Turn 2025
A night of new North West dance.
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Updated 9 January 2025
Presented by Word of Warning + Contact
Our annual whirlwind of new North West dance returns to Contact, taking over the building with up to ten short works on Friday 4 April from 7pm.
Get a feel for Turn with 2024’s programme and gallery of images, 2023’s programme & gallery, 2017’s programme & gallery.
Fluidly lyrical, effervescently acrobatic, or eccentrically innovative, let Turn 2025 transport you into a frenzy of dance…
Artists
Participating artists to be announced during February — the call for proposals is open at turnmcr.posthaven.com until Friday 31 January, 5pm.
Entry
Pay What You Decide: £15/£10/£5/£0 (advance booking recommended).
Tickets: now available online via Contact.
Time: Friday 4 April 2025, 7pm (with intervals/pauses, ends about 10pm).
Location: Contact, Oxford Rd, Manchester M15 6JA.
Access
Age Advisory: 16+ (aimed at adults, parent/guardian/carer discretion).
Content Warnings: some works may involve interaction and/or participation; specific warnings will be listed here during February.
Features: up to ten contemporary dance performance works with varied content; works will occur in multiple spaces and will vary in format.
Queries: please contact Contact via boxoffice@contactmcr.com
About
Our annual platform for North West dancers and dance-makers, Turn is an opportunity to engage with new dance in Greater Manchester every spring. This twelfth edition will present up to ten short works over a single night throughout Contact’s building and its multiple spaces.
NB Friday’s public platform is followed by an artist day for participants only.
Greater Manchester’s open call dance platform, Turn aims to be:
— a public micro-festival and open submission platform;
— an opportunity for artists to meet, show, and peer-review work;
— an artist networking event;
— and is open to North West England dancers and dance-makers, aged 18+
First held at greenroom in spring 2009, Turn moved to Contact in 2012 (with a 2018-22 hiatus) and also popped-up at Company Chameleon Studios in 2024…
Get a feel for Turn with 2024’s programme and gallery of images, 2023’s programme & gallery, 2017’s programme & gallery.
Credits
Turn 2025 produced by hÅb; supported by Company Chameleon, Contact, Dance Consortia North West, Project Auske, and using public funding by Arts Council England.
Image: Lizzy Owen in Turn 2023 at Contact by Tamsin Drury
Websites
TurnMcr.org · Enquiries: turn@habmcr.org
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