Join Transform for a vulgar, visceral and vampy performance of IT’S GOT LEGS!!!!!!! exploring the artists’ fascination with the filthy and the glamorous, the pathetic and the perverse.
Bear witness to the bare arses of Samir Kennedy and Sean Murray in this whirlwind performance.
References abound to familiar double acts alongside double entendres as they unearth the only real concrete thing there is in this business: instability.
Join Transform in this performance of Magic Maids interweaving performance, pageantry and possession. This feral incantation connects the European witch hunts to the exploitation of migrant women’s labour today.
The female figures of the witch and the maid are powerful and powerless, feared and revered, used, accused and discarded. The tropes are not mere hearsay and history but deeply rooted in today’s psyche.
Join Transform for Eve Stainton’s unnerving choreographic performance exploring societal suspicion and the construction of threat. As a solo figure moves amongst us, the Airedale Symphony Orchestra play a live soundtrack – the music from 80s horror film The Thing.
The Joystick and The Reins interrogates who decides who and what is a ‘threat’ within society, and how these ideas are reinforced through systems of oppression and authoritarianism.
Join Transform and Dan Daw Creative Projects in this captivating performance of EXXY.
How do you continue to value yourself when society doesn’t value you?
Dan Daw, a Queer, crippled dance artist, is feeling the pressure to stay at the top of his game after the smash-hit world tour of his last show.
Through the story of one family, this intimate, interactive installation shares the Palestinian experience of displacement and resistance.
The seeds of Dear Laila were planted when Basel Zaraa’s five-year-old daughter began to ask him about his home growing up. Unable to take her there, he decided he would try to bring the place to her, by creating a model of his childhood home in Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus.
Dancer and choreographer Tiran Willemse presents an intense and tension-filled solo performance.
From the precise choreography of drum majorettes in uniform, to the melodramatic movements of white femme starlets and gestures associated with masculine Black rap stars, Willemse examines limiting stereotypes and shifting identities.
Through a focus on hand gestures, blackmilk complicates a mainstream repertoire of legible identities, opening them up to a complex sensitivity that the artist describes as ‘black male melancholia’.
Join Transform for Rinse - an intimate yet epic solo performance about the allure of new beginnings.
Dancer and choreographer Amrita Hepi weaves personal narratives with the history of colonialism, art, feminism and pop culture, and asks: is it possible to start again?
Join Transform to mark the beginning of five days of powerful international performance and art about now, right here in Leeds.
Gather with other festival goers and stage@leeds to raise a toast to the start of the festival at this informal gathering moment. This event will be followed by the performance of Rinse by Amrita Hepi with Mish Grigor, which you’ll need a separate ticket for.
Part of Transform 25 international performance festival: transformfestival.org
This is the story of three firefighters from Yorkshire, all women all wanting to make a difference, all ahead of their time, all facing challenges beyond fire. From 1939 - 2025.
Join us for a very special evening celebrating the history of our building. To start the evening there will be a blue plaque unveiling. This blue plaque is commemorate the building from fire station to community hub. Followed by the premiere of our new show Trailblazings: Women have always been firefighters.
The Chicago Blues Brothers are back – and they’re tearing the roof off the Country Bunker!
Celebrating 45 years of the legendary Blues Brothers legacy, this live concert delivers a high-energy night of electrifying blues, foot-stomping country classics, and a few unforgettable surprises along the way.
From the iconic hits of the Blues Brothers movies to some of the greatest country anthems of all time, this is a musical mash-up like no other – all delivered with that unmistakable CBB swagger and a fresh twist that’ll have you singing, clapping, and dancing in the aisles.