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Dance City Summer Showcase 2025
Sun 13 Jul 2025, 3.00PM
ESD Presents Robert Cohan: Lecture - Brief History of Robert Cohan
Mon 28 Jul 2025, 3.30PM
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ESD Presents Robert Cohan: Lecture - Brief History of Robert Cohan
Mon 28 Jul 2025, 3.30PM
Tickets: £6.00
ESD Presents Robert Cohan: Gala Performance
Sat 2 Aug 2025, 7.00PM
Tickets: £15.00
Concessions: £12.50
Concessions: £12.50
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How We Programme at Dance City
Dance City operates an open call process in considering performance proposals for our artistic programme. We are currently accepting programme applications for Autumn 2025 and beyond.
We are currently accepting to proposals for
- Professional dance
- Family dance/programming
- Commercial programming
If you would like your performance to be considered for programming at Dance City theatre, we would like to ask you to complete this application form so all proposals can be considered side-by-side in a fair manner.
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