What can – and do – the performances of Tanztage Berlin offer, against our backdrop of escalating social and political tensions? 

How to ‘land’ at Parcours Danse? French writer Marie Pons takes her first steps at the long-running Montreal festival

Echoes, dissonance and unison, exploring the stage as a group

On the social, spiritual, mundane and existential realities of living in a female body

Time and mortality take the stage at Rome’s Short Theatre festival

Presenting a variety and abundance of the current Italian contemporary dance scene

On the background to and the performances in the 23rd edition of the Cyprus Choreography Platform

The Festival d’Automne, a Parisian melting pot ‘à consommer sans modération’

London’s Dance Umbrella keeps moving with the times, 45 years on

Free public performances place dance – and audiences – differently

Two Springback writers took pot-luck at the big Berlin dance festival

A dance-focused look at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival finds humans on the edge…

In contemporary dance, is the intellectually interesting also the entertainment wary? You never can tell…

A festival where the body moves fluently – and intimately – between stage, site, screen and headset

Themes from the 13th edition of the international contemporary dance festival in the coastal town of Chania, Crete

The imprint of the past on the performance of the present, at the 40th edition of ImPulsTanz Vienna

This year’s Italian and international commissions at the Venice Biennale contrast in almost every way

Avignon’s national choreographic development centre distils styles and ambiences in its summer programme – on a daily basis

A selection of performances from Brussels’ expansive Kunstenfestivaldesarts shows its stylistic and thematic range

How was the strand of performances from Israel at Rome’s Fuori Programma festival?

An in-depth dive into the fourth and final edition of Berlin’s Queer Darlings festival 

Valencia’s long-running annual festival calls to dance, to rhythm – and finally to us

How a five-month season of dance in Rome is finding its niche within the city’s larger dance ecology

After Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, might contemporary dance be growing less self-obsessed?

Emily May found herself watching Czech Dance Platform through a postmodern-ish American lens (just don’t tell her teenage self)

A newbie and a has-been take separate routes through the London International Mime Festival

Róisín O’Brien figures a way round dance at the Edinburgh Festivals

In midsummer, the Italian city of Bassano del Grappa becomes a many-limbed festival of dancing

Not just the sights but the sounds: Lena Megyeri continues her route through Vienna’s month-long ImPulsTanz festival

Lena Megyeri looks at climate and memory in the first of two routes through Vienna’s sprawling ImPulsTanz festival

Munich’s long-running, many-stranded Tanzwerkstatt Europa serves as a quality sample of what’s in the air of current contemporary dance 

The big, well-organised Nordic dance platform returns with performances that are variously emotive, well-crafted, surreal and smartypants

A new performance festival moving between the ‘non-fungible’ or unique body and its digital reproductions and simulations

Beauties and realities mix and separate at the long-standing Greek dance festival

Dance platforms may be designed for professional development, but the art itself is their lifeblood. Anna Kozonina takes its temperature at Baltic Dance Platform 2022

A performing arts festival in Sicily that nurtures and rewards young artists – but is it enough?