Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (Final Weekend Cancelled)

Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (GDIF) is London’s leading festival of free outdoor theatre and performing arts and, in the words of The Guardian, makes an “unrivalled contribution to the happiness of the people of London”. GDIF is committed to breaking new ground in outdoor performance and raising the ambition, quality and diversity of outdoor work produced in the UK.

GDIF forms part of the Royal Greenwich Festivals, an annual series of high-quality events organised by the Royal Borough of Greenwich to celebrate cultural vibrancy, and is the flagship annual event produced by FESTIVAL.ORG.

Highlights announced for this year:

• Peter Hudson’s CHARON, a monumental 32ft high artwork featuring Zoetrope technology that originated at BURNING MAN FESTIVAL, will be presented exclusively in the UK at GDIF at a new festival site in the Royal Docks.
• House of Suarez, creators of the legendary touring annual VOGUE BALL, present HOUSE OF OAK AND IRON, a powerful response to colonial history through contemporary dance and voguing at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich.
• In a UK premiere, German artist Stephanie Lüning will unleash a tidal wave of multi-coloured foam at Greenwich Peninsula with ISLAND OF FOAM: VERSION XVIII in a sublime and entrancing transformation of public space.
• Innovative participatory theatre company Fevered Sleep premiere THE SKY IS FILLED WITH THUNDER, an immersive audio promenade experience in Thamesmead capturing the voices of children’s hopes, fears and dreams in all their emotional complexity.
• The Royal Ballet in collaboration with disabled dancer Joe Powell-Main present SLEEPWALKER an inclusive new commission at Dancing City, which takes place across the public spaces and waterfronts of Canary Wharf.
• Using stilts and choreography, Spanish company Cia Maduixa tell the story of female migrants fighting for a place to call home in MIGRARE, a poetic UK premiere taking place against the backdrop of the Thames at Canary Wharf.
• Afro street moves collide with tech and LED visuals in CROWD_CTRL, a dance and digital collaboration between choreographer AndroidX (AKA Malick Bright), scenographers MHz and London’s Dragonsquad busking crew.