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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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Damien Jalet – Thrice

June 21st – 22nd, 2025 Den Norske Opera & Ballett, Oslo
July 26th, 2025 Kalamata International Dance Festival, Kalamata
July 28th & 30th, 2025 ImPulsTanz, Vienna
September 24th – 25th, 2025 Bærum Kulturhus, Sandvika
60 minutes

Damien Jalet’s Triptych

© JR

The triple bill Thrice consists of the three pieces Gusts, Médusés, and Brise-lames.

Gusts, the first section, is about air—breath and movement – and pays homage to the force that carries us. With live music by saxophonist Bendik Giske, Gusts becomes a dialogue between body and sound, highlighting the tension between gravity and centripetal force.

Médusés, the second chapter, takes its cue from the myth of Medusa and the idea of being petrified by a gaze. Here, bodies resist – between rigidity and fluidity, the individual and the collective.

Brise-lames, the final part, transports us underwater. Created in collaboration with artist JR and Japanese pianist Koki Nakano, this piece, which has only been available to the public as a film directed by Louise Narboni in close collaboration with Damien Jalet, will now be performed live for the first time. The movements here are slow – like a ship approaching shore, or waves reaching land.

Thrice is a work in constant motion – a story of bodies attempting not to solidify. This project has allowed Damien Jalet to return to the founding principles of his work, a minimalist exploration of movement. His more recent creations have operated on a very grand scale, with ambitious scenography and apparatus. In Thrice, complexity lies elsewhere: in the movements, lights and sound, and in the search of how combination, association and repetition might generate new emotions.

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Jiří Kylián Festival – Wings of Time

May 29th – June 14th, 2025, Oslo Opera House, Oslo
June 18th – 22nd, 2025 Amare, The Hague (ballets only)
2 h 5 min / 2 Breaks (Day before Tomorrow)
2 h 15 min / 2 Breaks (Day after Yesterday)

Full of Kylián

© Oslo Opera House

Such an extensive display of my work has never been presented before and will certainly never take place again!

Jiří Kylián

From 29 May to 14 June, the Oslo Opera House will host a unique event in the international dance world. The Norwegian National ballet celebrates the artistry of Jiří Kylián, the world’s greatest living choreographer, as he summarizes his life’s work through a parade of ballets, installations, films and photographic art.

The festival will affect the entire Oslo Opera House, with sculptures on the glass facade, a photo exhibition on the studio stage, dancing on the roof of the Opera House, and the world premiere of the installation Ensō on the side stage. On the Main Stage, seven of the world’s most beautiful and most profound ballets ever made will be performed, and the audience is invited to special screenings of Kylián’s films, accompanied by dancers and acknowledged trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær. Jiří Kylián has personally curated the festival and has chosen to present this grand retrospective of his life’s work at the Oslo Opera House. 

day before tomorrow
day after yesterday

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Jan Martens for Carte Blanche – CANCEL BERTHA

May 22nd – 31st, 2025 Carte Blanche Studio, Bergen
September 18th, 2025 Stavanger Concert Hall, Stavanger
October 3rd, 2025 Biennale de Charleroi Danse, Charleroi
October 22nd – 26th, 2025 Dansens Hus, Oslo
November 12th – 13th, 2025 Bora Bora, Århus
75 minutes

Jan Martens’ Debut with Carte Blanche

© Øystein Haara

CANCEL BERTHA moves to its own rhythm- a playful blend of energy, curated chaos, and unexpected creativity. The performance reflects Jan Martens’ signature approach: reimagining dance as a space for individuality, connection, and subtle humor. Scenes flow seamlessly from one moment to the next, blurring the boundaries between moments of ecstatic group energy and sequences of suspended intimacy.

In CANCEL BERTHA, music isn’t always what you hear—it’s what you see and feel. True to Martens’ fascination with rhythm, structure, and music scores, the dancers’ movements become their own soundscape. Silence holds as much weight as motion, and patterns emerge with geometry in delightful ways.

CANCEL BERTHA is bold without being brash, playful, yet precise. It’s a dense dance evening that draws inspiration from polyrhythms and a love for layered storytelling. The Carte Blanche ensemble crafts a performance that balances the poppy, the avant-garde, and the deeply human.

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Ingrid Berger Myhre – No Dreams, No Gold

February 14th – 15th, 2025 Rosendal Teater, Trondheim
February 21st – 22nd, 2025 BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen
May 2nd, 2025 Korzo Theater, The Hague
May 16th , 2025 Bellevue Theater, Amsterdam
October 2nd – 4th, 2025 Dansens Hus, Oslo
October 15th, 2025 Regional Arena for Samtidsdans, Sandnes
60 minutes

A Duet with Warmth
and Humor

© Kim Jakobsen To

Lasse is a composer and a musician. Ingrid is a choreographer and a dancer. Their collaboration is often about finding new ways to articulate a working situation: where both operate as equal players, without having to be the same.

Ingrid and Lasse have different experience and perspective, but share the space of negotiation that arise when meeting in the periphery of their own expertise. Their friendship is an intrinsic part of their artistic material, which they give the audience generous access to. Their work is highly personal yet down to earth.

In 2019 Ingrid and Lasse made the performance Panflutes and Paperwork. Since the premiere at Theater Rotterdam it has been shown all over Europe. No Dreams, No Gold is their next stage production, in which they continue to contemplate the conventions of music and dance with warmth and humor.

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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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