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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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CODA Festival Oslo: dance connects us
Connecting us through fire, rain, blood, haircuts – and big jumps
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Three choreographers from Onassis Stegi at B.Motion 2024
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Chara Kotsali and Elena Antoniou charge artistic creation with personal and feminist resonances
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Agnietė Lisičkinaitė: every protest starts with the body
Lithuanian choreographer Agnietė Lisičkinaitė locates her work at the crossover between art and activism, dancing and demonstrating
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Catching dreams suspended in time
A conversation with Adriana Borriello and Thierry De Mey about interweaving sound and motion, rationality and spirituality
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Getting cosy at Amsterdam Fringe Festival
What’s cosy about an octopus? Submerge yourself in the Amsterdam Fringe Festival to find out…
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Mette Ingvartsen: RUSH
A retrospective in a ‘rush’ becomes a skilful and yet intimate reenactment that connects past and present
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Samir Kennedy: The Aching
Inviting ghosts to the party, Samir Kennedy’s sweet solo requiem subtly blends loss, hope and desire
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Le temps d’aimer la danse – Biarritz 2024
Loving dance is a matter of time – and place – at the Biarritz festival’s 34th edition
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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
-
CODA Festival Oslo: dance connects us
Connecting us through fire, rain, blood, haircuts – and big jumps
-
Three choreographers from Onassis Stegi at B.Motion 2024
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Chara Kotsali and Elena Antoniou charge artistic creation with personal and feminist resonances
-
Agnietė Lisičkinaitė: every protest starts with the body
Lithuanian choreographer Agnietė Lisičkinaitė locates her work at the crossover between art and activism, dancing and demonstrating
-
Catching dreams suspended in time
A conversation with Adriana Borriello and Thierry De Mey about interweaving sound and motion, rationality and spirituality
-
Getting cosy at Amsterdam Fringe Festival
What’s cosy about an octopus? Submerge yourself in the Amsterdam Fringe Festival to find out…
-
Mette Ingvartsen: RUSH
A retrospective in a ‘rush’ becomes a skilful and yet intimate reenactment that connects past and present
-
Samir Kennedy: The Aching
Inviting ghosts to the party, Samir Kennedy’s sweet solo requiem subtly blends loss, hope and desire
-
Le temps d’aimer la danse – Biarritz 2024
Loving dance is a matter of time – and place – at the Biarritz festival’s 34th edition
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