25 premières (12 UK premières and 13 new to London) and a "spectacular" opening event have been announced for The Greenwich + Docklands International Festival 2022, a free festival of outdoor arts and theatre, taking place from 26 August to 11 September 2022.
The initial highlights for its 2022 programme will include:
- Peter Hudson’s CHARON, a 32ft high artwork featuring Zoetrope technology at a new festival site in the Royal Docks.
- House of Suarez, creators of the touring annual Vogue Ball, present House of Oak and Iron, a response to colonial history through contemporary dance and voguing at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich.
- German artist Stephanie Lüning will unleash a tidal wave of multi-coloured foam at Greenwich Peninsula with Island of Foam: Version XVIII.
- Fevered Sleep's The Sky Is Filled With Thunder is an immersive audio promenade experience in Thamesmead capturing the voices of children’s hopes, fears and dreams.
- The Royal Ballet in collaboration with disabled dancer Joe Powell-Main present Sleepwalker across the public spaces and waterfronts of Canary Wharf.
- Using stilts and choreography, Spanish company Cia Maduixa tells the story of female migrants fighting for a place to call home in Migrare at Canary Wharf.
- Crowd_Ctrl is a dance and digital collaboration between choreographer AndroidX (AKA Malick Bright), scenographers MHz and London’s Dragonsquad busking crew.