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Jan Martens – THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER 2.0

Post author By hahparis
Post date July 10, 2025

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

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The Dog Days Are Back

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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Tags Tilburg, Valence, Martigues, Seoul, Leuven, Clermont-Ferrand, Ghent, Heerlen, Sint-Niklaas, Delft, Hasselt, Taipei, Lyon, Reggio Emilia, Jan Martens, Douai, Marseille, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Groningen, Rotterdam

Benelux

TAO Dance Theater – 16 & 17

Post author By hahparis
Post date May 17, 2025

July 25th – 26th, 2025 Biennale Danza, Venice
August 9th, 2025 ImPulsTanz, Vienna
October 12th – 13th, 2025 Dialog Festival, Wrocław
October 16th – 17th, 2025 SPAF, Seoul
March 4th, 2026 Amare, The Hague
March 7th, 2026 International Theater Amsterdam, Amsterdam
March 10th, 2026 schrit_tmacher Festival, Heerlen
March 14th, 2026 Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Utrecht
March 17th, 2026 SPOT Groningen, Groningen

70 minutes

The Latest Chapters of Numerical Series

This double bill from the TAO Dance Theater’s Numerical Series begins with a celebration of the dragon, a bringer of good look in China. Inspired by the Chinese dragon dance Loong, sixteen black-clad dancers from Beijing swirl through colourful light in the first piece, 16. And the seventeen bodies in 17, wearing black and white, activate their voices along with their movements, thereby turning themselves into a “mobile sound system”. With his minimalist yet virtuoso dance style, choreographer Tao Ye has found a path between tradition and futurism that brings the body and the mind into harmony.

TAO Dance Theatre’s choreographic Series of Numbers began in 2008 and has been invited onto the most important stages of the world, from the Lincoln Center Art Festival of New York to Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London, as well as the Sydney Opera House and the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. Its minimalist aesthetic further codified Tao Ye and Duan Ni’s method, achieving an exasperated repetition that seeks truth in the body.

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Tags Wrocław, Venice, Seoul, Heerlen, TAO Dance Theater, Vienna, Amsterdam, Groningen, The Hague, Utrecht

France

Armin Hokmi – Shiraz

Post author By hahparis
Post date June 8, 2025

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

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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Tags Armin Hokmi, Düsseldorf, Tirana, Romaeuropa, Seoul, Angers, Poitiers, Ljubljana, Oslo, London, Geneva, Lyon, Luxembourg, Strasbourg, Rome, Lausanne, Paris

Scandinavia DACH region

Alexander Ekman – Hammer (for GöteborgsOperans Danskompani)

Post author By hahparis
Post date March 31, 2025

May 24th – 25th, 2025 Zorlu Performing Arts Center, Istanbul
June 29th – July 5th, 2025 Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona
November 14th – 16th, 2025 LG Arts Center, Seoul
November 21st -22nd, 2025 Busan Cultural Center, Busan
March 29th, 2026 Steps Festival, Lugano
April 24th – 26th, 2026 Dansens Hus, Stockholm
Approx. 2 h 15 min (including 40 min interval)

A Joy Called Ekman

In Hammer, a harmonious community shares an altruistic lifestyle inspired by the hippie era. They run, play, sing and enjoy life together. But slowly, the community progresses towards the modern age with its ubiquitous surveillance. The group’s behaviour becomes increasingly egotistical and individualistic. When we return for the second act, we find ourselves in a different place. Now we meet a group of self-conscious people in lonely bubbles. Eventually, unable to cope with all the false pretences, they are forced to relinquish their image-conscious facades and return to an altruistic existence.

Multi-award-winning choreographer Alexander Ekman is bold, unpredictable and innovative, just like GöteborgsOperans Danskompani. His visually powerful work turns a spotlight on contemporary society’s self-image, often with a humorous twist. Ekman has created some 50 works, which have been performed by almost as many companies worldwide. Hammer, a full evening in two acts, is his third work for GöteborgsOperans Danskompani.

