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Alice Ripoll & Hiltinho Fantástico – Puff

August 19th – 24th, 2025 Dance Base Festival, Edinburgh (Special Preview)
September 24th – 25th, 2025 Festival Actoral, Marseille
45 minutes

A Solo of Disguise

© Camille Blake

Puff explores the concept of “disguise” as a recurring element in dances of the African diaspora—an element that transmits silenced cultures by concealing techniques, messages, traditions, or ancestral knowledge. The work explores the development of footwork techniques such as extremely rapid steps and the dissociation of body parts, which create illusions and suggest that something is being deliberately hidden from view. Puff—a light breath—also carries, in Portuguese, the meaning of something that vanishes as if by magic.

This solo performance marks a continuation of the long-standing collaboration between Alice Ripoll and Hiltinho Fantástico, who have been working together for the past seven years within the SUAVE and REC dance companies. Both collectives develop a hybrid language that merges contemporary dance with Brazilian urban forms. The two artists have collaborated in acclaimed works such as Cria, Lavagem, aCORdo, and Zona Franca, which have toured major festivals and theaters around the world.

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Isaiah Wilson – Score

August 12th – 24th, 2025 Dance Base Festival, Edinburgh
30 minutes

Body and Technology

© Brian Ca

Score is a contemporary dance performance that investigates the relationship between human body and technology. Electric Muscle Stimulation (EMS) sends electrical impulses to involuntarily activate the performers’ muscles. Using EMS, choreographer Isaiah creates a movement language shaped by computational code rather than conscious intent.

This work blurs the lines between biology and machine, asking urgent ethical questions about the use of emerging technologies in both artistic and everyday contexts. As tools once designed to improve life begin to outperform and even replace the human body, Score critically examines what is lost in terms of agency, identity, and cognitive autonomy.

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Kinetic Orchestra – Bolero

August 12th – 23rd, 2025 Dance Base Festival, Edinburgh
45 minutes

An Acrobatic Bolero

© Petra Kuha

Bolero is a duet in which a Bolero-named duet is practiced and prepared.

Two dancers specialised in acrobatics and floor technique have become tools of the classical artist’s genius, but inspiration is running low, and the choreography is not progressing. The pressure is high,
and emotions are heating up as they struggle to create something final. The work atmosphere is tense, the humour is dark, and the dance is dangerous.

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Hani Dance – INLET

August 1st – 23rd, 2025 Dance Base Festival, Edinburgh
60 minutes

About Walls and Borders

© Andrea Galad

Walls have played a significant role throughout human history, both physically and mentally. They act as boundaries, fortresses, and barriers, shaping our interactions and perceptions. In the dance piece INLET, choreographer Saeed Hani and his international ensemble delve into the concept of walls and borders, exploring their relevance in today’s world.

Inspired by the legend of Rome’s founding, where a wall holds symbolic importance, Hani raises thought-provoking questions. Growing up in the Middle East, he has experienced firsthand the limitations imposed by walls, not only physically but also morally and intellectually. Hani challenges the glorification of these barriers, questioning their impact on human progress and the denial of individual freedom. Through INLET, Hani goes beyond traditional contemporary dance, creating a multidimensional experience.

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LA VERONAL – LA MORT I LA PRIMAVERA

  • August 1st – 2nd, 2025 BIENNALE DANZA, Venice
  • September 24th – October 9th, 2025 TNC, Barcelona
  • November 1st – 2nd, 2025 Temporada Alta, Girona

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A Fantasy

Marcos Morau and La Veronal, a dance company of great international scope and prestige, explore Mercè Rodoreda’s dark imaginary to construct an allegory about creative freedom, social commitment, and art as salvation and refuge.

La mort i la primavera is Rodoreda’s unfinished novel both dark and beautiful, enigmatic and universal, rebellious and fatalistic, with a universe between the human and the sacred, the spiritual and the animal. A piece that expresses sadness and anger, but also resistance. Rodoreda wrote the work in the early 1960s when she was in exile, and it is thought to be a condemnation of totalitarianism and Rodoreda’s experience with nazism during WWII.

La mort i la primavera will open the season at the TNC after its premiere at the Biennale Danza in Venice.

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TAO Dance Theater – 16 & 17

  • July 25th – 26th, 2025 Biennale Danza, Venice
  • August 9th, 2025 ImPulsTanz, Vienna
  • October 12th – 13th, 2025 Dialog Festival, Wrocław
  • October 16th – 17th, 2025 SPAF, Seoul
  • March 4th, 2026 Amare, The Hague
  • March 7th, 2026  International Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
  • March 10th, 2026 schrit_tmacher Festival, Heerlen
  • March 14th, 2026 Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Utrecht
  • March 17th, 2026 SPOT Groningen, Groningen

70 minutes

The Latest Chapters of Numerical Series

© Fan Xi

This double bill from the TAO Dance Theater’s Numerical Series begins with a celebration of the dragon, a bringer of good look in China. Inspired by the Chinese dragon dance Loong, sixteen black-clad dancers from Beijing swirl through colourful light in the first piece, 16. And the seventeen bodies in 17, wearing black and white, activate their voices along with their movements, thereby turning themselves into a “mobile sound system”. With his minimalist yet virtuoso dance style, choreographer Tao Ye has found a path between tradition and futurism that brings the body and the mind into harmony.

