From 24 June – 3 July Greenwich Dance is presenting a 10-day celebration, Greenwich Dances, as part of The Greenwich Festivals series, with 24 performances and 11 workshops in many unusual locations – from parks to palaces, riverfronts to town centres, museums to street corners
Small Dances
Moving Gallery, Can I dance for you? and Running Dance
Location: around Greenwich Town Centre and the Old Royal Naval College
Date & Time: Throughout the day on Friday 24, Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 June
Three performances that will rove through Greenwich Town Centre and the Old Royal Naval College: Ragnhild Olsen’s Moving Gallery devised with students from Lewisham College; Can I Dance For You? by David Waring and Melodie Gonzales – a set of guerrilla-style solos and duets, where dancers spring ‘out of the blue’ to perform for passers-by; and Running Dance, a duet that moves and challenges the flow of crowds created by Thomas Goodwin and Petra Söör.
Moving Gallery and Can I Dance For You? are also part of Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (24 June – 2 July)
Crossroads
by Luca Silvestrini’s Protein
Location: King Charles Courtyard at the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Date and Time: Saturday 25 June 6.45pm Sunday 26 June 1.50 & 3.35pm
Commissioned by Greenwich Dance and created by resident company Luca Silvestrini’s Protein in partnership with Trinity Laban and in collaboration with composer Andy Pink, Crossroads will delight and surprise with its large cast of local people from toddlers to octogenarians. Inspired by ideas and experiences of travelling, migration and cultural identity, this unique performance of dance and live music will inhabit the elegant King Charles Courtyard at the heart of Trinity Laban on the historic Old Royal Naval College site.
Crossroads is also part of Greenwich+Docklands International Festival
Tea Revives the World
by Alexandra Baybutt and Ben Gwalchmai
Location: Public garden by the Cutty Sark Pub, the shoreline by Crane Street and between these two sites.
Date & Time: Wednesday 29 June – 2 July, 7.00pm.
Tea Revives the World is a site-specific performance experiment, in four parts, inspired in part by the piers of Greenwich and The Cutty Sark, the tea-clipper that traded tea all over the globe. Set against the riverside and the shifting Thames shoreline, the performance involves movement, sculptural costume, and water. The actions of everyday rituals, tea-picking and voyages of the body and trade are woven together to explore the history of Greenwich.
Tea Revives the World is funded by Greenwich Dance’s Leg-up Bursary for emerging dance artists.
For more information about the other activities around the borough, visit the Greenwich Dance website.