The Playground

✨ CHOREOGRAPHER ANNOUNCEMENT ✨

We’re delighted to welcome Narina Bira Narina Bîra to The Playground 🤍

📅 Friday 17th July 2026
🕕 18:00–21:00
Rambert HQ

Narina is a Romanian dance artist whose work celebrates the beauty of connection, harmony and our shared human experience. Rooted in ballet, Humphrey, Graham and release techniques, her creative practice is deeply influenced by improvisation, musicality and moving from within.
In this session, Narina will be sharing material from her new work, Healing Chant, currently in development. Together we’ll explore themes of connection, ancestral wisdom and the sharing of energy through movement.

Drawing inspiration from the Romanian folk dance Hora, alongside influences from ballet and contemporary dance, the session will be full of joyful group movement, circles, skipping, jumping and repeated patterns that invite us to move together as one.
The class is open to everyone. The movement isn’t highly technical, but it will be very energetic, so come ready to move, connect and have fun!

🎶 We’re thrilled that bobby demers bobby demers will be joining the session as a live musician and collaborator. Originally from Toronto, bobby is an e-drummer and multi-instrumentalist who has been creating music for dancers since he was just 16 years old. He regularly accompanies classes at Trinity Laban and The Place and has been a much-loved part of The Playground for the past five years, bringing decades of musical experience, creativity and infectious energy into the studio.

Image credits | Gabija Grisiute Gabija Grisiute | Serena Mary | Ashleigh Stohr | Henry Curtis Henry Curtis |

✨ CHOREOGRAPHER ANNOUNCEMENT ✨

We’re so excited to welcome Choreographer Jessie Cotgrove Jessie Cotgrove back to The Playground! 🤍

📅 Friday 17th July 2026
🕕 18:00–21:00
Rambert HQ

Jessie will be leading an emotionally driven movement exploration centred around unity, release and transformation.

“Together we’ll explore what it means to be part of something greater than ourselves, and what happens when consciousness, colour and sense begin to break free after life. Through guided improvisation and physical exploration, we’ll investigate connection, holding on, and letting go, using the ballet barre as both a physical and creative stimulus before developing the material into a final sharing.”

This is a session for anyone who loves diving into ideas, emotion and storytelling through movement.

✨ We can’t wait to have Jessie back in the studio and to see where this beautiful exploration takes us.

📸 Photographers & videographers: If you’d like to capture Jessie’s rehearsal or final sharing, please get in touch with Jessie directly via Instagram Jessie Cotgrove.

🎉 Bookings are NOW OPEN! 🎉

Join us for our next The Playground session on Friday 17th July 2026.

This will be our last Playground before our summer break, so we’d love to welcome as many of you as possible for one more evening of creating, connecting and moving together before we pause for the summer.

We’ll be back on Friday 18th September 2026, refreshed and ready for another exciting season.

✨ Book your place via the link in our bio! ✨

Our Playground team for the evening will be ✨ Sarah Rubidge ✨ Archie White Archie White ✨ Jaimée-Jett .jett ✨ Jonah Yang Jonah Yang / Artist & Actor ✨

As always, expect an evening full of creativity, generosity, collaboration and community.

We can’t wait to welcome you all for one more Playground before the summer. Happy booking! ❤️

Image by the wonderful Oliver Smart 📸 taken at the Playground May 2026

We’re delighted to have bobby demers bobby demers joining Choreograppher Jaimée-Jett .jett tomorroew Friday, bringing an evening of live music, infectious grooves and plenty of rave-inspired beats to fuel the session. 🎶⚡

Originally from Toronto, bobby is an e-drummer and multi-instrumentalist who regularly accompanies classes at Trinity Laban and The Place. A familiar face at The Playground over the past five years, he first started playing for dancers at just 16 years old and has been creating music for movement ever since.
With 47 years of experience performing and composing across a huge range of musical styles, bobby has an incredible ability to respond to dancers in the moment, making every session unique.

We can’t wait to welcome bobby back to The Playground tomorrow evening! 💙

Image by Henry Curtis Henry Curtis

✨ We are incredibly excited to welcome Adrian Del Arroyo Adrian Del Arroyo to The Playground. ✨

Adrian is a dance director, writer, and producer whose choreographic practice is rooted in spirituality, healing, unity, and wisdom. Drawing inspiration from classical and contemporary dance, flamenco, Spanish Baroque traditions, martial arts, and ancient ritual, Adrian creates deeply atmospheric and thought-provoking work.

During this special research and development session, participants will explore material from ‘Dead Blue’, Adrian’s latest creation. Through movement, gesture, voice, storytelling, and live music, dancers will investigate themes of ancient knowledge, resonance, and human connection.

Adrian will be joined by his associate composer, Louis La Porte Louis, who will lead a short voice workshop before accompanying the session live.

Louis is an interdisciplinary composer and dancer, creating neoclassical soundscapes, and electronic music for dance workshops and live performances. His work draws inspiration from artists such as Arvo Pärt and GoGo Penguin, as well as spacious house music and geometric patterns.

Expect an evening of exploration, imagination, live music, and embodied storytelling unlike any other.

Images by Umberto Rozzo and Stephanie McMahon

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✨ We are delighted to welcome Richard Chappell Richard Chappell Dance and Marla King .d to The Playground. ✨

Together, they will share insights into the creation process of Us Folk, Richard Chappell Dance’s latest production. Rooted in nature, community, and the power of social dancing, Us Folk reimagines folk traditions for a more inclusive and hopeful present.

Participants will explore how the spiralled nature of RCD’s contact work and floor work intersects with social dancing patterns and activities, offering a unique opportunity to experience the company’s creative process first-hand.

While everyone is welcome, this session will be particularly valuable for embodied professional dancers interested in exploring choreographic process and collaborative practice.

We can’t wait to welcome Richard and Marla to The Playground and spend an evening exploring movement, connection, and community together.

✨ We are thrilled to welcome back Jaimée-Jett .jett and ITCH Dance to The Playground. ✨

Celebrating Pride Month, this creative session will explore themes of liberation, joy, and the subversion of gender roles as ITCH Dance continues developing new choreographic material for its next company work.

Participants will explore musicality, texture, storytelling, strength, precision, and fluidity through company repertoire and creative tasks. The session will have a higher physical and technical intensity, making it particularly exciting for dancers looking to challenge themselves in a supportive and inclusive environment.

ITCH Dance is dedicated to developing artistry, building community, and challenging traditional binaries within dance, and we are delighted to welcome them back to The Playground.

Images by Mark Turrell and Taiyo Nagano Taiyo Nagano

💛 Booking is now open for our next Playground session on Friday 19 June!

Join us for an evening of creativity, collaboration, live music, and making work together in a supportive and welcoming environment.

Whether you’re a regular or thinking of joining us for the first time, we’d love to see you there.

📅 Friday 19 June 2026
🕡 18:30–21:00
📍 Rambert, London

Spaces are limited and usually fill quickly, so be sure to book early.

Link in bio.

Image by Playgrounder photographer Dominic Farlam 🤍