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Jan Martens – THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER 2.0

  • September 17th – 19th, 2025 Biennale Danse Lyon, Lyon
  • September 24th – 25th, 2025 Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam
  • October 12th, 2025 Festival Aperto, Reggio Emilia
  • October 23rd – 24th, 2025 SPAF, Seoul
  • November 7th – 9th, 2025 National Theater NPAC-NTCH, Taipei
  • November 20th – 21st, 2025 La Comédie, Valence
  • November 26th – 27th, 2025 La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand
  • December 2nd, 2025 Les Salins, Martigues
  • December 12th – 13th, 2025 TANDEM, Douai
  • January 13th, 2026 Schouwburg Concertzaal, Tilburg
  • January 20th, 2026 Parkstad Limburg Theaters, Heerlen
  • January 21st, 2026 Theater de Veste, Delft
  • January 31st, 2026 Grand Theatre, Groningen
  • February 3rd – 4th, 2026 VIERNULVIER, Ghent
  • February 11th – 12th, 2026 KLAP, Marseille
  • April 2nd – 3rd, 2026 ITA, Amsterdam
  • April 21st, 2026 centre culturel, Hasselt
  • April 22nd, 2026 centre culturel, Sint-Niklaas
  • April 24th – 25th, 2026 De Singel, Antwerp
  • May 5th – 7th, 2026 STUK, Leuven

Duration: unknown

The Dog Days Are Back

© Alwin Poiana

Thanks to its radical choreographic form, THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER revealed the audience’s perception of dancers, choreographers, spectators and the cultural policy at the time. Ten years on, these questions are still very much relevant due to current political and social trends: Where does the thin line between art and entertainment lie? Who are we as an audience when we contemplate the suffering of dancers from the theatre like a bullfight in an arena? Is contemporary dance striptease for the elite? THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER makes the viewer shift in his position: from being merely subjected to the experience to actively reflecting on it.

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TAO Dance Theater – 16 & 17

  • July 25th – 26th, 2025 Biennale Danza, Venice
  • August 9th, 2025 ImPulsTanz, Vienna
  • October 12th – 13th, 2025 Dialog Festival, Wrocław
  • October 16th – 17th, 2025 SPAF, Seoul
  • March 4th, 2026 Amare, The Hague
  • March 7th, 2026  International Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
  • March 10th, 2026 schrit_tmacher Festival, Heerlen
  • March 14th, 2026 Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Utrecht
  • March 17th, 2026 SPOT Groningen, Groningen

70 minutes

The Latest Chapters of Numerical Series

© Fan Xi

This double bill from the TAO Dance Theater’s Numerical Series begins with a celebration of the dragon, a bringer of good look in China. Inspired by the Chinese dragon dance Loong, sixteen black-clad dancers from Beijing swirl through colourful light in the first piece, 16. And the seventeen bodies in 17, wearing black and white, activate their voices along with their movements, thereby turning themselves into a “mobile sound system”. With his minimalist yet virtuoso dance style, choreographer Tao Ye has found a path between tradition and futurism that brings the body and the mind into harmony.

TAO Dance Theatre’s choreographic Series of Numbers began in 2008 and has been invited onto the most important stages of the world, from the Lincoln Center Art Festival of New York to Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London, as well as the Sydney Opera House and the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. Its minimalist aesthetic further codified Tao Ye and Duan Ni’s method, achieving an exasperated repetition that seeks truth in the body.

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Tero Saarinen – Study for Life

June 24th – 25th, 2025 Holland Festival, Amsterdam
July 30th – 31st, 2025 Bregenzer Festspiele, Bregenz
80 minutes

A Sensory Experience

© Mikko Suutarinen

Tero Saarinen’s new creation delves into the music of Kaija Saariaho. In Study for Life, a group of six dancers, nine musicians of the Asko|Schönberg ensemble, soprano Raquel Camarinha, and innovative electronic sound design that interweaves Saariaho’s compositions, bring her nuanced and delicate world to life. This work confronts the contemporary human desire to be moved and envelops the spectator in a powerful sensory experience.

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Pichet Klunchun – Cyber Subin

June 11th – 13rd, 2025 Holland Festival, Amsterdam
June 15th – 17th, 2025 Holland Festival, Video on Demand
December 13th, 2025 Concertgebouw Brugge, Bruges
70 minutes

Traditional Thai Dance
with Technology

© Lee Chia Yeh & Pichet Klunchun Dance Company

The opening performance of the Holland Festival 2025 is Cyber Subin, which will also mark its European premiere. In Cyber Subin, choreographer Pichet Klunchun (Thailand, 1971) combines traditional Thai dance with technology. Together with MIT researcher Pat Pataranutaporn, he has created an AI that deconstructs traditional movements and generates new poses, resulting in a fascinating interaction between human and machine. 

The movements of both the people and avatars in Cyber Subin are based on “Mae Bot Yai” (59 poses from a traditional Thai masked dance, Khon) but will be reinterpreted through digital processes. The dancers are invited to react, resist or dance together with the avatars.

For more than two decades, Klunchun has studied the movements of Kohn dance, looking for ways to reinterpret these. He developed Cyber Subin in four phases: capturing the movements, codifying them according to six principles, developing an interface for interaction with avatars, and experimenting with dancers and AI.