TAO Dance Theatre’s choreographic Series of Numbers began in 2008 and has been invited onto the most important stages of the world, from the Lincoln Center Art Festival of New York to Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London, as well as the Sydney Opera House and the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. Its minimalist aesthetic further codified Tao Ye and Duan Ni’s method, achieving an exasperated repetition that seeks truth in the body.

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 Alexander Ekman – Play

July 25th – 27th, 2025 New National Theatre Opera Palace, Tokyo
130 minutes (incl. one intermission)

Sans Souci

©Benoîte Fanton/OnP

PLAY was created for the Paris Opera Ballet Company by Alexander Ekman, the Swedish choreographer outstanding in the contemporary dance scene. For its global stage premiere in 2017, it thrilled audiences with its fantastic and astonishing stage performance.

Alexander Ekman gained global recognition as the 2024 Paris Paralympics opening ceremony director and choreographer. As he explains, “I always try to find subjects that most of us can relate to. When we are kids, playing feels natural and normal, but as we grow older many of us stop playing, then there is almost an uncomfortable feeling around it. I wanted to create a work that sparks questions and makes people reflect on their own relationship with play.”

On stage, 43 talented dancers bring vibrant energy to the performance, using various play props like jump ropes and rubber balls. The show surprises and delights audiences with smiles and excitement while also challenging them with profound questions and encouraging deeper awareness.

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Virginie Brunelle – FABLES

July 23rd – 24th, 2025 Biennale Danza, Venice
February 20th – 21st, 2026 Penn Live Arts, Philadelphia
65 minutes

A Crying Need for Utopia

© David Wong

Through a rigorous movement vocabulary, Fables offers a sometimes harsh, sometimes poetic vision of women’s ongoing struggle. Against the backdrop of the chaos of an era turned upside down, the piece projects us into fantastical spaces from which larger–than-life characters emerge — contemporary female archetypes who paved the way to freedom from invisible yet real barriers. A universe of great evocative power, echoing a crying need for utopia, hope and humanity.

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Nina Laisné, François Chaignaud, Nadia Larcher – Último Helecho

  • July 19th – 21st, 2025 ImPulsTanz, Vienna
  • August 23rd – 25th, 2025  Ruhrtriennale, Essen
  • September 9th, 2025 La Bâtie Festival de Genève, Annemasse
  • September 12th, 2025 Oriente Occidente Festival, Rovereto
  • September 17th – 18th, 2025 Biennale Danse Lyon, Lyon
  • October 1st – 3rd, 2025 Musica Festival, Strasbourg
  • October 5th, 2025 La Filature, Mulhouse
  • October 14h – 15th, 2025  Les 2 scènes, Besançon
  • November 28th – 30th, 2025 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
  • December 6ht, 2025 Concertgebouw, Bruges
  • January 24th – 25th, 2026 Berliner Festspiele, Berlin

70 minutes

A Celebration of
Fluid Identities

© Nina Laisné

As an international co-production, artists Nina Laisné and François Chaignaud and singer Nadia Larcher have developed Último helecho, a performance that is carried by music, singing and dance at once and where Baroque meets South American folklore and mythology.

Último helecho is the second cooperation between François Chaignaud and Nina Laisné following Romances inciertos, un autre Orlando, for which they invented a special, poetically artistic cosmos: Drag and dance, old Spanish songs and queer hero*ine narratives were interwoven into a celebration of fluid identities and forms of expression.

While François Chaignaud also sings on stage, Nadia Larcher, who is a celebrated singer in South America, will try out the folklore dances of her native lands together with him on stage for the first time. The multifaceted repertoire of traditional music and dances from Argentina – ranging from chacareras via the majestic zambas to the huaynos – will serve as the underpinnings of the performance. The duo will be accompanied live on stage by six musicians whose artistic roots lie partly in Baroque and partly in folklore.

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Chunky Move – U>N>I>T>E>D

July 17th – 18th, 2025 Biennale Danza, Venice
September 26th – 28th, 2025 da:ns focus, Singapore
November 20th – 21st, 2025 Camping Asia, Taipei
November 27th – 30th, 2025 Freespace Dance, Hong Kong
55 minutes

Machine Mysticism

© Gianna Rizzo

U>N>I>T>E>D is the latest work in the canon of Chunky Move Artistic Director Antony Hamilton’s ‘speculative future’ performances, following recent innovative dance experiences created by the company such as Token Armies (2019) and Yung Lung (2022).  

Exploring ‘machine mysticism’ and the persistence of spirituality in a post-industrial digital age, the work is a major international collaboration with leaders in the Javanese experimental scene, Gabber Modus Operandi Bali-based streetwear label Future Loundry, Australian global leaders in animatronic design, Creature Technology Co., and a stellar line up of six dancers.  

Drawing from its artists’ individual artistic and cultural practices, U>N>I>T>E>D will be an exhilarating melding of sophisticated movement, infectious music and science fiction-inspired design, that honours technologies both ancient and contemporary; inner and collective.

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