GDIF 2024 | London’s free, annual outdoor performing arts festival 23 August-8 September 2024
23 June - 8 July 2017
The 2017 Greenwich+Docklands International Festival was the biggest GDIF yet, bringing together a fantastic programme of outdoor theatre and performing arts over three summer weekends. There was a focus on Greenwich as the centre of time and space, which inspired Artistic Director, Bradley Hemmings, in putting together a programme setting out to offer ‘something different’.
Belgian collective De Roovers brought their radical outdoor adaptation of Arthur Miller’s tragic masterpiece A View from the Bridge to a stunning cinematic Thameside location. VR Playground transported hundreds of people inside a virtual reality ride on a playground swing, giving a completely different view of the world. Greenwich Fair and Dancing City were packed with surprising and intriguing shows, including a special focus on South Korea.
There was an unusual bus journey in reverse through Eltham, an exuberant illuminated parade in Bow, thought provoking dance in Thamesmead and a programme of pop up performances in Woolwich, which is emerging as a major new cultural destination.
“Energetic, exciting, enthralling. Loved it!”
Audience member at GDIF 2017
Watch the highlights
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Company/Artist
Arensky Chamber Orchestra
Avant Garde Dance
Ben Oakley
Boogaloo Stu
C12 Dance Company
Captain Boomer Collective
CCOT
Chris Green
Cocoloco
Compagnie Concordance
Compagnie des Quidam
Compagnie Off
Compañia de Circo Eia
Creative Group SUMBI
Deaf Men Dancing
De Roovers
Dizzy O’Dare
DUNDU/ Worldbeaters Music
The egg & Bureau of Silly Ideas
Etta Ermini
Far From The Norm
Fine Chisel
HumanHood
IOU Theatre
London Gay Big Band
Luke Jerram
Maduixa Theatre
Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures
Matthew Harrison
Modern Table
Motionhouse
Namlo Band
People in Backpack
Pif-Paf Theatre
Post Uit Hessdalen
The Primitives
Robby Graham & GDIF
Rosie Kay Dance Company
Scottee
Sequin Skirt Productions
Simply Cypher
Sink the Pink
Snuff Puppets
Stalker Teatro
Strong Lady Productions
Sur Mesure
Tango Sumo
Thrill Laboratory
Tilted Productions
Tom Ball
Unlimited Theatre
Wild N Beets
Yann Lheureux
Zoielogic
2 B Scene S.L
Show
Aulenko
Table Manners
Love Locks
Puppet Paramour
Secret Encounters
The Insidian
Massager
Ida Barr’s Lost Pubs
Willy and Wally
Bug and Buzz
FierS a Cheval
The Colour of Light
Espera
The Border of the Water; The Song of the Wind
Corazón a Corazón
A View from the Bridge
Baba Yaga’s House
Sense of Unity
Stroller Coaster
Culinary Duel
Da Native
Flit, Flap and Fly
Orbis
Rear View
Museum of the Moon
Mulier
Country
The Actual Reality Arcade
Men of Steel
Lost
Metamorphosis
SEED
PAKMAN
Three of a Kind
Beautiful Thing
5 Soldiers
Podium
Lorraine Bowen’s Polyester Fiesta!
Roll up, roll up
Human Body Parts
Steli
Strong Lady
Fillage
Les Achilles
VR Playground
BELONGING(s)
Don’t Stop Me Now & Hairy Poppins
How I Hacked My Way Into Space
Bingo Lingo
Flagrant Delire
RIDE
Osadia
“Epic drama, eye-popping visuals, steampunk inventiveness, hands-on interaction and sheer silliness have helped make this year’s GDIF the best ever”
Greenwich Visitor
