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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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Christos Papadopoulos / DANCE ON ENSEMBLE – Mellowing

February 1st, 2025 Tanzbiennale Heidelberg, Heidelberg
March 17th, 2025 dFERIA, San Sebastián
March 20th – 22nd, 2025 Le CENTQUATRE, Paris
April 12th, 2025 Osterfestival Tirol, Innsbruck
July 1st – 2nd, 2025 COLOURS International Dance Festival, Stuttgart
July 18th – 19th, 2025 Kalamata International Dance Festival, Kalamata
March 21st, 2026 Festspielhaus St. Pölten, St. Pölten
55 minutes

Harmony, Precision, Cohesion

© Jubal Battisti

A body that is outwardly still and inwardly vibrating – what processes does the energy undergo before it breaks through? How does it change when the body matures?

In his new production Mellowing, Christos Papadopoulos embarks on his inaugural collaboration with the dancers of the Dance On Ensemble. Together they create a lively restlessness, a permanent vibration in which the spectator is inevitably involved.

Christos Papadopoulos’ works are fed by an intensely observant approach to movement and often unfold a lively and meditative power. His attention is focused on the minimal shifts of perception, the perpetual, often unnoticed and yet powerful movements that are ever-present in nature, in everyday life, within physical phenomena and political contexts.

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Omar Rajeh – Beytna

January 30th, 2025 The Arts Center, Abu Dhabi
February 20th – 21st, 2025 Manège Fonck, Liège
March 7th – 8th, 2025 Balkan Cinema, Belgrade
April 17th, 2025 Congress Innsbruck, Innsbruck
November 28th – 29th, 2025 Teatro della Tosse, Genoa
80 minutes

Dance, Eat and Unite!

© Paul Bourdrel

Beytna is a unique dance performance around the concept of sharing, where four choreographers and four musicians from Lebanon, Korea, Palestine, Belgium, and Togo come together over a banquet of food. Despite their diverse cultural backgrounds and artistic experiences, they reshape a communal and traditional family reunion into an artistic meeting of dance, music, and cooking.

Witness as they talk, drink, laugh, dance, and eat, transforming this simple gathering into an intricate, captivating performance. Beytna invites you into a world of compassion, and friendship. It is a simple invitation into the home of the other. An invitation to the artist’s profession and choreographic statement, as much as it is to the forms and situations of the past.