At this Very Serious Performance (Equinox Ritual)
You WILL explode,
In incandescent curiosity,
Dance will not exist,
Except as a communal act (undressing)
You, distanced siblings, will go hmmmm
As you forget everything you know (KO),
As we invent it for ourselves.
The silly beings (you) will be glued to the other silly beings (us)
And you might go (Oh!)
NEXT 2026 celebrates work from the 2025/2026 cohort of NEXT Choreography with a 2-day festival of performance, video, installation and conversation.
The same programme of work is taking place on both evenings. Please select a ticket for the night you want.
Throughout the studios.
Same show on both nights.
Event Schedule
4.30: Doors
5 – 7.30: Show
7.30 – 8.30: Afterparty
Tickets
Pay what you choose
£8 / £10 / £12
Free tickets for support Workers, Carers and PAs
Content and access notes to be confirmed.
About NEXT Choreography
NEXT Choreography is a 6-month course for 18–25 year olds seeking to experiment with dance and choreography. It’s a space to question, challenge and nurture different ways of making.
NEXT is held by SDS’ Co-Artistic Directors Annie Pui Ling Lok and Kat Bridge with producers Nancy May Roberts and Sophie Brassard. The 26 participants have worked with artists Freestylers, Sasha Mahfouz Shadid, Nathaniel Parchment, Annie Hanauer, emilyn claid, Angela Andrew, Jules Cunningham, Akeim Toussaint-Buck, Juen Yuen Ting and Wet Mess.
Applications for NEXT Choreography 2026/27 will open in Summer 2026. Sign up to our mailing list to receive updates.
ACCESS AND AMENITIES AT SDS
Siobhan Davies Studios is mostly accessible, with lifts to all floors. There are two accessible parking spaces available on site which can be booked in advance. Blue Badge parking is also available nearby on West Square and Garden Row (for a full map visit the Southwark Council website). Our main door is power assisted.
Amenities include:
- Changing facilities*
- Communal showers*
- Toilets / wheelchair accessible toilets
- Kitchen: tea and coffee making, fridge, and microwave
- Snack Bar: We have a small selection of bars, drinks and food available to buy from the front desk.
- Shops: The closest shop is Superway Supermarket on Garden Row (4 min walk), the closest supermarket is Sainsbury’s on New Kent Road (7 min walk). We also recommend the Art Cafe which serves sandwiches, jacket potatoes and meals (3 min walk).
* Our changing facilities and showers are not fully accessible. Our closest publicly available and fully accessible changing facility is at The Castle Centre, a leisure centre 0.3 miles away from the studios. You can find full details of their features here.