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Mediterranea

Alexander Ekman – Hammer (for GöteborgsOperans Danskompani)

May 24th – 25th, 2025 Zorlu Performing Arts Center, Istanbul
June 29th – July 5th, 2025 Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona
Approx. 2 h 15 min (including 40 min interval)

A Joy Called Ekman

© Tilo Stengel

In Hammer, a harmonious community shares an altruistic lifestyle inspired by the hippie era. They run, play, sing and enjoy life together. But slowly, the community progresses towards the modern age with its ubiquitous surveillance. The group’s behaviour becomes increasingly egotistical and individualistic. When we return for the second act, we find ourselves in a different place. Now we meet a group of self-conscious people in lonely bubbles. Eventually, unable to cope with all the false pretences, they are forced to relinquish their image-conscious facades and return to an altruistic existence.

Multi-award-winning choreographer Alexander Ekman is bold, unpredictable and innovative, just like GöteborgsOperans Danskompani. His visually powerful work turns a spotlight on contemporary society’s self-image, often with a humorous twist. Ekman has created some 50 works, which have been performed by almost as many companies worldwide. Hammer, a full evening in two acts, is his third work for GöteborgsOperans Danskompani.

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APAC

Adrian Lutein & Matsuoka Dai – UNUM

  • May 21st, 2025 EXPO National Day Hall, Osaka
  • May 24th – 25th, 2025 Kobe Bunka Hall, Kobe
  • May 27th, 2025 ROHM Theatre, Kyoto

Duration: unknown

The Multi-generational Integrated Dance

© UNUM

As part of the official program of the Kingdom of the Netherlands at the Osaka Kansai Expo, a new collaborative work between INTRODANS, LAND FES, and the Kobe-based Sadamatsu-Hamada Ballet Company will be performed at the Expo National Day Hall.

Based in Arnhem, Netherlands, INTRODANS choreographer Adriaan Luteijn, who has been working on inclusive activities to create dance with people with disabilities and the elderly, and LAND FES artistic director Dai Matsuoka, who has been promoting similar activities in Japan, Dutch and Japanese dancers will collaborate across borders to create a multi-generational integrated dance work called “UNUM.”

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Eastern Europe Mediterranea

Christos Papadopoulos – My Fierce Ignorant Step

May 8th – 18th, 2025 Onassis Stegi, Athens
May 30th, 2025 One Dance Festival, Plovdiv

Christos Papadopoulos’ Most Personal Work

© Christos Papadopoulos

With My Fierce Ignorant Step (Working Title), Papadopoulos seeks to consciously process the influence that “Axion Esti”—the monumental work by Mikis Theodorakis founded on the poetry of Odysseas Elytis—exerted on him, exploring the extent to which sound and speech can dilate and reach a state of abstraction that alludes to that of a movement: a lifted arm, an oscillating body, a trembling leg.

For the choreographer, the first impulse for the creation of “My Fierce Ignorant Step (Working Title)” is grounded in aural memories of his childhood and younger age, memories that he shares with many other Greeks: collective memories that are connected with the fate of this country, even if this is not immediately apparent. Is it possible to work on a text with the same composition principles applied to the choreography of a body? How close to words can a body come, and vice versa? Can this turn into a shared, transparent, and simple experience?

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Benelux

Nicole Beutler – NOW WE ARE EARTH

April 25th – 27th, 2025 Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Antwerp
May 27th, 2025 O. Festival, Rotterdam
July 8th – 9th, 2025 Julidans Festival, Amsterdam
100 minutes

An Eco-Futuristic Symphony

© Reinout Bos

NOW WE ARE EARTH is a grand future vision of choreographer and theater maker Nicole Beutler. Music, dance, choir, and audience unite in this eco-futuristic symphony, creating a sense of greater harmony. With 8 dancers and singers, accompanied by a city choir of 45 voices, this 100-minute piece becomes a vibrant convergence of sound and movement, offering a glimpse into a dream of a possible future.

The piece explores the theme of interconnectedness, seeking balance across five realms: animals, humans, plants, fungi, and technology.

NOW WE ARE EARTH promises to be a total artwork, a dance opera featuring a local city choir, with a key role for the audience. Drawing inspiration from the intricate, interconnected threads of a mycelium, the performers weave a multi-layered, resonating tapestry of colors and sounds, unfolding in endlessly branching and repeating patterns.

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Mediterranea APAC

Ballet Nacional de España / Marcos Morau – Afanador

April 24th – 25th, 2025 Yeulmaru, Yeosu
April 30th – May 1st, 2025 GS Arts Center, Seoul
July 10th – 20th, 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela, Madrid
100 minutes

The Power of Photography & Choreography

© MERCHE BURGOS

Afanador emerges from the tension between the fascination that emanates from Ruven Afanador’s photos, and my own fascination with all the mystery, so diurnal and yet so nocturnal, that once fascinated Ruven.

Marcos Morau

Ruven Afanador’s photography is not documentary or monumental—it doesn’t archive history or glorify its subjects. Instead, it is driven by desire, distorting and being distorted by its object. Desire, elusive by nature, shapes what it sees, revealing subjective and profound truths.

Afanador approaches Andalusian folklore through this lens, exposing flamenco’s raw subconscious—its passion, death, and untold stories. His work amplifies its essence into a surreal, evocative world of shadow and light, where he both observes and is observed.

Our work extends this vision, capturing Afanador’s gaze and the transformative power of photography. Like Goya’s Caprichos, these images blend familiar themes through association and metamorphosis, turning photography into both miracle and mystery. Each shot lingers just beyond reach, on the verge of vanishing into its own fire.

