Europe’s perpetual dance festival calendar

Every month, dance takes countless journeys—between the Mediterranean and the North Cape, or between Irish and Lithuanian adventures of real bodies for real bodies. Here it is: the constantly updated overview of dance festivals in Europe.

Khansa by Michele Imad

After the blast

In Beirut on the eastern Mediterranean, nothing confronts you with reality as much as the dance, the Arab body, the unadorned, which after years of horror has shed its ornamental dress and speaks directly to you.

Marcos Morau Barcelona

Marcos Morau & La Veronal

Tired of the “avant-garde,” of lame bodies and heavy-laden sanctity? Here comes Marcos Morau, a Spaniard who really has a story to tell with his dancers in front of his enormous stage sets.

Marcos Morau

Marcos Morau is an acrobat of the simultaneous. With him, death and fantasy coincide, avant-garde and folklore, tradition and science fiction. He stages the unexpected surprise. Dance becomes a thriller. A tale of how someone managed to make his dreams come true.

Khansa by Michele Imad

After the blast

In Beirut on the eastern Mediterranean, nothing confronts you with reality as much as the dance, the Arab body, the unadorned, which after years of horror has shed its ornamental dress and speaks directly to you.

Country without a state

Where there are no structures to make art possible, art throws itself a party. It does not need any structures; it creates its own in Beirut, in a deeply shaken city where everything has gone back to square one and anything seems possible again.

Ein Blick in die Küche von tanz.dance

A look into the tanz.dance kitchen

Excitingly researched reports and a sensual encounter with the art of dance in richly illustrated stories with depth: These are the ingredients for a culinary journey around the world to meet new people and cultures, their conflicts and their arts.

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tanz.dance – The 2023 chronicle

Ten new issues have been published since the last Chronicle 2022. They are always about dance and what it does in this world. You could report on this in small bites. Or prepare a fresh culinary meal.

Grönland

Greenland will never be green

Allow me to introduce myself – the name’s Greenland. I am Mars on Earth. The comparison honors me because it is based on my incomparably beautiful scenery.

Lazgi

Lazgi – Fire dance by candlelight

Oh how the word shimmers: Lazgi. In French it sounds like “lascar,” a sly fellow. It puts us in mind of the word lasciviousness, or Lascaux for the more historically minded – of the cave paintings left behind by prehistoric humans. It was also the discovery of prehistoric rock paintings that saw the Central Asian Lazgi declared one of the oldest dances still practiced today.