A regular fixture for the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival (GDIF) is their big dancing line up. This year GDIF's ‘Dancing City’ takes place in open spaces of Stratford and features exhiliarating and rule-breaking dance from around the world, including several UK and London premieres. This year’s ‘festival with in a festival’ is in partnership with New York’s Fire Island Dance Festival. which will see a stellar line-up of international LGBTQIA+ dance artists perform at GDIF.
Highlights for 2025 include ‘Courtney’s Diner’, a fusion of contemporary, the ballroom scene and vogueing; ‘Through another lens’, performed by a powerful ensemble of disabled and non-disabled artists; and ‘Passage’, a grafity-defying spectacle by Harry Styles and FKA Twigs collaborator Yoann Bourgeois.