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Pseudónimo – IN VERSUS

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

Human & Non-human Forms of Relationship

© Pseudónimo

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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Dorrance Dance – the center will not hold

  • April 4th, 2025 The Gogue Performing Arts Center, Auburn
  • April 9th – 10th, 2025 Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill
  • April 15th, 2025 The Gaillard Center, Charleston
  • April 25th – 26th, 2025 Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston
  • May 1st, 2025 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park
  • May 9th – 10th, 2025 Bluma Appel Theater, Toronto
  • June 25th – 29th, 2025 Jacob’s Pillow Festival, Becket
  • July 11th – 12th, 2025 Colours International Dance Festival, Stuttgart
  • July 30th, 2025 Vail Dance Festival, Vail

approx. 70 minutes

American Tap Dance Reinvented

© Christopher Duggan

As a pioneer of new tap dance, Michelle Dorrance has elevated the clacking of metal taps to an entirely new level. She has always sought to engage with other styles and with contemporary dance. Now, in collaboration with New York breakdancer Ephrat Asherie, Dorrance enters into a dialogue with street dance, which, like tap dance, originally emerged as a subversive form on the streets, rooted in protest and growing through improvisation. From the reflections of these two strong women, a connection develops, and other dancers contribute their own styles.

The Center Will Not Hold is born from “a little room,” a short duet created and performed by Ephrat Asherie and Michelle Dorrance in December 2022. The expanded and reimagined work now features 11 singular performers deeply rooted in one or many street, club and vernacular dances: house, breaking, hip hop, tap dance, Chicago Footwork, Detroit Jit, Litefeet, Memphis Jookin and body percussion.

Set to music by Donovan Dorrance with live percussion by world class drummer and percussionist, John Angeles, the piece is not about virtuosity or competition. It has a more serious theme, namely the current state of the world, where people wear masks to protect themselves. Dialogue gives rise to the question of whether the center, the middle of humanity, can hold – or whether everything will break apart and our world will plunge into chaos.

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LED SILHOUETTE & Marcos Morau- LOS PERROS

March 27th, 2025 Festival Especial Dansa, Tarragona
March 29th, 2025 Teatre Buero Vallejo, Alcorcón
April 24th, 2025 Teatre de l´Artesà, El Prat de Llobregat
April 27th, 2025 Teatro Principal de Zamora, Zamora
April 29th, 2025 Arte Ederren Museoa, Bilbao
May 29th, 2025 Mudanzas, Cartagena
60 minutes

A Call to Resistance

© Irantzu Pastor

In a digital world that isolates and dehumanizes, we seek identity and connection. Youth is a prized commodity, while the vulnerable are cast aside, torn between rebellion and conformity.

Los Perros is a call to resistance—a journey of encounter, love, and commitment. Like wandering dogs, we share joy and pain, fall and rise, dance and rebel to overcome violence and decay.

From repetition to fascination, we merge times and images, the ancestral and the contemporary. A passionate dance, a cry for life: dancing to exhaustion, barking to weariness, existing to the limit.

Two men embraced.
Two men dancing.
The eternal cycle of life and rebirth.

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Pere Seda / L’Esbord – Folk as Queer

March 27th, 2025 Festival Especial Dansa, Tarragona
March 30th, 2025 Festival dansa metropolitana, Barcelona
July 13th, 2025 CC URGELL, Barcelona
July 19th, 2025 PÚBLIC! Cicle d’arts de carrer, Tàrrega
60 minutes

Reinvent with the Past

© L’Esbord

Folk as Queer is a piece that explores the relationship between collective and individual identity and the influence of cultural heritage through traditional practices such as dance, music and singing. The work seeks a meeting point between the traditional and the dissident body, where they exchange languages and create a new dance together. It is a vibrant reflection on how the past can interact with the present to reinvent itself.  

L’Esbord, created in 2022 in Barcelona, works with traditional Catalan dance and connects it with disciplines such as contemporary dance and folk music. Its performers combine training rooted in traditional dance with professional experience in fields such as jazz, singing and contemporary dance, creating artistic works that blend folklore and innovation.

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A R I B E L Collective – A años luz

March 27th – 30th, 2025 Festival dansa metropolitana, Barcelona
45 minutes

Between a Human & a Humanoid Robot

© Josep Maria Augé

A años luz explores the relationship between a human and a humanoid robot, envisioning a world where artificial intelligence seamlessly integrates into our society. The piece, blending contemporary dance and performance art, reflects on the rapid pace of technological advancement and the need to balance its benefits with the preservation of our species, learning to manage our growing dependence.

