Dance can be the antithesis of a clock. Dance can teach us that time is not separate from the body. In fact, the moving body is rather a reminder that time and space are always in a dance. And the dance never stops, but it also never begins.

In the 2024/2025 season just passed, in addition to those projects by large ensembles celebrating various anniversaries of their existence, the fields of contemporary and new circus, physical theatre, mask and mime could be characterised as a platform open to the sharing of creative processes.

Christos Papadopoulos, one of the most internationally well-known and beloved Greek choreographers, returned to Rome for the closing week of the fortieth edition of the Roma Europa Festival.

A select group of choreographers currently stands out in the global creative dance scene. In contemporary dance, the gender ratio of female and male choreographers is relatively balanced (thanks in part to the wave of modernist women in the first half of the 20th century). In the domestic environment, I would even dare to say that women predominate.

Dance continues to perpetuate unrealistic and potentially harmful beauty standards, which can contribute to mental health challenges, including eating disorders, among dancers. This pressure can be amplified by social media’s pervasive influence.

Sorour Darabi’s performances are places where the complexity of otherness is exposed. By bringing together personal and collective experiences, Darabi explores intersectionality and the changeability of our identity and bodies in relation to culture and their political context.

In the European premiere of her technicolour new work, South Korean choreographer Eun-Me Anh—one of the most important artists of her country, often referred to as the “Pina Bausch of Asia”—confronts Western audiences with their generalisations about the East.

“The ground is moving, and we are moving with it”, writes artistic director Ricardo Carmona. Tanz im August 2025 stays true to this vision: dance as a seismograph of present-day tensions.