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Sovann Rochon-Prom Tep – Millepertuis

May 23rd – June 2nd, 2025 Festival TransAmériques, Montreal
60 minutes

Between Exuberance and Surrender

© Do Phan Hoi

Millepertuis is both a journey and a moment of blooming. Shifting between exuberance and surrender, this solo piece was created by choreographer Sovann Rochon-Prom Tep to showcase the personality, charisma, and boundless energy of his friend and collaborator, the exceptional street dancer Walid Hammani. Recklessness and euphoria gradually give way to calmness and gentleness, revealing the depths and contradictions within us along the way.

A master of popping and electro dance, Walid—a.k.a. Waldo—passes through a series of emotional trance states. The flamboyant costume, lighting effects, music, and demonstrations of skill, often used to conceal vulnerability, gradually drop away as he reveals himself, allowing us to see and view him differently: an act of disclosure reminiscent of the millepertuis plant (St. John’s wort), whose dazzling yellow flowers contain a startling red oil.

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William Forsythe – UNDERTAINMENT

May 23rd – 31st, 2025 Hellerau, Dresden
June 5th – 8th, 2025 Schauspiel Frankfurt, Frankfurt
June 13th – 15th, 2025 De Singel, Antwerp
June 27th, 2025 Theater Freiburg, Freiburg
July 7th – 8th, 2025 Julidans, Amsterdam
September 9th – 10th, 2025 Auditorium Conciliazione, Rome
September 21st – 22nd, 2025 Biennale Danse Lyon, Lyon
October 4th, 2025 Aperto Festival, Reggio Emilia
November 13th – 15th, 2025 Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona
December 4th – 6th, 2025 Kampnagel, Hamburg
Duration: unknown

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Forsythe Returns to Frankfurt

© Dominik Mentzos

This is a full circle moment. William Forsythe is regarded as one of the most important choreographers of the late 20th century. His innovative approach to the tradition of ballet has opened up directions for dance that would otherwise be difficult to imagine. From 1984 to 2004, Forsythe directed the Ballett Frankfurt and from 2005 to 2015 The Forsythe Company, which was later renamed Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company.

Forsythe is now returning to the place of this legacy of many years and is developing a new work with the company for the first time. Starting from a toolbox of improvisational construction, he creates a structural order which, instead of signifying something else, offers an aesthetic pleasure in itself. Like in a kaleidoscope, patterns emerge that are always unpredictable and surprising yet within a clear framework. The dancers explore the movement system that they themselves form to its limits. The audience is invited to follow this exploration and experience the work as a living, breathing system.

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Luke Murphy’s Attic Projects – Scorched Earth

May 23rd – 24th, 2025 Dublin Dance Festival, Dublin
90 minutes

Fantasy and Fear

© Marcin Lewandowski | soundofphotography.com

Ireland marks a century of independence the ghosts of our history linger. Ireland is ever more concerned with development and progress, and this progress is ever more defined as built infrastructure. While the pandemic upended common expectations around where we work, live and interact, how the land is used retains its almost gravitational significance.

What right do we have to the land beneath our feet?

What would we do to keep it?

Parochialism, fear of the outsider and a deeply set desire to own, wander like shadows around a society grappling with modern questions of population, housing equality, opportunity and national identity. Inspired by the John B Keane’s seminal work The Field, Scorched Earth imagines a detective reopening a cold case, an unsolved crime twelve years after the fact. As stories are revisited and old wounds are opened The Detective and Suspect fall into a world of memory, fantasy, guilt and resentment.

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Jan Martens for Carte Blanche – CANCEL BERTHA

May 22nd – 31st, 2025 Carte Blanche Studio, Bergen
September 18th, 2025 Stavanger Concert Hall, Stavanger
October 3rd, 2025 Biennale de Charleroi Danse, Charleroi
October 22nd – 26th, 2025 Dansens Hus, Oslo
November 12th – 13th, 2025 Bora Bora, Århus
75 minutes

Jan Martens’ Debut with Carte Blanche

© Øystein Haara

CANCEL BERTHA moves to its own rhythm- a playful blend of energy, curated chaos, and unexpected creativity. The performance reflects Jan Martens’ signature approach: reimagining dance as a space for individuality, connection, and subtle humor. Scenes flow seamlessly from one moment to the next, blurring the boundaries between moments of ecstatic group energy and sequences of suspended intimacy.

In CANCEL BERTHA, music isn’t always what you hear—it’s what you see and feel. True to Martens’ fascination with rhythm, structure, and music scores, the dancers’ movements become their own soundscape. Silence holds as much weight as motion, and patterns emerge with geometry in delightful ways.

