19.06 border bodies
Mandala Dance Company & Zawirowania Dance Company
Six bodies inhabit an invisible line.
They seek each other, repel each other, cross each other.
The border is obstacle and desire, distance and denied contact.
Over time it breaks, shifts, dissolves in the bodies that cross it.
Between friction and listening, different identities contaminate each other, shaping an unstable geography, where the limit does not disappear, but transforms into possibility.
21.06 balancier
Mandala Dance Company
We are all looking for a static or dynamic
balance, but probably we are simply asked to oscillate endlessly in the dual without ever
reaching it.
21.06 waiting for spring
Zawirowania Dance Company
A performance that explores the tension between the need for change and the fear of its consequences. Each dancer embodies a different mechanism for coping with uncertainty: withdrawal, self-control, and an impulsive search for stimulation. The bodies are not only “dancing”, but also negotiating their own boundaries: between tension and relaxation, isolation and the need for contact. The protagonists function in a space that offers no clear points of reference—it resembles an environment of excessive possibilities, yet also of a lack of real impact. Their relationships form shifting configurations: fleeting communities, fragile alliances, rivalries underpinned by the need to be noticed. Community appears rarely and is not lasting—as if it was merely an episode, not a state.
21.06 Moving Ashes
Larumbe Danza
Ashes as the remnant of devastation, of the desert, and the poetry of what remains, of what endures and how it transforms.
Viewing it as a rebirth, embracing it, carrying on, moving forward and walking the path of life, existing...
Being in the present moment of life and living it.
22.06 africa
CZD2 - compagniazappala'danza2 & ocram dance movement
There are still uncontaminated lands, a refuge for good souls, where beauty becomes a bridge between heaven and earth and spirituality turns tangible. AFRICA, far from Eliot’s “waste land”, arises from the four elements, a place where existence is filled with joy. The hope of rain and renewed spirituality suggests “rebirth horizons”, where humanity rediscovers its role as guardian of nature. “Shanti”, the ineffable peace, evokes a distant solution still to be reached, while AFRICA remains a last chance for renewal on our fragile planet.
23.06 sounds alive
MASH Dance House
In “Sounds Alive”, two women meet during a time of war, bound by a shared fate. At times they are enemies, at others – sisters. Both are inextricably connected to each other and to the place they inhabit. Their journey is marked by moments of closeness and distance, strength and fragility. The protagonists attempt to sing, scream, and speak – yet ultimately, only a single sound emerges, through which they tell their story.
24.06 Paradise birds
Dancehood
In the beginning — silence. A body suspended between breath and command, between light and hunger. The garden trembles, and what once was whole begins to separate. This solo unfolds as an inner journey through doubt, resistance, and acceptance — a fall without support, a reaching without touch. The body moves between fragility and quiet strength, learning to remain within uncertainty. Between the need to belong and the search for boundaries, a new presence emerges. Gentleness becomes strength. This is a story of transformation — of losing, becoming, and learning how to be again through movement.
24.06 cercle
KHAM Company
Solo at the crossroads of the cultures with which the choreographer dialogues, borrowing from the West and the East, from street gestures or those from of the classical arts.
In Cercle, the choreographer tries to push the limits of what his dance is today, to explore new energy.
A space of interior and exterior research, the circle is also the inspiration of a universality in his dance, and in those of certain traditional dances.
A signature solo, to affirm what his choreographic vocabulary is today and to try new mechanism of movements.
A wish to explore and compile his background, to highlight his influences and to share it, looking for a spiritual, intimate and universal way of dialogue with himself and the audience.
25.06 [ RÆM project ]
Javier Martín
Even while we sleep—when we manage to sink into that state in which, as Bukowski put it, the world “inhales and exhales through our body”—our bodily posture seems to express the fundamental form of our relationship with the world. Adorno observed that “our connection with the wind during sleep reveals whether we are happy or not.” Our relationship with the world does not simply fade away when we sleep; rather, it continues to operate in vegetative and subliminal realms.
