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Martha Graham Dance Company – GRAHAM100

Martha Graham
  • October 22 – 26, 2025 Le Colisée, Roubaix
  • October 29 – November 2, 2025 La Bourse du Travail, Lyon
  • November 5 – 14, 2025 Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
  • November 20 – 23, 2025 Megaron Concert Hall, Athens
  • January 16 – 18, 2026 Power Center for the Performing Arts, Ann Arbor
  • January 24, 2026 The Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
  • January 28, 2026 The Byham Theater, Pittsburgh
  • January 31, 2026 KeyBank State Theatre, Cleveland
  • February 3, 2026 Majestic Theater, Gettysburg
  • February 7, 2026 Cyrus Northrop Memorial Auditorium, Minneapolis
  • February 11, 2026 Musco Center for the Arts, Orange
  • February 14 – 15, 2026 Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley
  • February 27 – March 2, 2026 Florida State University Theater, Sarasota
  • March 14, 2026 The Performing Arts Center, Purchase
  • March 25, 2026 Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill
  • April 2 – 4, 2026 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington
  • April 8 – 12, 2026 New York City Center, New York
  • May 6 – 10, 2026 Teatro La Fenice, Venice
  • May 12, 2026 Teatro Comunale Pavarotti Freni, Modena
  • May 29 – 30, 2026 Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia

The Legendary Martha Graham Dance Company 

© Melissa Sherwood

One of the greatest artists of the 20th century, American genius Martha Graham forever altered the fabric of dance by creating an entirely new style of expression through movement. Today, the Martha Graham Dance Company keeps her spirit of ingenuity alive by showcasing Graham masterpieces beside stunning new dances inspired by her legacy.

Celebrating the phenomenal milestone of its 100th year, Martha Graham Dance Company is touring acclaimed new works and the signature Graham classics.

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Emmanuel Eggermont – Open my chest and place our tomorrows inside

  • September 19th – 20th, 2025 Biennale Danse Lyon, Lyon
  • October 14th – 15th, 2025 Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand

50 minutes

Art Will Save the World?

© Jihyé Jung

Inspired by graffiti saying “Art will save the world”, Eggermont invites young people to share memories, poems, and references. These fragments form a time capsule, portraying a generation in search of meaning. Through his gestural language and music, Eggermont’s dance becomes a refuge, affirming art as a force for resilience and renewal in troubled times.

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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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São Paulo City Ballet 2025 Euro Tour

  • September 18th, 2025 Cadances Festival, Arcachon
  • September 23rd – 27th, 2025 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
  • October 2nd – 3rd, 2025 La Comédie, Clermont-Ferrand
  • October 8th – 9th, 2025 Château Rouge, Annemasse
  • October 15th – 19th, 2025 Maison de la Danse, Lyon

Double bill (Fôlego + Boca Abissal / Réquiem SP)

Discover Brazilian Choreography

© Stig de Lavor

The São Paulo City Ballet presents a European tour with remarkable choreographies such as ‘Boca Abissal’, ‘Fôlego’ and ‘Réquiem SP’, signed by renowned Rafaela Sahyoun and Alejandro Ahmed.

Rafaela Sahyoun

Rafaela Sahyoun is a Latin American dance artist from São Paulo, currently based between Brazil and Portugal. She spirals through the intertwined roles of being a dancer, a young choreographer, and a teacher. She is fascinated by the ever-evolving landscape of performative practices, community, and context. She dedicates herself to artistic and pedagogical projects that unfold and shape-shift continuously through ongoing research and shared practices.

Actively collaborating with artists, researchers, students, and art institutions in Brazil and abroad, she has a strong inclination toward hybrid formats of collaboration in dialogues with multidisciplinary disciplines. Her most recent choreographic work, Fôlego (2022), was commissioned by São Paulo City Ballet (Balé da Cidade de São Paulo, BCSP) in partnership with São Paulo Cultural Centre (Centro Cultural de São Paulo, CCSP) and had its 2023 season at São Paulo Municipal Theatre (Theatro Municipal de São Paulo).

