Barbican Centre

Watch Gustavo Dudamel work with young musicians from London and Los Angeles. On Friday 15 March, an orchestra of over 100 young players from east London and Los Angeles took part in an open rehearsal with Gustavo Dudamel. The orchestra were working on Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture in front of an audience inside the Barbican Theatre. Read more about the event and participating organisations here: http://www.barbican.org.uk/education/event-detail.asp?ID=14240

Barbican Britten 6 - 24 Nov 2013 We celebrate Britten's centenary with a two-week festival of recitals, operas, a collaboration between the Richard Alston Dance Company and Britten Sinfonia and a three-day event entitled Illuminating Britten that looks at Britten in-depth. Find out more: http://www.barbican.org.uk/page.asp?pr=/uk/org/barbican/sites/microsites/classical1314/about-the-season/barbican-britten

Maestro Riccardo Chailly sends us a special message introducing the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig's 2013 Barbican International Associate residency. 22-30 Oct 2013 Find out more: http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/international-associates/leipzig-gewandhaus

We announce highlights from the forthcoming season for Barbican 2013-14 in our special season trailer. Read more about the exciting programme of events including Jean Paul Gaultier, Pop Art Design, David Tennant and Michael Clark Company on the Barbican Blog: http://www.ow.ly/iqosq

Simon McBurney and Paul Rhys talk about Complicite's production of The Master and Margarita, featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the company's rehearsals. For more information, please visit: http://complicite.org http://barbican.org.uk

Artistic Director of Slung Low Alan Lane talks about their latest production, in which families are invited on a quest around the Barbican Centre's foyers... More information at http://barbican.org.uk

What lies beneath the Barbican Centre? Journey into our hidden underground spaces in the first of our Barbican Portraits series. Music by Tom Rosenthal.

http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=13723 Dancers from Wayne McGregor | Random Dance inhabited rAndom International's acclaimed Rain Room installation in the Barbican's Curve gallery, performing continuously evolving interventions in the Rain, with a score by contemporary composer Max Richter. Wayne McGregor | Random Dance: http://www.randomdance.org/productions/current_productions/rain_room rAndom International: http://random-international.com/work/rainroom/

Compagnie MPTA/Mathurin Bolze - Du Goudron et des Plumes 28 Nov - 1 Dec 2012 'Extraordinary and exhilarating circus. Seamlessly and cunningly put together' The Guardian ***** 'A goldmine of ideas, beautiful, clever, simply superb.' Le Monde 'A visual feast... all about atmosphere and acrobatics.' Londonist Following the spectacular success of the sold-out run at the Barbican in 2011, one of today's most original and brilliant young circus creators returns to the Barbican with this highly physical production. Tickets/More info http://www.barbican.org.uk/theatre/event-detail.asp?ID=13648

Members of the public share their opinions about Everything Was Moving: Photographers from the 60s and 70s at Barbican Art Gallery

Unleashed Made by the Young People of Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning and Boy Blue Entertainment 23 - 24 November 2012 / 19:15, 14:30 Barbican Theatre What do young people think about living in London? Celebrate the dreams and aspirations of young Londoners with this thrilling theatre show. Drawing on their experiences, Unleashed shows London through their own words, dance moves, films and music. 200 talented young artists including Boy Blue Entertainment's Da Bratz & Bluez have created a high-energy urban explosion featuring thumping baselines, drums, heart-felt political poetry, jaw-dropping hip hop dance and more. Find out more: http://www.barbican.org.uk/theatre/event-detail.asp?ID=13647

The Back2Black Festival was first staged in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as a major cultural event which aimed to explore the cultural and historical relationship between Brazil and Africa through live music and other events. Back2Black as part of London 2012 Festival, with Gilberto Gil as the central figure, was based on the original format but aimed to also reflect London's own cultural demographic. At this festival, UK artists were invited to collaborate with Brazilian and African artists. This led to a collaborative project and performance platform for the Barbican Drum Works 'Drum Heads' ensemble and musicians from the Pracatum School in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.

Calixto Bieito Forests Based on texts by William Shakespeare 6 - 10 November 2012 / 19:45 Barbican Theatre Tickets: £16 - 35 Forests is a new Shakespearean odyssey imagined by one of Europe's most prominent theatre directors, Calixto Bieito, whose passionate and radical interpretations of classics have stimulated controversy and earned him critical acclaim. Composed from original verse from Shakespeare's woodland and heath scenes, the play takes audiences from As You Like It's forest of Arden through the moving trees of Macbeth's Birnam Wood, ending in the bare wilderness of King Lear's cliffs of Dover: a vivid theatrical journey from the calmness of paradise to the uncertainties of purgatory and finally into the flames of hell. Forests features an international cast led by Catalan actors Josep Maria Pou, Roser Camí and English actor George Costigan. 'An extraordinary Catalan collage, conceived and directed by the vibrantly experimental director Calixto Bieito: hot-blooded, anarchic and haunted by images of death. Far from being an act of crazy vandalism, Forests is a visceral response to Shakespeare's texts.' Guardian ★★★★ http://www.barbican.org.uk/theatre/event-detail.asp?ID=13339

Chinese photographer Li Zhensheng discusses with Robert Pledge, co-founder of Contact Press Images, the legacy of his unparalleled photographic project that reveals the stark realities of life during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-76). Find out more about the exhibition: http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=13613

Critically acclaimed South African photographer David Goldblatt, renowned for his sharp yet subtle take on life under apartheid, discusses his work with the London-based artist duo Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. Find out more of the exhibition: http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=13613

Amazing orchestras World-class artists One venue www.barbican.org.uk/classical1213