27.06 ROUH
Col'jam
A fine gestural language and a deep sensitivity of interpretation form the liberating energy of this creation. It weaves and unweaves the real and the unreal within a spiritual space.
A desire for grounding anchors the journey in a new spiritual horizon of refinement, where the depth of gesture unfolds through a Whirling Dervish-inspired dance.
"Rouh" (“soul”) invites us into a subtle world of refined movement and heightened sensitivity, illuminating the very essence of life—both divine and eternal.
27.06 The mourners
Marta Kosieradzka
“The Mourners” is a contemporary dance project centered on the figure of the mourner—women who embodied grief on behalf of the community. The project uses this motif to explore collective female emotions, such as anger, sadness, and suppressed expression in times of crisis. Drawing on the traditions of contemporary and modern dance, the performance reflects on the female experience of anger, grief, and emotional restraint within collective and historical structures.
28.06 creatures of interest
Gruppo e-Motion
"Creatures of Interest" explores the encounter of two bodies that discover, study, touch and reject each other, creating a silent dialogue in which the interest in understanding the other leaves no room for abuse and conflict.
The face to face with the other is a unique experience for which we must take responsibility: the denial of the other is the destruction of our humanity. It is in the encounter with the different from ourselves that there is the recognition of the human that resides in us as well as in others. The encounter with the ‘stranger’ triggers a defence mechanism generated by the unknown. Distrust is survival, a defensive shield that protects us from hypothetical dangers. But when distrust turns into curiosity, openness to the other different from ourselves creates relationships and analogies.
29.06 Unheard whispers
Ola Komarnicka
“Unheard Whispers” is a choreographic meditation on longing and unfulfillment, intertwining the existential dimension with the physical experience of absence. Two characters, immersed in solitude and inner monologues, traverse a space of exploration where every discovery gives rise to a new desire. The movement draws on the physiology of longing—an accelerated pulse, muscle tension, stress hormones—giving the symbolic narrative a material foundation. The performance proposes a return to metaphysical art not as an escape from contemporary problems, but as a timely gesture of resistance against the acceleration and disorientation of our times. It suggests that in a world devoid of stable points of reference, it is precisely sensitivity, introspection, and humanistic reflection that can become tools for regaining meaning and communal tenderness.
29.06 Noa
Balletto Teatro di Torino
The body appears and gestures come to life. Fleeting images, invisible forces and distant echoes shape instants and unlock horizons. This solo is an intimate and powerful exploration of the dancing body and its presence in the here and now.
What do we see when we look at a body in motion?
How do we engage in a solo dance – as makers, as dancers, and as viewers?
Every gesture reveals what it shows, but also what remains hidden within the folds of the choreographic and creative process. The space thus becomes a terrain of encounter and exchange between intertwined perspectives: that of the dancer, a living body embodying desire; that of the author, the mind that imagines it; and that of the audience, the gaze that gives it direction.
29.06 White pages. Dedica al dinamismo
Baletto Teatro di Torino
There is the body’s dynamism and emotional dynamism. The union of these two dimensions generates a wave-like choral movement that acts as the glue between physicality and emotion in Perego’s choreographic research.
“Dedica al Dinamismo” is not meant to be purely physical, nor purely interpretative, but a clash of both dimensions. A clash that generates the undefined. Choreographic relationships and dynamisms are created – they alternate in a painting, changing the nuances and atmosphere of the scene.
“Dedica al Dinamismo” is putting oneself on a completely unstable plane in search of stridency and harmony, of dynamic encounters, to see when the epidermis produces heat or storm.
30.06 Studies for an Ecce Homo
Cuatro X Cuatro
Human beings face the immensity of the universe, the world, others, their own moral unease, and the awareness of their own finitude. A moment of contemplation for a body that recognizes itself in the strangeness of knowing it has been cast into the world. A body that is present—that looks, that seeks, that learns, that persists, that decides, that renounces. A body that thinks, desires, and imagines. Through language and physicality, Shantí Vera and Fernando Renjifo have created a kind of scenic poem that could be a manifesto, a landscape, a celebration.