{"title": "KOKONA", "start": "2026-11-11T19:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "General Admission £16; Concession | Senior over 60 £14; Access for All | Unemployed | Student £14", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://buytickets.at/theplaygroundtheatre/2278802", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/dance-theatre"], "description": "KOKONA is a dance theatre duet exploring ideas around body, identity and self-expression. It is presented by AllouAqui Dance Theatre, choreographed and performed by Delicia Sefiha and Xavi De Santos, with creative producer Sam De La Torre and some original music by Jordan Dilger. The piece follows KOK and KONA, two figures who explore their own and each other's bodies and playfully experiment with the feminine and masculine, creating space for transformations. It builds a world where bodies are detached from their materiality, imagining how we would experience different norms and constraints if we had not yet embodied them.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/kokona-65865/", "official_url": "https://www.theplaygroundtheatre.org.uk/projects/kokona", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5c3e68c836462188eb6ed12a51e4def5ea7f8121857251b1bd8572205e3a3d9e-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-11T19:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "LIBERATING: She Dances (in Chains)", "start": "2026-11-11T21:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T22:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/liberating-she-dances-in-chains/", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "LIBERATING: She Dances (in Chains) is a visceral physical theatre work about discipline, masking and the paradox of agency within constraint. Created, produced and performed by Xiaoyao Luo, it uses chains, masks, movement and multilingual text to move through the roles a woman is taught to inhabit, from daughter and student to lover and mother. It sketches a world of internalised surveillance where social scripts become muscle memory, asking what freedom might be when conduct is measured from within. 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Baisali Mohanty presents Ekam, a celebration of diversity and artistic dialogue that brings together traditional Odissi choreographies and contemporary interpretations, exploring the relationship between classical heritage and modern expression. The programme also includes She Exists, a contemporary work set to folk melodies that celebrates a woman's journey of self-discovery and identity. Through movement and storytelling, the performances highlight dance as a medium of personal expression and connection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/odissi-ekam-the-many-within-the-one-74977/", "official_url": "https://www.nehrucentre.org.uk/events/dance-odissi-ekam-the-many-within-the-one/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/09d5eed1766b909ef6d1f3b16dd87b58adfea3f2598beddbab2c385eebe61c4f-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Conch", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00Z", "place": "South London Gallery", "address": "Peckham Road 65-67, SE5 8UH London", "price": "£10/£5 members & concessions", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "The Conch is an event where artists share new work that is still in development, with the audience invited to respond after each presentation by sharing thoughts, questions and reflections. This edition brings together artists who explore domestic architectures not simply as backdrops, but as sites of labour and performance that can take on a life of their own. Georgina Hill performs a work on the overlooked history of cottage industries in Britain, Alia Hamaoui reworks behind-the-scenes footage from the whodunit crime film 8 Femmes, and Beatrice Vorster presents BOO!, a performance made with Yasmin Vardi that deconstructs the ghost-movie genre. The event takes place at South London Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-conch-38708/", "official_url": "https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/the-conch-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3cf5e3fce0bb7a0ab456dc088eb17a976b430c7f2da4442b2f458c2d9e29f574-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sensitive is Not Crazy or The World through the Eyes of a Highly Sensitive Child", "start": "2026-11-05T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T18:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/sensitive-is-not-crazy-or-the-world-through-the-eyes-of-a-highly-sensitive-child/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/monodrama"], "description": "A bodily solo theatre piece at the edge of reality and absurdity about the gap between outer world and inner experience in a highly sensitive child. Writer, director and performer Nadia Larina uses light, sound, body and voice to show 6-year-old Kiddi through the body of a 45-year-old woman: Act I is Kiddi's subjective, distorted inner reality, Act II retells the same events objectively as a neutral narrator. The play asks what happens when an insufficiently attuned environment meets a highly sensitive nervous system.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sensitive-is-not-crazy-or-the-world-through-the-eyes-of-a-hi-60520/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/sensitive-is-not-crazy-or-the-world-through-the-eyes-of-a-highly-sensitive-child/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2b5662abfe2ab52a7e06eafdf8d112f95f4765ca9a00caf7675208cc934e8b72-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Huella", "start": "2026-11-08T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "£16.45 (Incl booking fees)", "price_from": "16.45", "price_to": "16.45", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thecockpit.org.uk/sales/Shows/voila-festival-2026/huella", "category": "dance", "tags": ["music/world/flamenco", "stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "Huella is a danced installation-performance about an ambiguous waterfall carrying the memory of water at the edge of ecological collapse. It is created and performed by Isadora, a French-Tunisian artist and Vogue performer based in London, with soundscapes by Santiago Jara and live flamenco guitar by Michael McMahon. Through eco-poetic symbolism, flamenco soundscapes and a movement language drawing on contemporary improvisation, Vogue and flamenco, it explores solastalgia, the grief of a familiar environment transforming while we still live in it. Fragments from Lorca's Suites and Libro de poemas appear as poetic undercurrents.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/huella-39127/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/huella", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c95363c85d0c2e574193bd3d547db9ebcd162f38b7bebe546b822fb86f9a54be-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Chop-chop! (VOILA! 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Expect audience interaction, sudden dance breaks and a celebration of every messy part of ourselves.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/chop-chop-voila-festival-60516/", "official_url": "https://www.etceteratheatrecamden.com/events/chop-chop", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5fc97a231b5ed00d3440070aa687c415bba3d6ea9a9052b51aad377b255e3d06-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Binary lives - Where fate takes us", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T20:00:00Z", "place": "The Cockpit Theatre", "address": "Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH London", "price": "Full price: £16.45 (Incl. booking fees)", "price_from": "16.45", "price_to": "16.45", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thecockpit.org.uk/sales/shows/voila-festival-2026/binary-lives---where-fate-take", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "A wordless duet in which two strangers, stuck waiting on a station bench for a train that never arrives, fill the empty hours with increasingly absurd games. It is produced and presented by Dis Equilibre and blends visual, poetic performance with physical theatre and contemporary circus, turning boredom into play and shared silence into an unexpected encounter. The show won the 'Best Direction' award at the Rome Fringe Festival, was selected for the Thessaloniki Fringe, and has been touring Italy for two years.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/binary-lives-where-fate-takes-us-39098/", "official_url": "https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/binary_lives_-_where_fate_takes_us", "image": "https://noky.io/images/91cc466c7e1d64deacbde3d4b07158d717e837640e5824c0c8df6c7d2164eafa-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Motionhouse - Hidden", "start": "2026-10-30T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Sadler's Wells East", "address": "Carpenters Road 101, E20 2AR London", "price": "From: £15.00", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "28.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.sadlerswells.com/your-visit/group-bookings-at-sadlers-wells/", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "Motionhouse - Hidden is a dance-circus performance blending spectacular dance and jaw-dropping circus. It is the latest multimedia production by the internationally renowned dance-circus company Motionhouse, exploring how, in an increasingly divided world, light can come out of darkness in times of crisis. Gravity-defying choreography, an emotive soundscape, a shape-shifting set and groundbreaking projections create an immersive world on stage. Fearless performers throw, catch and lift each other with immense precision, building on the company's distinctive and visceral dance-circus language.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/motionhouse-hidden-65030/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3aa2b7e562d87b9503b7b459307ff54877322d1a850816d21c7549dede6624ba-2000.webp"}]}