Campus and Facilities
Our home in South East London enables you to enjoy the best of both worlds: access to the city and space to reflect.
Our world-class Dance, Music and Musical Theatre facilities are all located near one another in our vibrant corner of London. The city centre just a 10-minute train journey away.
Laban Building
The Laban Building is the world’s largest purpose-built contemporary dance centre.
It was designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the Pritzker Prize-winning (2001) Swiss architects who also designed the Tate Modern and the National Stadium in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games. The building was lauded an architectural triumph when it opened in 2003, winning the Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize.
The architects collaborated with visual artist Michael Craig-Martin to create this iconic and bold building. The interior is structured as an urban streetscape, designed to provide inspiring spaces which reflect the fluid movements of dance. By day, the building’s semi-translucent cladding allows traces of dance and movement to be visible through the walls. By night, the building becomes a coloured beacon with light and movement spilling out illuminating the surrounding area.
Facilities
- Thirteen purpose-built dance studios with the latest sprung flooring and large windows, including a 100-seat Studio Theatre performance space
- Laban Library and Archive
- Laban Theatre
- Cafe and Bar
- Sound and video editing suite
- Additional studios and newly renovated Performance Laboratory at Laurie Grove
Accessibility
The Laban Building has been designed to ensure full access for people with a wide range of disabilities, from wheelchair users to those with sensory and learning difficulties. You can find out more about our disability policies here.
King Charles Court
Overlooking the Thames, King Charles Court is next to the greenery of Greenwich Park and surrounded by historical landmarks. Set in the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College, our building brings music to the ears of passersby, with the hum of artists at work in our practice rooms.
The building is open during term-time 8:00-22:00 on weekdays and on a more restricted basis during weekends and holidays.
Performance and practice facilities
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100-seat Peacock Room
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100-seat Theatre Studio, with sprung dance floor
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Elegant Philip Carne & Mackerras Rooms for chamber music
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80+ practice rooms
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Dedicated suites for Brass, Composition, Early Music, Harp, Jazz, and Percussion
Jerwood Library of the Performing Arts
Our Jerwood Library provides you with access to a range of materials and resources for your research and study. Housing some rare and unique collections, there’s lots to discover.
Music Technology
Our state-of-the-art facilities are available for everyday student use:
Recording studio
The Recording Studio is designed to industry standards and features a large performance area and control room, digital mixing, Pro Tools and Logic Audio and true audiophile quality monitoring.
In addition to recording work, the studio is used to teach recording techniques and is available for composers to realise acoustic and electro-acoustic works.
Keyboard Laboratory
The Keyboard Laboratory provides a further thirteen networked Mac workstations with full size weighted-action electronic pianos all of which are equipped with Logic Audio, Sibelius, and Auralia software. Composers also have use of the dedicated Composition Suite.
Accessibility
We are committed to providing easy access to all of our buildings. Lifts and ramps provide easy access to most spaces and we are constantly looking for ways to improve access.
Instrument collection
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Calfskin, plastic and period Timpani, drum kits, Latin, African and European tuned percussion
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All standard Wind and Brass orchestral doubling instruments
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Large collection of period instruments including shawms, crumhorns, baroque flutes, oboes, bassoons, trumpets, sackbutts and cornetti
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Extensive collection of keyboard instruments including grand pianos by Steinway, Bösen dorfer, Kawai, Petrov and Yamaha; harpsichords, a clavichord, electric keyboards, chamber organs, a fortepiano and the Dartington International Summer School collection of keyboard instruments and viols.
Find out more about instrument loans
Laurie Grove
Located in bustling New Cross, South East London, Laurie Grove was the original home of the Laban Centre. The building has undergone significant refurbishment and is now the hub for Musical Theatre training at Trinity Laban.
There are a variety of large open spaces perfect for dance classes and rehearsals, including two performance labs with adjacent dressing rooms, as well as intimate vocal studios which provide more private spaces for one-on-one classes.
Facilities
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7 studios (including 2 of Trinity Laban’s largest studios)
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2 dedicated vocal studios
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2 Performance Labs
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Dressing rooms and green rooms
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Computer suite
Musical Theatre Students’ showcase performances are staged at dedicated London theatres including external venues, such as Stratford Circus and Leicester Square Theatre in London’s West End, as well as Trinity Laban’s own Blackheath Halls, and the Laban Theatre, both of which are which are easily accessible from Laurie Grove by foot or public transport.
Accessibility
Laurie Grove is mostly accessible. It is a self-contained site with lift access to the first floor, but studios 5 and 6 are not accessible with step only access. Access to the Performance Labs is via an external route. Core facilities and student spaces are accessible. Admin staff and programme leaders are based in an office with a flight of stairs, but meetings with them can be arranged in other spaces.
