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NAWAL AÏT BENALLA – CE QUI NOUS TRAVERSE

October 15th – 18th, 2025 Théâtre Silvia Monfort, Paris
November 6th – 7th, 2025 Châteauvallon-Liberté, Toulon
December 16th – 17th, 2025 Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
60 minutes

The Raw Power

© Julie Cherki

In an era dominated by technological advancement and artificial intelligence, Nawal Aït Benalla’s new creation, Ce qui nous traverse, presents a powerful return to human connection through movement.

Five dancers with distinct physiques explore the raw power of the human body as a universal language within an intimate setting, engaging in metronomic, repetitive movements that evolve into a controlled, trance-like state.

Through elaborate choreography and striking contrasts – sudden accelerations, decelerations, and moments of near stillness – Benalla questions our relationship with our bodies and physical connection in shared space. The piece aims to highlight our corporeal forms as powerful instruments, capable of connecting us all and transcending divisions of class, culture, and education.

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Armin Hokmi – Shiraz

  • July 3rd – 4th, 2025 Festival de la Cité, Lausanne
  • August 21st – 22nd, 2025 Dansens Hus, Oslo
  • August 26th, 2025 Mladi Levi International Festival, Ljubljana
  • September 6th, 2025 Neimenster, Luxembourg
  • September 24th, 2025 SIDance International Dance Festival, Seoul
  • October 15th, 2025  Romaeuropa Festival, Rome
  • October 17th, 2025 IDFT, Tirana
  • October 24th – 25ht, 2025 Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf
  • November 7th – 8th, 2025 Pavillon ADC, Geneva
  • November 14th – 15th, 2025 Sadler’s Wells, London
  • March 10th – 11th, 2026 POLE SUD CDCN, Strasbourg
  • March 13th, 2026 Le Carreau, Forbach
  • March 17th – 18th, 2026 Maison de la Danse, Lyon
  • March 21st, 2026 CNDC, Angers
  • March 25th – 28th, 2026 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
  • March 31st – April 1st, 2026 Festival À Corps, Poitiers

60 minutes

A Revelation

© Armin Hokmi Kiasaraei

Shiraz is a choreography for six dancers, weaving together a fabric of movements and gestures. Their insistent energy, moments of convergence and passage through ephemeral constellations are what takes center stage in this performance. A pulsating dance imbued with a sense of enchantment and longing, coiling and uncoiling to the pulsating beat of a capturing music.

The starting point for this piece is the Shiraz Arts Festival. A festival for live arts that took place between 1967 and 1977 in south of Iran and radically rethought the relationship to the audience and modalities of framing art works. Armin Hokmi, together with the team, places it into our present day in the form of a revival, by giving it a new appearance through a dance performance. Shiraz is both a homage and a fictional setting. It seeks to reimagine the ambitions of the festival and its love for the live arts, their autonomy as art forms and their common roots across geographical borders.

Shiraz is created out of a devotion to a notion of dance and choreography that emphasizes their power to ignite joy, bring about experiences of delving into sensuous worlds, and their ability to transform perception and our modes of affective engagement with live performance.

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Akram Khan & Manal AlDowoyan – Thikra: Night of Remembering

June 22nd – 24th, 2025 Montpellier Danse, Montpellier
July 29th – August 1st, 2025 ImPulsTanz, Vienna
August 17th, 2025 Santander International Festival, Santander
September 19th – 21st, 2025 Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
September 26th – 28th, 2025 Théâtre Sénart, Lieusaint
October 2nd – 18th, 2025 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
October 28th – November 1st, 2025 Sadler’s Wells, London
November 5th – 6th, 2025 Romaeuropa Festival, Rome
November 11th – 12th, 2025 Berliner Festspiele, Berlin
November 19th – 20th, 2025 Tanz Köln, Cologne
65 minutes

No Future without a Past

© Camilla Greenwell

Thikra: Night of Remembering is Akram Khan Company’s latest production created in collaboration with award-winning visual artist Manal AlDowayan.

Thikra draws inspiration from AlUla’s ancient landscapes, mythology and cultural heritage to evoke the idea that “without a past, there is no future.”

Blending Bharatanatyam with contemporary, the piece is performed by a collective of all-female voices, accompanied by an original score from Aditya Prakash, sound design by Gareth Fry, lighting by Zeynep Kepekli and dramaturgy by Blue Pieta.

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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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Simone Mousset & M. Chevalier – The Great Chevalier

March 7th, 2025 Festival ARTDANTHE, Vanves
April 2nd – 4th, 2025 TROIS C-L, Luxembourg
May 25th, 2025 Abbaye de Royaumont, Asnières-sur-Oise
May 30th – June 1st, 2025 Villa Vauban, Luxembourg
July 5th – 24th, 2025 Festival d’Avignon, Avignon
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The Enfant Terrible of Contemporary Folk Dance

© Thierry Claude

Universally hailed as the enfant terrible of contemporary folk dance, Mr Chevalier is the Ballet National Folklorique du Luxembourg’s flamboyant new artistic director – and together with his co-director Simone Mousset he will come to you for the first time with an exclusive solo tour! Renowned in dance industry for his expertise, bold artistic vision, and magnetic stage presence, Mr Chevalier will tour the world and pay tribute to all the venues that have contributed to the success of the Ballet National Folklorique du Luxembourg in the past. 

