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In front, around and behind Aleksandar Georgiev’s Fantastic Futures
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Critical distances: Breaking cover
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Jesús Rubio Gamo & Kukai Dantza: Txalaparta
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Moving Balkans 2025: Bodies, boundaries, becoming
A Balkan at the first Moving Balkans contemporary dance platform finds – of course! – a very mixed bag
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Critical distances: Crossing lines / crossing currents
Artists, agents, venues, editors and writers tack different routes through the choppy waters of promotion, commentary and criticism
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Michael Kliën on Parliament, and choreography embedded in social life
Before a 7-week choreographic event in Athens, its initiator speaks about its ‘social choreography’
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A peek into Bucharest’s Dance. Context. Showcase 2025
Two highly contrasting works test the temperature at a brand-new showcase of Romanian dance
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Artdanthé: funny old woes
Three themes emerge from the many performances at a perennial festival for new choreographers
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Signposts, guiding lights and gentle protests: Candoco’s Over and Over (and over again)
Mingling the texts, subtexts and contexts of Candoco’s first full-length work by a disabled choreographer
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Christos Papadopoulos: My Fierce Ignorant Step
A storming ensemble of ten dancers meets the escalating marching beats of music; together they shake the stage
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ODDities at Onassis Dance Days 2025
Otherworldly journeys, visual provocations and personal worlds, by Greek choreographers and an international star
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Transforme Festival: Disturbing, but make it gentle
Performative transformations that are sometimes shaky, sometimes stirring
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Nextfest Budapest 2025
Hungary’s newer generations are making their marks in a markedly difficult world
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Side Step Helsinki: norm-breaking – outsourced?
At Helsinki’s Side Step festival, Anna Kozonina asks: can dance performance be communal and transformative without a real public conversation?
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Rose and Bloom international dance prizes
What are the new Rose and Bloom prizes? What was the selection, and who won the election?
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Everybody Festival: inclusion as genuine shift or selling point?
Everybody and every body – inclusivity is about more than representation
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Harald Beharie: the present body
Content, context, structure and process merge organically in Harald Beharie’s Batty Bwoy and Undersang
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‘Get Back to Dance’ – necessity or nostalgia?
The 2024 New Italian Dance Platform offered both an outlook and a critique – as does our writer
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Festival Faits d’hiver 2025
Memory comes to life as a ‘contemporary yesterday’ at the long-running Paris festival
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Moving on: MimeLondon 2025
Three body-based MimeLondon shows mining the exile of memory, the visuals of metamorphosis, and the entertainments of deception
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Ioannis Mandafounis: Taking improvisation centre stage
At Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company, Mandafounis is interested in ‘how focused you are in wanting to do something’
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We are family-friendly… get up everybody and dance
A dance project that connects families to dance – and to each other
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In front, around and behind Aleksandar Georgiev’s Fantastic Futures
Principles and evolving practices in the work of Aleksandar Georgiev
-
Critical distances: Breaking cover
When writing about a field you also work in, do you go under cover or do you break cover?
-
Jesús Rubio Gamo & Kukai Dantza: Txalaparta
From roots in Basque cultures grows a fusion of musicians and dancers, of collective form and individual freedom
-
Moving Balkans 2025: Bodies, boundaries, becoming
A Balkan at the first Moving Balkans contemporary dance platform finds – of course! – a very mixed bag
-
Critical distances: Crossing lines / crossing currents
Artists, agents, venues, editors and writers tack different routes through the choppy waters of promotion, commentary and criticism
-
Michael Kliën on Parliament, and choreography embedded in social life
Before a 7-week choreographic event in Athens, its initiator speaks about its ‘social choreography’
-
A peek into Bucharest’s Dance. Context. Showcase 2025
Two highly contrasting works test the temperature at a brand-new showcase of Romanian dance
-
Artdanthé: funny old woes
Three themes emerge from the many performances at a perennial festival for new choreographers
-
Signposts, guiding lights and gentle protests: Candoco’s Over and Over (and over again)
Mingling the texts, subtexts and contexts of Candoco’s first full-length work by a disabled choreographer
-
Christos Papadopoulos: My Fierce Ignorant Step
A storming ensemble of ten dancers meets the escalating marching beats of music; together they shake the stage
-
ODDities at Onassis Dance Days 2025
Otherworldly journeys, visual provocations and personal worlds, by Greek choreographers and an international star
-
Transforme Festival: Disturbing, but make it gentle
Performative transformations that are sometimes shaky, sometimes stirring
-
Nextfest Budapest 2025
Hungary’s newer generations are making their marks in a markedly difficult world
-
Side Step Helsinki: norm-breaking – outsourced?
At Helsinki’s Side Step festival, Anna Kozonina asks: can dance performance be communal and transformative without a real public conversation?
-
Rose and Bloom international dance prizes
What are the new Rose and Bloom prizes? What was the selection, and who won the election?
-
Everybody Festival: inclusion as genuine shift or selling point?
Everybody and every body – inclusivity is about more than representation
-
Harald Beharie: the present body
Content, context, structure and process merge organically in Harald Beharie’s Batty Bwoy and Undersang
-
‘Get Back to Dance’ – necessity or nostalgia?
The 2024 New Italian Dance Platform offered both an outlook and a critique – as does our writer
-
Festival Faits d’hiver 2025
Memory comes to life as a ‘contemporary yesterday’ at the long-running Paris festival
-
Moving on: MimeLondon 2025
Three body-based MimeLondon shows mining the exile of memory, the visuals of metamorphosis, and the entertainments of deception
-
Ioannis Mandafounis: Taking improvisation centre stage
At Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company, Mandafounis is interested in ‘how focused you are in wanting to do something’
-
We are family-friendly… get up everybody and dance
A dance project that connects families to dance – and to each other
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