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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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Exploring the Tanz im August archipelago
Pick your own route as three writers navigate nine performances from Berlin’s long, wide and varied Tanz im August festival
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Xenia Koghilaki finds solidarity within brutality
Through the eyes of Xenia Koghilaki, the punkish practices of headbanging and moshing are less violent than they seem
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ImPulsTanz 2024 #2: shock and awe
Surface impressions and deeper impacts felt at Vienna’s annual cornucopia of performances
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ImPulsTanz 2024 #1: dancers that touch you
Spaces, structures, bare skin, body mechanics and even hilarity at Vienna’s vast ImPulsTanz Festival
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Snips from the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe
Works by choreographers from Belgium, Scotland, Denmark, Spain and Italy in a quick dip at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe
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Athens Epidaurus Festival: a selection of styles by Greek dance artists
Stars, rockets, moonwalks, balloon farts and noisy shit… five world premieres and one national premiere by Greek artists range far and wide at Athens Epidaurus Festival
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Building on dance & architecture: Lugano Dance Project 2024
The second edition of Lugano Dance Project brought location, site and architecture into focus
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Avignon: where sweating, schmoozing and cringe collide
It’s all quite a performance at Avignon, with its IN and OFF festivals, its dancers and its audiences – including our writer, Robin Lamothe
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Brazil in Holland, 2024
Brazilian performance coursed through the Holland Festival this year, a river of many currents…

























