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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 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
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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 Hemantika and Beyond
Young girls in vibrant blue tunics and bells around their ankles perform a traditional Indian dance on stage.
Gigs

Hemantika and Beyond

Seventy-five Kathak dancers dazzle in an extraordinary evening of classical Indian music and dance
Queen Elizabeth Hall
More info for Red Sky at Sunrise: Laurie Lee in Words and Music
Image of actor wearing white reading from a lectern.
Literature & poetry

Red Sky at Sunrise: Laurie Lee in Words and Music

Spell-binding music plus the words of the inimitable Laurie Lee equals one extraordinary story
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 Forced Entertainment: Cold Sweat
An actor with long dark hair sits in a red inflatable chair on a stage scattered with oversized playing cards, tinsel, and white cups.
Performance & dance

Forced Entertainment: Cold Sweat

Figures move to strange rhythms and try to articulate their desires in an absurd yet subversive work
Purcell Room
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
More info for IT’S GOT LEGS!!!!!!!
Two bearded performers in red sequined outfits and makeup pose expressively against a solid black background.
Performance & dance

IT’S GOT LEGS!!!!!!!

Embrace the chaotic beauty of identity in a visceral, vampy cabaret by Samir Kennedy and Sean Murray
Purcell Room
More info for NOW NOT NOW
Two performers wearing blue suits and floor length green ties, cutting a very long cucumber with slices floating in the air.
Performance & dance

NOW NOT NOW

A mind-bending performance about how time flows, with two performers and their uncanny video doubles
Queen Elizabeth Hall
More info for Thick & Tight: Camp as Christmas
A collage of one performer in white makeup, green hair, and a floral dress and another performer in all black with one leg in the air
Performance & dance

Thick & Tight: Camp as Christmas

A sizzling revue-style cabaret for the bleak midwinter that’s all camp and a little bit Christmassy
Purcell Room
More info for There's a Bear on My Chair
Illustration of a white polar bear sitting on a small yellow chair waving it's paw. A tiny grey mouse points at the bear.
Family & young people

There's a Bear on My Chair

Pull up a seat for an enchanting adaptation of Ross Collins’ beloved books about a mischievous pair
Queen Elizabeth Hall

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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.