A Balkan at the first Moving Balkans contemporary dance platform finds – of course! – a very mixed bag 

Two highly contrasting works test the temperature at a brand-new showcase of Romanian dance 

Three themes emerge from the many performances at a perennial festival for new choreographers 

Three body-based MimeLondon shows mining the exile of memory, the visuals of metamorphosis, and the entertainments of deception

The long-running Bologna-based performing arts festival takes gender as a lens rather than a topic

Deserts, flesh, flowers and budding new artists at Rome’s expansive festival

Queer revolution, performance as lab experiment, and breaking the internet at Romania’s festival of contemporary dance ‘and other reconfigurations of the sensible’

Connecting us through fire, rain, blood, haircuts – and big jumps

Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Chara Kotsali and Elena Antoniou charge artistic creation with personal and feminist resonances

What’s cosy about an octopus? Submerge yourself in the Amsterdam Fringe Festival to find out…

Loving dance is a matter of time – and place – at the Biarritz festival’s 34th edition

Pick your own route as three writers navigate nine performances from Berlin’s long, wide and varied Tanz im August festival

Surface impressions and deeper impacts felt at Vienna’s annual cornucopia of performances

Spaces, structures, bare skin, body mechanics and even hilarity at Vienna’s vast ImPulsTanz Festival

Works by choreographers from Belgium, Scotland, Denmark, Spain and Italy in a quick dip at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe

Stars, rockets, moonwalks, balloon farts and noisy shit… five world premieres and one national premiere by Greek artists range far and wide at Athens Epidaurus Festival

The second edition of Lugano Dance Project brought location, site and architecture into focus

Places for dance in times of unrest – a week at Tanec Praha