5 SOLDIERS – the film: Screening and Post Show in Conversation
Location:
Chelsea Theatre
Date & time:
Saturday 3 Oct 2026, 4.00pm - 5.30pm
Price:
£25.00 (plus £2 booking fee per transaction)
Rosie Kay’s visceral dance documentary takes audiences inside modern military life, blending choreography and veteran testimony to explore service, sacrifice, injury and the soldier’s body.
About the event
A decade after its five-star premiere, Rosie Kay’s acclaimed 5 SOLDIERS returns, reimagined for the screen as a powerful new dance documentary. Created from Kay’s embedded research with the British Army and filmed with a cast of outstanding dancers, the film blends visceral choreography with testimony from former soldiers, exploring training, discipline, fear, camaraderie, injury, recovery and the human cost of service.
Rather than offering a political or ideological account of war, 5 SOLDIERS is grounded in lived experience, giving audiences a rare, unsentimental and deeply human insight into military life. It asks what it means to place the body on the frontline, opening up urgent conversations about military life, citizenship and the relationship between soldiers and the society they serve. Followed by a post-show ‘in conversation’ between Rosie Kay and General Sir Nick Parker.
Chelsea Theatre, 7 World’s End Place, London, SW10 0DR
Festival planning
Getting between Chelsea History Festival venues: This event takes place at Chelsea Theatre. Many Chelsea History Festival venues are within walking distance of one another, but journey times vary. If you are booking events close together, please allow enough time to travel comfortably between venues.
Estimated walking times from this venue: 10 minutes to Chelsea Old Church, 19 minutes to Chelsea Physic Garden, 23 minutes to National Army Museum, 25 minutes to Royal Hospital Chelsea, 26 minutes to Garrison Chapel, 30 minutes to Royal Court Theatre and 32 minutes to Cadogan Hall.
Additional information
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About the speakers
Rosie Kay FRSA is an award-winning choreographer, director and Artistic Director/CEO of K2CO. Her acclaimed works include 5 SOLDIERS, 10 SOLDIERS, MK ULTRA, Fantasia, Adult Female Dancer and A Thing of Beauty. A former Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the University of Oxford, Kay is known for bold, physically powerful dance theatre rooted in research, politics and lived experience.
General Sir Nick Parker KCB CBE is a former senior British Army officer whose 40-year military career included operational roles in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Sierra Leone, Iraq and Afghanistan. His final appointment was Commander-in-Chief UK Land Forces.