Programme

Shot near Bergen, Landscaping is a video installation developed with Carte Blanche, the Norwegian National Company of Contemporary Dance, plunging us into a world where humans and nature co-exist differently.

No one can disregard the street; it is everyone’s business. A place of a thousand faces, which Brazilian choreographer Volmir Cordeiro has chosen to embody in a percussive solo fuelled by the rhythms of Washington Timbó.

Metamorphoses, overflows, a dialogue between bodies and materials… Lia Rodrigues’ Borda is not some geographical border, demarcated by walls or barbed wire; it is a place of frictions and invisible passageways, a space for caring, for fertile contaminations and joyous hybridisations.

Three choreographers, three visions of the night.

Último Helecho takes us on a fantastical underground journey rooted in Argentine and Peruvian folklore.

Melding sound, movement and material, Leather Better explores leather’s sensoriality and probes masculinity.

MONUMENT 0.10: The Living Monument immerses the audience in a universe where color and slowed-down movement create a unique sensory experience, offering through vibrant tableaux a meditative journey into a dreamlike world where time seems almost suspended.

In a country like Brazil, where people from different cultures and historical backgrounds live together, what can identity mean? Grupo Cena 11, led by choreographer Alejandro Ahmed, has an answer: our encounter with otherness. And above all, the otherness inside of us

For this augmented and site-specific re-creation in the former SNCF maintenance depot — now transformed into Les Grandes Locos — Crowd brings together 18 dancers, each embodying a distinct character and story.

In Spongebabe in L.A. (4 Love & Anxiety), Mercedes Dassy crafts a riveting solo about resilience and rebirth.

In Vapor, Original Bomber Crew fuses break, capoeira and everyday gestures in a vibrant tribute to Brazil’s outskirts.

In Ad Libitum, Simon Le Borgne and Ulysse Zangs create a vibrant dialogue between dance and live music, exploring the body’s metamorphosis and the act of creation.

The virtuoso flair of two young urban dancers responds to the intensity of a Schubert composition for piano four hands, in a fantasia by Marco da Silva Ferreira, a self-taught choreographer with a club background and master of genre mash-ups.

In Cheb, Filipe Lourenço crafts a vibrant encounter between traditional Maghreb music and contemporary sounds.

Handling long strips of shimmering fabrics, seven dancer-musicians give material form to the invisible kingdoms of their delirious imaginations.

What if music were a portal leading to an elsewhere? In Orage, Dalila Belaza, with composer Serge Teyssot-Gay, explores where personal and universal meet.

When there’s dance, what is it that dances? In Christian Rizzo’s pieces, the answer is not only human: movement is sculpted in a dialogue between bodies, space, light and music, and in the gaps that breathe between them, opening up infinite possibilities.

In 2014, Jan Martens made waves on the international scene with THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER. In 2025, the choreographer brings this piece back to life with a new generation of dancers.

1989, while the Berlin Wall was being pulled down, another phenomenon was racing around the globe: Lambada by Kaoma. And what if these two events – one political, the other musical – were combined to symbolise a change of era?

Comparing military and militant bodies, this pop/punk show offers a manifesto for change.

In a city that never stops, an ephemeral landscape comes to life. With Woods/Bosque, Clarice Lima orchestrates a monumental open-air performance, where bodies become forests and movements raise the alarm.

How does dance become a kind of self-defence? In Repertório N.2, Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira continue their exploration of movement as resistance.

An uplifting tribute to Carmen Amaya, scintillating flamenco artist and women’s heritage icon. Her energy resonates in FUGACES, where seven performers capture her earthy intensity through a hybrid language.

In Open my chest and place our tomorrows inside, Emmanuel Eggermont channels the energy of youth into a vibrant solo.

In this blend of dance, theatre and circus, the street becomes a carnivalesque playground where the potency of childhood fuels a micro-utopia.

With Jackpot, Collectif ÈS turns dance into a participatory experience where failure becomes a creative engine.

This double bill celebrates the handover by the visionary William Forsythe, founder of the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company, and the changing of the guard, in the person of Ioannis Mandafounis.

Amid an architecture of light lines and Bach’s virtuoso harmonies, a duet for female dancers and a solitary man venture out Into the Silence. A search for harmony and serenity, rather than for the void.

In this vibrant work with epic sweep by Mozambican choreographer Idio Chichava, dance and song combine to celebrate migration as a quest for identity and an act of survival.

As part of the
Biennale de la danse x Centre Pompidou invitation, choreographer, singer and author Dorothée Munyaneza is gathering and weaving stories from elsewhere that resonate powerfully with today.

This radical and much-needed solo by Luiz de Abreu and Calixto Neto deconstructs racist clichés one by one, with Neto perched on high heels against a Brazilian-flag backdrop.

Five women, forty dresses, countless stories. In Maldonne, Leïla Ka explores womanhood through bodies grappling with dresses that dazzle, stifle or rebel.

In Dancing, Collectif A/R transforms the stage into an immersive space of dance, live music and light installation.

A group of all ages, caught up in what is practically a historical frieze, walk in the same direction and then dance, tirelessly. Like its evocative title, Entre-Temps, the new piece by the renowned Philippe Decouflé, flows, passes, repeats and, above all, morphs.

Dive into a unique dance experience: an uplifting journey through hip-hop and club dances, guided by a new generation of artists. Be wowed by inspirational performances – from waacking to house to voguing – that twist conventions, fuse aesthetics and share marginal cultures. An intense day of shows, jams, workshops and a battle, with an emphasis on connections, spontaneity and freestyling. Feeling first!

To mark the centenary of the birth of visionary French composer Pierre Boulez, choreographer (but also musician and visual artist) Tânia Carvalho has conceived this unique, cross-disciplinary walkabout in Lyon’s Musée des Beaux- Arts.