{"title": "Lento e Violento", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T00:00:00Z", "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £15)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/a-mouthful-of-tongues/book/469096", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/circus"], "description": "Lento e Violento is a performance blending circus, dance, music and magical illusion, whose Italian title means 'Slow and Violent'. It is created and performed by Valentina Cortese, a trained dancer and circus artist. The show is a meditative psychodrama, a multi-layered riddle playing with repetition, disruption and manipulation, in which form matters as much as content. It gently provokes curiosity, seducing audiences into Cortese's enchanting, fantastical universe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lento-e-violento-73830/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3b974f58e1b72ea9ca9ba7dfc1c1c4f62950d97f3fbe7f37e84ef1e9c8e9d329-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T00:00:00Z", "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Voice of Butterflies", "start": "2026-11-04T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T18:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/the-voice-of-butterflies/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "society/violence-against-women"], "description": "The Voice of Butterflies is an artivistic performance originally created to commemorate the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls, running as part of the VOILA! Festival at the Etcetera Theatre on Camden High Street. Created by the company Hilanderas, directed by Stephanie Prieto and performed by Stephanie Prieto and Esmeralda Sears, it draws an analogy between butterflies' lack of a physical voice and how trauma silences parts of the human body. The narrative follows a woman and her therapist on a regressive journey into childhood to uncover a secret held within the flesh, triggering a metamorphosis in which other women listen to the protagonist within the sound of her silence. After the 45-minute performance, offered in Latin American Spanish with English surtitles for ages 14 and over, Hilanderas hosts a Q&A and a Roy Hart-based workshop.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-voice-of-butterflies-60519/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/the-voice-of-butterflies/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e53b6b5efb173a3ed6ab8b18e3bd1a35a7ec13e53e468e751ee3a3fd1318a0a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Black Magic and Iterations (Double Bill)", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Price £15)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/black-magic-iterations-double-bill/book/469097", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "A double bill of contemporary magic, 'Black Magic' and 'Iterations', asking how much you trust your own eyes through sleight of hand, illusion and trickery. 'Black Magic' is conceived by Luis Sartori do Vale and Kalle Nio, who merge black theatre techniques and double exposure with modern technology to create illusions in real time. 'Iterations' is written, choreographed and performed by Tom Cassani, exposing the practising magician and showing how impossibilities emerge through simple repetition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/black-magic-and-iterations-double-bill-73829/", "official_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/black-magic-iterations/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ae582b262c28872ac58d2a3d4be5d0015714dac1c2ea95dab23ae6b02d387eb7-1200.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": "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": "The Seat of Me (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T15:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/the-seat-of-me/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/migration", "stage/solo-show"], "description": "The Seat of Me is an intimate autobiographical solo performance staged at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden as part of the VOILA! Festival. It is written and performed by Giulia A.Cryan and produced by Iter Pictures. Through storytelling, music and minimalist staging, it follows one woman's journey across Rome, New York, Los Angeles and London, exploring identity, migration and the search for belonging, with fragments of Edith Piaf's music woven through. Recommended for ages 14 and up, it lasts 50 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-seat-of-me-voila-festival-60525/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/86aa3f85a863dfe9c2b5ec0840a61e69c0e2f4cdd9e5826757fb5bbffbd76910-1200.webp"}, {"title": "House of Shame (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T20:00:00Z", "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/house-of-shame/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "House of Shame is an electric show about the dirty things women are told to keep to themselves, framed by the experience of growing up as a girl in Brazil. Created by Renata Garcia and Mariana Pereira, with Renata Garcia performing, it is a collective experiment in raw vulnerability and a liberating journey through a messy, irreverent, tropical ritual of soap and sweat. Expect cringy memories, ass-shaking and slutty nuns, with references to alcohol, sex and sexual abuse; recommended for ages 16+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/house-of-shame-voila-festival-60521/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/house-of-shame/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3646fc40002ce4cdb47f6706ec2293371f6a6b0f1f51c5e6c449b9c5d3196cde-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Motionhouse - Hidden", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "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"}, {"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": "Balance", "start": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Space", "address": "Westferry Road 269, E14 3RS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/circus/contemporary-circus"], "description": "Balance is a contemporary circus and physical theatre show in which two performers turn a cellar full of beer kegs, bottles and planks into an acrobatic playground. It is created, co-produced and performed by the duo ich-duO, Jared and Toffy, with music curated by the pair. The show pairs gravity-defying hand-to-hand acrobatics with the tension of balancing on glass, exploring trust and the joy of finding a partner to help carry the load. Visually stunning, funny and full of heart, it also carries subtle environmental themes through its repurposing of everyday discarded objects.