This year, students from BA (Hons) Costume for Performance, BA (Hons) Technical Effects for Performance and BA (Hons) Make-Up and Prosthetics for Performance courses will collaborate with dancers from the London Contemporary Dance School to produce a musical dance piece called ‘The Penguin Café’. The performance is a surreal fantasy that explores global environmental issues.

Top: Dancers rehearse in a hall in Bethnal Green.

Above: Students at John Prince’s St put the finishing touches to their costume creations for the show.

(Photography: David Hardy)