This is the debut creation of A R I B E L Collective, a contemporary dance company founded by Ariadna Jordán and Abel Hernández in 2023. The founders, responsible for both direction and performance, focus on choreography, improvisation, and the exploration of new movements, aiming to enrich the cultural landscape with innovation and creativity.

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Steven Michel – Music Hole

March 26th – 27th, 2025 campo, Ghent
October 7th, 2025 festival actoral, Marseille
November 21st & 23rd, 2025 NEXT Festival, Courtrai
Duration: unknown

The Idea of the Ghost

© Shira Marek

Music Hole is a performance that explores our spectral relationship to memory, time and reality. Conceived with four physical, musical and/or vocal performers, the performance is inspired by the notion of hauntology (imagined by philosopher Jacques Derrida and later developed by music critic Mark Fisher), which describes, among other things, the accumulation of ghostly traces of the past as we move into the future. Stevens aim is to translate, choreographically and musically, the idea of survival and erasure, embodiment and disappearance, delay and anticipation.

To haunt is somehow to survive, and also to return. Hence Stevens desire to work with vocal recordings, sound samples, visual loops and iterations of movement. Questioning the idea of the ghost. Not in its figurative aspect, but in its metaphorical use. A ghost can be a trace, something perceived, a feeling of unease. Not necessarily visible, but a presence, an atmosphere. A memory that lingers, a mantra that resists.

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Eva Reiter / Michiel Vandevelde – The Rise

March 26th, 2025 Concertgebouw Brugge, Bruges
March 29th – 30th, 2025 Kaaitheater, Brussels
May 21st – 22nd, 2025 Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg
September 17th, 2025 Musiktheatertage, Vienna
90 minutes

An Experimental Opera

© Bea Borgers

In The Rise, composer Eva Reiter and choreographer Michiel Vandevelde focus on the coexistence and interchanges of various worlds as they unfold on stage successively. Thereby it is the process of translation that lead to the emergence of such new worlds. Throughout translating and re-contextualizing symbols, signs, gestures and sounds, new languages are created that eventually transform our perspective on a particular world.

The Rise is based on the poetry of Nobel prize winner Louise Glück. Specifically her publication Averno serves as the main material for the libretto.  Averno, a crater lake in Italy, was believed to be the entrance gate to the underworld. In her poetry Glück connects and interchanges the two worlds of the living and the dead, returning from one to another and evokes images of life and death, of eternity and the profane. Similarly to the surface of the lake which serves as a permeable membrane into that parallel world, we will create parallel and intermediate worlds throughout the way these poems are performed.

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Hoghe+Schulte & Emmanuel Eggermont – SIMPLE THINGS

March 25th – 26th, 2025 Festival Le Grand Bain, Roubaix
June 18th – 19th, 2025 Festival Camping CND/Maison de la Danse, Lyon
80 minutes

The Beauty of
Simple Things

© Rosa Frank

In over 30 years of creation, Raimund Hoghe has never ceased to transcend the beauty of simple things. Ornella Balestra, Takashi Ueno, Emmanuel Eggermont and Luca Giacomo Schulte, who have worked closely with the choreographer, revisit these materials to share the themes that are dear to Raimund Hoghe, the great classics (Ravel’s Bolero, Swan Lake…) and more topical subjects such as the migrant crisis… Rather than melancholy, Simple Things opens up a privileged path of access to this artistic universe that is as singular as it is necessary.

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Ballet Nacional de España / Marcos Morau – Afanador

Till July 23th, 2025 FILM ONLINE
100 minutes

The Power of Photography & Choreography

© MERCHE BURGOS

Afanador emerges from the tension between the fascination that emanates from Ruven Afanador’s photos, and my own fascination with all the mystery, so diurnal and yet so nocturnal, that once fascinated Ruven.

Marcos Morau

Ruven Afanador’s photography is not documentary or monumental—it doesn’t archive history or glorify its subjects. Instead, it is driven by desire, distorting and being distorted by its object. Desire, elusive by nature, shapes what it sees, revealing subjective and profound truths.

Afanador approaches Andalusian folklore through this lens, exposing flamenco’s raw subconscious—its passion, death, and untold stories. His work amplifies its essence into a surreal, evocative world of shadow and light, where he both observes and is observed.

Our work extends this vision, capturing Afanador’s gaze and the transformative power of photography. Like Goya’s Caprichos, these images blend familiar themes through association and metamorphosis, turning photography into both miracle and mystery. Each shot lingers just beyond reach, on the verge of vanishing into its own fire.

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