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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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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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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

Sharon Eyal – Delay the Sadness

  • September 5th – 7th, 2025 Torino Danza, Turin (Avant Premiere)
  • September 12th – 15th, 2025 Ruhrtriennale, Bochum
  • October 16th – 18th, 2025 Domaine d’O, Montpellier
  • October 22nd – 23rd, 2025 Dampfzentrale, Bern
  • November 1st – 2nd, 2025 BIAF, Baku
  • November 8th, 2025 Festspielhaus, St. Pölten
  • November 27th – December 6th, 2025 La Villette, Paris

Around 50 minutes

A Story That Comes from within the Body.

© Vitali Akimov

Emotional, sensational, magnetic and deeply physical. You cannot stop watching. The highly skilled dancers of Sharon Eyal, express feelings that cannot be put in words. Eyal is considered one of the most important choreographers today. Her creations take us on a breathtaking journey along the emotions we face in life. Delay the Sadness is the new work by Eyal for S-E-D Dance Company, the new company founded by her and Gai Behar. Following their successful collaboration on ima for GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, Josef Laimon will compose the soundtrack for this new piece, exclusively for S-E-D.

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Benelux

Radouan Mriziga – Magec / the Desert

  • August 21st – 23rd, 2025 Tanz Im August, Berlin
  • October 3rd – 5th, 2025 Dream City Festival, Tunis
  • October 9th – 10th, 2025 Culturescapes, Basel
  • October 15th – 18th, 2025 Festival d’Automne, Paris
  • October 28th – 29th, 2025 Théâtre de Vidy, Lausanne
  • October 31st, 2025  Kurtheater, Baden
  • February 6th – 7th, 2026 De Singel, Antwerp

70 minutes

A Polyphony of Perspectives

© Louka Van Roy

Magec / the Desert is the second part of a new trilogy by Radouan Mriziga, inspired by mythological stories from the Amazigh culture, and in particular those who have a close relationship with the Atlas Mountains in North Africa, in terms of spirituality, art, philosophy, craft, and science.

In his work, Mriziga continues his practice of collective creation, where rhythm, text, movement, and sound become interwoven through the contributions of his collaborators. The choreography unfolds as a polyphony of perspectives, where individual experiences intersect to form a shared, multifaceted vision. Like the layered textures of the desert, the performance resists singularity, instead offering a complexity that is at once intellectual and deeply sensory.

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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

Israel & Mohamed

July 10th – 23rd, 2025 Festival d’Avignon, Avignon
October 7th, 2025 La Halle aux Grains, Blois
November 26th – 30th, 2025 Théâtre National, Brussels
December 10th – 20th, 2025 Festival d’Automne, Paris
January 8th – 9th, 2026 Scène Nationale de l’Essonne, Essonne
January 30th – 31st, 2026 Le Volcan, Le Havre
February 3rd – 4th, 2026 TANDEM, Douai
February 10th – 14th, 2026 TNB, Rennes
75 minutes

An Exciting Encounter

© Yohanne Lamoulère / Tendance Floue

One of them creates documentary-inspired theatre, films, and installations. The other is a virtuoso and iconoclastic flamenco dancer. By placing their first names side by side, Mohamed El Khatib and Israel Galván attempt to bridge the gap between their artistic worlds and practices as well as between their personal journeys, through a dialogue across the Mediterranean where differences prove as fruitful as affinities. Together, under the bewildered gaze of their fathers, they search for a common language rooted in the body, its wounds, and its scars. Taking their meeting and the sharing of their intimate, familial, and professional stories as a starting point, they explore – as a duo – the concepts of a living archive and a documentary dance.

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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 France

Alexander Vantournhout – FRAMES

  • June 25th – 28th, 2025 VIERNULVIER, Ghent
  • July 31st – August 5th, 2025 Theater Aan Zee, Ostend
  • August 19th – 21st, 2025 Noorderzon, Groningen
  • October 3rd – 5th, 2025 Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Schaerbeek
  • October 21st – 22nd, 2025 Circa Auch, Auch
  • April 8th – 12th, 2026 CENTQUATRE, Paris
  • April 18th – 19th, 2026 CC Maasmechelen, Maasmechelen
  • April 25th – 26th, 2026 Leietheater, Deinze
  • May 9th – 10th, 2026 CC Ter Dilft, Bornem
  • May 21st, 2026 ‘t Vondel, Halle
  • June 19th – 20th, 2026 De Spil, Roeselare
  • June 26th – 27th, 2026 Le Carreau, Forbach

Duration: unknown

Between Frame and Art

© Bart Grietens

How defining is a frame for a painting? What if you remove the frame? Or vice versa: what if you remove the artwork and just look at the frame? Frames explores this relationship between frame and art, placing Not Standing’s physical movement art in outdoor visual frames. 

Alexander Vantournhout and his three co-performers focus once again on movement art in its purest form. Meticulously, the four performers build ever-changing body sculptures in the viewing frames.  Bodies intertwine, hang from and climb on the frames, walk upside down, and defy both gravity and your imagination. Each movement is a continuous search for balance, focusing on cooperation and body control. 

The observer can view all this from all sides: from the front, side, and even from below. Perspectives tilt and physical logic seems to disappear. Frames invites you on a trail along choreographic installations that challenge and blend art and viewing perspectives into physical poetry in the public space.

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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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