The Place is a dance and performance centre in Duke's Road near Euston in the London Borough of Camden.

The building was designed by Robert William Edis as the headquarters of the 20th Middlesex (Artists') Volunteer Rifle Corps and built by Charles Kynoch and Company of Clapham between 1888 and 1889.

[5] The drill hall fell vacant when the 21st Special Air Service Regiment moved out to the Duke of York's Headquarters in the late 1960s.

[7] In 1976, the Contemporary Ballet Trust, under the leadership of Robin Howard, acquired the freehold of the premises as well as a site in Flaxman Terrace so facilitating an extension studio block to be built.

[14] Tharp stepped down in November 2016 and was replaced, as interim chief executive, by Steven Browning.