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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…
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Montpellier Danse 2024
Dance artists from all over Europe and beyond settle in the Agora – International City of Dance for a historic summer festival
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In defence of continuity: the Duncan Dance Research Center
The losses of community and continuity faced by Athens’ Duncan Dance Research Center are all too familiar stories for dance artists – but the struggle continues, for the sake of both past and future
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Génération A Festival: Double Bill
A window onto an ongoing exchange project between dance artists in Africa and in Europe
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Danse Élargie 2024
Robin Lamothe digests 20 shows in a day at the biennale competition for new choreography – so that you don’t have to
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Purr, growl, rumble: Dansa València 2024
‘Sweet roaring’ promised this year’s Dansa València festival of national and international dance
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‘Prison is a system that has to be shaken off’ Catarina Câmara on CORPOEMCADEIA
Can beauty be a form of resistance? Can dance transform people, systems? An ongoing prison project uses dance to explore both chains and changes
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Simone Mousset: The Passion of Andrea 2
Part Passion Play, part Monty Python, a performance for a three-in-one trio of characters called Andrea
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‘What about 50 Over 50?’ Elixir Festival at Sadler’s Wells
Two (relative) youngsters share their experiences of a festival for (relative) oldsters
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Viewpoint: A case for purely live performances
Could the phenomenal rise of AI-generated media make us value live performance all the more?
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Taiwan Festival London 2024
Tech, tailfeathers and tomatoes feature in the dance outings of London’s Taiwan Festival of contemporary arts
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Euripides Laskaridis: Lapis Lazuli
In the latest of his surreal, anthropomorphic and monstrous masquerades, Laskaridis puts fear into the frame
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Moritz Ostruschnjak: Trailer Park
An energetic and unnervingly zeitgeisty work that both comes from and speaks to our age
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Trespass to access: opening up for visual impairment
A conversation with the creative team about how one performance has evolved as it opens out to visually impaired audiences
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Swiss Dance Days 2024
Walking between the Fra-Gi-Le, the absurd, the (un)dressy and the obscene – a weekend at the 12th edition of Swiss Dance Days
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Onassis Dance Days 2024: The echo of bodies
Crashing, banging, balancing, fighting, remembering, existing – it’s a high-volume outing for Onassis Dance Days

























