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ROH Chance to Dance film

15 October 2021

The Royal Opera House will celebrate 30 years of its learning outreach programme Chance to Dance with a special World Ballet Day film.

Scottish Opera's festive children's musical adventure

15 October 2021

Scottish Opera will presents Mister MacNeep Has Lost His Sheep, a festive musical adventure for children aged 3 to 7, at the company’s Edington Street Production Studios in Glasgow.

Nederlands Dans triple bill UK tour

15 October 2021

The 18 young dancers of NDT 2, the second company of Nederlands Dans Theater, will be back in the UK for the first time since 2016 with a triple bill by Marco Goecke, Hans van Manen and Johan Inger.

Ballet Black returns to Linbury

15 October 2021

Cassa Pancho’s Ballet Black will return to The Linbury Theatre with two new works: Then Or Now and The Waiting Game.

Greta Mendez curates A Time to Breathe festival

15 October 2021

Curated by Greta Mendez MBE, new cross-genre festival A Time To Breathe will span Batuke, contemporary dance, Calypso, choreo-poem, Lover's Rock and more.

ROH to welcome Little Amal

15 October 2021

The Royal Opera House will welcome Little Amal, the 3.5 metre-tall puppet created by Handspring Puppet Company as part of Good Chance Theatre’s The Walk, to spend the eve of her tenth birthday.

Thank You Very Much for European tour

15 October 2021

Award-winning dance show Thank You Very Much by Claire Cunningham with National Theatre of Scotland and Manchester International Festival will tour Switzerland, Sweden and Germany.

Cocktails, drag and dance at the Opera House

15 October 2021

ROH Late will be an evening of drag performances, cabaret, DJ sets and dance at the Royal Opera House, blending the classic and contemporary, celebrating queer identity and culture.

Birmingham REP helps with course for deaf students

14 October 2021

Birmingham REP has helped to establish the country’s first BTEC performing arts qualification specifically for deaf students.

RSC gets award to carry out “crucial” research

14 October 2021

The Royal Shakespeare Company has become the first performing arts organisation to receive an award which will help it to carry out “crucial” research.

Dracula stalks Northumberland (and Newcastle) this Hallowe'en

13 October 2021

NTC takes Dracula the Travesty on a tour which takes in a castle and a cabaret bar

The Customs House announces this year’s panto casting

13 October 2021

South Shields’ Customs House has announced the casting for its 2021/22 panto, Rapunzel.

NDCWales back on the road for autumn

13 October 2021

National Dance Company Wales is to tour this October/November with HERE, the Company’s first indoor tour since March 2020.

ACE funds teaching for creativity

10 October 2021

Arts Council England is to fund a new initiative that assesses methods for teaching creativity in schools.

Dance company creates dyslexia piece for children

10 October 2021

A Leicester-based dance company is to collaborate with a children’s art organisation and the British Dyslexia Association on a piece of work for children and their families.

Little Amal completes her journey

10 October 2021

Manchester International Festival stages the finale event of The Walk, the culmination of the remarkable journey of a 3.5m-tall puppet.

The Lady With The Data

10 October 2021

A solo theatre show explores the legacy of Florence Nightingale at Waterside, Sale.

Five Go Dancing at the Lowry

10 October 2021

The Lowry in Salford has no fewer than five acclaimed dance companies this month and next.

Sleepy stars of stage & screen

10 October 2021

Stars of stage and screen lead Wendi Peters and Bill Ward lead a new production of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow at Oldham Coliseum.

Full company announced for Storey's Home

10 October 2021

Chichester Festival Theatre's revival of David Storey's award-winning 1970 play Home will run at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester.