Resolution 2026 comes to The Place from Friday 9 January – Wednesday 25 February 2026, bringing together 60 companies across 20 exhilarating nights of performance.
The UK’s biggest festival of new choreography, Resolution has been the unmissable contemporary dance festival in the UK for over 35 years. The festival is one of a few opportunities for not only audiences to experience new works, but artists (especially early career) to showcase new works on an international stage.
Each year, we put together a list of shows to see – to help audiences decide what to see but, more importantly, to amplify the voices of artists presenting choreography.
SUPERMARKET SHENANIGANS by Ty Burrows
The second night of Resolution on 10 January kicks off with SUPERMARKET SHENANIGANS by Ty Burrows. In SUPERMARKET SHENANIGANS, audiences will be confronted by several supermarket scenarios including but not limited to; supermarket crushes, lost items and quirky personalities. Expect to find absurdity, exaggerated reality and the beauty in the mundane, and the performers will try make you chuckle because it’s about time we all laughed a little.
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Westpfel Co’s Fracture
On 14 January, Westpfel Co explores the cycles of death and rebirth as they journey through ridding societal expectations. Fracture delves into the process of embodying who you truly are before the world told you who to be. Prepare for an experience of loss, love, celebration, strength and resilience and a performance that is dedicated to us all.
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Collapsing into the equilibrium line by Greta Gauhe
Greta Gauhe returns to Resolution with Collapsing into the equilibrium line on 15 January. This intergenerational collaboration between a visual artist and a movement artist explores collapse as both a breaking and a beginning. Through dance, sculpture and material play, the work traces the slow, glacial shifts that shape bodies, relationships and environments. Plaster, paper and bodies register pressure and care, holding traces of movement and time.
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COPTERS AND HEARSES by JJ James
COPTERS AND HEARSES is the lovechild between choreographer JJ James and fashion designer Joca Veiga. Following the futile journey to the fully optimised human through a landscape of over consumption, modern day health culture and “selfcare”, this work (taking place on 17 January) zooms into the monotony of the capitalist machine and the guises of fulfillment that fuel it. Six performers cycle through these doomed rituals of modern day culture, consistently failing to transform into their spotless selves. What is left once the obsession is over, once the caricature is fully replicated? What do we have left that we can not commodify?
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Ad-lib by Lauren Scott
Lauren Scott brings Ad-lib to the Resolution stage on 17 January. Drawing from popping and hip hop techniques, Scott showcases the raw artistry of freestyle, using isolation and illusionary movement to create a dialogue with a ranging sensory soundscape, from jazz to electronic music.
Like a live instrumentalist, Lauren interprets and relates to the immediate sensations within the space, offering a visceral, shared experience. By surrounding the artist in this stripped-back performance, you’ll feel the intensity of freestyle and the raw qualities of movement unfold in real-time, blending the liveness of street dance with theatre’s intimacy.
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Hours by Rachel Elderkin
HOURS by Rachel Elderkin explores the sensation of trying to move forward without knowing how. Through dance and poetry, this duet delves into feelings of being lost, directionless and exhausted, while asking how human connection can carry us through an ongoing, uncertain journey.
Takes place on 11 February. Book here.
UNSILENCED by a Rieckhof–Silva Collective
UNSILENCED transforms stillness into movement, voice, and resistance — inspired by the protests in Peru. A gentle atmosphere unfolds as the audience and performers co-create a rising energy, moving from grief to hope and renewal. A dynamic, warrior-inspired presence (performer and director Moyra Silva Rodríguez) responds to the audience and the live violin of Camila Alva, whose music awakens silenced voices.
A costume threaded with butter beans and audience-activated shakers by Carolina Rieckhof, enriched by Rowan Parker-Renwick’s sound design, adds soft, crackling rhythms. Audiences join a shared ritual of empathy, solidarity, and collective hope.
Reflecting on what it means to have this platform, Moyra Cecilia Silva Rodríguez said: “As an immigrant and still-emerging artist in London, I feel proud to bring Latinx perspectives that contribute to the diversity of the local dance scene. This project is rooted in lived experience and knowledge from Peru, and presenting it in London creates a space where audiences can encounter ways dance responds to socio-political struggles around the world. What is happening in Latin America is not disconnected from the UK—questions of protest, voice, and collective resistance resonate across borders. By sharing this work here, I hope to expand how dance can speak to global concerns while offering new artistic and cultural viewpoints.”
Comes to The Place on 12 February. Book here.
Algorithm by Company Sixth
Also on 12 February is Algorithm by Company Sixth. Looking at celebritisation and pop culture, the work mocks using sinister undertones of the reality of our digital dependence. Think doom-scrolling if it ever got physical!
Reflecting on what it means to be part of this programme, they said: Being part of Resolution 2026 through the Propeller Programme at London Contemporary Dance School, feels like the natural next step in our company’s journey. This platform gives us the space to grow professionally, take risks, and continue centring collaboration at the heart of Sixth.
It both nurtures and challenges us, offering a place to discover, refine, and push our practice. It also allows us to share work that invites audiences to think, feel and to question.”
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Lucy Turner’s The ‘Ten-In-One’ Girl
On 20 February, Lucy Turner will perform The ‘Ten-In-One’ Girl, unearthing the hidden exploitation of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (a set of conditions that affect connective tissue) in circus history. This solo work considers the role of disability in entertainment, and the line in which invisible conditions become bizarre spectacles.
Playing on circus tropes, audiences will be the first to experience a contortion of shapes and threading of limbs that only the show’s ‘resident freak(s)’ can do!
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Brooke Sorensen’s rubble/Fantasy
Closing Resolution is a night including Brooke Sorensen’s rubble/Fantasy. Exploring the potential for rebuilding in a site of destruction, rubble/Fantasy takes on a dance-theatre style, including contemporary movement languages, hints of narrative, spoken word, and song. Four characters journey across an ever-morphing landscape, where they pulse, crash, and swell like unending waves. Audiences can the rust, ruin, rubble (maybe it’s snow, maybe it’s sand?) under their feet with each step.
Sorensen returns to Resolution this year, saying: “I am a returning Resolution artist, or as the festival lovingly puts it, an ‘Evolution Artist’. Last year I premiered Cathedrals, my choreographic baby. This work is near and dear to me, retelling my personal struggle with religious conflict. The Place, Resolution Festival, and the festival’s passionate audience supported and received this part of my soul with so much care and generosity. Now, with confidence from Cathedrals reception, I bring rubble/Fantasy to the Resolution stage. It’s a story that’s dauntingly undefined, yet universal in its portrayal of humanity. I am incredibly excited and grateful to be sharing this work and can’t wait to sit in the audience and feel the hum of perception as rubble/Fantasy performs! I am also looking for potential programmers and producers so would love them to see this work!”
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If you’re showing work at Resolution, send us an email!