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Transform 25

21 – 25 Oct 2025

  • Venue
    Multiple

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.

And, it’s all Pay What You Can.

Programme

Rinse

21 Oct 2025

BSL
BSL Interpreted

Rinse is an intimate yet epic solo performance about the allure of new beginnings.

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blackmilk

21 Oct 2025

Dancer and choreographer Tiran Willemse presents an intense and tension-filled solo performance.

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EXXY (TRANSFORM 25)

22 – 23 Oct 2025

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Audio Described
BSL
BSL Interpreted
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Audacious, vulnerable and tender, Exxy explores imposter syndrome and fluctuating self-worth against the backdrop of working-class beginnings in the Australian outback.

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Surrender

22 Oct 2025

A one-off event where artists explore surrendering to uncontrollable forces through playful experiment, serious entertainment, food and conversation.

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The Things Around Us

22 Oct 2025

BSL
BSL Interpreted

In this solo performance – somewhere between jazz and stand-up comedy – darkly humorous true stories about other people mix with a haunting soundscape.

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Dear Laila

23 – 25 Oct 2025

Through the story of one family, this intimate, interactive installation shares the Palestinian experience of displacement and resistance.

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Free

23 Oct 2025

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Leeds’ very own Akeim Toussaint Buck presents Free, a joyful, immersive dance show that celebrates Reggae and its radical history.

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The Joystick and The Reins

24 Oct 2025

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Audio Described

Eve Stainton’s unnerving choreographic performance explores societal suspicion and the construction of threat.

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The Last Supper (TRANSFORM 25)

25 Oct 2025

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Food, farewells, religion, transition – Brazilian artist collective MEXA present The Last Supper, a performance-banquet.

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RUNNER

25 Oct 2025

Taking place simultaneously in the theatre and on the streets of Leeds, RUNNER is a performance about running and exhaustion.

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Magic Maids

25 Oct 2025

Magic Maids is a feral incantation that interweaves performance, pageantry and possession to connect European witch hunts with modern migrant women's labour exploitation.

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IT’S GOT LEGS!!!!!!!

25 Oct 2025

Vulgar, visceral and vampy, IT’S GOT LEGS!!!!!!! explores the artists’ fascination with the filthy and the glamorous, the pathetic and the perverse.

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  • MAJOR FUNDERS

    Arts Council

  • Leeds City Council

  • LTB Foundation

  • Founded by UK government

  • Suppoprted by west Yorkshire

  • Principal Partner

    Caddick Group

  • Principal Access Partner

    Irwin Mitchell