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Eszter Salamon – MONUMENT 0.10: The Living Monument

February 20th – 22nd, 2025 Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Brussels
March 26th – 28th, 2025 Chaillot / Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
135 minutes

A Dreamlike Journey

© Øystein Haara/ Carte Blanche

Monuments are cold, static, soundless; human bodies are warm, breathing, chanting. Carte Blanche’s new performance is undoubtedly both long and remarkable.

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in collaboration with Carte Blanche – the Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance and composer Carmen Villain

The Living Monument unfolds worlds that have their own logic. It is a dreamlike journey, at times a beautiful nightmare, playing with duration and space like a landscape in which slowness creates its own music. Shifting sceneries, inhabited by fictional figures, reveal images and sensations which evoke glimpses of memories, fragments of narrations and futuristic visions.

Developed together with fourteen performers, the choreography is created from bodies, fabrics and objects, which continuously transform and reconfigure to form new physical, mental and visual environments. Guided by the ecological principle of recycling, materials and voices are reused and reshaped. Songs blend with natural, instrumental and digital sounds. Bodies are hidden or exposed, figures appear only to transform. Voices intermingle, they stir up sensations and carry stories that anyone can inhabit.

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Crystal Pite – Light of Passage

February 20th – March 12th, 2025 Royal Ballet & Opera, London
90 minutes with one interval

A Ballet that Cuts to the Heart of the Human Condition

© Tristram Kenton

Masses of dancers move as a mesmerising whole. Bodies, fluid and yearning, are bathed in shafts of light. A single voice emerges, a lament that distils the magnitude of human suffering. A journey begins… 

Crystal Pite, in her distinctive choreographic style, grapples with themes of safe passage, displacement, community and mortality. Set to Gorecki’s affecting Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, this award-winning work is a reminder of the power of human connection in our turbulent times.

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Crystal Pite & Simon McBurney – Figures in Extinction for NDT

  • February 19th – 22nd, 2025 Aviva Studios, Manchester
  • February 26th – March 1st, 2025, Amare, The Hague
  • March 6th – 7th, 2025 Stadsschouwburg, Utrecht
  • March 11th – 12th, 2025 Parkstad Limburg Theaters, Heerlen
  • March 15th – 16th, 2025 Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam
  • March 19th, 2025 Parktheater, Eindhoven
  • March 26th – 29th, 2025 Internationaal Theater, Amsterdam
  • April 8th – 11th, 2025 Tanssin Talo, Helsinki
  • June 18th – 20th, 2025 Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • June 25th – 27th, 2025 Montpellier Danse, Montpellier
  • July 4th – 6th, 2025 Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin
  • August 22nd – 24th, 2025 Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh
  • October 22nd – 30th, 2025 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris

approx. 150 minutes

THE Urgent Dance Trilogy

© Rahi Rezvani

Pite and McBurney were transfixed when they saw each other’s work. But it was the ecological theme with which they found common cause. “Straight away we decided we wanted to make something centred on the climate crisis,” says Pite. “Which is not,” stresses McBurney, “separable from human crisis. We are all inescapably part of this living world.”

Sanjoy Roy (The Guardian)

We are living in an age of extinction. Can we ever hope to give a name to what we are losing? What does it mean to bear witness to a violence in which we are both perpetrator and victim? 

Across continents, choreographer Crystal Pite and Complicité Artistic Director Simon McBurney have exchanged ideas reflecting on their fears and cautious hopes for our age. Their process has drawn on a rich and surprising array of source materials: from the sound of ice caps melting to the clarion calls of climate change deniers, from scholastic lectures on the neuroscience of the brain to the cacophonous clatter of Instagram influencers.

Over a span of four years, the two world-renowned artists have created three works together for NDT 1, each developed in response to the last. Figures in Extinction [1.0] confronts us with everything that is dying on our planet, while [2.0] is a searing examination of our need for connection in a separated world. The third and final work will continue this cross-disciplinary exchange, making its world premiere in the UK in February 2025, and will offer a spark in the darkness as to where we – collectively, spiritually, and imaginatively – might go next.

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Marco Layera / Teatro La Re-Sentida – Oasis de la impunidad

February 18th – 19th, 2025 Manège Fonck, Liège
March 13th – 30th, 2025 Matucana 100, Santiago
90 minutes

A Choreographic Reflection on State Violence in Chile

© Gianmarco Bresadola

Eight bodies move in mysterious convulsions. They walk, exercise, and
celebrate. But what do their movements represent: suffering or joy? Pride or fear?

