Hip hop’s origins in subversive countercultures underscore its potential to create a world that defies the limits of our existing reality. Speaking on the fantasy world-building on display at Breakin Convention 2025, Miranne Watley gives us her take on this years festival.

Van Cleef & Arpels’ ‘Dance Reflections’ returns to London at four iconic venues  – here’s a look back at the first week of festivities

Three short films by Folu Odimayo, Kieran Lai & Emma Farnell-Watson, and Mythili Prakash, launch on Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage platform taking on the task of reimagining classic works from Pina Bausch and Rabindranath Tagore for the screen. 

Taking your seat at an Ekleido show feels like walking into a rave – it’s dark, and the music is pumping. If you don’t club, welcome!

“I wanted to move my work into a space where I can really start exploring blackness that is not in relation nor in conversation with whiteness” - choreographer, artistic director Qudus Onikeku.

Yesterday, Sadler’s Wells announced the opening dates and programme for their new venue in Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Sadler’s Wells East. The venue is part of a new cultural and educational quarter known as the East Bank, neighbouring institutions and media establishments such as the BBC Music Studios, V&A East, UAL, London College of Fashion, and UCL, offering a major opportunity for cross-collaboration.

Step into the bowels of grief in BOUND, an immersive experience at OXO’s Bargehouse, by Amber Jarman-Crainey. In this all consuming physical theatre production, you are invited to wander alone, follow your curiosity and contemplate your personal relationship with love and loss.

“Wall” by Guest Artistic Director Oona Doherty, and the performers of National Youth Dance Company (NYDC), delivers a piece which serves as an important reflective exercise and gives national identity a good kick about.

Ballet Nights hosted their inaugural event at the Ministry of Sound, an iconic club venue renowned for its rich history in dance music.

Ballet Black explores the meaning of ambition and purpose in the HEROES double bill with two contrasting but complementary pieces, If At First and The Waiting Game.

Co-founded by Emma Farnell Watson & Joshua Smith, Reune emerged in summer 2021, as the dance scene was scattered and recovering from the harrowing effects of the pandemic.

Botis Seva’s latest Hip Hop theatre production, ‘Until We Sleep’, is a journey underlined with a resistance to change.

Manchester's groundbreaking new cultural venue, Aviva Studios, officially opened with a Hip Hop Theatre production reimagining "The Matrix." Directed by Danny Boyle, the show featured choreography and composition by Boy Blue's Kenrick Sandy and Mikey J Asante.

R.O.S.E by Sharon Eyal is an experience which introduces a symbiosis of the DJ, audience, and performer.