Mad Dance Festival 2022

Overview

Forget watching your way through the Step Up franchise — if you want to see top-notch street dancing, you just need to make your way to the Mad Dance Festival. For ten days between Wednesday, June 8–Saturday, June 18, it's bringing a feast of fancy footwork to Metro Arts in West End, complete with performances, talks and classes.

If you're keen on checking out a heap of talented performers and their smooth moves, you have options. In fact, there's over 35 events on offer across the whole fest. That includes Betwixt by Pink Matter and Sam Evans' This Time It's Personal, plus Rhythmology — which focuses on urban music and the creatives behind it.

Also on the bill: dance battles and DJ sets aplenty, as well as a vogueing night. And, from Monday, June 13–Friday, June 17, there's a free daily dusk dancing session that wants to get everyone cutting shapes around the West Village precinct. Or, you ca drop into a range of community dance classes, also for free, across the entire fest.

Images: Betwixt by Moonstrikken/Sinead O'Brien.