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Transform25 Festival

@ Leeds School of Arts

"a festival of powerful international performance"

Transform 25 is a festival of powerful international performance, happening from 21–25 October 2025 right here in Leeds. 

Over 5 days this autumn, witness visceral theatre, dance and performance alongside intimate experiences and moments of assembly. The festival creates a meeting point for the bold, the electrifying, the reflective and the hopeful. Bringing artists from across the globe to Leeds, Transform 25 invites us to collectively gather and look to a different kind of future.  

With audacious stories, joyful irreverence and sometimes dark realities – this is art about now.   

 

Transform 25 is a festival of powerful international performance, happening from 21–25 October 2025 right here in Leeds. 

Over 5 days this autumn, witness visceral theatre, dance and performance alongside intimate experiences and moments of assembly. The festival creates a meeting point for the bold, the electrifying, the reflective and the hopeful. Bringing artists from across the globe to Leeds, Transform 25 invites us to collectively gather and look to a different kind of future.  

With audacious stories, joyful irreverence and sometimes dark realities – this is art about now.   

 

Dance

"FREE"

Leeds’ very own Akeim Toussaint Buck presents Free, a joyful, immersive dance show that celebrates Reggae and its radical history. With original dub music, gather, skank and lively up yourself, until we're all free.

Part of Transform 25 international performance festival: transformfestival.org

Performers dancing in a performance of Free

dance

"magic maids"

Magic Maids interweaves performance, pageantry and possession. This feral incantation connects the European witch hunts to the exploitation of migrant women’s labour today. The duo dance a ritual of disobedience.

Part of Transform 25 international performance festival: transformfestival.org

 
Arts building
Part of the Magic Maids performance