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GDIF 2021 Highlights

27 August - 11 September 2021

GDIF 2021 was a festival for all of us: a festival of connection, inclusion, hope and healing.

Look back on your favourite moments from this year’s festival below.

Click here to read the 2021 brochure.

GDIF 2021 Full Highlights Video

Week 1 Highlights Video

Week 1 Gallery

DanAcher, WeAreWatching Greenwich, GDIF 2021. A flag with a giant eye printed flies against a blue sky.
DanAcher, WeAreWatching Ceremony Greenwich, GDIF 2021. A black woman in a GDIF volunteer T-shirt hands out a programme at the opening ceremony for GDIF 2021.
DanAcher, WeAreWatching Ceremony Greenwich, GDIF 2021.
Strong Enough, Strong Lady Productions, GDIF 2021.
Steli, Stalker Teatro, GDIF 2021.
Somente, Teatro Só, GDIF 2021.
Somente, Teatro Só, GDIF 2021.
League and Legend, 15Feet6, GDIF 2021.
The Invisible Man, Altered States, GDIF 2021.
Big Gay Disco Bike, Fatt Projects, GDIF 2021.
Do What Yah Mama Told Yah, Just More Productions, GDIF 2021.
On Your Doorstep Thamesmead, GDIF 2021.
Steli, Stalker Teatro, GDIF 2021.
The Lips, Puppets With Guts, GDIF 2021.
The Rascally Diner, LAStheatre, GDIF 2021.
The Rascally Diner, LAStheatre, GDIF 2021.
The Rascally Diner, LAStheatre, GDIF 2021.
The Rascally Diner, LAStheatre, GDIF 2021.
What Happened To You?, Nikki Charlesworth, GDIF 2021.
League and Legend, 15Feet6, GDIF 2021.
Do What Yah Mama Told Yah, Just More Productions, GDIF 2021.
The Lips, Puppets With Guts, GDIF 2021.
The Lost Opera, Ashley Peevor, Dance by Design, GDIF 2021.
Dandyism, Patrick Ziza Dance, Dance by Design, GDIF 2021.
Finale, Delrevés, Dance by Design, GDIF 2021.
Dandyism, Patrick Ziza Dance, Dance by Design, GDIF 2021.
Good Youtes, Walk, Far From The Norm, GDIF 2021.
Automata Carrousel, Geert Hautekiet, GDIF 2021.
Good Youtes, Walk, Far From The Norm, GDIF 2021.
The Rascally Diner, LAStheatre, GDIF 2021.
The Tide, Talawa, GDIF 2021.
Somente, Teatro Só, GDIF 2021.
Do What Yah Mama Told Yah, Just More Productions, GDIF 2021.
Somente, Teatro Só, GDIF 2021.
The Lips, Puppets With Guts, GDIF 2021.
Steli, Stalker Teatro, GDIF 2021.
Borealis, Dan Acher, GDIF 2021, Greenwich
Family Tree, ATC, GDIF 2021.
Borealis, Dan Acher, GDIF 2021, Greenwich

Images by Stu Mayhew, Roswitha Chesher, Alicia Clarke, Helen Boast, Doug Southall and Emmanuel Cole.

Week 2 Highlights Video

Week 2 Gallery

Born To Protest, Joseph Toonga, Dancing City, GDIF 2021.
LIFE, Gandini Juggling, GDIF 2021.
A Doorstep Duet, New Adventures, Dancing City, GDIF 2021.
A Graceful Act of Stupidity, Candoco Dance, Dancing City, GDIF 2021.
Dancing City, GDIF 2021.
WILD, Motionhouse, Dancing City, GDIF 2021.
Dancing City, GDIF 2021.
Born To Protest, Joseph Toonga, Dancing City, GDIF 2021.
Doubles, Joe Garbett Dance, Dancing City, GDIF 2021.
LIFE, Gandini Juggling, GDIF 2021.
Future Cargo, Requardt and Rosenberg, GDIF 2021.
Future Cargo, Requardt and Rosenberg, GDIF 2021.
Future Cargo, Requardt and Rosenberg, GDIF 2021.
Black Victorians, Jeanefer Jean-Charles, GDIF 2021.
Gravitas, Ofir Yudilevitch, GDIF 2021.
Mayfly, Kapow, Dancing City, GDIF 2021.
Gravitas, Ofir Yudilevitch, GDIF 2021.
Mayfly, Kapow, Dancing City, GDIF 2021.
Bonded, Alleyne Dance, Dancing City, GDIF 2021.
Black Victorians, Jeanefer Jean-Charles, GDIF 2021.
A Graceful Act of Stupidity, Candoco Dance, Dancing City, GDIF 2021.
Bonded, Alleyne Dance, Dancing City, GDIF 2021.
Future Cargo, Requardt and Rosenberg, GDIF 2021.
Black Victorians, Jeanefer Jean-Charles, GDIF 2021.

Images by Stephen Wright, Alicia Clarke, Stu Mayhew, Helen Boast and Jesse Olumuyiwa Ogunbanjo

Week 3 Highlights Video

Week 3 Highlights Gallery

Initiative.Dkf, IS DAT U YH?, GDIF 2021.
Blue Remembered Hills, De Roovers, GDIF 2021.
Reflection Gardens, Walk the Plank, GDIF 2021.
Initiative.Dkf, IS DAT U YH?, GDIF 2021.
Bolly Illusion, Cabaret Stage, Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
Cabaret Stage, Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
What Happened To You?, Nikki Charlesworth, Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
What Happened To You?, Nikki Charlesworth, Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
The Rascally Diner, LAStheatre, Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
Reflection Gardens, Walk the Plank, GDIF 2021.
The Rascally Diner, LAStheatre, Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
The Rascally Diner, LAStheatre, Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
The Rascally Diner, LAStheatre, Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
Urban Astronaut, Highly Sprung, GDIF 2021.
Bee-ology, Bumble Movement Arts, GDIF 2021.
Urban Astronaut, Highly Sprung, GDIF 2021.
Jonny Woo, Cabaret Stage, Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
Cabaret Stage, Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
Strong Enough, Strong Lady Productions, GDIF 2021.
Ida Barr, Cabaret Stage, GDIF 2021.
Ida Barr, Cabaret Stage, GDIF 2021.
Liv, Cabaret Stage, Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
Frock, Stopgap Dance, Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
Blue Remembered Hills, De Roovers, GDIF 2021.
Balsam, Laika & Zefiro Torna, GDIF 2021.
Memories of Yesterday, Caribbean Social Forum, Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
The Storm, Voiceless Matter and The Healing Tree, Lucy Isaiah and BFEG, Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
Frock, Stopgap Dance, Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
Memories of Yesterday, Caribbean Social Forum, Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
From Greenwich with Love, Greenwich Dance, Healing Together, GDIF 2021.
Recovery Poems, Emergency Exit Arts, GDIF 2021.
Balsam, Laika & Zefiro Torna, GDIF 2021.
Frock, Stopgap Dance, Healing Together, GDIF 2021.

Images by Doug Southall, Stu Mayhew, Helen Boast and Stephen Wright.

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