer and his virtual self in an unexpected world where everything is possible.
With performances throughout the day on 16 July from New Art Club and ATMA Dance, The Place presents a programme of activities including workshops in street dance, yoga and sound games for children, including learning to dance with animated characters in Danceoke, video installation Weighting and an audio adventure into the past around the building in Hidden Traces.
In the autumn, Avant Garde Dance Company presents Fagin’s Twist in a co-production with The Place, offering young children a taste of contemporary dance based on the Dickens story of Oliver Twist.
The Place also offers a programme of contemporary dance classes for children during the summer term and Summer Projects for Young Dancers 2016, a series of workshops led by professional dance practitioners which has previously included artists from Protein, Company Chameleon, New Movement Collective and Rambert.
Theatre director Eddie Nixon said, "myself and some of our team have kids of our own so we always look to programme events that we'd want to take them to. It's really important to us to give children good experiences in dance and, especially with Something Happening for Kids, we want to give children a wide range of performances, of getting involved, of seeing, touching and throwing themselves around. We hope to show children and their families that dance is for everyone."