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Sharon Eyal – Into the Hairy (Special Version with NDT)

May 15th – 17th, 2025 Amare, The Hague
May 20th – 24th, 2025 Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
May 27th, 2025 Theater aan de Parade, Den Bosch
May 28th – 29th, 2025 Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Utrecht
June 1st, 2025 SPOT Groningen, Groningen
June 3rd, 2025 Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam
June 5th – 7th, 2025 Amare, The Hague
55 minutes

The Eyal Effect
on a Large Scale

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For this expanded interpretation of Into the Hairy (2023), NDT and Sharon Eyal Dance S-E-D have joined forces. Originally created for 7 dancers, this collaboration unites two companies in an extended cast of more than 20 dancers to investigate a new perspective on the unique universe of the work. Together with co-creator Gai Behar and an original score by artist and composer Koreless, Eyal has created an evocative, unsettling, and dystopian journey. 

 Into the Hairy is a powerful, idiosyncratic work about the strength in vulnerability. The language of movement is hypnotizing, rhythmic, and elusive, the culmination of improvised moves caught and harnessed in a highly sensory and virtuosic form. Clad in bodysuits that highlight every move and muscle, the dancers exude a detached, otherworldly air and leave the audience entranced. Into the Hairy tests the limits of contemporary dance by connecting classical dance with the underground club culture.

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Friends of Forsythe

May 11th, 2025 Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels
June 26th – 29th, 2025 Montpellier Danse, Montpellier
March 25th – 29th, 2026 New National Theatre, Tokyo
60 minutes

A Captivating Dialogue

© Bernadette Fink

FRIENDS OF FORSYTHE is a collaboration between the renowned choreographer William Forsythe and Rauf “Rubberlegz” Yasit together with a group of outstanding dancers from different cultural and dance backgrounds. The piece explores the origins of folk dance, hip hop, and ballet, showcasing the diverse backgrounds and languages of the dancers through their physical communication on stage. It serves as a testimony to the power of movement as a universal language, capable of transcending cultural barriers and connecting people from different walks of life. In a captivating dialogue, the performers delve into the similarities and differences of these dance styles, celebrating the unique ways in which each style can be embraced and evolved. The choreography weaves a vibrant tapestry of storytelling that transcends the boundaries of traditional dance forms and emphasises the diversity and possibilities that arise when different dance styles merge harmoniously.

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Tianzhuo Chen & Siko Setyanto – Moyang 先祖 & Seaman 漁師

May 10th – 14th, 2025 Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels
55 minutes

A Meditative Journey

© Nathaniel Brown

Director and visual artist Tianzhuo Chen crafts a minimal yet compelling setting for dancer and choreographer Siko Setyanto, the protagonist of this evocative performance inspired by the stage of Japanese Noh, the oldest theatre art still performed today. They explore the intersection of ancient traditions and expressive dance improvisation to narrate the captivating tale of an encounter between the ancestors and a whale.

Joined by musicians Kadapat and Kakushin, Setyanto leads the audience on a meditative journey, drawing upon the fluid, expansive narratives of the ocean. The use of simplicity and stillness in the choreography contrasts with the intensity of the music. Together, they create an immersive experience that dissolves the boundary between reality and the spiritual.

Chen and Setyanto create two performances, independent of each other but linked by a thin thread, like opposite sides of the same planet. We can choose just one of the two, or travel to both. Chen gained recognition in recent years for his exceptional visual language. Now, he and Setyanto bring this extraordinary work to Brussels for the first time, offering us a glimpse of their visionary artistry.

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Christos Papadopoulos – My Fierce Ignorant Step

  • May 8th – 18th, 2025 Onassis Stegi, Athens
  • May 30th, 2025 One Dance Festival, Plovdiv
  • June 27th – 28th, 2025 Festival de Marseille, Marseille
  • July 2nd – 3rd, 2025 Julidans, Amsterdam
  • November 14th – 16th, 2025 Romaeuropa Festival, Rome
  • November 19th, 2025 Aperto Festival, Reggio Emilia
  • December 3rd, 2025 Concertgebouw Brugge, Bruges
  • December 6th, 2025 Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam
  • January 8th – 9th, 2026 PAWILON TAŃCA, Warsaw
  • January 24th – 25th, 2026 TMP, Porto
  • May 24th – 30th, 2026 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris

60 minutes

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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Damien Jalet & Kohei Nawa – Mirage for the Ballet du GTG

May 6th – 11th, 2025 Grand Théâtre de Genève, Geneva
June 5th – 7th, 2025 Kampnagel, Hamburg
January 14th – 17th, 2026 Maison de la Danse, Lyon
January 24th, 2026 Festspielhaus St. Pölten, St. Pölten
June 11th – 14th, 2026 De Singel, Antwerp
65 minutes

A Dream of Atmospheric Phenomena

© Gregory Batardon

With Mirage, Damien Jalet offers his very first creation for the Ballet du Grand Théâtre, where he has been an associate artist since 2022. Mirage also constitutes the fourth chapter of his collaboration with Japanese visual artist Kohei Nawa.

Inspired by the phenomenon of mirages and Fata Morgana – optical illusions linked to specific meteorological conditions, caused by light being distorted as it passes through different- temperature layers of air – Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa depict humanity wandering in a metaphorical desert in search of itself.

Through a series of unpredictable transformations inspired by different mythologies, climatology, botany and entomology, as well as Hayagawari – a Japanese kabuki theatre technique in which performers suddenly transform during a performance –, the piece peels back the performers, layer after layer, exploring an endless variety of physical and emotional states.

Sometimes evoking the spectres of a civilization at the edge of a dry well, sometimes crossed with the dazzling colours and sensuality of tropical nature, Mirage passes through like a moving, fluctuating, waking dream of atmospheric phenomena.

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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
  • September 15th, 2025 tadsschouwburg Utrecht, Utrecht
  • September 21st, 2025 SPOT, Groningen
  • September 24th – 25th, 2025 Het Nationale Theater, The Hague
  • September 26th, 2025 Chassé Theater, Breda
  • September 27th, 2025 Park Theater, Eindhoven
  • October 1st, 2025 Stadsschouwburg de Harmonie, Leeuwarden
  • October 7th, 2025 Stadsschouwburg Haarlem, Haarlem
  • October 9th, 2025 Nederlandse Dansdagen, Maastricht
  • October 11th, 2025 Schouwburg Hengelo, Hengelo
  • November 1st, 2025 Leidse Schouwburg, Leiden
  • November 5th, 2025 Musis & Stads Theater, Arnhem
  • November 30th, 2025 De Meervaart, 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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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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Dance in the Gallery: A Fancy

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

A Baroque Futuristic 
Guided Tour

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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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Pseudónimo – IN VERSUS

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

Human & Non-human Forms of Relationship

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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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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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