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?

Rome’s ‘untitled’ youth arts festival strikes chords with young people’s complex experiences of unentitlement

A new dance festival with a utopian setting – and vision?

Who were the hits, also-rans and could-haves/should-haves at the international Danse Élargie competition for new choreography?

A youngster helps out our grownup at a Greek festival of contemporary dance for youth audiences

Tomorrow is the question. How does dance move with and through the end of times? 

The Swiss dance platform is a cocktail of art, culture and dance… but which mixes hit the spot for Charles A. Catherine?

Channelled online in last year’s edition, LIMF 2022 reopens its many-faced, multi-sensory playground of live communication

Anna Kozonina selects from and reflects on the latest edition of Helsinki’s long-standing international festival

Lena Megyeri at the bumper edition of the Tanec Praha’s Czech Dance Platform

To complement our snappy 1-line reviews of 26 ImPulsTanz shows, let Lena Megyeri be your in-depth guide to one week at the month-long festival

Big arts festivals have been cautiously opening up to the public – but what is it like to be there? Róisín O’Brien sampled summer dance in Edinburgh…

Twenty-six performances from ImPulsTanz Vienna 2021 – condensed into one sentence each

A letter to and two postcards from ‘test events’ for the reawakening of live performance

Tanz im August director Virve Sutinen on rethinking the festival for post-pandemic times

A Springback spinoff at the seventh New Choreographers Festival

New voices at the Hungarian platform for performing arts – and new battles over state support and control

Controlling, uncovering and being the performer’s body, at the 2019 Portuguese Platform for Performing Arts

A week of dance at the Edinburgh Fringe, as seen by Lena Megyeri at the 2019 NICritics programme for independent writers

Lena Megyeri reflects on the crisis of objective in contemporary dance at Vienna’s contemporary dance festival.

Dance artists at Glasgow’s genre-crossing festival of experimental performance take you beyond performance itself