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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
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Tanztage Berlin 2024: rites of hope and grief
What can – and do – the performances of Tanztage Berlin offer, against our backdrop of escalating social and political tensions?
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Parcours Danse 2023, Montreal
How to ‘land’ at Parcours Danse? French writer Marie Pons takes her first steps at the long-running Montreal festival
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Festival d’Automne 2023 part 2: The more the merrier
Echoes, dissonance and unison, exploring the stage as a group
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From teenage girls’ songs to medieval saints’ torture at Moving in November, Helsinki
On the social, spiritual, mundane and existential realities of living in a female body
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Short Theatre 2023: Ante-mortem and posthumous choreographies
Time and mortality take the stage at Rome’s Short Theatre festival

























