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Adam Seid Tahir – Dawn

December 10th – 11th, 2025 Dansstationen, Malmö
50 minutes

A Never-Ending Dawn

At times jittery and rapid, but then again lunging and feline, Tahir explores every shadowed corner to a soundtrack of galloping horses. Just as in any ritual, the time here is suspended if not abolished altogether.

Evgeny Borisenko
© José Figueroa

Dawn is exploring and reinterpreting Norse mythology through an Afro-nordic lens. In this piece Adam Seid Tahir is exploring and reflecting over the power contained within the symbols of day and night, light and dark? A binary that has been taken “hostage” through historical uses of the symbolic moral meanings of “good” and “bad”.

This work is a reflection upon the magical potential of both, the cyclical forces of light and dark and the shades in between. Foremost a continuation of the tradition of storytelling of myths and magical creatures and as a political gesture inserting a black body, a queer representation into Norse mythology.

Dawn is the first work in a series that re-interpret the runic alphabet of the Elder Futhark through a queer Afro-Nordic lens. This piece departs from the rune Dagaz, a rune symbolizing: day, dawn, awakening. Like all runes of the Elder Futhark, Dagaz carries many myths. Through these stories Dawn forms re-interpretations and alternate associations.

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NAWAL AÏT BENALLA – CE QUI NOUS TRAVERSE

October 15th – 18th, 2025 Théâtre Silvia Monfort, Paris
November 6th – 7th, 2025 Châteauvallon-Liberté, Toulon
December 16th – 17th, 2025 Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
60 minutes

The Raw Power

© Julie Cherki

In an era dominated by technological advancement and artificial intelligence, Nawal Aït Benalla’s new creation, Ce qui nous traverse, presents a powerful return to human connection through movement.

Five dancers with distinct physiques explore the raw power of the human body as a universal language within an intimate setting, engaging in metronomic, repetitive movements that evolve into a controlled, trance-like state.

Through elaborate choreography and striking contrasts – sudden accelerations, decelerations, and moments of near stillness – Benalla questions our relationship with our bodies and physical connection in shared space. The piece aims to highlight our corporeal forms as powerful instruments, capable of connecting us all and transcending divisions of class, culture, and education.

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NDT 1 ONLINE – RESONANCE

October 10th – 11th, 2025 Livestreams

NDT’s New Online Season

© Rahi Rezvani

On October 10 and 11 you can watch RESONANCE, the first NDT 1 programme of the season, as a livestream from the comfort of your living room. Experience Jiří Kylián’s Mémoires d’Oubliettes (2009) up close, find yourself right in the middle of Crystal Pite’s satirical boardroom drama The Statement (2016), and be moved by Marco Goecke’s emotional Woke up Blind (2016), set to the music of Jeff Buckley.

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Sankai Juku – TOTEM Vacuum and Heights

  • October 9th – 13th, 2025 Setagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo
  • October 17th – 18th, 2025 Dialog Festival, Wrocław
  • November 1st, 2025 Biwako Hall, Ōtsu

85 minutes

The Final Work of
Ushio Amagatsu

© Sankai Juku

The eponymous totem rises at the exact center of the stage, above four rectangular spaces that divide the floor into perfect quarters. Tall and striking, it is formed from three “pillars”, the central one capped with a small, inverted pyramid whose sharp tip points downward. Behind it, two large metal hoops sweep across the background, slowly traversing the space until they meet in the finale. 

Into this simple yet exquisitely arranged setting enter four figures—shaved heads, white-painted faces, and matching ceremonial costumes of white and red. They move slowly, with quiet dignity, to take their places. Once aligned, they begin a dance in which two truths are immediately clear: the four become one, and the totem stands as the ritual’s unwavering focal point. Thus begins an extraordinary performance. 

Ushio Amagatsu—the legendary founder of Sankai Juku, and the conceptualizer, director, and choreographer of the piece—explained: “There are several definitions of a totem. It can be a specific object serving as a sign or symbol of a group, tribe, or blood relation; sometimes it can be a wild animal or plant. The subtitle «Void and Height» refers to a work by stage artist Natsuyuki Nakanishi. It evokes the space that rises between four places.” 

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Hannes Langolf – HOW ABOUT NOW

October 4th, 2025 The Lowry, Salford
October 15th – 18th, 2025 Les Brigittines, Brussels
60 minutes

A Claustrophobic Encounter

© Hugo Glendinnig

A man steps out for air. Another is already there. One talks too much. One doesn’t say enough.

What begins as small talk quickly spirals into a volatile game of dominance. 

Set entirely within a transparent glass box, HOW ABOUT NOW is a claustrophobic encounter – two people testing what can be said, what can be taken back. Around them, the air thickens: a mind, a digital void, a confessional, where truths distort, and intimacy curdles into threat.

Inspired by Max Frisch’s The Arsonists – a parable of denial and complicity in the face of quiet catastrophe – While Frisch asks how fascism is allowed into the home under the guise of civility and denial, this production transposes societal unease into a more intimate crisis: the erosion of connection, trust, and self-awareness.

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Emmanuel Eggermont – Open my chest and place our tomorrows inside

  • September 19th – 20th, 2025 Biennale Danse Lyon, Lyon
  • October 14th – 15th, 2025 Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand

50 minutes

Art Will Save the World?

© Jihyé Jung

Inspired by graffiti saying “Art will save the world”, Eggermont invites young people to share memories, poems, and references. These fragments form a time capsule, portraying a generation in search of meaning. Through his gestural language and music, Eggermont’s dance becomes a refuge, affirming art as a force for resilience and renewal in troubled times.

