Tag: Circus

GDIF – Week 3

GREENWICH + DOCKLANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2025


CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF SURPRISE AND SPECTACLE

 

Presented By Talawa, Fubunation & Sonia Hughes

Fragments Of Us

4 September | 4pm & 6:30pm | General Gordon Square, Woolwich, SE18 6FH

Free and unticketed – Just show up

This vibrant and tender dance theatre production celebrates the endless possibilities of Black masculinity.

Celebrating the endless possibilities of Black masculinity, this dance theatre performance features fluid movement and poignant poetry to reveal snapshots of joy, struggle, love and loss. With rhythmic beats and soulful expressions, striking images of brotherhood and the richness of community, are layered with moments of up-close personal storytelling to create a moving testimony to collective history and identity.  

 

Presented By Company DHW

Go Grandad, Go!

4 September | 13:30 & 15:30 | General Gordon Square, Woolwich, SE18 6FH

Duration: 25 Minutes

What to Expect: Dance | Family friendly | Great for Kids | On the Move

A heart-warming Caribbean welcome awaits at this inter-generational story told through Hip-Hop, street arts and audience participation.

A heart-warming Caribbean welcome awaits at this inter-generational story told through hip-hop, street arts, audience participation and integrated British Sign Language. Led by Dani Harris-Walters, Company DHW is a new and exciting hip-hop theatre company which puts community, relatability and inclusivity at the forefront of its work.

 

Presented By Panama Pictures

The Weight of Water

5 September – 6 September | 2.30pm & 6.30pm | Birchmere Lake, Epstein Road, Thamesmead, SE28 8DQ

The stakes are high in this modern parable of global warming, which merges dance and circus on water to nail biting effect.

This spectacular water-based event sees 6 incredible performers struggle for survival on an unpredictable floating stage. While those in power indulge in power games the performers deal with the impacts of their indecision as they fight to maintain a foothold on a floating platform which see-saws so violently that there’s a constant risk of falling. 

 

Dancing City 2025

6 Sept | Newham

London’s much-loved, annual celebration of outdoor dance is coming back to Newham on Saturday 6 September.

This year’s alfresco dance take-over will showcase a host of amazing outdoor spaces across Stratford – popping up in the Town Centre, East Bank and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. With stunning staging and a huge variety of dance styles, explore the full line up now.



GDIF – Week 2

GREENWICH + DOCKLANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2025


CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF SURPRISE AND SPECTACLE

 

Turning Worlds

Sat 30 & Sun 31 | Greenwich Peninsula

Discover a weekend of trailblazing collaborations between engineering and performance including a fusion of circus and robotics, a production enabling a performer to perform vertically on a wall and a captivating dance and physical theatre performance on a giant, rotating metal spiral.

Staged in the iconic public spaces around Greenwich Peninsula, including the rooftop basketball court, this weekend of extraordinary circus is an unmissable GDIF 2025 highlight. Every performance is free and unticketed – just show up.

 

Presented By TeaTime Company

Ripple

30 August – 31 August | 1.00pm & 3.40pm | Peninsula Square, Greenwich Peninsula, SE10 0DX

Duration: 35 Minutes

Free and unticketed – Just show up 

This UK premiere fuses contemporary circus and engineering to mesmerising effect in a show centred around a giant metal spiral. 

A giant metal spiral becomes an acrobatic playground as circus, dance and physics come together in a performance exploring the consequences of our actions. Enacting a “ripple effect”, three virtuosic performers are confronted with a series of increasingly challenging and unexpected hurdles, forcing them to push their limits, jump higher and even suspend time itself. This UK premiere fuses contemporary circus and engineering to mesmerising effect.

 

Presented By Compagnie Barks

Walking On The Wall

30 August & 31 August | 1.10pm, 2.25pm, 3.25pm | 2 Appleby Yard, Building A2, Greenwich Peninsula, SE10 0BJ

Duration: 10 Minutes

Free and unticketed – Just show up 

Rub your eyes as ingenious staging enables a performer to walk on walls.

This second performance from Compagnie Barks uses inventive staging to enable a performer to defy gravity and walk on walls. Conceived by artistic director Bastien Dausse as an escape from the commonplace, this performance will showcase the playful architecture of the Design District encouraging us to celebratecreativity in everyday life.

 

Presented By Bastien Dausse with Compagnie Barks

The Scale

30 August – 31 August | 1.50pm, 2.50pm, 4.30pm | Design District Basketball Court, Building C1, Cripps Yard, Greenwich Peninsula, SE10 0BQ

Duration: 10 minutes

Free and unticketed – Just show up 

Evoking the weightless movement of astronauts in space, this poetic performance takes place at London’s only rooftop basketball court.

