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London's stages and concert rooms: the West End houses and the playhouses that make their own shows, the grand halls, the churches with a musical life, the jazz basements, the comedy clubs, the clubs proper, the rooms above pubs where things start, and the booth on Leicester Square that sells off what the West End has not. What is on is listed under each venue, and in What's On.
What is on at them this week is in What's On: Performance
A dance studio with a roof that ripples, by Sarah Wigglesworth, and a public programme underneath it.
PlayhousesWorth it for the building
Sarah Wigglesworth built it in 2006 on top of an existing building and won a RIBA award for it the same year. The studio is on the roof, and the roof is the reason to walk past: a run of curved timber shells that the architect describes as gravity-defying forms seeming to swell and float, which sounds like architects' talk until you see it from St George's Road. The brief was to think about how dancers and architects both use a body to describe a space.
The organisation inside is artist-led and works on dance as a means to something rather than an end - research projects, collaborations with the neighbourhood, and a public programme that is open to anyone. That programme is the part worth knowing about: talks, workshops, sharings of work in progress, a ceilidh, salsa lessons on a Saturday. Much of it is free or close to it, and most of it is the kind of thing you can join rather than watch.
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