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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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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

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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

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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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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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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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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

© SE.S.TA

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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