Dance at LIFT 2018 Festival

These Rooms revisits a key episode of Irish history, the 1916 Easter Uprising. A collaboration between the Irish performance companies ANU and Coisceim Dance Theatre, it’s an immersive, site-specific blend of dance, theatre and visual arts, which will take over the entire basement of Shoreditch Town Hall. It had rave reviews when it premiered in Dublin two years ago, with the Telegraph describing it as ‘subtle’ but ‘hugely stirring.’

4 – 22 June, Shoreditch Town Hall
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Session is an outdoor music gig combining hip hop, freestyle and commercial dance. Live music comes care of Still House’s Dan Canham, Tottenham’s Steppaz, Performing Arts Academy and North London’s Afrobeats powerhouse, Empire Sounds.

22 – 30 June, Bernie Grant Arts Centre Courtyard
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In Search of Dinozord combines the vibrancy of African music with an exploration of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s harrowing history of war, trauma and economic uncertainty. It’s the work of the Congolese dance artist Faustin Linyekula, and as well as live vocals from South Africa's Hlengiwe Lushaba, it brings in fragments of Mozart’s Requiem and guitar riffs from Jimi Hendrix.

15 – 16 June, The Place
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Mercenary is football-inflected dance… the work of former semi-professional footballer Ahilan Ratnamoham, it explores the contrast between the Western perception of the working conditions of migrant workers building the stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and the workers’ own view.

21 – 23 June Battersea Arts Centre
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