Countering exoticism, labour in dance, fingering seeds – and saying what words cannot

Writer Callysta Croizer returns to the annual Faits d’hiver dance festival in Paris

Consent, (dis)comfort, community… what Netherlands-based Springbackers saw and felt at Utrecht’s festival of gender and identity

A week with some moving parts of the ‘living organism’ that is Romaeuropa Festival

From sand to cave to museum, a selection of works from CODA 2025 mapped the fragile scale of humanity

A local yet international performance festival which asks its audience to ‘please, stay weird’

Estonia’s long-running summer performance festival takes in cake, coasts, and teenage love and sex

Three Springbackers experience some tectonic movements at Berlin’s major summer dance festival

The city of Kaunas is transformed through a festival of dance, performance and circus

A harvest of Greek contemporary dance – plentiful, not always tasteful

The radical intimacy of Baltic performance, in the context of a Nordic showcase

Dance from inside, outside and beyond the city of Prague – with a focus on Ukrainian artists

Is ‘the kunst’ in Brussels looking beyond the mirrors to our human selves and towards the bigger pictures of which we are part?

Goodbyes, hellos and no-shows at the 45th edition of Montpellier Danse 

A season on the topical theme of living with, among and from ruins – around us, and within us 

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 

Otherworldly journeys, visual provocations and personal worlds, by Greek choreographers and an international star 

Performative transformations that are sometimes shaky, sometimes stirring 

Hungary’s newer generations are making their marks in a markedly difficult world 

What are the new Rose and Bloom prizes? What was the selection, and who won the election? 

Everybody and every body – inclusivity is about more than representation 

Memory comes to life as a ‘contemporary yesterday’ at the long-running Paris festival 

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

Sound and song resonate through works by François Chaignaud & Geoffroy Jourdain, Marcelo Evelin, and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Rabih Mroué

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