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Mei Chen, Yannis Brissot: Very Tiny Little Drop of Wax
A curiously cryptic hybrid morphs into an echo of a singer’s unregretted life
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Place of freedom? B.Motion 2022
In midsummer, the Italian city of Bassano del Grappa becomes a many-limbed festival of dancing
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Paths through ImPulsTanz, part 2
Not just the sights but the sounds: Lena Megyeri continues her route through Vienna’s month-long ImPulsTanz festival
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Paths through ImPulsTanz, part 1
Lena Megyeri looks at climate and memory in the first of two routes through Vienna’s sprawling ImPulsTanz festival
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Ex Machina
The unnerving AI disco dance in Alex Garland’s movie provokes ideas about dance, autopilot and self-programming
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Tanzwerkstatt Europa 2022: gestures from the zeitgeist
Munich’s long-running, many-stranded Tanzwerkstatt Europa serves as a quality sample of what’s in the air of current contemporary dance
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Ice Hot Nordic Dance: time to credit dance and controversy?
The big, well-organised Nordic dance platform returns with performances that are variously emotive, well-crafted, surreal and smartypants
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Maija Hirvanen: Mesh
Humans within a more-than-human world – but does the idea outweigh the material?
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Elle Sofe Sara: Vástádus eana – The answer is land
An audience gently transported from Berlin to Sápmi, to witness a performance of roots, reclamation and resilience
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Ivo Dimchev: In Hell with Jesus
Dimchev’s entertainingly provocative song, dance and quiz-show sees six characters in search of a musical. Meta, much?
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The Non-Fungible Body
A new performance festival moving between the ‘non-fungible’ or unique body and its digital reproductions and simulations
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Kalamata International Dance Festival 2022
Beauties and realities mix and separate at the long-standing Greek dance festival
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Baltic Dance Platform 2022: from intimate to social
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
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Presente Futuro 2022
A performing arts festival in Sicily that nurtures and rewards young artists – but is it enough?
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Dominio Pubblico: Senza Titolo Festival 2022
Rome’s ‘untitled’ youth arts festival strikes chords with young people’s complex experiences of unentitlement
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Czech Dance Platform 2022: two views
All of Czech Dance Platform 2022 in 40 minutes, divided into two viewpoints
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Danse Élargie: almost ridding dance of its borders
Who were the hits, also-rans and could-haves/should-haves at the international Danse Élargie competition for new choreography?
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What makes a performance contemporary?
Three works at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels take forms that articulate complexities of the world today
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Alice Ripoll: Lavagem
Buckets, cleaning cloths, soap and water become implements of joyous resistance
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Cecilia Bengolea: La Danse des Éléments
Awakening connections between dance, art, industrialism and personal history

























