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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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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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Nicole Beutler – NOW WE ARE EARTH

  • April 25th – 27th, 2025 Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Antwerp
  • May 27th, 2025 O. Festival, Rotterdam
  • July 8th – 9th, 2025 Julidans Festival, Amsterdam
  • September 15th, 2025 tadsschouwburg Utrecht, Utrecht
  • September 21st, 2025 SPOT, Groningen
  • September 24th – 25th, 2025 Het Nationale Theater, The Hague
  • September 26th, 2025 Chassé Theater, Breda
  • September 27th, 2025 Park Theater, Eindhoven
  • October 1st, 2025 Stadsschouwburg de Harmonie, Leeuwarden
  • October 7th, 2025 Stadsschouwburg Haarlem, Haarlem
  • October 9th, 2025 Nederlandse Dansdagen, Maastricht
  • October 11th, 2025 Schouwburg Hengelo, Hengelo
  • November 1st, 2025 Leidse Schouwburg, Leiden
  • November 5th, 2025 Musis & Stads Theater, Arnhem
  • November 30th, 2025 De Meervaart, Amsterdam

100 minutes

An Eco-Futuristic Symphony

© Reinout Bos

NOW WE ARE EARTH is a grand future vision of choreographer and theater maker Nicole Beutler. Music, dance, choir, and audience unite in this eco-futuristic symphony, creating a sense of greater harmony. With 8 dancers and singers, accompanied by a city choir of 45 voices, this 100-minute piece becomes a vibrant convergence of sound and movement, offering a glimpse into a dream of a possible future.

The piece explores the theme of interconnectedness, seeking balance across five realms: animals, humans, plants, fungi, and technology.

NOW WE ARE EARTH promises to be a total artwork, a dance opera featuring a local city choir, with a key role for the audience. Drawing inspiration from the intricate, interconnected threads of a mycelium, the performers weave a multi-layered, resonating tapestry of colors and sounds, unfolding in endlessly branching and repeating patterns.

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