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Blue Room, Spirit Level
Love Letters Straight From Your Heart
Thursday 2 February 2012 - Tuesday 14 February 2012
Let's raise our glasses to long lost loves and current lovers, to mums, to dads and to absent friends.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Richard Alston Dance Company and National Dance Company Wales
Saturday 4 February 2012
Richard Alston Dance Company perform Alston's latest new work Unfinished Business to a rarely heard Mozart sonata in a shared programme with National Dance Company Wales’ performance of Stephen Petronio’s By Singing Light.
Blue Room, Spirit Level
The Incredible Book Eating Boy
Saturday 11 February 2012 - Sunday 19 February 2012
This exciting adaptation by Bootworks Theatre of Oliver Jeffers' award-winning children's book follows the story of a boy with a voracious appetite for books.
The Clore Ballroom
Sunday 12 February 2012
Explore traditional Indian mythology with your voice, feet and imagination.
Purcell Room
The Trial of Dennis the Menace
Friday 17 February 2012 - Wednesday 22 February 2012
An hour of music, words and action for Beano-lovers big and small
Royal Festival Hall
Saturday 25 February 2012 - Saturday 25 February 2012
Following a sold out UK tour in 2011, Anton du Beke and Erin Boag return with their sensational new show.
The Clore Ballroom
Sunday 26 February 2012
Take to the floor and put on your party outfits, as you let mums and dads, grandparents, aunties and uncles show you how to dance a foxtrot, waltz or tango!
The Clore Ballroom
Friday 2 March 2012
Witness the live final of Southbank Centre's Dance Your City Competition, a dance competition where dancers have submitted dance videos inspired by and filmed by an iconic landmark.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Friday 2 March 2012 - Saturday 3 March 2012
Elektro Kif takes the urban streetdance-style electro - a mix of break dancing, disco, vogue, popping and locking - and mixes it up with theatre, contemporary dance and music.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Blanca Li Workshop - An introduction to Electro
Saturday 3 March 2012
This workshop supports the UK dance curriculum by providing students with the opportunity to explore the craft and process of choreography, learn repertoire and make their own work.
The Clore Ballroom
English National Ballet Rehearsal and Workshop
Monday 5 March 2012
Drop in to watch rising ballet stars in rehearsals and classes, get a sneak preview of the English National Ballet's forthcoming season and join in with a workshop.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
English National Ballet's Emerging Dancer Competition
Monday 5 March 2012
Experience the excitement of talented young dancers in live competition.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Monday 2 April 2012 - Thursday 5 April 2012
Following a sell-out autumn 2011 tour, the man behind Are You Dave Gorman? and Googlewhack Adventure performs for four nights only.
The Clore Ballroom
Friday 6 April 2012
Join us for our popular ballroom dancing event, hosted by the charming Nicky Miles with demonstrations, lessons and live music from the Ross Mitchell Combo.
Purcell Room
Friday 6 April 2012 - Monday 9 April 2012
The award-winning Catherine Wheels presents Martha, a wonderful, humorous story about friendship, trust and a goose.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Umbilical Brothers: Don't Explain
Friday 6 April 2012 - Saturday 7 April 2012
These Perrier nominees bring you a classic two-man show of stand-up double-act interplay, rubber-limbed physical foolishness and Tarantino-cartoon violence, accompanied by gob-smackingly realistic, vocal sound-effects of everything from underwater horse racing to a martial arts battle with a fly.
E4 Udderbelly
Saturday 7 April 2012 - Saturday 7 July 2012
The Comedy Store presents the Best of the Comedy Store, bringing you the brightest comedy talent from the UK and international circuit.
E4 Udderbelly
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
Sunday 8 April 2012 - Sunday 1 July 2012
The Showstoppers return to E4 Udderbelly Festival for a third year.
E4 Udderbelly
Monday 9 April 2012 - Sunday 27 May 2012
An hour of incredible musical entertainment, Vocal Orchestra is a celebration of everyone's favourite tunes using seven mouths, seven mics and no instruments!<br/><br/>Combining human beatboxing, vocal harmonies and floor-wobbling basslines, Vocal Orchestra is an original show, written and created by internationally acclaimed beatboxer Shlomo, and performed by a company of the world's most exciting beatboxing superstars.
E4 Udderbelly
Monday 9 April 2012 - Wednesday 11 April 2012
Rufus Hound: actor, television presenter, Cheryl Cole impersonator, owner of a fine moustache and also a first rate stand-up comedian comes to E4 Udderbelly for three nights only! Rufus Hound is on 'Celebrity Juice' every week, sitting next to Fearne Cotton.