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Tags Busan, Lugano, Stockholm, Alexander Ekman, GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, Seoul, Istanbul, Barcelona

France

Ballet Nacional de España / Marcos Morau – Afanador

Post author By hahparis
Post date March 23, 2025

April 24th – 25th, 2025 Yeulmaru, Yeosu
April 30th – May 1st, 2025 GS Arts Center, Seoul
July 10th – 20th, 2025 Teatro de la Zarzuela, Madrid
September 26th – 27th, 2025 Festspielhaus St. Pölten, St. Pölten
November 5th, 2025 Concertgebouw Brugge, Bruges
November 22nd – 23rd, 2025 Festival de Danse Cannes, Cannes
March 27th – April 2nd, 2026 Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
100 minutes

The Power of Photography & Choreography

Afanador emerges from the tension between the fascination that emanates from Ruven Afanador’s photos, and my own fascination with all the mystery, so diurnal and yet so nocturnal, that once fascinated Ruven.
Marcos Morau

Ruven Afanador’s photography is not documentary or monumental—it doesn’t archive history or glorify its subjects. Instead, it is driven by desire, distorting and being distorted by its object. Desire, elusive by nature, shapes what it sees, revealing subjective and profound truths.

Afanador approaches Andalusian folklore through this lens, exposing flamenco’s raw subconscious—its passion, death, and untold stories. His work amplifies its essence into a surreal, evocative world of shadow and light, where he both observes and is observed.

Our work extends this vision, capturing Afanador’s gaze and the transformative power of photography. Like Goya’s Caprichos, these images blend familiar themes through association and metamorphosis, turning photography into both miracle and mystery. Each shot lingers just beyond reach, on the verge of vanishing into its own fire.

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Tags Marcos Morau, Yeosu, Seoul, Madrid, Bruges, St. Pölten, Cannes, Paris

Matthew Bourne – Swan Lake

Post author By hahparis
Post date December 18, 2024

December 2nd, 2024 – January 26th, 2025 Sadler’s Wells, London
February 6th – 15th, 2025 Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham
February 18th – 22nd, 2025 Theatre Royal, Nottingham
February 25th – March 1st, 2025 Liverpool Empire, Liverpool
May 20th – 24th, 2025 Dublin Dance Festival, Dublin
June 18th – 29th, 2025 LG Arts Center, Seoul
August 27th – 31st, 2025 Shanghai Culture Square, Shanghai
October 9th – 26th, 2025 La Seine Musicale, Boulogne-Billancourt
October 29th – November 9th, 2025 Koninklijk Theater Carré, Amsterdam
November 19th – 22nd, 2025 Teatro Real, Madrid
November 27th – 30th, 2025 Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2 hours 20 minutes incl. one 20-minute interval

The 30th Anniversary of Bourne’s Genre-defining Work

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake returns for its 30^th anniversary with a 2024/25 UK tour. This audacious reinvention of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece caused a sensation when it premiered almost 30 years ago and has since become the most successful dance theatre production of all time. In celebration of that ongoing impact, Swan Lake will take flight once more in this major revival for the next generation, visiting 19 venues over 29 weeks.

Thrilling, bold, witty and emotive, this genre-defining event is still best known for replacing the female corps-de-ballet with a menacing male ensemble, which shattered convention, turning tradition on its head.

First staged at Sadler’s Wells in London in 1995, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake took the dance theatre world by storm becoming the longest running full-length dance classic in the West End and on Broadway. It has since been performed across the globe, collecting over thirty international accolades including the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production and three Tony Awards for Best Director of a Musical, Best Choreography and Best Costume Design.

Matthew Bourne said, “As our swans take flight once more in this major revival, I’m full of anticipation for the challenges it will bring for our next generation of dancers and the wonder that it will bring to audiences who will experience it for the very first time.”

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Tags Seoul, Boulogne-Billancourt, Dublin, Matthew Bourne, Birmingham, Nottingham, Liverpool, London, Shanghai, Amsterdam