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Lost Dog’s Paradise Lost, a one-man show that recreates Milton’s epic poem with skill, originality and not a little iconoclasm, returned for a brief run at The Place

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London's premier contemporary dance venue, The Place, hosts an online Care Weekend, with live, recorded and interactive dance programmes exploring care in our times

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The Place's annual Festival of Korean Dance migrates online for its 2020 edition, but loses nothing of its richness and vibrancy

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In a Nutshell, presented by Ben Duke's Lost Dog, imagines a world where theatres will never open again, and can be streamed from The Place Online

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Luca Silvestrini’s Protein dance company has announced a new digital season running throughout summer and autumn under the heading Protein21, to mark the company’s 21st anniversary

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The Place's Digital Programme continues with Fagin’s Twist, Avant Garde Dance Company's subversive take on Dickens' Oliver Twist

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The Place, one of the cradles of contemporary dance in Britain, goes online with a six-week programme of eclectic international dance

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2Faced Dance marks its 20th anniversary with EVERYTHING [but the girl], an exciting and energetic, if uneven, triple bill at The Place

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Scotland’s main contemporary dance company, Scottish Dance Theatre, comes to The Place with a new work, Antigone, Interrupted

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Luca Silvestrini’s The Little Prince is possibly the most charming family offering for Christmas Dance 2019 and can be seen at The Place over the festive season

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Choreographer Richard Alston brought his Dance Company home to The Place, for the last time with Final Edition, a wistful look back at his plentiful body of work

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The search for a new, more intimate connection between dance and music was at the root of Step Sonic, choreographer Tom Dale’s new programme at The Place

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While You Are Here, showing at The Place, is an ambitious, multifaceted dance play on the nature of time that fails to cohere into an engaging whole

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Wasteland, Gary Clarke Company’s gritty dance-theatre treatment of a crucial time in modern British history, has reached The Place as part of a nationwide tour

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Scotland’s premier contemporary dance company, Scottish Dance Theatre, brings a touch of club culture to The Place with a cutting edge double bill

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Ava Dance Company No Woman’s Land is an exploration of cross-cultural experiences that introduces the audience to an improbable star, but has serious structural flaws

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Seeta Patel’s The Rite of Spring, an original and accomplished reimagining of Stravinsky’s masterpiece, has a short run at The Place

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As three radically different versions of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring descend on London, we talk to Creative Producer Farooq Chaudhry, who’s been directly or indirectly involved with all three

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Discover Korea’s leading contemporary dance companies when A Festival of Korean Dance returns to The Place for a second year

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The biggest annual showcase of new choreography in the UK, Resolution 2019 is upon us with four weeks of good, not so good and decidedly bizarre work at The Place

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James Wilton Dance’s The Storm at the Place delivers in the quality of its muscular dance, but is lacking in narrative development

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The Knot, choreographer Didy Veldman's inventive meditation on marriage performed by her company Umanoove at The Place, hits all the right spots

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A classic fairy tale will be given a family-friendly dance makeover this festive season when Uchenna Dance and The Place present Hansel & Gretel

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A daring synthesis of the real and the virtual, choreographer Tom Dale’s dance installation I INFINITE dazzles at The Place

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An intimate and atmospheric piece of dance theatre, Point of Echoes sits well within a rejigged auditorium at The Place

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Experimental physical theatre company Clod Ensemble questions what is fake and what is real in the ambitious new contemporary dance offering Placebo

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Families can enjoy a playful offering from multidisciplinary performance company Dadodans when it presents KoKERS at The Place as part of Dance Umbrella 2018

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The Place offers another welcome opportunity to see The Troth – the moving tale of an Indian soldier who fought alongside Britain in World War I

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Lots of dance, fun and games for children and their grown-ups, as Family Day returns to The Place this summer

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The Place offers a welcome second chance to see the best from this year's crop of young participants in its Resolution festival

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An environmental-minded deconstruction of Swan Lake combines with a cross-cultural encounter in the second of three programmes showcasing Korean dance at The Place

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Dance carves a niche for itself in LIFT 2018 with four very diverse shows in a range of London venues