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Thomas Lebrun – L’en­vahisse­ment de l’être (danser avec Duras)

January 18th, 2025 Théâtre Francine Vasse, Nantes
January 31st & February 1st, 2025 Les Brigittines, Brussels
March 18th, 2025 La Castélorienne, Montval-sur-Loir
March 25th, 2025 Gallia Théâtre Cinéma, Saintes
March 27 – 28th, 2025 Le Moulin du Roc, Niort
70 minutes

Dance with Marguerite Duras

© Thomas Lebrun / CCNT

Drawing on readings and interviews with the writer archived by the INA, Thomas Lebrun brings a staggering solo performance that defies all categorisation.

Somewhere between embodiment and a personal confession, the phrases intertwine with the movements in a fragility that only serves to exalt the poetry. In this inner journey, the whole landscape of Durassian literature explodes, sometimes with humour, often full of nostalgia, but always with the constant accuracy of what this writing intrinsically holds.

L’envahissement de l’être is a suspended moment that lands on an unexplored and fascinating shore of representation…

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UK/Ireland Benelux France DACH region

Oona Doherty – Specky Clark

February 6th – 7th, 2025 Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER, Ghent
March 7th, 2025 Festspielhaus St. Pölten, St. Pölten
April 24th – 25th, 2025 Lieu Unique, Nantes
May 9th – 10th, 2025 Sadler’s Wells, London
May 14th – 17th, 2025 Dublin Dance Festival, Dublin
June 24th – 27th, 2025 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
120 minutes

Meat, Sorrow and Irish Sounds

© Luca Truffarelli

Part fiction, part biographical, all elements are overlapping, and it will become difficult to determine what’s myth and what’s reality. 

It goes back to a time when families worked in the abattoirs of Belfast. Pigs in the garden of New lodge.

There’s something in the meat of me, bloodline, there is a pink fleshy vulnerability to me, to dancing, there is a violence in me.

This new show will follow the story of Oona’s Great Great Grandfather Specky Clark and his arrival in Belfast.

For this piece which will be unfolding in a series of theatrical images, Oona Doherty will collaborate with many faithful and new partners. The production features music from Irish band Lankum, Gavino Murgia and David Holmes & Raven Violet. Maxime Jerry Fraisse is sound designer, Irish playwright Enda Walsh is dramaturg, Sabine Dargent is set designer, Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust is costume designer and long-time collaborator John Gunning is lighting designer. The piece will be performed by an international cast of 9 dancers.

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Benelux

Andrew Graham – O amor natural

January 24th – 25th, 2025 Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER, Ghent
Duration: unknown

Care, Romance, Fluid Identity and Fantasy

© Andrew Graham / laGeste

O amor natural goes beyond the binary codes of yes and no and explores consent in all its non-verbal richness: whispers, body temperature, breathing, gaze and speed of movement weave a web of intimacy. The concept of consent raises many questions about care practices, but also about sexual and artistic practices. How do we know and how do we communicate what we do and do not want? On what basis can we consent to a practice that is still foreign to us?

For people with disabilities, touch is often associated with a medical act, as if their bodies are objects to be manipulated and moved without regard to their physical and emotional needs, in a relationship that is necessarily devoid of any sensuality. O amor natural is about giving ourselves the chance to express the complexity of touch in our relationships, where we often only allow ourselves to conceive of touch in a medical or sexualised relationship.

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Benelux

Alan Platel & Steven Prengels – Ombra

January 17th – 18th, 2025 Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
105 minutes

Between Despair and Mildness

© Koen Broos

‘Never was a shade of a tree so lovely…’, it says in Händel’s famous aria Ombra mai fu. Alain Platel and visual artist Berlinde De Bruyckere take inspiration from the shade of a tree as a meeting place, as a place where people all over the world and throughout history come together to rest, meet or discuss problems. De Bruyckere’s poetic world of images seems to share a kinship with Platel’s universe.

After the overwhelming success of C(H)OEURS 2022, Platel once again invites the chorus members, dancers and orchestral musicians of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen to join a creative dialogue. Together with singer and performer TK Russell and guest choreographers Mélanie Lomoff and Luis Marrafa, they create the performance Ombra. Composer Steven Prengels is developing a new orchestral score in which he interweaves well-known classical masterpieces by the likes of Händel, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven into new layers of meaning.

