GDIF 2024 | London’s free, annual outdoor performing arts festival 23 August-8 September 2024

GDIF 2015

GDIF 2015 offered 10 days of perception-changing outdoor performing arts. From an opening night chorus of vibrantly costumed actors  in Kori Kori, to an epic evocation of the life and work of one of the world’s greatest artists – Frida Kahlo. From an incendiary and timely exploration of the power of books in Fahrenheit 451, to a celebratory finale The Colour of Time, inspired by the Indian festival of Holi, streets, parks and public spaces across Royal Greenwich and East London were transformed with a sensory overload of colour and extraordinary staging.

The Four Fridas

“Undeniably beautiful” – The Guardian

“Highly ambitious” – The Times

“As a spectacle to savour, it is sensational” – The Stage

Watch the highlights

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Company/Artist

15ft6
Artizani
Art of Disappearing
Artonik/East London Dance
Avanti   Display
Barolosolo
Brodas Bros
Bronks
Cathy Waller Company
Collectif Malunes
Compagnie Le Grande Jeté
Company Chameleon
Corey Baker Dance Company
CREW
Emergency Exit Arts
Etta Ermini Dance Theatre
Gandini Juggling
GDIF
The Human Zoo
HURyCAN
Les Studio de Cirque
Look Left Look Right
La Compagnie Oposito
Parkour Dance
Periplum
Plunge Boom
Polyglot
Nutkhut
Rosie Kay Dance
Comnpañia Sharon Fridman
Sole Rebel Tap
Southpaw Dance Company
Stefano di Renzo
Stopgap Dance Company
TinCanCompany
Toc de Fusta
Travelling Light Circus

Show

Dynamite & Poetry
BEES! The Colony
The Stand In
The Colour of Time
Reliquary
île O
Solo 2
Walk Walk
Louder Than Words
Sens Dessus Dessous
Turn Around Boy
Of Man and Beast
Haka Day Out
C.a.p.e. anima
Teavolution
Bar Story
8 Songs
Four Fridas
Monotone Man
Te Odiero
Place des Anges
The Secret Princess of Severndroog
Kori Kori
Danger Risk of Falling
Fahrenheit 451
Smoke
Tangle
Navrattan
5 Soldiers
Caída Libre
Every Grain
Carousel
Hold On
Bill and Bobby
Camping Delight
Friends of Crusoe
Pendula Fantastica

“One of the best things I’ve been to at GDIF, and I’ve been coming since 1997! A beautiful use of the spaces in the Old Royal Naval College.”

Audience member at Kori Kori, GDIF 2015

Photos by Warren King, Doug Southall, Stu Mayhew, Dave Flynn

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