A ground-breaking new season of performance art takes its cue from influences as diverse as The Cosby Show and Virginia Woolf.

Chelsea Theatre is once again hosting SACRED, with identity and gender the subjects loosely tying together this year's varied programme.

More than 20 artists are lined up to perform at the theatre in World's End Place, Chelsea , during the festival, running from November 5-28.

Among this year's shows is PanicLab's Swan Lake II: Dark Waters, described as an "estranged ode" to the famous ballet, in which a prince fluctuates between man and creature.

The opening sequence of classic US sitcom The Cosby Show is referenced in Happiness Forgets, featuring the Huxtable family and a series of dance moves.

Madeleine Botet de Lacaze, meanwhile, takes inspiration from the writer Virginia Woolf in Carrying Stones, an investigation of our body's resilience and the survival instinct.

Tickets cost £8-12 for each show, with festival and day passes also available.

For more information, and a full line-up, visit www.chelseatheatre.org.uk .