The Great Chevalier Tour coincides with the 50 year anniversary of the company’s most famous ballet, Josiane, the Country Girl, and on his various appearances, Mr Chevalier will perform among others the iconic Pigeon Dance, an emblematic classic from Josiane, the Country Girl. An unsurpassed expert in the field, Mr Chevalier will respond to the particular histories that link each venue with the Ballet National Folklorique du Luxembourg’s past, and audiences can expect to discover his unique blend of charisma and virtuosity as they are invited into these shared histories and the Ballet National Folklorique du Luxembourg’s rich cultural heritage.

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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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Alan Platel & Steven Prengels – Ombra

January 17th – 18th, 2025 Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
105 minutes

Between Despair and Mildness

© Koen Broos

‘Never was a shade of a tree so lovely…’, it says in Händel’s famous aria Ombra mai fu. Alain Platel and visual artist Berlinde De Bruyckere take inspiration from the shade of a tree as a meeting place, as a place where people all over the world and throughout history come together to rest, meet or discuss problems. De Bruyckere’s poetic world of images seems to share a kinship with Platel’s universe.

After the overwhelming success of C(H)OEURS 2022, Platel once again invites the chorus members, dancers and orchestral musicians of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen to join a creative dialogue. Together with singer and performer TK Russell and guest choreographers Mélanie Lomoff and Luis Marrafa, they create the performance Ombra. Composer Steven Prengels is developing a new orchestral score in which he interweaves well-known classical masterpieces by the likes of Händel, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven into new layers of meaning.

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Compagnie 111  / Aurélien Bory – invisibili

January 30th – 31st, 2025 Scène nationale d’Orléans, Orléans
February 18th – 19th, 2025 Montpellier Danse, Montpellier
April 2nd – 3rd, 2025 Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
70 minutes

Anthem to Life

© Rosellina Garbo

With his Compagnie 111, choreographer and director Aurélien Bory has carved a path as a visionary of spatial poetry and a virtuoso of stagecraft, receiving international acclaim for his mastery in blending diverse performance languages. His 2023 work invisibili is inspired by his encounter with the city of Palermo and The Triumph of Death, an anonymous fresco from the 15th century, in which death strikes everyone without distinction of class, rank, age, or gender. In Bory’s hands, the monumental mural becomes a mesmerising backdrop, wondrously integrated in a profound dialogue with the dancers on stage, where narratives of contemporary relevance, including the plight of migrants and the challenges of illness, take place. Far from being a macabre dance of death, invisibili offers a captivating anthem to life.

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Chunky Move – 4/4

November 15th – 16th, 2024 Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels
November 22nd – 24th, 2024 Dansens Hus, Olso
December 3rd, 2024 PLT Theater, Heerlen
December 6th – 7th, 2024 Teatro Municipal do Porto, Porto
December 10th – 11th, 2024 Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
60 minutes

A Uniquely Australian Performance

© Gianna Rizzo

4/4 is Chunky Move’s blueprint for choreographic precision, physical endurance, minimalist design and rugged street aesthetics.

Eight dancers perform a stark symphony of mesmerising movement against the backdrop of minimalist design. As episode after episode builds upon the last, quartets and duets converge and diverge in ever more hypnotic configurations.

Described by audiences as meticulous, mesmerising and exhilarating, and collecting 5- and 4-star reviews and a Green Room award and nomination, 4/4 is a stunning and unrelenting display of Chunky Move Artistic Director Antony Hamilton’s distinctive choreographic language and methodology.

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Amala Dianor – DUB

October 9th – 12th, 2024 Maison de la Danse, Lyon
November 20th – 21st, 2024 L’Empreinte, Brive-la-Gaillarde
November 24th, 2024 L’Archipel, Perpignan
December 11th – 14th, 2024 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
December 18th, 2024 Le Corum, Montpellier
February 7th, 2025 Le Forum, Fréjus
February 11th – 12th, 2025 Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
60 minutes

A Melting Pot
of Urban Dance

© Pierre Gondard

In DUB, Amala Dianor explores how today’s globally connected youth has embraced the legacy of hip-hop culture to forge new choreographic identities. After travelling across continents seeking out the underground world of urban dance and delving into social media where movements are reimagined, extended, and exchanged, the iconic Franco-Senegalese artist has brought together talented dancers from diverse geographical backgrounds, each influenced by a plethora of aesthetics and encompassing different styles, from whacking and dancehall to jookin and pantsula. As they adapt their practices and blend their techniques to connect with each other, they create a space that’s even brighter and freer than their individual realms. Awir Leon’s live music and Grégoire Korganow’s evocative design contribute to the immersive, joyous atmosphere.

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