The second edition of Dance Context Journal has just been released, this time dedicated to the theme of Identity in Dance. Get your copy now! Available in print or online. The official launch will take place on 19 November 2025, with Radim Vizváry, a leading Czech mime artist and the Journal’s patron.

Every two years, Lyon turns into an open-air stage. Here I am, standing on the pavement, squeezed between a giant balloon and a brass band that insists on being heard three blocks away, watching the inevitable Défilé de la Biennale.

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.

On Sunday, September 21, MOVE Fest Ostrava 2025 kicked off at the cultural center Provoz in Ostrava with the Czech premiere of the dance film Zenit!

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.

As you might expect from one of the world’s busiest dance capitals, there is always lots to see in London. In this Letter from London, I bring you just a flavour of what has been happening here in the spring and early summer of 2025.

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.