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France

Samaa Wakim & Samar Haddad King – Losing It

January 23rd – 24th, 2025 Théâtre Orléans, Orléans
January 31st, 2025 Scène Nationale Aubusson, Aubusson
February 4th, 2025 L’empreinte, Tulle
February 7th – 12th, 2025 Théâtre de la Bastille, Paris
March 28th – 29th, 2025 Points communs, Cergy
April 1st – 2nd, 2025 La Coursive, La Rochelle
April 8th, 2025 Scène nationale du Sud-Aquitain, Saint-Jean-de-Luz
April 15th – 16th, 2025 Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers, Poitiers
April 18th, 2025 Le Moulin du Roc, Niort
40 minutes

Between Fear and Hope

© Mohab Mohamed

What if you grew up in a war zone? How does that impact your identity?

“Can you still hear the bombs? I can hear them.”

What if you grew up in a war zone? How do you cope as a child when you are exposed to political conflict on a daily basis?

The choreographer and performer Samaa Wakim grew up in the occupied Palestinian territories. During this solo dance performance, she asks herself how these experiences impact her identity. Through movement and sound, she remembers her youth and the imaginary world she created in order to survive. Driven by her own sounds and live music by Samar Haddad King, she goes back and forth between fear and hope, between sounds that used to scare her and sounds that used to bring her comfort.

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France

Emmanuel Eggermont – About Love and Death

January 21st – 22nd, 2025 Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris
March 12th – 13th, 2025 Le Gymnase CDCN de Roubaix, Roubaix
April 2nd – 3rd, 2025 CCAM, Vandoeuvre
April 23rd – 24th, 2025 Pôle Sud CDCN Strasbourg, Strasbourg
75 minutes

Elegy for Raimund Hoghe

© Jihyé Jung

As a true danced elegy, this piece questions lineage in the choreographic field through the prism of over fifteen years of collaboration with the German choreographer Raimund Hoghe, who passed away in 2021. Aiming to shine a light on how this generation of creators continues to influence us, Emmanuel Eggermont revisits fragments of pieces woven from moments suspended in time, in which love and death act in the background, articulating them with other personal materials in order to imagine new writings.

In About Love and Death, it is both the iconographic and musical palette of Raimund Hoghe and the living kinesthesia of the imagination of Emmanuel Eggermont that are expressed. From fantasy of a fantasized fauna to the comical elegance of a Gene Kelly dancing in the rain by way of the syncopated energy of a Josephine Baker, this danced medley is accompanied by new sequences that multiply evocations, leading up to the incarnation of the ghost of Raimund Hoghe himself.

The ramified writing of this elegy-toned collection reveals an entire panel of references offering to all audiences, particularly those experiencing it for the first time, a path to access this unique and necessary universe in the panorama of the history of dance.

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Mediterranea Benelux France

Emma Dante – Il tango delle capinere

December 17th – 20th, 2024 Théâtre Silvia Monfort, Paris
February 7th – 8th, 2025 Liège Festival, Liège
February 9th, 2025 Salle Stotzem, Dison
March 5th, 2025 Gugliemi Theater, Massa
March 7th, 2025 Teatro Manzoni, Manzoni
April 1st – 6th, 2025 Franco Parenti Theatre, Milan
April 16th, 2025 Teatrodante Carlo Monni, Campi Bisenzio
April 23rd – 24th, 2025 Nest Théâtre, Thionville
May 15th – 24th, 2025 Théâtre National Populaire, Villeurbanne
60 minutes

A Love Story of
New Year’s Eve

© Rosellina Garbo

An old lady rummages through a trunk. She takes out a bottle of pills, a wedding veil, a remote control, lots of colored balloons… From another trunk comes the music of a music box. An old man appears. He is wearing an old, worn-out formal suit. The man looks at the woman and smiles. He immediately reaches her. He hugs her. The woman rests her head on his shoulder. He caresses her. She holds him tight so as not to lose her balance. He supports her. They dance. He takes a pocket watch out of his pocket: minus five… minus four… minus three… minus two… minus one… and at the stroke of midnight he sets off a firecracker. They kiss. He throws a handful of confetti into the air. The party begins. Happy New Year, my love! He and she are now sixteen. In bathing suits they promise each other eternal love. To the tune of old songs they celebrate the arrival of the new year by dancing their love story backwards. 

