The Place announces Choreodrome 2021 artists

14 Apr 2021

With increased support, The Places continues its annual programme for dance artists to explore and develop new performance ideas.

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The Place to receive £202,535 from second round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund

1 Apr 2021

The Place among more than 2,700 recipients to benefit from the latest round of awards from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund  

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The Place presents Requardt & Rosenberg’s Future Cargo

30 Mar 2021

The Place is excited to announce a new tour of Requardt & Rosenberg’s Future Cargo which will be appearing at festivals across the UK this summer.

A truck arrives from an unknown location loaded with a mystery shipment. As the sides roll up a strange and unstoppable process is set into motion.

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Stomping Ground £20,000 Commission Callout 2021

26 Mar 2021

Stomping Ground, a commissioning group comprised of The Place, FESTIVAL.ORG, DanceXchange (Birmingham) and Tramway (Glasgow), is seeking proposals for bold, original and ambitious dance works made for outdoor spaces. This opportunity calls for artists interested in making compelling work that can grab the attention and imaginations of audiences through presentations suitable for urban, rural, festival or high street spaces.

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The Place announces new cohort of Work Place Artists

9 Mar 2021

The Place has invited a new cohort of dance makers to its Work Place associate artist programme, a unique programme of tailored support for professional choreographers, which creates a home for a community of artists, helping to sustain them and provide conditions for their work to grow and flourish.

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London Contemporary Dance School announces significant changes adapting its educational programmes to reflect a changing dance sector

22 Feb 2021

London Contemporary Dance School develops the next generation of contemporary dance artists. The vision is for LCDS graduates to be confident versatile independent artists, who are driving innovation in dance, embracing the breadth of what being an artist means in the world of contemporary dance today and what the artform may contribute to society and the wider world.  

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How Do We Tune In To Sensation? - A festival of online works exploring sensation in a digital world

5 Feb 2021

For its second spring weekend of digital works, The Place has partnered with Chisenhale Dance Space to curate a festival under the theme, How Do We Tune In To Sensation?

In this period of global and societal change, we are spending more time than ever apart and online. As we increasingly experience the world digitally, how do we stay connected to our senses in real life? What have we lost and what have we found in this shift of being? How does this differ from person to person?

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The Place wins 'Saviour of Culture' award for Camden

3 Feb 2021

We are very excited to have won a Covid Champion Award in the category 'Saviour of Culture'. Awarded by the local news platform Camdenist, launched last year in the middle of a pandemic, the awards celebrate individuals, businesses and institutions that went above and beyond for their community during lockdown. The fact that we have been nominated by local Camden people makes this award extra special.

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A Life lived in Dance - Goodbye to Sir Robert Cohan

13 Jan 2021

Robert Cohan, Founding Artistic Director of The Place, was a prolific choreographer, an utterly brilliant teacher and also a shrewd strategist. Single-handedly he changed the face of contemporary dance in this country. Well, perhaps not quite single-handedly, for it was Robin Howard, Founder of the Contemporary Dance Trust, who had the vision to invite Cohan to lead his as yet only dreamt-of new organisation comprising a Company, a School and a building which was to become known as The Place - Cohan bravely took up this invitation and contemporary dance in Britain was born.

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New Year's Honours for dance and arts

11 Jan 2021

Next to keyworkers and healthcare staff, dance and the arts featured prominently in this year’s New Year's Honours list, recognising perhaps how valuable the arts really are especially in challenging times.

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