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Pichet Klunchun – Cyber Subin

June 11th – 13rd, 2025 Holland Festival, Amsterdam
June 15th – 17th, 2025 Holland Festival, Video on Demand
December 13th, 2025 Concertgebouw Brugge, Bruges
70 minutes

Traditional Thai Dance
with Technology

© Lee Chia Yeh & Pichet Klunchun Dance Company

The opening performance of the Holland Festival 2025 is Cyber Subin, which will also mark its European premiere. In Cyber Subin, choreographer Pichet Klunchun (Thailand, 1971) combines traditional Thai dance with technology. Together with MIT researcher Pat Pataranutaporn, he has created an AI that deconstructs traditional movements and generates new poses, resulting in a fascinating interaction between human and machine. 

The movements of both the people and avatars in Cyber Subin are based on “Mae Bot Yai” (59 poses from a traditional Thai masked dance, Khon) but will be reinterpreted through digital processes. The dancers are invited to react, resist or dance together with the avatars.

For more than two decades, Klunchun has studied the movements of Kohn dance, looking for ways to reinterpret these. He developed Cyber Subin in four phases: capturing the movements, codifying them according to six principles, developing an interface for interaction with avatars, and experimenting with dancers and AI.

Khon has been performed since the 14th century and was added to the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2018. As such, the piece is not just about the interaction between human and machine, but also offers a new approach to cultural preservation.  Cyber (derived from cybernetics) Subin (‘dream’ in Thai) shows how tradition need not be static, but rather lives and evolves.

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France

Amir Sabra & Ata Khatab – Badke(remix)

  • June 11th – 13th, 2025 KVS, Brussels
  • September 19th, 2025 De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
  • September 24th – 25th, 2025 VIERNULVIER, Ghent
  • September 26th, 2025 De Spil, Roeselare
  • October 1st, 2025 Concertgebouw Brugge, Bruges
  • October 18th – 19th, 2025 Dream City Festival, Tunis
  • November 11th, 2025 EXPORT/IMPORT FESTIVAL, Brussels
  • November 15th, 2025 Toneelhuis, Antwerp
  • May 19th, 2026 Pole-Sud, Strasbourg
  • May 21st, 2026 Espace 1789, Saint-Ouen
  • May 22nd – 23rd, 2026 MC93, Bobigny

75 minutes

A Different Image of Palestine

© Kurt Van der Elst

Badke(remix) is a remake of the dance performance created by Koen Augustijnen, Rosalba Torres and Hildegard De Vuyst. With 10 Palestinian dancers, Badke toured worldwide between 2013 and 2016. The reissue of Badke is now artistically in Palestinian hands, namely Amir Sabra and Ata Khatab, and becomes Badke(remix).

The title is a conscious reversal of dabke, the name of the Palestinian folk dance and the starting point of the performance. With backgrounds in traditional dabke, contemporary dance, hip-hop, capoeira or circus, the Palestinian performers bring a contemporary version of this dance traditionally reserved for (wedding) parties. Badke(remix) displays a zest for life and passion for dancing as a form of resistance.

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Sasha Waltz – Sacre

June 6th – 15th, 2025 Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin
90 minutes

Earlier Piece of Sasha Waltz

© Bernd Uhlig

Considered one of the key works of modernism, it is a 100 years after the genesis of Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps that Sasha Waltz takes on the Mariinsky Theatre’s offer to engage with this extraordinary piece of musical and dance history. Its title translates to The Rite of Spring. The strikingly archaic, tension-charged and angular composition is characterized by a strongly emphasized rhythm, precipitous drops and a layering of constantly repeating musical motives. Its many almost noise-like dissonances and expressionist sonic impressions have made the work one of the most famous pieces of music of the modern avant-garde.

Earlier large-format pieces of Sasha Waltz’, amongst others Na Zemlje (1998) or Continu (2010), have already showcased elements of her research into rites and group dynamics. With her choreography of Igor Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps, she dedicates an entire piece to these themes, in performances often accompanied by the Scène d’amour from Roméo et Juliette by Hector Berlioz and her choreography L’Après-midi d’un faune to the music of Claude Debussy.

