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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
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Dance+: Call Me By Your Name
Dancing both awakens and disguises desire in Luca Guadagnino’s now classic coming-of-age film
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Bad apples, sour grapes and sufficient creativity: dance at Athens Epidaurus Festival
A harvest of Greek contemporary dance – plentiful, not always tasteful
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Baltic Takeover 2025: Necessity, not trends
The radical intimacy of Baltic performance, in the context of a Nordic showcase
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Tanec Praha 2025
Dance from inside, outside and beyond the city of Prague – with a focus on Ukrainian artists
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Slovak Dance Platform 2025 – in context
Caught in political crosshairs, the third Slovak Dance Platform continues to stand and to mobilise
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Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2025: beyond human egocentricity
Is ‘the kunst’ in Brussels looking beyond the mirrors to our human selves and towards the bigger pictures of which we are part?
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Critical distances: An outsider inside
An award-winning writer on ain’t knowing nothing about dance and getting more betterer with words
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Turning with the times: Montpellier Danse 2025
Goodbyes, hellos and no-shows at the 45th edition of Montpellier Danse
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Gyula Cserepes: Ultra White
The hidden and seen aspects of a dancer’s work, constructed as a performance
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Making Life in the Ruins – International Performance Festival
A season on the topical theme of living with, among and from ruins – around us, and within us
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Critical distances: Europe, seen from its East
How being East European can feel within the family hierarchies of European dance criticism
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In front, around and behind Aleksandar Georgiev’s Fantastic Futures
Principles and evolving practices in the work of Aleksandar Georgiev
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Critical distances: Breaking cover
When writing about a field you also work in, do you go under cover or do you break cover?
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Jesús Rubio Gamo & Kukai Dantza: Txalaparta
From roots in Basque cultures grows a fusion of musicians and dancers, of collective form and individual freedom
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Moving Balkans 2025: Bodies, boundaries, becoming
A Balkan at the first Moving Balkans contemporary dance platform finds – of course! – a very mixed bag
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Critical distances: Crossing lines / crossing currents
Artists, agents, venues, editors and writers tack different routes through the choppy waters of promotion, commentary and criticism
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Michael Kliën on Parliament, and choreography embedded in social life
Before a 7-week choreographic event in Athens, its initiator speaks about its ‘social choreography’
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