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

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

It’s all quite a performance at Avignon, with its IN and OFF festivals, its dancers and its audiences – including our writer, Robin Lamothe

Brazilian performance coursed through the Holland Festival this year, a river of many currents…

Dance artists from all over Europe and beyond settle in the Agora – International City of Dance for a historic summer festival

Robin Lamothe digests 20 shows in a day at the biennale competition for new choreography – so that you don’t have to

‘Sweet roaring’ promised this year’s Dansa València festival of national and international dance

Two (relative) youngsters share their experiences of a festival for (relative) oldsters

Tech, tailfeathers and tomatoes feature in the dance outings of London’s Taiwan Festival of contemporary arts

Sounding out the 18th edition of Rome’s Equilibrio dance festival

Walking between the Fra-Gi-Le, the absurd, the (un)dressy and the obscene – a weekend at the 12th edition of Swiss Dance Days

Crashing, banging, balancing, fighting, remembering, existing – it’s a high-volume outing for Onassis Dance Days