DANCE and theatre add to the packed schedule of the Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival.

Performances include Stateless and a triple bill from Ballet Black and fitting in perfectly with the city’s Magna Carta 800th anniversary celebrations is Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre King John.

Stateless, Joli Vyann’s new show, crosses the frontiers of dance, theatre and circus to explore the topical subject of refugees, immigration and journeys.

Its powerful stories of emotional upheaval and the fates of people crossing borders unfold with hand-to-hand acrobatics, bodies flying and falling.

Stateless played to sell-out houses at the London International Mime Festival earlier in the year and is devised in collaboration with French composer, choreographer and circus artist Florence Caillon

Stateless, Salisbury Arts Centre, Thursday, May 28, 7.30pm.

There will be a triple bill from Ballet Black featuring Mark Bruce’s The Second Coming. Following acclaimed performances in 2013, Cassa Pancho’s company of black and Asian classically trained dancers returns with a new triple bill of works by Kit Holder (Birmingham Royal Ballet) and Will Tuckett (Royal Ballet) together with award-winning choreographer Mark Bruce’s newest narrative ballet, The Second Coming. Ballet Black, Salisbury Playhouse, June 1, 7.30pm.

Leading the theatrical element of the festival line-up is Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre production of King John.

Following a series of sell-out performances at last year’s festival, organisers welcome back Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, who will perform King John, a tale of social upheaval, war and family feuding, set against the haunting backdrop of one of England’s finest medieval cathedrals.

It is in partnership with Salisbury Cathedral as part of the celebrations marking the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta.

This indoor production of King John will be staged just a few feet away from one of the surviving copies of the charter, and alongside the tomb of King John’s half-brother, William Longspée.

King John is co-produced by Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and Royal and Derngate Northampton and is at Salisbury Cathedral from May 27 to 30, 7pm.

For more go to salisburyfestival.co.uk