Unlike tourist attractions, dance festivals show their guests real living, breathing people. Find Europe’s dance festivals here. Always up to date. Our search for them was triggered by a dance trip to Kaunas that was fraught with scandal.

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.

How two popular arts – the aesthetics of the body and the performance of the body – come together in one choreographer: Deborah Colker from Brazil

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.

is essentially just a poorly-ventilated, windowless room, bathed in unpleasant light. A former movie theater from the post-war period, it now serves as the rehearsal venue of the Tanztheater Wuppertal.

There is intelligent life even outside of the body. That is what AΦE stands for – Artificially Φutstanding Excellence. In this article, the creature of this British dance company tells the story of its creation.

She was the lead dancer of the Montreal-based La La La Human Steps company and became the iconic dancer of her generation. She continues. She remains an icon. And she fills the halls.

Kor’sia scales an artistic summit. The dance company discovers ancient belief that the fate of mankind is not determined by God alone. Two Italian surrealists translate this idea into a wonderfully choreographed parable on the alienation of the human species from nature.

You can’t be successful without anger – not impotent anger, but honest anger. Bulgarian master Ivo Dimchev therefore seeks risk, not morality. He seeks his audience and not public opinion.

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.