Khon has been performed since the 14th century and was added to the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2018. As such, the piece is not just about the interaction between human and machine, but also offers a new approach to cultural preservation.  Cyber (derived from cybernetics) Subin (‘dream’ in Thai) shows how tradition need not be static, but rather lives and evolves.

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Amir Sabra & Ata Khatab – Badke(remix)

  • June 11th – 13th, 2025 KVS, Brussels
  • September 19th, 2025 De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
  • September 24th – 25th, 2025 VIERNULVIER, Ghent
  • September 26th, 2025 De Spil, Roeselare
  • October 1st, 2025 Concertgebouw Brugge, Bruges
  • October 18th – 19th, 2025 Dream City Festival, Tunis
  • November 11th, 2025 EXPORT/IMPORT FESTIVAL, Brussels
  • November 15th, 2025 Toneelhuis, Antwerp
  • May 19th, 2026 Pole-Sud, Strasbourg
  • May 21st, 2026 Espace 1789, Saint-Ouen
  • May 22nd – 23rd, 2026 MC93, Bobigny

75 minutes

A Different Image of Palestine

© Kurt Van der Elst

Badke(remix) is a remake of the dance performance created by Koen Augustijnen, Rosalba Torres and Hildegard De Vuyst. With 10 Palestinian dancers, Badke toured worldwide between 2013 and 2016. The reissue of Badke is now artistically in Palestinian hands, namely Amir Sabra and Ata Khatab, and becomes Badke(remix).

The title is a conscious reversal of dabke, the name of the Palestinian folk dance and the starting point of the performance. With backgrounds in traditional dabke, contemporary dance, hip-hop, capoeira or circus, the Palestinian performers bring a contemporary version of this dance traditionally reserved for (wedding) parties. Badke(remix) displays a zest for life and passion for dancing as a form of resistance.

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Lia Rodrigues – Borda

  • May 28th – 31st, 2025 Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels
  • June 3rd – 4th, 2025 PACT Zollverein, Essen
  • June 7th – 8th, 2025 One Dance Festival, Plovdiv
  • June 16th – 17th, 2025 MUFFATWERK, Munich
  • June 20th – 21st, 2025 WIENER FESTWOCHEN, Vienna
  • July 10th – 12th, 2025 Julidans, Amsterdam
  • August 27th – 28th, 2025 Tanz im August, Berlin
  • September 6th & 8th, 2025 Biennale Danse Lyon, Lyon
  • September 12th – 17th, 2025 Centquatre-Paris, Paris
  • September 19th – 21st, 2025 Théâtre Chaillot, Paris
  • September 24th, 2025 L’Azimut, Antony | Châtenay-Malabry
  • October 10th – 11th, 2025 Romaeuropa Festival, Rome
  • May 22nd – 23rd, 2026 DE SINGEL, Antwerp

60 minutes

Comfort and Hope

© Sammi Landweer

Borda in Portuguese refers to embroidery, decoration, but also to a border, the periphery, something that separates. Geographical and political borders create contradictions: hospitality and hostility, native and non-native. Who belongs and who is excluded, who has a right to exist? Metaphorically, the word ‘borda’ also means imagination, the ability to cross borders, to transcend.

With a new generation of dancers, choreographer Lia Rodrigues weaves a porous embroidery of liquid otherness, with edges that fray, float and dance. In her signature style, starting from the energy of the collective and using simple materials like textiles and plastic, she creates a unique ballet between bodies and matter whose recipe only Rodrigues seems to know. Bodies clump together into constellations, form masses and separate again. With great care, what was separated is brought back together. The result is a succession of powerful images and colourful tableaux. 

Rodrigues, after the savoured large-venue productions Fúria and Encantado, once again blankets us in comfort and hope.

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William Forsythe – UNDERTAINMENT

May 23rd – 31st, 2025 Hellerau, Dresden
June 5th – 8th, 2025 Schauspiel Frankfurt, Frankfurt
June 13th – 15th, 2025 De Singel, Antwerp
June 27th, 2025 Theater Freiburg, Freiburg
July 7th – 8th, 2025 Julidans, Amsterdam
September 9th – 10th, 2025 Auditorium Conciliazione, Rome
September 21st – 22nd, 2025 Biennale Danse Lyon, Lyon
October 4th, 2025 Aperto Festival, Reggio Emilia
November 13th – 15th, 2025 Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona
December 4th – 6th, 2025 Kampnagel, Hamburg
Duration: unknown

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Forsythe Returns to Frankfurt

© Dominik Mentzos

This is a full circle moment. William Forsythe is regarded as one of the most important choreographers of the late 20th century. His innovative approach to the tradition of ballet has opened up directions for dance that would otherwise be difficult to imagine. From 1984 to 2004, Forsythe directed the Ballett Frankfurt and from 2005 to 2015 The Forsythe Company, which was later renamed Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company.

Forsythe is now returning to the place of this legacy of many years and is developing a new work with the company for the first time. Starting from a toolbox of improvisational construction, he creates a structural order which, instead of signifying something else, offers an aesthetic pleasure in itself. Like in a kaleidoscope, patterns emerge that are always unpredictable and surprising yet within a clear framework. The dancers explore the movement system that they themselves form to its limits. The audience is invited to follow this exploration and experience the work as a living, breathing system.

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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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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

© NDT

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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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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