Bonnie Bird Theatre is the 300-seat main performing venue of the

Laban Dance Centre Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music and dance conservatoire based in London, England. It was formed in 2005 as a merger of two older institutions – Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre. The conservatoire has ...

of the

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music and dance conservatoire based in London, England. It was formed in 2005 as a merger of two older institutions – Trinity College of Music and Laban Dance Centre. The conservatoire has ...

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. The Laban Centre was erected in 2002, designed by winners of the

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Jacques Herzog Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd.,
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and

Pierre de Meuron Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd.,
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. The building and its theatre are located in

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, near

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in east London. The theatre is named for Bonnie Bird, the pioneering American modern dancer and dance educator who with Marion North instituted the first academic degrees in dance in the United Kingdom at Laban.Bell-Kanner, Karen. ''Frontiers: The Life and Times of Bonnie Bird''. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Harwood Academic Publishers (Taylor & Francis), 1998. 172ff. Print. The theatre was used in the music video for 'Ingenue' by

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, featuring frontman

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with dancer Fukiko Takase.

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