FROM high flying circus to comedy and contemporary dance, a packed season is being lined up this summer at The Point.

The Eastleigh venue is playing host to a raft of fabulous and ground-breaking shows kicking off on Thursday and Friday with Strike!

The show uses intense physicality and humour, innovative aerial structures and a deluge of cardboard boxes to blur the boundaries between circus and theatre as it explores man’s desire to break free from bureaucracy.

Contemporary dance from the UK and beyond will also feature this summer.

Now in its eighth season, mapdance brings together an exciting company of young dancers who are recruited nationally and internationally and will be at The Point on June 20. The evening starts with a curtain raiser by The National Youth Dance Company under the guidance of Akhram Khan.

Local talent takes to the stage on June 22 with firm summer dance favourite Hothouse. This year’s evening will feature performances from the Young Creatives and Satellite CAT scheme as well as local dance companies from the South East.

Solstice – the award-winning French classic from the ’90s – has been remastered for a new generation and will be at The Point as part of a Love Double Bill.

Choreographed by Héla Fattoumi and Eric Lamoureux, the piece is a dramatic duet of love and struggle and explores the complex relationship between a man and a woman.

The second part of the double bill features award-winning theatre company Every Day. A verbatim piece created from interviews, The Love Project paints a heartwarming picture of the people we meet, the feelings we have and the unique lives we lead. The double bill is on May 22.

Dance and theatre combine on June 28 for a show just for the little ones and their families.

Travelling Light and Bristol Old Vic present How Cold My Toes, which packs four seasons into one hour in an enchanting piece of dance theatre aimed at children aged from two to five.

The winner of the Fringe First Award 2013, Dumbstruck comes to the venue on June 5.

Armed with a stage full of instrument and a box of chalk Fine Chisel’s actor musicians conjure the rush of the waves, the buzz of a 1960s pirate radio station and the far from dry world of marine mammal bioacoustics.

Comedian and actor Omid Djalili is back with a splash for his new show on May 16. And rising comic star Andrew Lawrence will be warming up for Edinburgh at The Point with his new show Reasons to Kill Yourself on June 21.

Members of The Point Youth Theatre are off to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the summer as well.

They have been working on the piece, Error 404, which delves into the dark corners and playful spaces of the Internet since the beginning of the year and will be sharing the work with audiences in Eastleigh on July 29.

The Point Youth Theatre has also joined forces with The Point Youth Dance Company for an evening of beautiful movement and enchanting storytelling in Shhh!! on July 26 and 27.

And The Point and many of the artists associated with it will be taking to the streets in June to celebrate summer at Eastleigh Unwrapped.

Now in its second year Eastleigh Unwrapped is a day packed with performances for all ages. Help to build a flying machine, climb inside an enormous whale and watch a giant acrobatic wheel as it rolls down the high street. Eastleigh Unwrapped is on June 14 from 11am to 6pm and is free for all.

Tickets for all the events are on sale now.