Together, they form a security force, a mechanical and turbulent
organization made up of highly disciplined bodies trained to inflict
violence upon themselves and others. Maintain order! Such is the
imperative. In a kind of abstract museum space, security forces, their
victims, and fantastical horror characters come together in a ritual of
confession, atonement, and lamentation.

Inspired by the social explosion that took to the streets of Santiago, Chile, on October 18, 2019, La Re-sentida presents a work on how violence and indignation inhabit and invade the body. Oasis de la Impunidad invites us to question all democracies that are currently reassessing their history.

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Iván Pérez – Pollock

February 17th & 23rd, 2025 Theater Heidelberg, Heidelberg
June 14th & 22nd, 2025 Theater Heidelberg, Heidelberg
75 minutes

A Dance Analysis of Pollock

© Theater Heidelberg

Iván Pérez will never forget how enthralled, excited and overwhelmed he was when he discovered one of Jackson Pollock’s large scale artworks at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and how he sat in front of it for hours. With the invention of Action Painting in the late 1940s, Pollock revolutionised the art world.

In 2024, the Artistic Director of Dance Theatre Heidelberg created a multidisciplinary and choreographic dance analysis of the extraordinarily gifted artist that Pollock was. Starting in the foyer, this performance allows spectators to be immersed even before going on into Marguerre Saal, where the stage has been turned into an artist’s workshop welcoming the audience. Iván Pérez creates a choreography for bodies and movement, Yamila Rios composes a hybrid score for Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg, Naomi Kean designs abstract and expressive costumes coming to life in front of Sam Beklik’s immersive set.

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Ingrid Berger Myhre – No Dreams, No Gold

February 14th – 15th, 2025 Rosendal Teater, Trondheim
February 21st – 22nd, 2025 BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen
May 2nd, 2025 Korzo Theater, The Hague
May 16th , 2025 Bellevue Theater, Amsterdam
October 2nd – 4th, 2025 Dansens Hus, Oslo
October 15th, 2025 Regional Arena for Samtidsdans, Sandnes
60 minutes

A Duet with Warmth
and Humor

© Kim Jakobsen To

Lasse is a composer and a musician. Ingrid is a choreographer and a dancer. Their collaboration is often about finding new ways to articulate a working situation: where both operate as equal players, without having to be the same.

Ingrid and Lasse have different experience and perspective, but share the space of negotiation that arise when meeting in the periphery of their own expertise. Their friendship is an intrinsic part of their artistic material, which they give the audience generous access to. Their work is highly personal yet down to earth.

In 2019 Ingrid and Lasse made the performance Panflutes and Paperwork. Since the premiere at Theater Rotterdam it has been shown all over Europe. No Dreams, No Gold is their next stage production, in which they continue to contemplate the conventions of music and dance with warmth and humor.

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Chimerik 似不像 – Inner Sublimity

February 7th – 9th, 2025 Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
50 minutes

A Grassroots Arts Collective

© Sheng Ho

Inner Sublimity traverses currents of Eastern and Western philosophy through dance, creating a dynamic dialogue between traditions preserved across generations. This cross-pollination bridges Taiwan’s heritage, grounded in reverence and ritual, with Europe’s tapestry of religious practices, carving an artistic approach that challenges colonial narratives and enriches contemporary explorations of spirituality. 

Creatively imagined for the unique space of the Vancouver Art Gallery, the performance begins with a meditative ritual and poem, setting the stage for a transcendental duet of deep somatic movement. The integration of an experimental sound score and mesmerizing interactive new media projections, expertly crafted by these renowned local visual design masters, intensifies the atmosphere, building to a crescendo that probes the inner depths of human complexity.

Through this synthesis of paradigms, the artists spark new connections between disparate identities, cultural backgrounds, histories and lived experiences, paving the way for communion. Their exploration of spirituality and mortality demystifies taboos and opens a fresh lens for audience members to reimagine their relationship to these eternal themes.

