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Michael Keegan-Dolan – MÁM

December 4th – 7th, 2024 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
December 10th, 2024 Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône
December 14th, 2024 Festpielhaus, St. Pölten
December 17th – 18th, 2024 Théatre Senart Scéne Nationale, Melun
90 minutes

A Fresh Breeze from Ireland

© Teaċ Daṁsa

Bringing together the virtuoso, Irish traditional concertina player Cormac Begley, the European classical, contemporary collective, s t a r g a z e and twelve international dancers from the Teaċ Daṁsa company, MÁM is a meeting place between soloist and ensemble, classical and traditional, the local and universal.

Following the success of his acclaimed re-imagining of the world-famous ballet, Swan Lake/Loch na hEala (2016) Michael Keegan-Dolan and Teaċ Daṁsa have created another mythic yet timely production that acknowledges how life’s polarities can on occasion come together and find resolution.

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Kyle Abraham – Dear Lord, Make Me Beautiful

December 3rd – 14th, 2024 Park Avenue Armory, New York
Duration: unknown

The Big Thing in NYC

© Giocarlo Valentine

MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abraham is one of the most sought after choreographers and dancers of our time, creating a unique and expressive style of dance that explores issues of identity, history, and geography. In addition to performing and developing new works for his company A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, the bold creator has been commissioned by a variety of dance companies including New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, The Royal Ballet, and The National Ballet of Cuba. He has also choreographed for many of the leading dancers of our time, including Misty Copeland, Calvin Royal III, and Wendy Whelan. He unleashes his signature style—a unique blend of modern dance techniques ranging from ballet to hip hop—in the world premiere of a new evening-length work.

Featuring a large ensemble of dancers with whom he has collaborated from across the country, plus Abraham himself, this Armory commission includes an innovative visual design created by Cao Yuxi (JAMES) and an Armory-commissioned score composed and performed live by the critically acclaimed new music ensemble yMusic to explore the growing sensitivities of life and transition, and nature and humanity, in our chaotic world. The underlying choreography employs layers of counterpoint to find intimacy and evoke ideas of empathy and constant change, fueling an evocative new dance work that migrates through the fragility of time and an ever-changing ecology.

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Andrea Zardi – GRNDR_date no one

November 29th, 2024 Bari International Gender festival, Bari
Duration: unknown

The World of Dating Apps

© Andrea Macchia

Welcome to an underground digital grid: the world of dating apps. A figure—a speed model—jumps from one profile to another, from one body to another, canceling the distance but continuously looking for a way out. Loneliness, sexual drive, alienation, or simple interaction: which instinct pushes you to choose the closest profile? 

GRNDR_Date no one investigates the dating app phenomenon. Apart from being addictive, the use of sex-dating apps affects our way of perceiving the other, their body and their presence, consequences that intertwine with the new human and social relation dynamics. The work is characterized by poses and mutations, in which the body changes, showing the most desirable piece. 

Through the screen, the subject is exposed and vulnerable: an anonymous figure shows the best parts of themselves. The identity is irrelevant when the body details are more important, and all that can be demanded is to reach an instant pleasure when all that one might want to sweeten the sense of loneliness is just a few steps away. 

Andrea Zardi is an Italian dancer, choreographer and researcher. He trained at Hamlyn Ballet School, Nuova Officina della Danza, Tanzfabrik, Eko Dance Project and National Dance Foundation and worked for national companies and theatres. He obtained a PhD in Performing Arts Disciplines at the University of Turin. In 2018, he founded the ZA DanceWorks company, with whom he deals with artistic planning and curatorship in Italy and Europe. Currently, he is a research associate at the University of Turin.

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Harald Beharie – Batty Bwoy

November 16th – 17th, 2024 Bari International Gender festival, Bari
November 21st – 23rd, 2024 Sophiensæle, Berlin
December 6th – 7th, 2024 Kampnagel, Hamburg
75 minutes

A Captivating Solo

© Tale Hendnes

There are hints of dancehall dutty wine whirls, or sexy pelvis swaying. The movements are always ambivalent: they range between vulnerable, violent and ecstatic, yet become mechanical and ‘empty’ through numerous repetitions.

Jelena Mihelčić

Batty Bwoy is a solo performance in collaboration with Karoline Bakken Lund, Veronica Bruce, Jassem Hindi and Ring van Mobius.

Through a reappropriation of the Jamaican term “ Batty Bwoy” (litteraly, butt boy), slang for a queer person, the work twists and turns myths to invoke demonic sensitivities and charming cruelties, unfolding vulnerable possibilities in an interplay of consciousness and naivety. The horror and joy of Batty Bwoy, inherent to queer blackness, is unmasked. 

Scrutinizing the absurdity of a queer monstrosity, Batty Bwoy articulates the porosity of bodies and languages, their mouths swallowing and regurgitating the corporal fictions projected onto their skins.  

Batty Bwoy attacks and embraces sedimented narratives around the fear of the queer body as a perverse and deviant figure. The expression “Batty Bwoy” is used to evoke an ambivalent being that exists in the threshold of the precarious body, liberated power, joy and batty energy!

The work has found inspiration in mythologies, disgusting stereotypes, feelings and fantasies of the queer body and identities, homophobic dancehall lyrics, 70s Giallo films from Italy, resilient “gully queens” and queer voices in Norway and Jamaica that have visited and taken part of the process.