Alejandro Ahmed

Winner of three APCA (São Paulo Association of Art Critics) awards, as well as the Funarte Petrobras Dance Promotion Award, Bravo! Prime Award for Culture, and the Sergio Motta Art and Technology Award, Alejandro Ahmed is one of the most important choreographers in contemporary Brazilian dance. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, he moved with his family to Florianópolis, Brazil, at the age of three, where he began dancing at just twelve.

As a guest of the São Paulo City Ballet in 2022, he conceived and choreographed a piece by the American avant-garde composer John Cage, written in the early 1990s, resulting in the performance “Sixty Eight in Axys Atlas.” Alejandro Ahmed now returns to his partnership with the São Paulo Municipal Ballet, this time as artistic director of the São Paulo City Ballet.

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France Benelux

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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DACH region France

Nina Laisné, François Chaignaud, Nadia Larcher – Último Helecho

  • July 19th – 21st, 2025 ImPulsTanz, Vienna
  • August 23rd – 25th, 2025  Ruhrtriennale, Essen
  • September 9th, 2025 La Bâtie Festival de Genève, Annemasse
  • September 12th, 2025 Oriente Occidente Festival, Rovereto
  • September 17th – 18th, 2025 Biennale Danse Lyon, Lyon
  • October 1st – 3rd, 2025 Musica Festival, Strasbourg
  • October 5th, 2025 La Filature, Mulhouse
  • October 14h – 15th, 2025  Les 2 scènes, Besançon
  • November 28th – 30th, 2025 Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
  • December 6ht, 2025 Concertgebouw, Bruges
  • January 24th – 25th, 2026 Berliner Festspiele, Berlin

70 minutes

A Celebration of
Fluid Identities

© Nina Laisné

As an international co-production, artists Nina Laisné and François Chaignaud and singer Nadia Larcher have developed Último helecho, a performance that is carried by music, singing and dance at once and where Baroque meets South American folklore and mythology.

Último helecho is the second cooperation between François Chaignaud and Nina Laisné following Romances inciertos, un autre Orlando, for which they invented a special, poetically artistic cosmos: Drag and dance, old Spanish songs and queer hero*ine narratives were interwoven into a celebration of fluid identities and forms of expression.

While François Chaignaud also sings on stage, Nadia Larcher, who is a celebrated singer in South America, will try out the folklore dances of her native lands together with him on stage for the first time. The multifaceted repertoire of traditional music and dances from Argentina – ranging from chacareras via the majestic zambas to the huaynos – will serve as the underpinnings of the performance. The duo will be accompanied live on stage by six musicians whose artistic roots lie partly in Baroque and partly in folklore.

Francois chaignaud
nina laisne

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France

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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Benelux

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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DACH region

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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DACH region Benelux France

Damien Jalet & Kohei Nawa – Mirage for the Ballet du GTG

May 6th – 11th, 2025 Grand Théâtre de Genève, Geneva
June 5th – 7th, 2025 Kampnagel, Hamburg
January 14th – 17th, 2026 Maison de la Danse, Lyon
January 24th, 2026 Festspielhaus St. Pölten, St. Pölten
June 11th – 14th, 2026 De Singel, Antwerp
65 minutes

A Dream of Atmospheric Phenomena

© Gregory Batardon

With Mirage, Damien Jalet offers his very first creation for the Ballet du Grand Théâtre, where he has been an associate artist since 2022. Mirage also constitutes the fourth chapter of his collaboration with Japanese visual artist Kohei Nawa.

Inspired by the phenomenon of mirages and Fata Morgana – optical illusions linked to specific meteorological conditions, caused by light being distorted as it passes through different- temperature layers of air – Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa depict humanity wandering in a metaphorical desert in search of itself.

Through a series of unpredictable transformations inspired by different mythologies, climatology, botany and entomology, as well as Hayagawari – a Japanese kabuki theatre technique in which performers suddenly transform during a performance –, the piece peels back the performers, layer after layer, exploring an endless variety of physical and emotional states.

Sometimes evoking the spectres of a civilization at the edge of a dry well, sometimes crossed with the dazzling colours and sensuality of tropical nature, Mirage passes through like a moving, fluctuating, waking dream of atmospheric phenomena.

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