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360
Fri 21 August | 7.30pm | General Gordon Square, Woolwich, SE18 6AB
Duration: 55 minutes
What to Expect: Audio Description | Easy Read Information | Join In | Sensory spectacle | Speech free
Tickets: This event is FREE, just turn up.
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Exhilarating dance, immersive set design and electronic music collide in this vivid portrait of a generation on the edge of change.
Exhilarating dance, immersive set design and electronic music collide in this vivid portrait of a generation on the edge of change, by trailblazing French choreographer Mehdi Kerkouche.
Gather around a spectacular circular stage as energising music transforms Woolwich into a dancefloor, alive with concert energy that builds and builds.
A large-scale dance theatre experience so exuberant and expansive that the boundary between performers and crowd dissolves, making way for a collective moment of ecstasy to kick off GDIF 2026.
General Gordon Square, Woolwich, SE18 6AB
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Public Transport: Woolwich (Elizabeth Line, DLR, Southeastern Rail, Buses, Uber Boat)
Multi-disciplinary artist Mehdi Kerkouche works as a choreographer and director on numerous television programmes in France and Europe. From cinema to fashion shows and advertising, he coaches artists from all horizons and directs the staging of major cultural events. In 2017, he set up the EMKA company in order to bring together artists encountered on his previous projects in creations that marry energy and poetry. The jury’s favourite at the choreographic parade of the Karavel Festival in 2018 with his solo Mute, he then presented Dabkeh at numerous festivals in France and Europe. The work rediscovers the powerful and festive dance of the Middle East through a contemporary lens.
In 2020, his “confined videos” went viral and enabled him to launch the festival “On danse chez vous”. This event gathered 70 dancers and choreographers on social networks to help healthcare workers during the COVID-19 crisis. Strongly committed to passing on knowledge and skills, he teaches at the International Academy of Dance where he trained, as well as at the Studio Harmonic and the Lax Studio in Paris.
He is also the patron of many dance festivals in France and abroad. As a performer, he has played and sung in numerous musicals, accompanied artists such as Christine And The Queens and performed the role of Karim in Ladislas Chollat’s first feature film, Let’s dance. At the start of the 2020 season, he was invited by Aurélie Dupont to create a piece for the dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet to be presented in November at the Palais Garnier.
Promotional photography will take place at this event.
If you do not wish to be featured in our content, please ask one of our volunteers (easily noticeable in their pink t-shirts) for a “no photography” sticker.
360 is supported by The Royal Borough of Greenwich and Arts Council England.
ACCESS
- Show Access
- Site Access
- Easy Read Guide
Speech Free –The show is speech free. There will be a short speech at the start of the event which will be available in accessible formats
Join In – You can dance along to the DJ.
Sensory Spectacle – This show contains loud electronic music and moving lighting. This will come from the central stage structure. The sound will be loud and bassy close the stage. There will be ear defenders available in the accessible viewing area (marked by a flag)
Audio Description – There will be live audio description at this performance. To book your headset, email [email protected].
Easy Read Information – available on site and to download in early July
Full accessibility information coming early July
Free to attend. Just show up.
Assistance Dogs Welcome.
This show is relaxed. This means you can come and go as you please, move around and make noise.
Level Access
There are level access routes at General Gordon
There will be short ramps onto raised areas.
There will be a mix of hard and soft standing.
Access Viewing Area
A staffed access viewing area for disabled audience members will be marked with a sign or flag. Space for wheelchair users, companions and seating with and without arms will be available.
The viewing area will have volunteers and staff available throughout the event.
Accessible Toilets
Beresford Square accessible public toilets will be open for 360 until 8pm
Local businesses in the town centre have accessible toilets, some require a radar key
Woolwich Works has a Changing Places facility 650m from General Gordon Square.
Blue badge parking
Available at Woolwich Arsenal Station Car Park, or on-street parking on Calderwood Street, Monk Street, Powis Street
Drop-off points
Wellington Street ///cute.prefer.gets
Contact
For Accessibility questions contact: [email protected] // 07899 893 935
Full access information coming early July
