Fluidly lyrical, effervescently acrobatic, or eccentrically innovative, let Turn 2025 transport you into a frenzy of dance…

Our annual whirlwind of new North West dance returns, taking over the building with eight short dance-works.

Artists

Dais Leach · Emmy Lahouel (Meraki Collective) · JP Hon · KUDERA + MPEARSONATER · Maelstrom Theatre · NéaSynergy · Rachel Yan Ting Li · UMAMI i! MOVEMENT
(Participating artists subject to change.)

About Turn

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.

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: UMAMI-i!-MOVEMENT by Joel Chester Fildes

Websites

TurnMcr.org · Enquiries: turn@habmcr.org