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France Mediterranea Benelux DACH region

Peeping Tom – Chroniques

  • June 4th – 6th, 2025 Théâtre National de Nice, Nice
  • June 18th – 20th, 2025 Festival de Marseille, Marseille
  • September 27th – 28th, 2025 I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia
  • October 2nd – 4th, 2025 Torinodanza, Turin
  • October 8th – 9th, 2025 Triennale Milano, Milan
  • October 13th – 14th, 2025 Dialog Festival, Wrocław
  • November 14th – 16th, 2025 Anthéa, Antibes
  • November 20th – 21st, 2025 Les Salins, Martigues
  • November 27th – 29th, 2025 Châteauvallon Liberté, Toulon
  • December 5th – 6th, 2025 Le Carré Leon Gaumont, Sainte-Maxime
  • December 9th – 18th, 2025 KVS, Brussels
  • January 23rd – 24th, 2026 Tanz Köln, Cologne
  • March 4th – 6th, 2026 Le Vilar, Louvain-la-Neuve
  • March 20th – 21st, 2026 Teatro Central, Seville
  • March 28th – 29th, 2026 Emilia Romagna Teatro, Caserna
  • April 2nd – 8th, 2026 La Villette, Paris
  • April 14th – 15th, 2026 CSS Udine, Udine
  • April 28th – 30th, 2026 Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • June 4th – 14th, 2026 TNC, Barcelona

90 minutes

Peeping Tom’s
Next Chapter

© Sanne De Block

Among the immortal, each act (and each thought) is an echo of those who anticipated it in the past or the faithful omen of those who, in the future, will repeat it to the point of vertigo. – Jorge Luis Borges

Five figures are trapped in a temporal maze, mutating and colliding in an attempt to defy immortality. Their existence takes place in a vast sulfuric landscape, unfolding in a series of chronicles. Is this landscape the ground for new creations, or made out of remnants of what once existed?

Confronted with different laws and physical phenomena, their bodies reveal other behaviors and possibilities of being, without knowing if they are at the twilight or dawn of their existence. We are witnessing a bodily metamorphosis in an abyssal and poetic dimension.

Chroniques unveils the next chapter in Peeping Tom’s universe.

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Benelux

Ali Chahrour – When I Saw the Sea

June 2nd – 3rd, 2025 HAU, Berlin
June 11th, 2025 Les Rencontres à l’Échelle, Marseille
June 24th – 25th, 2025 Festival Theaterformen, Hannover
July 5th – 8th, 2025 Festival d’Avignon, Avignon
December 9th – 11th, 2025 Les Tanneurs, Brussels
70 minutes

A Celebration of Life

© Lea Skayem

The internationally acclaimed dancer and choreographer Ali Chahrour has created a language inspired by Arab myths and by the political, social, and religious context of his country. Through it, he explores the deep relationships between the body and movement, between tradition and modernity.

His new work When I Saw the Sea unfolds on a minimalist stage: the activists Rania, Zena and Tenei – the last two came to Lebanon as migrant workers – embark on a powerful journey of their previously unheard stories through dance, theatre and music. In doing so, they give a voice to countless other labourers from countries such as Cameroon, Sudan and Sierra Leone – people who have been deprived of their rights by the kafala system, which is similar to serfdom – and thus create a deep insight into the political and social reality of Lebanon. 

When I saw the Sea highlights the abuses of this repressive labour system while paying tribute to the courage and resistance of women fighting for justice and freedom. With a mixture of personal and collective testimonies, the work touches on themes such as love, motherhood, war, exile and home. With the music of Abed Kobeissy and the soulful voice of singer Lynn Adib, this is a determined celebration of life, rising above the pain of past struggles.

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Jiří Kylián Festival – Wings of Time

May 29th – June 14th, 2025, Oslo Opera House, Oslo
June 18th – 22nd, 2025 Amare, The Hague (ballets only)
2 h 5 min / 2 Breaks (Day before Tomorrow)
2 h 15 min / 2 Breaks (Day after Yesterday)

Full of Kylián

© Oslo Opera House

Such an extensive display of my work has never been presented before and will certainly never take place again!

Jiří Kylián

From 29 May to 14 June, the Oslo Opera House will host a unique event in the international dance world. The Norwegian National ballet celebrates the artistry of Jiří Kylián, the world’s greatest living choreographer, as he summarizes his life’s work through a parade of ballets, installations, films and photographic art.

The festival will affect the entire Oslo Opera House, with sculptures on the glass facade, a photo exhibition on the studio stage, dancing on the roof of the Opera House, and the world premiere of the installation Ensō on the side stage. On the Main Stage, seven of the world’s most beautiful and most profound ballets ever made will be performed, and the audience is invited to special screenings of Kylián’s films, accompanied by dancers and acknowledged trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær. Jiří Kylián has personally curated the festival and has chosen to present this grand retrospective of his life’s work at the Oslo Opera House. 