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Benelux DACH region

LeineRoebana Company – SILENZIO

April 20th, 2025 Osterfestival Tirol, Innsbruck
May 1st, 2025 Corrosion, Almere
May 10th, 2025 Meervaart Theater, Amsterdam
60 minutes

The Merry-Go-Round of Today’s World

© Anna von Kooij

When we don’t know what awaits us, silence is deafening. Threatening or serene. It makes us vulnerable. 

How that silence is transformed into music – into thunderous clusters, harmonies emerging from nowhere or hushed melodies – is audible in the music of the cello and accordion. How that stillness translates into movement – ongoing, eruptive, directly emotional or visually complex – is shown by LeineRoebana’s dancers. The dancer’s body becomes one with the breath of the accordion and the soul of the cello.

SILENZIO features iconic compositions for cello and accordion by Sofia Gubaidulina, Josquin des Prez, George Crumb and Arvo Pärt and electronic soundscapes by Dyane Donck.

Choreographers Andrea Leine and Harijono Roebana were awarded the 2023 ‘Prijs van Verdienste’ for their contributions to Dutch dance. The jury praised their ‘impressive performances, which are always completely individual and often show a surprising interplay between dance and the most diverse musical styles’.

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Central & Eastern Europe

Dance in the Gallery: A Fancy

April 12th – 13th, 2025 Hradčany Square, Prague

A Baroque Futuristic 
Guided Tour

© SE.S.TA

How to practise and inhabit an exhibition? How do the bodies of artworks haunt our bodies? And what about the emotions we feel when discovering a new place or work of art? The Baroque Old Masters II in the Sternberg Palace provides a reference to the project Dance in the Gallery: A Fancy, a kind of choreographed parade for “more art in our lives!” moving between the collections and Baroque palaces of the National Gallery Prague in Hradčany.

The SE.S.TA Centre for Choreographic Development has invited French choreographer Alban Richard, who will engage in a dialogue with NGP curator Andrea Steckerová, three Czech choreographers, and inspiring people of Prague’s local community to create a choreographic activation-performance in the form of a Baroque futuristic guided tour.

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Americas

Pseudónimo – IN VERSUS

April 10th – 13th, 2025 Matucana 100, Santiago
50 minutes

Human & Non-human Forms of Relationship

© Pseudónimo

IN VERSUS is a work that, through contemporary dance, performance and stage design, addresses the concept of otherness and its implications for contemporary human coexistence and development.

The piece invites us to reflect on the urgency of (re)thinking the ways in which people relate to each other and to the environment in the context of a globalized world marked by individualism and extractivism.

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France

Alain Platel – Out of Context – for Pina

April 7th – 9th, 2025, Centquatre-Paris, Paris
85 minutes

A 2010 Masterpiece

© Christophe Raynaud de Lage

In Out Of Context, director Alain Platel continues his search for a language of movement connected to the unconscious, the arbitrary, the uncontrolled.

The movement material covers the entire range of dyskinesia and dystonia, in other words: spasms, convulsions, tics. These can be very small mouth movements, teeth chattering, sticking out the tongue, eyes blinking, frowning, grimacing, moving the fingers as though they are playing the piano, briefly jerking the limbs, torso, pelvis or head, jolting the abdomen or diaphragm, balance impairment, falling over and a whole repertoire of silly walks.

Small tics swiftly alternate with big swings. Restlessly and nervously. Platel has long resisted the label ‘choreographer’, but still arrives at this term in another way. ‘Chorea’ is a medical term referring to an affected nervous system, the symptoms of which are jerky movements and poor coordination.

Ultimately, Platel goes back to his past as a special needs educator working with children with motor and multiple disabilities where he discovered the beauty of the malformed, the emotional power of the misshapen.

Extracted text written by Hildegard De Vuyst, Dramaturge (January 2010)

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Americas DACH region

Dorrance Dance – the center will not hold

  • April 4th, 2025 The Gogue Performing Arts Center, Auburn
  • April 9th – 10th, 2025 Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill
  • April 15th, 2025 The Gaillard Center, Charleston
  • April 25th – 26th, 2025 Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston
  • May 1st, 2025 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park
  • May 9th – 10th, 2025 Bluma Appel Theater, Toronto
  • June 25th – 29th, 2025 Jacob’s Pillow Festival, Becket
  • July 11th – 12th, 2025 Colours International Dance Festival, Stuttgart
  • July 30th, 2025 Vail Dance Festival, Vail

approx. 70 minutes

American Tap Dance Reinvented

© Christopher Duggan

As a pioneer of new tap dance, Michelle Dorrance has elevated the clacking of metal taps to an entirely new level. She has always sought to engage with other styles and with contemporary dance. Now, in collaboration with New York breakdancer Ephrat Asherie, Dorrance enters into a dialogue with street dance, which, like tap dance, originally emerged as a subversive form on the streets, rooted in protest and growing through improvisation. From the reflections of these two strong women, a connection develops, and other dancers contribute their own styles.

The Center Will Not Hold is born from “a little room,” a short duet created and performed by Ephrat Asherie and Michelle Dorrance in December 2022. The expanded and reimagined work now features 11 singular performers deeply rooted in one or many street, club and vernacular dances: house, breaking, hip hop, tap dance, Chicago Footwork, Detroit Jit, Litefeet, Memphis Jookin and body percussion.

Set to music by Donovan Dorrance with live percussion by world class drummer and percussionist, John Angeles, the piece is not about virtuosity or competition. It has a more serious theme, namely the current state of the world, where people wear masks to protect themselves. Dialogue gives rise to the question of whether the center, the middle of humanity, can hold – or whether everything will break apart and our world will plunge into chaos.

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