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Mirko Guido: TECTONIC
Embedded within a mysterious sensorial landscape, a solitary body responds, adapts and transforms
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Tanztage 2026: Birthday Edition
Countering exoticism, labour in dance, fingering seeds – and saying what words cannot
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Aristide Rontini / Skånes Dansteater: May Fall
Chopping and changing make for a discombobulating new work at Skånes Dansteater
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Festival Faits d’hiver 2026
Writer Callysta Croizer returns to the annual Faits d’hiver dance festival in Paris
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Looking for the essence of the New Italian Dance platform
The singular, yes, the plural, yes – but the strange? Not so much
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Are you in? Queer affirmations at What You See 2025
Consent, (dis)comfort, community… what Netherlands-based Springbackers saw and felt at Utrecht’s festival of gender and identity
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On international performing arts co-operation
Thinking about the ‘co-’ in cooperation – and community, and conflict, and continuity
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Cristina Kristal Rizzo & Diana Anselmo: Monumentum DA
An encounter between two distinct corporeal languages that make meaning from silence
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Aligned bodies, intertwined lives: the Baltic vortex of ‘IevaKrish’
An obliquely lit duet by Ieva Gaurilčikaitė-Sants and Krišjānis Sants that composes moves, maps emotions – and invites us in
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Moritz Ostruschnjak: NON+ULTRAS
Ultra football fandom embroidered into a choreographic tapestry of cultural merchandise and political division
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Eternal Flame: Romaeuropa 2025
A week with some moving parts of the ‘living organism’ that is Romaeuropa Festival
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Topographies of bodies and spaces: CODA Oslo 2025
From sand to cave to museum, a selection of works from CODA 2025 mapped the fragile scale of humanity
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Thessaloniki Fringe Festival 2025
A local yet international performance festival which asks its audience to ‘please, stay weird’
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Club Guy&Roni / Australasian Dance Collective: Bad Nature
A cross-continental, multidisciplinary collaboration aiming – and failing – to ask big questions on the role of art and nature in a growingly digital world.
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SAAL Biennaal Estonia: not best-of, but perhaps something better
Estonia’s long-running summer performance festival takes in cake, coasts, and teenage love and sex
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Shifting ground: Tanz im August 2025
Three Springbackers experience some tectonic movements at Berlin’s major summer dance festival
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Dance Your Way Home
An encounter with a summer-long season about dance as a place to belong awakens personal thoughts about leaving dance, and returning to it
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Between church walls and club beats: ConTempo 2025 in Lithuania
The city of Kaunas is transformed through a festival of dance, performance and circus
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Bodies in return: Panzetti & Ticconi’s All’Arme
Ideologies persist, ghosts return from the past – and bodies fall into step

























