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Moving Body Varna: on and off screen
A festival where the body moves fluently – and intimately – between stage, site, screen and headset
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Dance Days Chania 2023:
The Conscious BodyThemes from the 13th edition of the international contemporary dance festival in the coastal town of Chania, Crete
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ImPulsTanz 2023: past presence
The imprint of the past on the performance of the present, at the 40th edition of ImPulsTanz Vienna
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Home and away at the Venice Dance Biennale
This year’s Italian and international commissions at the Venice Biennale contrast in almost every way
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Chiara Bersani/corpoceleste: Sottobosco
A poetic other world is magically conjured from cloth, space, sound, bodies – and marshmallows
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Dimitris Mytilinaios: Repair
A Greek work selected for international exposure is rich in ideas, whether as postmodern profusion, density of material or to fill a vacuum
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Jam-packed: a day at Les Hivernales’ On (y) danse aussi l’été !
Avignon’s national choreographic development centre distils styles and ambiences in its summer programme – on a daily basis
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Out of the blues
Rosas dancer Carlos Garbin talks about becoming a Rosas musician in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s new Exit Above
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A bird’s-eye view at Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2023
A selection of performances from Brussels’ expansive Kunstenfestivaldesarts shows its stylistic and thematic range
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Fuori Programma Rome: focus on Israel
How was the strand of performances from Israel at Rome’s Fuori Programma festival?
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Mohamed Toukabri: The Power (of) the Fragile
Between mother and son, motherland and migration, this tender tale is moving – if not specifically so
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Simona Bertozzi: Onde
Form undulates with flow in a sensorial choreography of imagination, evocation and presence
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The wall and the circle
A European workshop on equity in dance prompts reflections on insiders, outsiders, in-betweeners and go-betweeners
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STHLM DANS: Curating outside the box
Talking about the big bang that opened STHLM festival in Stockholm – and about the act of talking about dance
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Baro d’evel: Là
Impressive but also frail but also funny, a show that is a little human, a little animal and a little magical
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Florentina Holzinger: Ophelia’s Got Talent
Beyond trivial and beyond tasteful… Holzinger rides again, through pop, schlock and Schiller
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Queer Darlings 2023
An in-depth dive into the fourth and final edition of Berlin’s Queer Darlings festival
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Is Marikiscrycrycry… a goner?
Both sides of the stage: audience member Georgia Howlett talks with creator and performer Malik Nashad Sharpe about their show Goner
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End on a high: Dansa València 2023
Valencia’s long-running annual festival calls to dance, to rhythm – and finally to us
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Orbita – Rome’s contemporary dance season
How a five-month season of dance in Rome is finding its niche within the city’s larger dance ecology
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Another angle on Czech Dance Platform 2023
After Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, might contemporary dance be growing less self-obsessed?
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An angle on Czech Dance Platform 2023
Emily May found herself watching Czech Dance Platform through a postmodern-ish American lens (just don’t tell her teenage self)
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Local in Limerick
Local works paired with international ones on the stage of Dance Limerick’s What Next festival
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‘What are these peripheral practices?’
Betina Panagiotara travels from the southeast to the northwest of Europe to find out what peripheral dance practices look like

























