Turn 2025
A night of new dance.
→ artists · programme · entry · access · about · credits Updated 4 April 2025
Presented by Word of Warning + Contact
NB this event is sold-out.
Our annual whirlwind of new North West dance returns to Contact, taking over the building with eight short dance-works on Friday 4 April from 7pm.
Look at some of our artists’ images and read their programme notes.
Fluidly lyrical, effervescently acrobatic, or eccentrically innovative, let Turn 2025 transport you into a frenzy of dance…
Artists
Dais Leach · Emmy Lahouel (Meraki Collective) · JP Hon · KUDERA + MPEARSONATER · Maelstrom Theatre · Néa Synergy · Rachel Yan Ting Li · UMAMI‑i!‑MOVEMENT Participating artists subject to change.
Entry
Pay What You Decide: £15/£10/£5/£0 (advance booking recommended).
Tickets: were available online via Contact; now sold-out.
Time: Friday 4 April 2025, 7pm (with interval/pauses, ends about 10pm).
Location: Contact, Oxford Rd, Manchester M15 6JA.
Access
Age Advisory: 16+ (aimed at adults, parent/guardian/carer discretion).
Content Warnings: use of haze in many works; some works may involve interaction and/or participation; specific warnings listed here.
Features: eight contemporary dance performance works with varied content; works will occur in three 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 eight short dance-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, facilitated by Katye Coe.
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 in 2024…
Get a feel for Turn with 2024’s programme and gallery of images; 2023’s programme and gallery; 2017’s programme and 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. With thanks to Katye Coe.
Image: UMAMI-i!-MOVEMENT by Joel Chester Fildes
Website
TurnMcr.org · Enquiries: turn@habmcr.org
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