Southbank Centre announces International Performance & Dance programme for 2024-2025

The Southbank Centre has announced the 2024-2025 International Performance & Dance programme, featuring an array of international work, contemporary collaborations, and brand-new work from award-winning companies and artists from the UK, Ireland, Nigeria, Poland, Australia, Canada and beyond. 

The programme aims to introduce audiences to adventurous, influential and up-and-coming artists for unforgettable experiences by hosting a mix of new and old international acts and UK premiers that reinforce Southbank Centre’s status as a creative engine for arts and culture. 

The events are: 

• A string of bold physical UK dance premieres from international companies and artists, including Shechter II: From England with Love, Qudus Onikeku/The QDance Company’s Re: INCARNATION, In My Body by Crazy Smooth and Chunky Move’s 4/4. 
• The UK debut of Poland’s new star theatre director Łukasz Twarkowski with part-installation part-theatre work The Employees. 
• The London International Festival of Theatre returns with two shows: Cliff Cardinal’s William Shakespeare’s As You Like It: A Radical Retelling and Nadia Beugré’s L’Homme Rare. 
• Force Entertainment marks its 40th anniversary with a London-wide work season, including two new works and a revival at the Southbank Centre
• A weekend of new performance work from Southeast Asia: Dragon Ladies Don’t Weep and Haribo Kimchi 
• The long-awaited London premiere of Adrienne Truscott and Dublin’s Brokentalkers Masterclass. 

Aaron Wright, Head of Performance & Dance at the Southbank Centre, said: “Over the coming year, some extraordinary companies and artists from across the world will grace the stages of the Southbank Centre as part of this significant Performance & Dance programme. 

“We’re continuing our love affair with dance, presenting highly physical and visually unique performances that will appeal to both new and committed dance audiences alike. 

“Following our groundbreaking 2023 season, headlined by the Marina Abramović Institute Takeover of Queen Elizabeth Hall, we continue to present daring works demonstrating theatre as a vital contemporary art form and are certain to get people talking.”

More information can be found here.