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/balance-65906/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/balance/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8d20cb00ab773b08a22eada1b482eca05e8507d6337b68ad7baf02b87fa5c9bc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Gorgon Syndrome", "start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T16:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/gorgon-syndrome/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/violence-against-women", "stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "'Gorgon Syndrome' is a piece of physical theatre blending ritual, original music and sign language, part of the VOILA! Festival. It was devised and directed by Tatsiana Popova, Yana Alekseenko, Alana Ivory and Nadzeya Sheibak, and performed by them alongside Nela Agrenich and Sonia Rosa. Four women tell real stories of violence — a journalist, a wife, a stripper and a witness — while the figure of Medusa draws out the truths they are too afraid to tell themselves. Drawing on the myth of Medusa, the performance explores how sexual trauma settles in the body, reshapes everyday life and survives in silence, until trauma at last finds its voice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gorgon-syndrome-60522/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/gorgon-syndrome/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/517811a8246d215b160b7fca3f58816f3fb50a8b77c0785b6f9cfe054b92669a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Gorgon Syndrome (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T14:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£14", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/devour/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/violence-against-women", "stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "Gorgon Syndrome is a piece of physical theatre in which four women tell real stories of violence, joined by a Medusa waiting to be heard. It was devised and directed by Tatsiana Popova, Yana Alekseenko, Alana Ivory and Nadzeya Sheibak, and is performed by them together with Nela Agrenich and Sonia Rosa. Drawing on the myth of Medusa and blending physical theatre, ritual, original music and sign language, the performance explores how sexual trauma settles in the body, reshapes everyday life and survives in silence. It runs at the Etcetera Theatre at 265 Camden High Street.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gorgon-syndrome-voila-festival-60524/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/gorgon-syndrome/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9634f0d4deb05bc0a6de7c62232d05bd8abebbd7dab1ec149527f4a77f8a2527-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Balance by Brainfools at VOILÀ! Theatre Festival", "start": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Austrian Cultural Forum", "address": "Rutland Gate 28, London", "price": "", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/circus"], "description": "Balance is a contemporary circus theatre show by the Austrian-British circus artists Brainfools, presented as part of the VOILÀ! Theatre Festival. It is created and performed by the duo ich-duO (Jared & Toffy), who transform industrial kegs and precarious glass bottles into a playground for breathtaking feats. The show features gravity-defying hand-to-hand acrobatics and the tension of balancing on glass, and explores the joy of finding a partner to help you carry the load. It runs at The Space Theatre in London from 8 to 15 November 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/balance-by-brainfools-at-voila-theatre-festival-40972/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/balance-contemporary-circus-show-by-ich-duo/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/233f5242bb65c1d66b7b47de5f6bfd63db07a092e15d7d0460391f9bd8c85230-1200.webp"}, {"title": "UNREAL A Festival of Magic and Performance", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Battersea Arts Centre", "address": "SW11 5TN London", "price": "Pay What You Can (Recommended Prices from £8), all orders subject to a £2 transaction fee", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://bac.org.uk/whats-on/a-mouthful-of-tongues/book/469096", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["stage/magic"], "description": "UNREAL is a festival of magic and performance at Battersea Arts Centre. It is curated by Tom Cassani, Augusto Corrieri and Tim Bromage, and brings together artists from across the UK and Europe working at the intersection of magic and performance. Over five days, audiences encounter images, transformations and moments of collective awe, as sleight of hand and stage illusion are reimagined through theatre, choreography and live art. The festival invites audiences behind the curtain, questioning assumptions about what we see, hear and believe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/unreal-a-festival-of-magic-and-performance-73827/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/26b1487993350f78357fbddbc07b7fb23baa6cbe0c00d0a2e4ddeaafc7b6821b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "BalletBoyz - Six Lethargies", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Sadler's Wells", "address": "Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4TN London", "price": "GBP 15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/ballet-boyz-tickets/2026/11/18/2", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "BalletBoyz - Six Lethargies is a dance work marking the 25th anniversary of the contemporary dance company BalletBoyz. Built around a pioneering composition for string orchestra by artist and composer Keaton Henson, it chronicles a journey through six stages of emotional landscape. The piece explores how trauma, memory, anxiety, and empathy live together in the body and the mind, and how art and movement can serve as tools for resolution and recovery. Performed by 35 dancers with choreography by Iván Pérez and Seirian Griffiths and accompanied by a live 37-piece orchestra, it draws audiences into a visceral experience of trauma.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/balletboyz-six-lethargies-63375/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/06758584264276ef643063f77440f7553ee6f8b539f95e2417007f80b459538f-600.webp"}, {"title": "OVERFLOOD (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-09T21:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T22:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£11", "price_from": "11.00", "price_to": "11.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/overflood/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/physical-theatre"], "description": "OVERFLOOD (VOILA! Festival) is a 45-minute theatre piece set deep underground in a doomsday bunker, where three strangers thrown together by the tides of war have made themselves into a family. It is directed by Kylie Williams, who performs alongside devisers Hector Berenger and Hollie Milne, with sound design by Hollie Milne. Day after day their routine, repeated like a loop, becomes ritual dedicated to survival, until it begins to slip and the family starts to break apart. The show is in English and non-verbal, is recommended for ages 12 and up, and carries warnings for mentions of violence, reference to guns, and loud noises including sirens.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/overflood-voila-festival-60528/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/overflood/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8273de4aad53bffe0771a0de9d7215cbc9e006720387d14b0d278f2bf709072b-1200.webp"}]}