This contemporary circus performance is one of two productions from Compagnie Barks, exploring themes of gravity and our relationship with the physical world, by combining acrobatics with ingenious staging. Presented at London’s only rooftop basketball court, this captivating show will be framed by stunning views across Greenwich and Canary Wharf to evoke the weightless, effortless movement of astronauts in space.

 

Presented By UliK Robotic

Robopole

30 August – 31 August | 2.10pm, 3.10pm, 4.50pm | Peninsula Square, Greenwich Peninsula, SE10 0ES

Duration: 8 Minutes

Free and unticketed – Just show up 

A stunning fusion of robotic engineering and virtuosic circus skills.

This stunning fusion of precision engineering and virtuosic circus skills, delivers extraordinary images through a seamless integration of human and robot choreography. Beginning with an apparently everyday encounter between an engineer and a robot, an experiment begins in which the robot and the engineer become equal protagonists in a spectacular pas de deux. Don’t miss this awesome reflection on humanity’s relationship with technology and AI. 



GDIF – Week 1

GREENWICH + DOCKLANDS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2025


CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF SURPRISE AND SPECTACLE

Presented By Cie Lézards Bleus & Citizens of the World Choir

Above And Beyond

22 August | 6.45pm | Beresford Square, Woolwich, SE18 6AR

Free and unticketed – Just show up 

Gaze up in awe as eight parkour performers embark on a breathtaking journey across landmark buildings in Woolwich. 

Following the success of Life Lines at GDIF 2024, the French company Lézards Bleus return with their virtuosic combination of movement and climbing skills, to interpret this year’s theme of “Above and Beyond”.

With new music composed by Roma Yagnik (“Resurgam” GDIF 2023) and a finale set from the Greenwich-based Citizens of the World Choir, this specially commissioned event opens GDIF’s 30th festival in celebration of mutual support and limitless possibility. 

 

Presented By Cie des Chaussons Rouges

Epiphytes

23 August – 24 August | 6.15pm | Lawn Lookout, Observatory Hill, Greenwich Park, SE10 8XJ

Duration: 45 Minutes

Free and unticketed – Just show up 

With breathtaking high-wire skills, four aerial performers create entrancing images of arboreal growth in the glorious setting of Greenwich Park, home to more than 3,000 trees.

This all-female circus company takes inspiration from the life of trees to put nature centre-stage. With breathtaking high-wire skills, four aerial performers create entrancing images of arboreal growth in the glorious setting of Greenwich Park, home to more than 3,000 trees. Framing the panoramic view of London spread out below, this evocative performance expresses the transformative, cyclical power of nature, revealing new ways of seeing our world.  

Greenwich Fair 2025

GDIF’s cherished festival within the festival is back! Family-friendly street theatre, circus, dance and games installations take over Greenwich Park, overlooking the best view of London from the top of Observatory Hill. All shows are FREE and unticketed. 

23 August – 24 August

Free & Unticketed – Just show up!



Circus Extravaganza

Roll up! Roll up!
You are invited to Ghyama Arts Circus Extravaganza!
Thanks to funding from the City Bridge Foundation, participants of the Bangladeshi Parents and Carers Association have been working with us at St Margaret’s House, guided by practitioners from the National Centre for Circus Arts, to create this summer’s Circus Extravaganza. Immerse yourself into our circus world, complete with all the characters you’d meet at the circus and loads of amazing performances.
We are excited for you to join us at our sharing on Wednesday 16th July. Please arrive at 1.45pm ready for the show to begin at 2pm in the Mulberry Hall at St Margaret’s House (21 Old Ford Road, E2 9PL).
The sharing will last approximately 30 minutes followed by light refreshments and an opportunity for conversation.
Please email ghyama@stmargaretshouse.org.uk for tickets


Plashet Park Circus Fun Day

A fun-filled day of circus themed performances and opportunities to get involved.
Open to all the community, this free family-friendly event is an opportunity to take part in circus arts workshops and experience a range of performances from across circus arts, including hula-hoop, aerials, juggling and even bamboo circus!
With face painting, a balloon artist, and Applecart Arts cooking up a storm on the BBQ, the Circus Fun Day promises to be a day of outdoor community joy.
Plashet Park Circus Fun Day was commissioned by Culture Within Newham as part of their Summer of Wellbeing, a commission to nourish and support the wellbeing of Newham residents.
When? Saturday 13th July 12:00 – 18:00
Where? Applecart Arts, 207 Plashet Grove, London E6 1BX
Free, just turn up



Roll Play

Three performers blur the boundaries between hip hop dance and circus cyr wheeling. This series of playful interactions will inspire and amaze audiences of all ages. Featuring feel-good choreography and storytelling by Simple Cypher.

2pm – 2.30pm and 3.15pm- 3.45pm

Free



   

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