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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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Arno Ferrera & Gilles Polet: ARMOUR
The amorous armoury of the male body as both protection from and conduit to intimacy
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Song and birdsong dance at Festival d’Automne Paris
Sound and song resonate through works by François Chaignaud & Geoffroy Jourdain, Marcelo Evelin, and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Rabih Mroué
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Ingrid Berger Myhre: Spelling Spectacle
Three dancers moving through time. Every moment is bound to the past. Every movement has the future inscribed in it.
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‘For a New Beauty’: Gender Bender festival 2024
The long-running Bologna-based performing arts festival takes gender as a lens rather than a topic
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Marco da Silva Ferreira & João Pais Filipe: Terra Cobre
Unusual connections between Portuguese cow-herding traditions and contemporary aesthetics
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Highlights from Roma Europa Festival 2024
Deserts, flesh, flowers and budding new artists at Rome’s expansive festival
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Claire Cunningham: Songs of the Wayfarer
Navigating your own self, space and time while making space and time for others alongside
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Brat autumn: Iridescent Festival Bucharest 2024
Queer revolution, performance as lab experiment, and breaking the internet at Romania’s festival of contemporary dance ‘and other reconfigurations of the sensible’
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Hungry Sharks: Destination FCKD
Playing around with non-player characters leads to… Destination FCKD?
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Kentaro Kujirai: U-BU-SU-NA
A world premiere for a Butoh performance that arises from the conflicts and co-existence of past and present
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Bojana Robinson: Machine
An ascetic duet for mother and machine – both performing with brain and heart
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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
-
Arno Ferrera & Gilles Polet: ARMOUR
The amorous armoury of the male body as both protection from and conduit to intimacy
-
Song and birdsong dance at Festival d’Automne Paris
Sound and song resonate through works by François Chaignaud & Geoffroy Jourdain, Marcelo Evelin, and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Rabih Mroué
-
Ingrid Berger Myhre: Spelling Spectacle
Three dancers moving through time. Every moment is bound to the past. Every movement has the future inscribed in it.
-
‘For a New Beauty’: Gender Bender festival 2024
The long-running Bologna-based performing arts festival takes gender as a lens rather than a topic
-
Marco da Silva Ferreira & João Pais Filipe: Terra Cobre
Unusual connections between Portuguese cow-herding traditions and contemporary aesthetics
-
Highlights from Roma Europa Festival 2024
Deserts, flesh, flowers and budding new artists at Rome’s expansive festival
-
Claire Cunningham: Songs of the Wayfarer
Navigating your own self, space and time while making space and time for others alongside
-
Brat autumn: Iridescent Festival Bucharest 2024
Queer revolution, performance as lab experiment, and breaking the internet at Romania’s festival of contemporary dance ‘and other reconfigurations of the sensible’
-
Hungry Sharks: Destination FCKD
Playing around with non-player characters leads to… Destination FCKD?
-
Kentaro Kujirai: U-BU-SU-NA
A world premiere for a Butoh performance that arises from the conflicts and co-existence of past and present
-
Bojana Robinson: Machine
An ascetic duet for mother and machine – both performing with brain and heart
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