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Daniel Proietto – Hidden

September 19th, 2025 Lascaux IV, Montignac-Lascaux
October 3rd, 2025 ARTONOV, Brussels
45 minutes

Myth & Movement

© 2021 Daniel Proietto I House of Drama I KNOW

Created by Daniel Proietto, Hidden is a journey to the origins of art, myth and human consciousness. Blending film with live dance and music, the performance was first developed for the monumental spaces of Lascaux IV (International Centre for Parietal Art) and conceived to unfold across architectural and natural environments — evoking a ritual space of presence and ancestral memory.

Performed by acclaimed ballerina Yolanda Correa and Daniel Proietto, the work embodies themes of birth, life, and mortality. It merges myth, movement, and deep time — inviting reflection on what endures in us, what must be reclaimed, and what we carry forward.

Originally created as a commission for Lascaux IV, Hidden was developed in dialogue with Snøhetta, the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, and KNOW NATION. It now appears in a new spatial adaptation for the Artonov Festival, with the Tana Quartet performing music by Belgian composer Jean-Paul Dessy (b. 1963), whose work blends contemporary classical language with a spiritual dimension — resonating with Hidden’s vision of art as presence and offering.

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São Paulo City Ballet 2025 Euro Tour

  • September 18th, 2025 Cadances Festival, Arcachon
  • September 23rd – 27th, 2025 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
  • October 2nd – 3rd, 2025 La Comédie, Clermont-Ferrand
  • October 8th – 9th, 2025 Château Rouge, Annemasse
  • October 15th – 19th, 2025 Maison de la Danse, Lyon

Double bill (Fôlego + Boca Abissal / Réquiem SP)

Discover Brazilian Choreography

© Stig de Lavor

The São Paulo City Ballet presents a European tour with remarkable choreographies such as ‘Boca Abissal’, ‘Fôlego’ and ‘Réquiem SP’, signed by renowned Rafaela Sahyoun and Alejandro Ahmed.

Rafaela Sahyoun

Rafaela Sahyoun is a Latin American dance artist from São Paulo, currently based between Brazil and Portugal. She spirals through the intertwined roles of being a dancer, a young choreographer, and a teacher. She is fascinated by the ever-evolving landscape of performative practices, community, and context. She dedicates herself to artistic and pedagogical projects that unfold and shape-shift continuously through ongoing research and shared practices.

Actively collaborating with artists, researchers, students, and art institutions in Brazil and abroad, she has a strong inclination toward hybrid formats of collaboration in dialogues with multidisciplinary disciplines. Her most recent choreographic work, Fôlego (2022), was commissioned by São Paulo City Ballet (Balé da Cidade de São Paulo, BCSP) in partnership with São Paulo Cultural Centre (Centro Cultural de São Paulo, CCSP) and had its 2023 season at São Paulo Municipal Theatre (Theatro Municipal de São Paulo).

Alejandro Ahmed

Winner of three APCA (São Paulo Association of Art Critics) awards, as well as the Funarte Petrobras Dance Promotion Award, Bravo! Prime Award for Culture, and the Sergio Motta Art and Technology Award, Alejandro Ahmed is one of the most important choreographers in contemporary Brazilian dance. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, he moved with his family to Florianópolis, Brazil, at the age of three, where he began dancing at just twelve.

As a guest of the São Paulo City Ballet in 2022, he conceived and choreographed a piece by the American avant-garde composer John Cage, written in the early 1990s, resulting in the performance “Sixty Eight in Axys Atlas.” Alejandro Ahmed now returns to his partnership with the São Paulo Municipal Ballet, this time as artistic director of the São Paulo City Ballet.

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Komoco / Sofia Nappi – THE FRIDAS

  • September 12th, 2025 Oriente Occidente Festival, Rovereto
  • September 18th – 19th, 2025 Fabbrica Europa Festival, Florence

20-25 minutes

Inspired by Frida Kahlo

© Claudio Montanari

The Fridas is a duet inspired by the painting “The Two Fridas” by Frida Kahlo. It explores the complex theme of human identity through a relationship of complicity and contrast between two dancers. Specular and divergent movements embody internal conflicts and harmony. At the same time physical expressiveness and the use of space (in the Komoco language considered as a living element capable of uniting and dividing), represent two complementary and essential elements in the research.

Designed for theatrical but also unconventional and museum spaces, The Fridas lends itself to being observed from different perspectives, thus adding nuances to the research into the human essence and celebrating its complexity. The ending, however, suggests an ironic acceptance of the chaos of life: through parodic movements the dancers find in humor the balm to continue facing the challenges of existence.

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Sharon Eyal – Delay the Sadness

  • September 5th – 7th, 2025 Torino Danza, Turin (Avant Premiere)
  • September 12th – 15th, 2025 Ruhrtriennale, Bochum
  • October 16th – 18th, 2025 Domaine d’O, Montpellier
  • October 22nd – 23rd, 2025 Dampfzentrale, Bern
  • November 1st – 2nd, 2025 BIAF, Baku
  • November 8th, 2025 Festspielhaus, St. Pölten
  • November 27th – December 6th, 2025 La Villette, Paris

Around 50 minutes

A Story That Comes from within the Body.

© Vitali Akimov

Emotional, sensational, magnetic and deeply physical. You cannot stop watching. The highly skilled dancers of Sharon Eyal, express feelings that cannot be put in words. Eyal is considered one of the most important choreographers today. Her creations take us on a breathtaking journey along the emotions we face in life. Delay the Sadness is the new work by Eyal for S-E-D Dance Company, the new company founded by her and Gai Behar. Following their successful collaboration on ima for GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, Josef Laimon will compose the soundtrack for this new piece, exclusively for S-E-D.

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