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Performance & Dance

Spring/Summer 2026

Spotlighting cutting-edge new work from around the world

See international and UK-based artists at the height of groundbreaking theatre, dance and circus in our performance and dance programme

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More info for The Ruggeds Takeover
Top-down view of a breakdancer performing a one-handed freeze on a circular mat, surrounded by a large crowd of spectators.
Performance & dance

The Ruggeds Takeover

The leading breaking crew team up with musicians and dancers for a full day of good times
Riverside Terrace
Tickets Free
More info for GROOVE
Group of performers posing with instruments, records and houseplants on a white backdrop
Performance & dance

GROOVE

In a lively dance concert, The Ruggeds and Ghetto Funk Collective take us 50 years back in time
Queen Elizabeth Hall
More info for COLOSSUS
Large group of dancers lying down in a circle around one stood dancer lifting one arm and look at their hand
Performance & dance

COLOSSUS

Fifty dancers move as one in the UK debut of leading Australian choreographer Stephanie Lake
Queen Elizabeth Hall
More info for Hofesh Shechter: IN THE BRAIN
Dancers in silhouette perform on a dark stage beneath a row of intense vertical blue spotlights.
Performance & dance

Hofesh Shechter: IN THE BRAIN

Surrender to the rhythm and music of acclaimed dance company Shechter II’s latest work
Queen Elizabeth Hall
More info for Who Are We?
Performer wearing all black performing a flip through the air on a floury stage
Performance & dance

Who Are We?

Witness modern circus in a show combining humour and playful self-reflection with dance and theatre
Queen Elizabeth Hall

While you're with us

Jeppe Hein: Appearing Rooms
People enjoying the Jeppe Hein Fountain at the Southbank Centre

Jeppe Hein: Appearing Rooms

A summer favourite returns to our site with water fountains to splash around and cool down in

Shopping
Wooden displays in the Southbank centre shop, featuring books, plushies, and colourful merchandise

Shopping

A vibrant range of inspiring books, homeware, prints, accessories and more.

Klaus Weber: Thinking Fountains
Two statues; a green human body with water spouting from its neck and another of human legs with water pouring down from above displayed outdoors

Thinking
Fountains

Water cascades and spouts over Klaus Weber’s bronze figures.

Modified Social Benches
Two children eating ice cream on a red cirrcular bench

Modified Social Benches

Benches that challenge the space and distance we place between one another.

William Pye's Zemran
A photograph showing Riverside Terrace at Southbank Centre, with the metal sculpture Zemran in the foreground, next to Queen Elizabeth Hall

William Pye's Zemran

Pye’s beautiful stainless steel sculpture sits overlooking the Thames.

Natura Nostra Forest
Bright sunlight bursts through green leaves with a lens flare, set against a blue sky and a textured concrete building.

Natura Nostra Forest

Our growing pocket forest creating a natural oasis.