Leap 2025
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LEAP 2025's
BIG BURLESQUE CABARET OPENING
SAT 26 APRIL, 7PM
ARTS BAR HOPE ST
Enter a world of raucous entertainment as we launch this year's festival with an evening of burlesque, cabaret and jazz dance, featuring Velvet Fox, Joss La Porta, plus more acts to be announced.
This is an inclusive, LGBTQIA+ event, and everyone is welcome (18+).
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Photo: Brian Roberts
DANCING AT THE
PALM HOUSE
SUN 27 APRIL, 12PM
SEFTON PARK
PALM HOUSE
Join us at Liverpool’s iconic Palm House to see performances by community groups from across Liverpool City Region.
There’ll also be free dance workshops to take part in throughout the day.
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​This event is free to attend, no ticket required.
Photo: Jess Meade
SCHOOLS DANCE PLATFORM:
ON BROADWAY
TUE 29 APRIL, 7PM
CAPSTONE THEATRE
Our Schools Dance Platform returns for 2025, celebrating the enormous talent in the region, on International Dance Day.
This year, young people from schools and colleges share work inspired by musicals.
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DIGITAL MOVES:
Pei Yee Tong
DIGITAL MOVES:
Kudera + Mpearsonater
SAT 3 MAY, 5.30PM
UNITY THEATRE
A collaboration fusing live dance (contemporary and traditional Chinese styles), with spoken word and film by Noel Jones. The piece is inspired by the increase of hate towards Asian communities during the pandemic.
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​You can purchase an individual ticket for this performance, or purchase a one-day festival pass for all three shows that evening.
SAT 3 MAY, 6.30PM
UNITY THEATRE
What have we become? Is a collaborative project with garment designer Alena Kudera, who has created wearable sculptures from landfill-bound fast fashion and single use plastic. The costumes inspired the movements of a solo dancer who will perform to an original score.
You can purchase an individual ticket for this performance​, or purchase a one-day festival pass for all three shows that evening.
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DIGITAL MOVES:
Mudanza Collective and Amy Milson
SAT 3 MAY, 8PM
UNITY THEATRE
Mudanza Collective
The Loss of innocence is a performance by four dancers, exploring the hardship and heartache on the journey into adult/womanhood, and the potential of finding solace in community.
Amy Milson
Unseen is a concept video exploring Amy’s experiences with Visual Impairment and Periventricular Leukomalacia, featuring three movement artists, and combines dance, music and spoken word.
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You can purchase an individual ticket for this performance​, or purchase a one-day festival pass for all three shows that evening.
Photo: Jess Meade
YOUTH DANCE SHOWCASE
DANCING IN THE STREETS
Photo: Mina Bihi
NEW DANCE WORKS
SUN 4 MAY, 6PM
CAPSTONE THEATRE
Dance schools and youth dance groups from across Liverpool City Region share their work on a professional stage, in an evening celebrating local youth talent.
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Young people performing at the evening's ticketed event will take part in dance workshops throughout the day, led by our amazing dance artists.
MON 5 MAY, 12PM
LIVERPOOL CITY
CENTRE
Enjoy outdoor performances from the region's leading dance artists. Expect to see larger than life characters across the city centre.​
Sponsored by Liverpool BID Company and Liverpool ONE.
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​​This event is free to attend, no ticket required.
FRI 9 MAY, 7.30PM
UNITY THEATRE
See new work created by Liverpool-based artists from the African Diaspora:
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Ithalia Johnson presents The Untold Stories of a Carnival Queen.
Afro Dance Academy and Ruvimbo Bliss Munodawafa also present new work commissioned by Culture Liverpool for Leap 2025.
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