Il tango delle capinere is the deepening of a study, Ballarini, which belonged to la trilogia degli occhiali. It is the composition of a mosaic of memories that makes bearable the loneliness of those who unfortunately outlive the other.

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UK/Ireland

Matthew Bourne – Swan Lake

December 2nd, 2024 – January 26th, 2025 Sadler’s Wells, London
February 6th – 15th, 2025 Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham
February 18th – 22nd, 2025 Theatre Royal, Nottingham
February 25th – March 1st, 2025 Liverpool Empire, Liverpool
2 hours 20 minutes incl. one 20-minute interval

The 30th Anniversary of Bourne’s Genre-defining Work

© Johan Persson

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake returns for its 30th anniversary with a 2024/25 UK tour. This audacious reinvention of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece caused a sensation when it premiered almost 30 years ago and has since become the most successful dance theatre production of all time. In celebration of that ongoing impact, Swan Lake will take flight once more in this major revival for the next generation, visiting 19 venues over 29 weeks.

Thrilling, bold, witty and emotive, this genre-defining event is still best known for replacing the female corps-de-ballet with a menacing male ensemble, which shattered convention, turning tradition on its head.

First staged at Sadler’s Wells in London in 1995, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake took the dance theatre world by storm becoming the longest running full-length dance classic in the West End and on Broadway. It has since been performed across the globe, collecting over thirty international accolades including the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production and three Tony Awards for Best Director of a Musical, Best Choreography and Best Costume Design.

Matthew Bourne said, “As our swans take flight once more in this major revival, I’m full of anticipation for the challenges it will bring for our next generation of dancers and the wonder that it will bring to audiences who will experience it for the very first time.”

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Aaron S. Watkin & Arielle Smith – NUTCRAKER

December 12th, 2024 – January 12th, 2025 London Coliseum, London
2 hours incl. one interval

A New Interpretation of the Classic Ballet

© ASH

The whole thing feels familiar but fresh,
colourful but still classy,
sweet but not sickly.

Lyndsey Winship

This festive season, join Clara on a fantastical adventure where anything is possible. Embark on a journey full of colour and wonder as English National Ballet brings Nutcracker to life with over 100 dancers and musicians.

It’s Christmas Eve in Edwardian London. Clara and her mother are shopping at Drosselmeyer’s Sweets & Delights Emporium where she meets an enchanted Nutcracker doll. They take home liquorice all-sorts, nougat, marzipan and of course, sugarplums, to delight their party guests. As music and laughter fill the house, Clara has a magical sugar plum vision, sparking an adventure in which she bravely defends her home from the Rat King before discovering a dazzling ice realm and its Queen. Step out of the ordinary and follow Clara as she travels to the Land of Sweets & Delights where the Sugar Plum Fairy has arranged a grand celebration in her honour.

Choreographed by English National Ballet’s Artistic Director, Aaron S. Watkin, and Olivier Award-winner Arielle Smith, this new interpretation of the classic festive ballet combines exquisite dancing with spectacular sets and costumes designed by Dick Bird. English National Ballet Philharmonic perform Tchaikovsky’s iconic score live.

From the orchestra warming up, to the final bows and applause, English National Ballet’s new Nutcracker is an unforgettable treat for audiences of all ages.

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TNUA to restage Pina Bausch

December 20th – 22nd, 2024 Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taipei
December 27th – 29th, 2024 NPAC Weiwuying, Kaohsiung
January 3rd – 5th, 2025 National Taichung Theater, Taichung
35 minutes

The First Asian Version
of A Western Masterpiece

© 黎宇文

The School of Dance of Tapei National University of the Arts (TNUA) is staging Pina Bausch’s classic work, The Rite of Spring, for its fall production in Taiwan – the first Asian reproduction authorized by the Pina Bausch Foundation.

The reproduction, a highlight of this year’s Kuandu Arts Festival, will take the dance to Taipei, Kaohsiung and Taichung for a total of nine performances running from December 2024 till January 2025.

Made possible after two years of planning by the School of Dance, the restaging of the legendary choreographer’s work will feature TNUA alumnus Yu Tsai-Chin, a dancer from Wuppertal Tanztheater, together with four other dancers who received training under Bausch.

The restaging of The Rite of Spring marks the international recognition of Taiwan’s higher education in dance, particularly the heights that the TNUA School of Dance has reached.

Bausch’s The Rite of Spring premiered in 1975, and has since become a classic in the world of dance.

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