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Damien Jalet – Thrice

June 21st – 22nd, 2025 Den Norske Opera & Ballett, Oslo
July 26th, 2025 Kalamata International Dance Festival, Kalamata
July 28th & 30th, 2025 ImPulsTanz, Vienna
September 24th – 25th, 2025 Bærum Kulturhus, Sandvika
60 minutes

Damien Jalet’s Triptych

© JR

The triple bill Thrice consists of the three pieces Gusts, Médusés, and Brise-lames.

Gusts, the first section, is about air—breath and movement – and pays homage to the force that carries us. With live music by saxophonist Bendik Giske, Gusts becomes a dialogue between body and sound, highlighting the tension between gravity and centripetal force.

Médusés, the second chapter, takes its cue from the myth of Medusa and the idea of being petrified by a gaze. Here, bodies resist – between rigidity and fluidity, the individual and the collective.

Brise-lames, the final part, transports us underwater. Created in collaboration with artist JR and Japanese pianist Koki Nakano, this piece, which has only been available to the public as a film directed by Louise Narboni in close collaboration with Damien Jalet, will now be performed live for the first time. The movements here are slow – like a ship approaching shore, or waves reaching land.

Thrice is a work in constant motion – a story of bodies attempting not to solidify. This project has allowed Damien Jalet to return to the founding principles of his work, a minimalist exploration of movement. His more recent creations have operated on a very grand scale, with ambitious scenography and apparatus. In Thrice, complexity lies elsewhere: in the movements, lights and sound, and in the search of how combination, association and repetition might generate new emotions.

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Christos Papadopoulos / Georgios Kotsifakis – Landless

  • June 12th – 13th, 2025 Tanzhaus Basel, Basel
  • July 24th, 2025 OperaEstate Festival Veneto, Bassano del Grappa
  • September 23th – 24th, 2025 Torinodanza Festival, Turin
  • September 27th – 28th, 2025 Milanoltre Festival, Milan
  • October 30th, 2025 Kinneskbond, Mamer

50 minutes

Body as Space

© Luca Del Pia

A Greek artist of rare finesse and originality, Christos Papadopoulos brings bak Landless to the stage, performed by Georgios Kotsifakis. Over the years, the choreographer’s work has approached movement as a hidden secret, focusing on its elementary and everyday characteristics. Landless specifically explores the body’s ability to become its own architecture, transforming into an unfamiliar landscape, in order to sketch a new perspective on its basic functions and movement.

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Shahar Binyamini – NEW EARTH

June 12th – 13th, 2025 Suzanne Dellal Centre, Tel Aviv
July 9th, 2025 Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto
July 12th – 13th, 2025 Colours International Dance Festival, Stuttgart
July 29th – 30th, 2025 House of Dance, Be’er Sheva
55 minutes

A Rising Talent from Israel

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NEW EARTH explores our deep, innate connection to the Earth in every movement. Before becoming a choreographer, Binyamini studied biology, and his stage is always a laboratory where he examines the body and its make-up: How much of the animal is still ingrained within us, or are we souls trapped in a shell? How do emotions arise, and what do they change within our bodies?

A layer of earth on the stage and the seemingly naked skin of the dancers combine in the generation of images that are almost archaic. Walking upright, these beings search for dignity or twitch in sudden excitement. Yet, in between, they entwine with each other in intense duets to the ancient sounds of strings or drums from the Mediterranean, creating moments of profound closeness.

Like so many Israeli choreographers, Shahar Binyamini’s roots lie in the renowned Batsheva Company, and he is a recognized expert in Gaga. Developing on this tradition, he and his dancers seek insights their own bodies.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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