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Twyla Tharp Dance – Diamond Jubilee

  • February 7th – 9th, 2025 Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley
  • February 15th – 16th, 2025 Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa
  • February 18th, 2025 Mccallum Theatre, Palm Desert
  • February 22nd – 23rd, 2025 The Soraya, Northridge
  • February 25th – 26th, 2025 The Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe
  • March 4th, 2025 Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, Sarasota
  • March 6th, 2025 Ruby Diamond Concert Hall, Tallahassee
  • March 8th, 2025 KeyBank State Theatre, Cleverland
  • March 12th – 16th, 2025 New York City Center, New York
  • March 26th – 29th, 2025 Kennedy Center, Washington
  • April 5th, 2025 Dominion Energy Center, Richmond
  • April 10th – 12th, 2025 Harris Theater, Chicago
  • April 15th, 2025 Overture Center, Madison
  • April 17th, 2025 McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton
  • April 19th, 2025 Byham Theater, Pittsburgh
  • July 17th – 18th, 2025 Biennale Danza, Venice

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Golden Lion of Biennale Danza 2025

© Twyla Tharp

In this dazzling celebration of her company’s 60th Anniversary, Twyla Tharp presents a double bill that offer audiences a breathtaking vista of her range as an icon in American dance.

Tharp takes on Beethoven’s intensely demanding Diabelli Variations, making visible the composer’s layered genius in her piece Diabelli. With each section of the Beethoven, unique in mood and texture, Tharp’s response—tender, teasing, transcendent, cheeky—commands all of the performers’ technical prowess and energy. The dancers change effortlessly from ballet to jazz to modern, with unexpected bits of social dance.

Glass’s iconic music comes alive in Tharp’s new work, SLACKTIDE, featuring a bold new arrangement created and performed live by members of the Grammy-winning Third Coast Percussion. Tharp’s dancers capture all the rhythmic, propulsive energy of this Glass suite, invigorated by a collection of custom-designed instruments.

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Oona Doherty – Specky Clark

February 6th – 7th, 2025 VIERNULVIER, Ghent
March 7th, 2025 Festspielhaus St. Pölten, St. Pölten
April 24th – 25th, 2025 Lieu Unique, Nantes
May 9th – 10th, 2025 Sadler’s Wells, London
May 14th – 17th, 2025 Dublin Dance Festival, Dublin
June 24th – 27th, 2025 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
August 13th – 16th, 2025 Kampnagel, Hamburg
60 minutes

Meat, Sorrow and Irish Sounds

© Luca Truffarelli

Part fiction, part biographical, all elements are overlapping, and it will become difficult to determine what’s myth and what’s reality. 

It goes back to a time when families worked in the abattoirs of Belfast. Pigs in the garden of New lodge.

There’s something in the meat of me, bloodline, there is a pink fleshy vulnerability to me, to dancing, there is a violence in me.

This new show will follow the story of Oona’s Great Great Grandfather Specky Clark and his arrival in Belfast.

For this piece which will be unfolding in a series of theatrical images, Oona Doherty will collaborate with many faithful and new partners. The production features music from Irish band Lankum, Gavino Murgia and David Holmes & Raven Violet. Maxime Jerry Fraisse is sound designer, Irish playwright Enda Walsh is dramaturg, Sabine Dargent is set designer, Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust is costume designer and long-time collaborator John Gunning is lighting designer. The piece will be performed by an international cast of 9 dancers.

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Malandain Ballet Biarritz – The Seasons

February 5th – 15th, 2025 Le 13eme Art, Paris
February 25th, 2025 Quai 9, Lanester
February 27th – 28th, 2025 Théâtre Impérial, Compiègne
March 11th – 12th, 2025 Les Théâtres, Aix-en-Provence
April 26th – 27th, 2025 Detroit Opera, Detroit
April 29th, 2025 Wharton Center for Performing Arts, East Lansing
May 2nd – 3rd, 2025 Zellerbach Theater, Philadelphia
May 7th, 2025 Byham Theater, Pittsburgh
May 20th – 23rd, 2025 Gare du Midi, Biarritz
60 minutes

When Vivaldi Meets Guido

© Stephane Bellocq

The dance carries everything, from the joy of spring to the passions of summer…just a splendid invitation to meditate on the beauty of life and the passage of time.

Ariane Bavelier (Le Figaro)

Malandain Ballet Biarritz has become one of the most important companies of the French choreographic landscape. This original production combines Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and the little-known works of his contemporary and compatriot Giovanni Antonio Guido. Guido’s Seasons awakens memories of belle danse (baroque dance) in the 17th century, which emerged from the ideal of governing one’s body and mind, and moving with grace, accuracy, and lightness. With Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, dancers are moved by a more natural, more human form of dance.

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