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People Watching Collective – Play Dead

January 15th – June 1st, 2025 Chamäleon Berlin, Berlin*
July 28th – 29th, 2025 GREC festival, Barcelona
August 1st – 2nd, 2025 La Strada, Graz
August 8th, 2025 Danseu Festival, Piles
August 14th – 31st, 2025 Letní Letná festival, Prague
October 23rd – 25th, 2025 Circa Auch, Auch
November 5th – 6th, 2025 MAC Créteil, Créteil
November 15th – 16th, 2025 Cirkuliacija, Vilnius
November 27th – 29th, 2025 Le Diamant, Quebec
March 6th, 2026 Steps Festival, Neuchâtel
March 8th, 2026 Steps Festival, Vevey
March 11th, 2026 Steps Festival, Baden
March 13th, 2026 Steps Festival, Bulle
March 18th, 2026 Steps Festival, Sierre
March 21st, 2026 Steps Festival, St. Gallen
March 24th, 2026 Steps Festival, Delément
March 26th, 2026 Steps Festival, Schaffhausen
March 29th, 2026 Steps Festival, Nyon
Duration: 70 minutes
*adpated version with longer duration

Canadian Circus Sensation

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With Play Dead, the Canadian company People Watching has created an astonishing debut work. The show will be re-staged exclusively for the Chamäleon in order to artistically expand the facets of the Chamäleon stage with its extraordinary and powerful aesthetic.

In a shifting universe of domestic trappings and interlocking stories, eight curious individuals dissect the beauty and absurdity of the human condition. A reverie, a purgatory, a place where anatomical logic and gravity don’t seem to apply. Through an otherworldly hybrid of acrobatics, dance and physical theatre, People Watching create contemporary circus that flows like water, sometimes gentle and reflective, sometimes relentless and impactful. Play Dead pushes physical boundaries at the intersection where circus and dance meet to celebrate life in all its eccentricity, the same way people desperately dance to the last song before the party ends.

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Justin Talplacido Shoulder – ANITO

January 15th – 18th, 2025 Carriageworks, Eveleigh
60 minutes

A Queered Filipino Ghost Story

© Justin Talplacido Shoulder

For early Filipinos, like many still today, it is believed that a life force or soul inhabits all entities, both animate and inanimate. These spirits are called Anitos.

Co-created by the multi-talented Justin Talplacido Shoulder (The Glitter Militia, Club Ate), ANITO combines collective craft, puppetry, dance and experimental electronic music to reimagine these myths and stories for the now. It’s a work rooted in Sydney’s underground queer and diasporic club scenes.

The collective behind ANITO create a “Queer Filipino Future Folkloric space of storytelling” that centres the importance of nature spirits, intuiting with them as guides towards imagining possible parallel futures. 

Performers Shoulder and Eugene Choi transform into animal-human-plant-machine hybrids. In this world of sheer terror and tremendous beauty, they interrogate colonial wrongdoings and queer ancestral mythologies.

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Mathangi Keshavan – 0’S & 1’S

January 15th, 2025 The Place, London
Duration: unknown

Triple bill with Blue Pieta and Sarah Santos

Dance the Data to Life

© Vipul Sangoi

0’s & 1’s traces the evolution of data and its impact on human life. The abstract nature of information is expressed through dynamic footwork, recited syllables, sharply etched hand gestures and creative use of props. The choreography blends ensemble sequences with narratives, bringing the concept of data to life.

Rooted in the movement vocabulary of Bharatanatyam, the performance incorporates veena, vocal, and percussion music, enhanced by an electronic score and data sonification. Combined with evocative projections and futuristic costumes, it creates an immersive sensory experience that brings the beauty of data patterns to life.

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Swan Lakes

MARQUEE TV
71 minutes

Swan Lakes in a Different Way

© Jeannette Bak

Watch three bite-sized performances inspired by Tchaikovsky’s iconic Swan lake.

