Word of Warning — Weekly Warning

Today's equinox marks the Earth’s annual turn towards spring, while the rest of the world continues its own gyrations...

This weekend,  therefore, it's truly all about Turn 2026 tonight, Fri 20 Mar at Contact - 9 pieces of North West dance in 3 spaces across the building, featuring Alice Robinson Moves, Blood Bones Jones,  Clara Selberg, Emmy Jax & Sophia Egan, Hui-Hsin Lu, Joseph Adamson, Joseph Lau & friends, printerror, Sap Dance. Read the programme notes here.

Elsewhere Wigan Arts Festival runs until 31 Mar; and in Leeds, alongside the ongoing Punchdrunk collab (until Sat 21 Mar), Don't Call Me China Doll is at Stage@Leeds on Fri 20 Mar.

Next week (w/c 23 Mar) there's VAMPYR at Gulliver's Lounge on Wed 25 Mar; Bryony Kimmings's Bog Witch and Renad's A Grain of Sand both at HOME (26-28 Mar) and Emergence 26 at New Adelphi on Fri 27 + Sat 28 Mar. 

Get-in! to Eccles has Lowri Evans's Train Dreaming at Eccles station over the next couple of weeks. 

In Leeds, alongside the ongoing Punchdrunk collab (until Sat 21 Mar), Don't Call Me China Doll is at Stage@Leeds on Fri 20 Mar.

Further afield, Lancaster Arts has Verve on Tue 24 Mar and Annie Hanauer Dances' A Space For All Our Tomorrows on Fri 27 Mar and Shakespeare North has a Scratch on Tue 25 Mar.  Leeds Playhouse has Imitating the Dog's War of the Worlds (25-28 Mar) and Ontroerend Goed's Handle With Care on Fri 27 + Sat 28 Mar; while Yorkshire Dance has Roadhouse 22 on Fri 27 Mar. At the Unity in Liverpool, Up Next Festival runs 26-28 Mar, including Spinster on Fri 27 Mar and Mr Chubba Chubba on Sat 28 Mar.

The following week (w/c 30 Mar) sees the Easter slow down, but on Tue 31 Mar Joe Kiney Whitmore's The Weight of the Light is at Pier 4 in Wigan; while Payal Ramchandani + Chandenie Gobardhan's Just Enough Madness & Caught In The Net Of Rebirth is at Lowry. fish in a dress's The City For Incurable Women is at HOME 2-4 Apr

Keep checking our News + Information page for more pointers to opportunities and show videos online, and @WarnMcr on Twitter (X if you must) for short-notice performances. 

Notes for Artists - the rolling call for Social Experiment (April 9 next edition) is open. 

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Tamsin

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