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day after yesterday

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Charlie Khalil Prince & Olivia Tapiero – concerto

May 29th – June 1st, 2025 Festival TransAmériques, Montreal
75 minutes

A Space of Mourning

© Sandra Lynn Belanger

How do we navigate a world hurtling toward its destruction, violently shaken by the ravages of imperialism? In the face of political and environmental collapse, Charlie Khalil Prince and Olivia Tapiero contemplate, hint, and insist, establishing a suspended time in order to meditate on violence, dehumanization, and solidarity. They ground their movements in plural and interconnected states of body that highlight our collective condition. In an intricate counterpoint of motifs and textures, the musical experimentation that shapes this work is a direct extension of the artists’ reflections.

Part concert, part installation, concerto combines theatrical, visual, choreographic, and sonic landscapes to create an astonishing and vital space of mourning where politics and poetics meet.

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Benelux

Lia Rodrigues – Borda

  • May 28th – 31st, 2025 Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels
  • June 3rd – 4th, 2025 PACT Zollverein, Essen
  • June 7th – 8th, 2025 One Dance Festival, Plovdiv
  • June 16th – 17th, 2025 MUFFATWERK, Munich
  • June 20th – 21st, 2025 WIENER FESTWOCHEN, Vienna
  • July 10th – 12th, 2025 Julidans, Amsterdam
  • August 27th – 28th, 2025 Tanz im August, Berlin
  • September 6th & 8th, 2025 Biennale Danse Lyon, Lyon
  • September 12th – 17th, 2025 Centquatre-Paris, Paris
  • September 19th – 21st, 2025 Théâtre Chaillot, Paris
  • September 24th, 2025 L’Azimut, Antony | Châtenay-Malabry
  • October 10th – 11th, 2025 Romaeuropa Festival, Rome
  • May 22nd – 23rd, 2026 DE SINGEL, Antwerp

60 minutes

Comfort and Hope

© Sammi Landweer

Borda in Portuguese refers to embroidery, decoration, but also to a border, the periphery, something that separates. Geographical and political borders create contradictions: hospitality and hostility, native and non-native. Who belongs and who is excluded, who has a right to exist? Metaphorically, the word ‘borda’ also means imagination, the ability to cross borders, to transcend.

With a new generation of dancers, choreographer Lia Rodrigues weaves a porous embroidery of liquid otherness, with edges that fray, float and dance. In her signature style, starting from the energy of the collective and using simple materials like textiles and plastic, she creates a unique ballet between bodies and matter whose recipe only Rodrigues seems to know. Bodies clump together into constellations, form masses and separate again. With great care, what was separated is brought back together. The result is a succession of powerful images and colourful tableaux. 

Rodrigues, after the savoured large-venue productions Fúria and Encantado, once again blankets us in comfort and hope.

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Elle Barbara – AUTOGYNEGAMY

May 28th – 31st, 2025 Festival TransAmériques, Montreal
90 minutes
in French (28th & 29th) / in English (30th & 31st)
Dresscode: All-black

An Interdisciplinary Performance of Stunning Intensity

© Samantha Blake

With AUTOGYNEGAMY, Montreal underground icon Elle Barbara has set out to create an interdisciplinary performance of stunning intensity. In a dazzling display of her talents—from dance to music, multimedia to revisionist Bible stories—the singer, performer, and model undergoes a rebirth before our very eyes. Amid the architectural splendour of Très-Saint-Rédempteur church, presided over by a priest/narrator, the story of her life is performed through a series of powerfully symbolic acts. Her gender transition, socio-medical sacrifice, and liberation are transformed by a bevy of professional and amateur dancers who revel in outrageousness and excess—just like the “queen of Montreal” herself.

In AUTOGYNEGAMY, Elle Barbara appropriates the rites of marriage, with the audience cast as guests at a wedding ceremony right out of a fairy tale, in a spectacular celebration of self-love and self-respect.

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Scandinavia DACH region

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
November 14th – 16th, 2025 LG Arts Center, Seoul
November 21st -22nd, 2025 Busan Cultural Center, Busan
March 29th, 2026 Steps Festival, Lugano
April 24th – 26th, 2026 Dansens Hus, Stockholm
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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