This event finished on: 15 May 2010
Something Happening is a two-day, multi-stage festival happening throughout The Place's building on Sat 15 and Sun 16 May, celebrating 40 years of The Place.
Session 2 (Sat 15 May 3.30 - 6.30pm)
*Programme may be subject to change
3.30 – 3.45pm Flaxman Terrace Landings
Junior Dance Company Together
(choreographers: Rob Mennear, Katie Scott & JDC) Duration: 4 mins
3.30 – 3.50pm Founders’ Studio
Cando2 After dusk
(choreographers: Natalie Ayton & Sarah Blanc) Duration: 5 mins
3.30 – 4.30pm Studio 5
Dance Spinner
(session led by Jonathan Goddard & Joe Walkling) Duration: 60 mins
3.30 – 6.30pm Studio 6
Jose Vidal Company open rehearsal of Loop (work in progress) with performance at 4pm
3.30 – 6.30pm Lecture Room
Film screenings: the story of The Place
3.35 – 4.15pm Studios 1 & 2
Probe Sea
(choreographer: Charles Linehan) Duration: 10 mins
Simonetta Alessandri Company Back
(choreographer: Simonetta Alessandri) Duration: 25 mins
3.45 – 4.30pm commences from the Box Office
Dog Kennel Hill Project People Working Project
(choreographers: Ben Ash, Henrietta Hale & Rachel Lopez de la Nieta)
Duration: 30 mins
4pm-4.20pm The Place Café
Solo music set from Jamie McCarthy
4–4.20pm Studio 6
Jose Vidal Company open rehearsal of Loop (a work in progress)
Duration: 20 mins
4.15–4.20pm Flaxman Terrace Landings
Junior Dance Company Together
(choreographers: Rob Mennear, Katie Scott & JDC) Duration: 4 mins
4.30-4.45pm Flaxman Terrace Landings
h2dance Choir Project: Attention!
(choreographers: Hanna Gillgren & Heidi Rustgaard) Duration: 15 mins
4.45 – 5.45pm Robin Howard Dance Theatre
bgroup passing strange and wonderful
(choreographer: Ben Wright) Duration: 18 mins
LC3 White Man Sleeps
(choreographer: Siobhan Davies, restaged by Sasha Roubicek)
Duration: 23 mins
Shift Planet Plastic
(choreographer: Maresa von Stockert) Duration: 7 mins
5.30 – 6.30pm Flaxman Terrace
Dance Spinner
(session led by Jonathan Goddard & Joe Walkling)
6-6.30pm Founders’ Studio
Deborah Light Between Reality Duration: 28 mins
6 – 6.40pm Studio 8 (Robert Cohan Studio)
Protein L.O.L. (lots of love) 1-3
(choreographer: Luca Silvestrini) Duration: 15 mins (5/8/5)
Centre for Advanced Training (CAT) My Place
(choreographer: Henri Oguike) Duration: 9 mins
London Contemporary Dance School The Silent Musicians
(choreographer: Miranda Letten) Duration: 10 mins
6.15 – 6.30pm The Place Café
Performance poet Zena Edwards
The Place opened its doors while the 1960s were still swinging, as a venue for the creative and the curious to make new discoveries in dance and other art forms. There were many different types of performance: some were called shows, others concerts or recitals, many simply “happenings”.
Something Happening celebrates the spirit of artistic exploration that was at the heart of The Place when it was founded, and which remains at its heart today. It brings together the artists for whom The Place is a home – established and emerging choreographers and dancers, students, young people – to make things happen throughout the building.
In the theatre, in studios and specially-configured spaces, in the windows and on the walls, in corridors and in cupboards, they’ll be opportunities to share in the vibrant, diverse, experimental and exciting dance that is created at The Place.
The weekend is divided into five sessions so you can book to see some specific performances, and simply happen upon others.
Click here to download the full schedule for Something Happening
Tickets for Something Happening cost £10 per session, £25 for any three sessions, £40 for all five sessions.
Multi-buy discounts are not available online - call 020 7121 1100 to book for three or more sessions.
The Place’s 40th anniversary celebrations are generously supported by the International Foundation for Arts and Culture
(Chairman: Haruhisa Handa)