CANCEL BERTHA is bold without being brash, playful, yet precise. It’s a dense dance evening that draws inspiration from polyrhythms and a love for layered storytelling. The Carte Blanche ensemble crafts a performance that balances the poppy, the avant-garde, and the deeply human.

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Cherish Menzo – FRANK

May 22nd – 26th, 2025 Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels
June 1st, 2025 One Dance Festival, Plovdiv
June 17th – 18th, 2025 PACT Zollverein, Essen
July 3rd – 4th, 2025 Montpellier Danse, Montpellier
July 9th – 10th, 2025 Julidans, Amsterdam
September 24th – 25th, 2025 Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam
October 10th – 11th, 2025 Festival Actoral, Marseille
October 22nd, 2025 Take Me Somewhere festival, Glasgow
November 10th – 11th, 2025 Moving in November, Helsinki
Duration: unknown

Cherish Menzo’s New Work

© Bas de Brouwer

Choreographer Cherish Menzo examines the figure of the monster in FRANK —short for Frankenstein. More than (re)producing a physical or visual portrayal of the monster, she is researching the monstrous as an embodiment of beliefs and narratives that terrify and horrify, and yet also attract us. Distortion is a choreographic leitmotif used to generate movement material and as a tool to devour the dance and loosen its structure. Cherish Menzo investigates the action of decay and how something gradually breaking down and becoming less or worse can affect one’s gestures.

The performance space fabulates on the Baka Gorong, a place located at the back of the former plantations and in front of the wetlands, where enslaved people in Suriname secretly went to carry out Winti rituals – demonized under Dutch colonial rule – and to consider fleeing.

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Ayelen Parolin / Marco da Silva Ferreira – Malón / a Folia

May 21st, 2025 Concertgebouw, Bruges
March 21st, 2026 Festspielhaus St. Pölten, St. Pölten
Duration: unknown

A Joyful Tornado

© Laurent Philippe

Ballet de Lorraine glitter in a double bill, featuring work by two contemporary choreographers. In these works, Ayelen Parolin and Marco da Silva Ferreira both explore the joy of shared dance, as expressed at raves and in nightclubs. Parolin’s title Malón is a reference to a state of disorder, when energy and movement are amplified to the point of excess in a dance rave. Da Silva Ferreira’s title is a reference to the folia, a festive 16th-century Portuguese shepherds’ dance. Bringing out its ecstasy, joy and entrancing effect, he mirrors this folk dance to nightclub dancing.

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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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Ohad Naharin – MOMO

May 20th – 22nd, 2025 Tanz Köln, Cologne
70 minutes

Naharin’s Latest Creation for Batsheva

© Batsheva Dance Company

MOMO has two souls. One sends long roots to the depths of the earth – a soul that embodies archetypes and myths of hardened, raw masculinity, and the other is in a constant search for an individual and distinct DNA; one moves within its own autonomous and independent force field and the other is a constellation of elements that spin around the same nucleus – alternately drifting away and towards it, making room for necessary tenderness and catharsis.

With a soundtrack comprised mostly of the album Landfall by the legendary Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet, one of the foremost contemporary classical music ensembles, a shared passion of deep sorrow and beauty unfolds on stage. Relinquishment becomes a dedicated search for a crack, and glitches in the movement code turn out to be free, playful, and emotive material.

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Claude Brumachon – ÉCORCHÉS VIFS

May 20th – 22nd, 2025 Musée Bourdelle, Paris
75 minutes

A Tribute to Bourdelle

© Laurent Philippe

Created in 2003 by choreographer Claude Brumachon, the piece Écorchés vifs pays tribute to the work of Antoine Bourdelle. This danced promenade draws its inspiration from the sculptor’s studios and the museum spaces that inspired the choreography. In 2025, the company reinvents this visceral and skin-deep dance. The creation highlights the harmony between sculpture and the dancers’ bodies. In resonance, sculpture captures the material of the body, while dance sets it in motion.

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Camiel Corneille – SENESCENCE

May 17th – 18th, 2025 CaDance Festival, The Hague
50 minutes

The Dark Side of Perfection

© Sunny Jagesar

SENESCENCE is Camiel’s attempt to to counteract its transience and find an answer to it society’s ideal of feasibility. Getting older is an inevitable part of it life. Camiel about this: “As an artist I notice increasingly how my body is failing me starts to let up. The failing functioning of my body is a constant reminder of the inescapable reality: I’m getting older. I feel recalcitrant, but I will do it anyway have to accept.”

SENESCENCE will be an evening-filling experience, in which the audience identifies with one man who cannot do his own transformation accept until he has to. His struggle and acceptance also serve as a mirror for the public, who will also have to deal with a body that ages. Visitors sit around and experience the performance up close. Without a fourth wall. Grand, but intimate and confrontational.

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