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Thor / Thier­ry Smits – Pinkie Ponkie

November 7th – December 7th, 2024 Studio Thor, Brussels
60 minutes

A Cabaret with Gaytitude

© Thor Company

Using Gilbert and George’s The Ten Commandments as a narrative backdrop, Thierry Smits revisits the gay aesthetic underpinning his work: Genet and Fassbinder, Pierre et Gilles, Francis Bacon, Sylvester, and Brokeback Mountain.

Set in a cabaret with a giant pink carpet, two dancers clash with humour and lightness as they reinterpret the iconic expressions of the LGTBQIA+ movement. From disco to country to ambient, this choreographic celebration is as wild as it is overly sexualised, as chromatic as psychedelic. From one scene to the next, the dancing takes us back to the world of camp.

Dynamically and insubordinately, it reminds us of the sources of a gaytitude that exalts our imaginations today.

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Marco da Silva Ferreira & João Pais Filipe – Terra Cobre

December 14th, 2024 Concertgebouw Bruges, Bruges
50 minutes

Sound, Noise and Silence

© Bruno Simao

Cowbells were declared an Urgent Heritage Safeguard by UNESCO in 2015. In Terra Cobre, the artists challenge traditional Portuguese iconography and symbolism, placing it in an exploratory and sensory context.

The work consists of a sculptural and sonic installation and a 50-minute performance, performed by Marco and João at the beginning or end of the installation. The installation serves as a backdrop for the performance and contributes to the atmospheric and performative narrative.

Marco and João, collaborating for CARCAÇA , explore concepts of identity, culture and society; reinterpreting ancient cultural heritage and challenging established conventions. They use cowbells to create a sculptural, sonic and physical composition that depicts a landscape full of memories where shepherds and animals come together.

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Yabin Wang – Journey to the West

December 8th, 2024 Gare du Midi, Biarritz
December 10th, 2024 Le Théâtre Olympia, Arcachon
December 14th, 2024 Le Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Cannes
85 minutes

Yabin Wang Is Back to France with Her Latest Creation

© Tasu

Yabin Wang first traveled the world as a dancer before becoming a prolific choreographer, subtly blending various styles of traditional Chinese dance with contemporary dance techniques.

For Journey to the West, which draws its inspiration from a great classic of Chinese literature, she collaborated with French composer Laurent Petitgirard, whose symphonic music inspired her to create a journey with cinematic aspects of breathtaking beauty.

At the crossroads of East and West, the choreographer breaks boundaries through the language of the body to capture the essence of the original work: a quest for spirituality.

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DUNJA JOCIĆ – We, Us and Other Games

November 6th, 2024 Theater De Veste, Delft
November 8th, 2024 Stadsschouwburg Haarlem, Haarlem
November 9th, 2024 Korzo, The Hague
November 10th, 2024 Lux, Nijmegen
November 11th, 2024 Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
60 minutes

A Hallucinatory Odyssey

© Dunja Jocić (website)

A powerful dance creation that prompts questions about new social hierarchies and interpersonal relationships in the virtual world.

Gli Stati Generali

In We, Us and Other Games, Jocić reflects on the ongoing digitalization of the human experience. A father searches for his daughter in a digital world called “The Living Project”, gradually losing his grip on reality. The performance, presented by an ensemble of eight dancers from the renowned Spellbound Contemporary Ballet of Rome, takes you on a hallucinatory odyssey through the digital subconscious, encountering androgynous insect armies, secret societies, masked parties, and a choir of children performing an ominous ritual dance.

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Echoes of ’78 – Kontakthof

November 26th/27th/29th/30th & December 1st, 2024
Opernhaus Wuppertal, Wuppertal
100 minutes

A New Encounter with Kontakthof

Photo: Ulli Weiss ©Pina Bausch Foundation

Originally premiered in 1978, Kontakthof is a seminal piece in Pina Bausch’s repertoire, created at a time when her work was beginning to receive international recognition.  

It is said that Pina often mused on the idea of seeing her original cast dance the piece when older. Now, 45 years later, a new encounter with Kontakthof is being created by choreographer Meryl Tankard, who was one of the main characters in 1978. 

Eight of the original dancers return to their roles as the production creates a poignant interaction between past and present. Kontakthof – Echoes of ‘78 integrates projections of archival footage from their performances as younger dancers, and with company members no longer on stage.  

Sadler’s Wells, Pina Bausch Foundation and Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch

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Euripides Laskaridis – LAPIS LAZULI

October 1st – 3rd, 2024 Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris
October 22nd & 23rd, 2024 Teatro Stabile Torino, Turin
October 27th, 2024  I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia
December 7th, 2024 Les Écuries, Charleroi
December 11th & 12th, 2024 Théâtre de Liège, Liège
80 minutes

An Unpredictable Performance from Greece

@ Pinelopi Gerasimou

Following the success of RELIC (2015), TITANS (2017), and ELENIT (2019) — which continue to tour globally — Euripides Laskaridis now presents his latest work, LAPIS LAZULI. Inspired by the mesmerizing blue semi-precious stone known for its unpredictable behavior under pressure, Laskaridis crafts an enigmatic world filled with intriguing dualities. The stone’s name, often interpreted as the “Stone from Heaven”, reflects both earthly and celestial origins, sparking Laskaridis’ exploration of contrasts on stage. Paying tribute to the rich diversity of theatrical genres — from amateur to commercial, horror to musical, ancient Greek drama to Kabuki, and beyond — LAPIS LAZULI also celebrates the complexity of the performing arts.

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