In an evening highlighting the transmission of legacy within the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company, this year’s Romaeuropa festival – Rome’s largest international performing arts festival – presented Undertainment by William Forsythe and Lisa by Ioannis Mandafounis.
This summer, Teatro di Roma launched the first edition of the Teatro Ostia Antica Festival (23–26 July 2025), renewing its collaboration with the open-air Roman theatre of Ancient Ostia.
During the summer months, Vienna was brought to life by Impulstanz, one of the most important European festivals, offering an extensive, month-long programme. It featured a range of world-renowned names, among which Canadian choreographer, contemporary dance icon, and regular festival guest Marie Chouinard shone brightly.
What to do in a sunless summer? You warm up. Leading Austrian choreographer, director, and performance artist Florentina Holzinger does it in her usual — and perhaps more radical than ever — way: with an orgy, a surgical operation, female bodies dancing, crashing, and rising again.
In their hometown of Estoril, Portuguese Companhia Paulo Ribeiro presented an adaptation of Maurice Accompagné—the first part of a period-inspired trilogy of contemporary dance designed to guide audiences through the early 20th century (with following parts focusing on the 1960s and the present day).
The season finale in the Spanish capital belongs to the Madrid en Danza festival, where some of the most prominent names on the contemporary dance scene can regularly be seen.