Choreographer Eric Gauthier asked star choreographers Hofesh Shechter, Cayetano Soto, and Marco Goecke tending to take a single aspect or idea from the classic swan lake and transform it into something completely unique. There are no swans or white tutus here. Instead, each piece is a new and exciting creation.

Hofesh Schechter’s Swan Cake is a burst of energy featuring 8 dancers in constant motion.

Cayetano Soto’s Untitled for 7 Dancers is a moody exploration of transformation set to an electro-score by the young composer and cellist Peter Gregson.

Marco Goecke’s Shara Nur was inspired by a lake in Russia whose water is rumored to turn the body red after a swim.

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DOS A DEUX – ENQUANTO VOCÊ VOAVA, EU CRIAVA RAÍZES

January 9th – February 2nd, 2025 Teatro Adolpho Bloch, Rio de Janeiro
60 minutes

A Metaphysical Journey

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A metaphysical journey between dream and reality, we are nothing but an entanglement of shadows and light. In a space-time shaped by conscious love, we transcend our fears, anxieties, and wounds. A visual narrative, a deeply sensual and immersive experience.

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Carlos Aller & Cecilia Bartolino – A/way Home + Nothing Happens

January 9th – 12th, 2025 DOCK 11, Berlin
Approx. 80 minutes incl. 15-minute break

Double Bill of a Fascinating Duo

© Giampaolo Becherini

A/way Home

In A/way Home two essences intertwine – one veiled in opulence, the other adorned with the transient weight of existence. Through the choreography of being, strength and courage materialize in the affluent silhouette, transcending societal diversity. Simultaneously, the nomadic spirit unveils a dance of vulnerability, a silent rebellion against norms and expectations.

This evocative piece beckons viewers to immerse in the fluid interplay of acceptance, where two souls converge in an enigmatic narrative, learning from each other, challenging preconceptions and forging a unique bond. Within the shifting tapestry of existence, a symbiotic rhythm echoes on the stage, a heartbeat of compassion that defies expectations.

Nothing happens (Premiere)

Nothing Happens blends absurdity and irony to expose the conflicts of modern life, confronting global issues often concealed by a mask of normalcy. Inspired by Schrödinger’s Cat and Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus, the piece reveals society’s unresolved paradoxes. The performers shift between fractured identities, suspended in endless, surreal loops that echo a world avoiding truth. Themes of hidden realities, shifting identities, silent wounds, and global warming reveal a culture that obscures itself. Their intensified movements capture the discord of our age, while AI voices drift through like echoes from a dream. In this hazy space between self and reflection, the work asks if we’re ready to break the silence and confront the pressing truths of our time.

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Roland Petit – La Chauve-souris

December 31st, 2024 – January 5th, 2025 Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Rome
Duration: not indicated

Cabaret Maxim’s in Rome

@Yasuko Kageyama

Every night, Johann puts on a bat’s wings and flies off. Bella, troubled by her husband’s pleasure-seeking at night, consults with her friend Ulrich and starts a strategy of disguising herself as a mysterious beauty to seduce her husband. One night, Johann is captivated by her at a cafe and chases her without knowing that she is his own wife.He is soon involved a fracas and arrested. What will happen to the married couple’s love?

La Chauve-souris combines refined humor, urbane sensibility, and a touch of sadness at the end. Premiered by the Ballet National de Marseille in Monte Carlo in 1979, the ballet piece is based on the classic comic operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II.

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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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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
May 20th – 24th, 2025 Dublin Dance Festival, Dublin
June 18th – 29th, 2025 LG Arts Center, Seoul
August 27th – 31st, 2025 Shanghai Culture Square, Shanghai
October 9th – 26th, 2025 La Seine Musicale, Boulogne-Billancourt
October 29th – November 9th, 2025 Koninklijk Theater Carré, Amsterdam
November 19th – 22nd, 2025 Teatro Real, Madrid
November 27th – 30th, 2025 Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2 hours 20 minutes incl. one 20-minute interval

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

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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

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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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