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Martha Graham Dance Company – GRAHAM100

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  • 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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LA VERONAL – LA MORT I LA PRIMAVERA

  • August 1st – 2nd, 2025 BIENNALE DANZA, Venice
  • September 24th – October 9th, 2025 TNC, Barcelona
  • November 1st – 2nd, 2025 Temporada Alta, Girona

Duration: unknown

A Fantasy

Marcos Morau and La Veronal, a dance company of great international scope and prestige, explore Mercè Rodoreda’s dark imaginary to construct an allegory about creative freedom, social commitment, and art as salvation and refuge.

La mort i la primavera is Rodoreda’s unfinished novel both dark and beautiful, enigmatic and universal, rebellious and fatalistic, with a universe between the human and the sacred, the spiritual and the animal. A piece that expresses sadness and anger, but also resistance. Rodoreda wrote the work in the early 1960s when she was in exile, and it is thought to be a condemnation of totalitarianism and Rodoreda’s experience with nazism during WWII.

La mort i la primavera will open the season at the TNC after its premiere at the Biennale Danza in Venice.

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TAO Dance Theater – 16 & 17

  • 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

© Fan Xi

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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Virginie Brunelle – FABLES

July 23rd – 24th, 2025 Biennale Danza, Venice
February 20th – 21st, 2026 Penn Live Arts, Philadelphia
65 minutes

A Crying Need for Utopia

© David Wong

Through a rigorous movement vocabulary, Fables offers a sometimes harsh, sometimes poetic vision of women’s ongoing struggle. Against the backdrop of the chaos of an era turned upside down, the piece projects us into fantastical spaces from which larger–than-life characters emerge — contemporary female archetypes who paved the way to freedom from invisible yet real barriers. A universe of great evocative power, echoing a crying need for utopia, hope and humanity.

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Chunky Move – U>N>I>T>E>D

July 17th – 18th, 2025 Biennale Danza, Venice
September 26th – 28th, 2025 da:ns focus, Singapore
November 20th – 21st, 2025 Camping Asia, Taipei
November 27th – 30th, 2025 Freespace Dance, Hong Kong
55 minutes

Machine Mysticism

© Gianna Rizzo

U>N>I>T>E>D is the latest work in the canon of Chunky Move Artistic Director Antony Hamilton’s ‘speculative future’ performances, following recent innovative dance experiences created by the company such as Token Armies (2019) and Yung Lung (2022).  

Exploring ‘machine mysticism’ and the persistence of spirituality in a post-industrial digital age, the work is a major international collaboration with leaders in the Javanese experimental scene, Gabber Modus Operandi Bali-based streetwear label Future Loundry, Australian global leaders in animatronic design, Creature Technology Co., and a stellar line up of six dancers.  

Drawing from its artists’ individual artistic and cultural practices, U>N>I>T>E>D will be an exhilarating melding of sophisticated movement, infectious music and science fiction-inspired design, that honours technologies both ancient and contemporary; inner and collective.

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Twyla Tharp Dance – Diamond Jubilee

  • February 7th – 9th, 2025 Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley
  • February 15th – 16th, 2025 Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa
  • February 18th, 2025 Mccallum Theatre, Palm Desert
  • February 22nd – 23rd, 2025 The Soraya, Northridge
  • February 25th – 26th, 2025 The Lensic Performing Arts Center, Santa Fe
  • March 4th, 2025 Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, Sarasota
  • March 6th, 2025 Ruby Diamond Concert Hall, Tallahassee
  • March 8th, 2025 KeyBank State Theatre, Cleverland
  • March 12th – 16th, 2025 New York City Center, New York
  • March 26th – 29th, 2025 Kennedy Center, Washington
  • April 5th, 2025 Dominion Energy Center, Richmond
  • April 10th – 12th, 2025 Harris Theater, Chicago
  • April 15th, 2025 Overture Center, Madison
  • April 17th, 2025 McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton
  • April 19th, 2025 Byham Theater, Pittsburgh
  • July 17th – 18th, 2025 Biennale Danza, Venice

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Golden Lion of Biennale Danza 2025

© Twyla Tharp

In this dazzling celebration of her company’s 60th Anniversary, Twyla Tharp presents a double bill that offer audiences a breathtaking vista of her range as an icon in American dance.

Tharp takes on Beethoven’s intensely demanding Diabelli Variations, making visible the composer’s layered genius in her piece Diabelli. With each section of the Beethoven, unique in mood and texture, Tharp’s response—tender, teasing, transcendent, cheeky—commands all of the performers’ technical prowess and energy. The dancers change effortlessly from ballet to jazz to modern, with unexpected bits of social dance.

Glass’s iconic music comes alive in Tharp’s new work, SLACKTIDE, featuring a bold new arrangement created and performed live by members of the Grammy-winning Third Coast Percussion. Tharp’s dancers capture all the rhythmic, propulsive energy of this Glass suite, invigorated by a collection of custom-designed instruments.

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