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Marina Otero – AYOUB

  • November 14th – 15th, 2025 Festival de Otoño, Madrid
  • November 22nd, 2025 Temporada Alta, Girona
  • December 15th/16th/20th/21st, 2025 Arthaus Central, Buenos Aires

65 minutes

Ayoub, Colonialism
and Palestine

© Andrés Manrique

Aiub. Ioug. Ayub. Ainou. Aiou. I had the same difficulty pronouncing her Arabic name as I had understanding that our love wasn’t possible in an impossible world.

This name came to destroy, in some way, my West.

Initially, this project was intended to save a man in a vulnerable situation, and for that man to save me from loneliness. I traveled to Tangier (Morocco) to find him, marry him, give him my Europeanized South American papers, and then create a new work based on that.

But Ayoub appeared, and the project collapsed. His name (“the returnee” or “the repentant”) is very popular in Islamic countries: 615 children of that name were murdered by the Zionist state of Israel in the Gaza Strip.

For those dead, I name this work after you, about colonialism, about Palestine.

And everything I want to kill inside me.

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Mediterranea Benelux

Marco da Silva Ferreira – F*cking Future

  • September 18th – 20th, 2025 Biennale Danse Lyon, Lyon
  • October 10th – 11th, 2025 PACT Zollverein, Essen
  • November 14th – 16th, 2025 Festival de Otoño, Madrid
  • November 20th – 21st, 2025 TANDEM, Douai
  • November 25th – 26th, 2025 La Condition Publique, Roubaix
  • November 29th, 2025 Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saône
  • December 4th – 6th, 2025 TMP, Porto
  • December 12th – 13th, 2025 Charleroi Danse, Charleroi
  • February 20th – 22nd, 2025 CCB, Lisbon

70 minutes

Rigor and Freedom

© José Caldeira

F*cking Future searches the friction between militancy and militarization, exploring and challenging the systems that shape bodies and behaviors. On a quadrifrontal stage, drawing from those very same systems, a collective marches between rigidity and dilution, discipline and desire, invoking new forms of union and insurgency.

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France Mediterranea Benelux DACH region

Peeping Tom – Chroniques

  • June 4th – 6th, 2025 Théâtre National de Nice, Nice
  • June 18th – 20th, 2025 Festival de Marseille, Marseille
  • September 27th – 28th, 2025 I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia
  • October 2nd – 4th, 2025 Torinodanza, Turin
  • October 8th – 9th, 2025 Triennale Milano, Milan
  • October 13th – 14th, 2025 Dialog Festival, Wrocław
  • November 14th – 16th, 2025 Anthéa, Antibes
  • November 20th – 21st, 2025 Les Salins, Martigues
  • November 27th – 29th, 2025 Châteauvallon Liberté, Toulon
  • December 5th – 6th, 2025 Le Carré Leon Gaumont, Sainte-Maxime
  • December 9th – 18th, 2025 KVS, Brussels
  • January 23rd – 24th, 2026 Tanz Köln, Cologne
  • March 4th – 6th, 2026 Le Vilar, Louvain-la-Neuve
  • March 20th – 21st, 2026 Teatro Central, Seville
  • March 28th – 29th, 2026 Emilia Romagna Teatro, Caserna
  • April 2nd – 8th, 2026 La Villette, Paris
  • April 14th – 15th, 2026 CSS Udine, Udine
  • April 28th – 30th, 2026 Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • June 4th – 14th, 2026 TNC, Barcelona

90 minutes

Peeping Tom’s
Next Chapter

© Sanne De Block

Among the immortal, each act (and each thought) is an echo of those who anticipated it in the past or the faithful omen of those who, in the future, will repeat it to the point of vertigo. – Jorge Luis Borges

Five figures are trapped in a temporal maze, mutating and colliding in an attempt to defy immortality. Their existence takes place in a vast sulfuric landscape, unfolding in a series of chronicles. Is this landscape the ground for new creations, or made out of remnants of what once existed?

Confronted with different laws and physical phenomena, their bodies reveal other behaviors and possibilities of being, without knowing if they are at the twilight or dawn of their existence. We are witnessing a bodily metamorphosis in an abyssal and poetic dimension.

Chroniques unveils the next chapter in Peeping Tom’s universe.

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Mediterranea Eastern Europe Benelux France

Christos Papadopoulos – My Fierce Ignorant Step

  • May 8th – 18th, 2025 Onassis Stegi, Athens
  • May 30th, 2025 One Dance Festival, Plovdiv
  • June 27th – 28th, 2025 Festival de Marseille, Marseille
  • July 2nd – 3rd, 2025 Julidans, Amsterdam
  • November 14th – 16th, 2025 Romaeuropa Festival, Rome
  • November 19th, 2025 Aperto Festival, Reggio Emilia
  • December 3rd, 2025 Concertgebouw Brugge, Bruges
  • December 6th, 2025 Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam
  • January 8th – 9th, 2026 PAWILON TAŃCA, Warsaw
  • January 24th – 25th, 2026 TMP, Porto
  • May 24th – 30th, 2026 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris

60 minutes

Christos Papadopoulos’ Most Personal Work

© Christos Papadopoulos

With My Fierce Ignorant Step (Working Title), Papadopoulos seeks to consciously process the influence that “Axion Esti”—the monumental work by Mikis Theodorakis founded on the poetry of Odysseas Elytis—exerted on him, exploring the extent to which sound and speech can dilate and reach a state of abstraction that alludes to that of a movement: a lifted arm, an oscillating body, a trembling leg.

For the choreographer, the first impulse for the creation of “My Fierce Ignorant Step (Working Title)” is grounded in aural memories of his childhood and younger age, memories that he shares with many other Greeks: collective memories that are connected with the fate of this country, even if this is not immediately apparent. Is it possible to work on a text with the same composition principles applied to the choreography of a body? How close to words can a body come, and vice versa? Can this turn into a shared, transparent, and simple experience?

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Mediterranea DACH region

Echoes of ’78 – Kontakthof

November 26th/27th/29th/30th & December 1st, 2024
Opernhaus Wuppertal, Wuppertal
May 13rd – 15th, 2025 Theatertreffen, Berlin
October 11th, 2025 Festspielhaus St. Pölten, St. Pölten
October 15th – 18th, 2025 Amare, The Hague
November 7th – 9th, 2025 SIDCT, Shanghai
June 4th – 6th, 2026 Opernhaus Wuppertal, Wuppertal
June 10th – 11th, 2026 LAC, Lugano
100 minutes

A New Encounter with Kontakthof

Photo: Ulli Weiss ©Pina Bausch Foundation

Originally premiered in 1978, Kontakthof is a seminal piece in Pina Bausch’s repertoire, created at a time when her work was beginning to receive international recognition.  

It is said that Pina often mused on the idea of seeing her original cast dance the piece when older. Now, 45 years later, a new encounter with Kontakthof is being created by choreographer Meryl Tankard, who was one of the main characters in 1978. 

Eight of the original dancers return to their roles as the production creates a poignant interaction between past and present. Kontakthof – Echoes of ‘78 integrates projections of archival footage from their performances as younger dancers, and with company members no longer on stage.  

Sadler’s Wells, Pina Bausch Foundation and Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch

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