Visavì Gorizia Dance Festival returns to unite two nations through dance
Visavì – Gorizia and Nova Gorica reunite for five days of contemporary dance, 14–18 October, with premieres by Ohad Naharin and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.
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Fondo Niccolò Piccinni presents the Garda Festival 2026
The Garda Festival runs from 24 July until 1 August on or near the shores of the great Italian lake. All events are free.
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Review: Benjamin Millepied’s Du bout des lèvres at the Spoleto Festival
Marta Mele sees Du bout des lèvres, Benjamin Millepied’s intimate and poetic encounter with Barbara’s chansons, a work where the fragile eloquence of the voice becomes the expressive power of the body.
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Review: Compañía de Danza Jesús Carmona in UnYdos – Flamenco Festival London 2026
Jonathan Gray sees Jesús Carmona and company in UnYdos, which gives everything you could ever want from a Flamenco show – dance and music at its very best.
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Where Worlds Converge: the rich history and modern renaissance of the Spoleto Festival
26 June to 12 July 2026, the 69th Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto: the first edition led by the new Artistic Director Daniele Cipriani.
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Wayne McGregor introduces La Biennale di Venezia 2025 – Festival of Contemporary Dance
Wayne McGregor announces the Festival of Contemporary Dance at La Biennale di Venezia 2025 with 8 world, 7 European and 5 Italian premieres among 75 events.
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Review: Dimanche by Compagnie Focus & Chaliwaté – an absolute must see
Matthew Paluch sees Dimanche by Compagnie Focus & Chaliwaté: “a seriously important work that leaves a lasting impression”
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Twyla Tharp awarded Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
The Lions of Biennale Danza 2025 go to Twyla Tharp (Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement) and Carolina Bianchi (Silver Lion).
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Wayne McGregor presents the dance programme for the Biennale di Venezia 2023
Wayne McGregor presents Altered States, the title of the 17th International Festival of Contemporary Dance for the Biennale di Venezia 2023.
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The Verbier Festival returns to medici.tv
More than 30 concerts from the 2021 Verbier Festival will be broadcast live and available on replay on medici.tv
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Damian Lewis participates in Deloitte Ignite at the Royal Opera House
Actors Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory will feature in the opening weekend of the Royal Opera House‘s annual contemporary arts festival Deloitte Ignite which starts tomorrow, appearing in a pair of short films. Damian has read the story of Prometheus from Ted Hughes’s Tales from Ovid, and Helen has read Yeats’ Leda and the Swan and The Mother of God for films to be screened to festival goers in the…
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Deloitte Ignite 2014: The Royal Ballet’s month-long festival of dance, music and art
The month-long contemporary arts festival Deloitte Ignite 2014 is based on the theme of myth and this year is curated by The Royal Ballet and The National Gallery‘s Dr Minna Moore Ede, who said, At the National Gallery we try and bring paintings to life, but Deloitte Ignite has been an incredible opportunity to create…
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Daniel Barenboim on The Beatles, and why he and Daniel Harding are at Italy’s biggest pop festival
Tomorrow evening marks the beginning of one of the largest pop music festivals in the world, that will have millions of Italians glued in front of their tvs until the finale at the weekend. The Sanremo Festival is surrounded by controversy every year: who has been chosen to be the host; its anti-feminist slant with…
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Flanders is a Festival! It is… and a lot more.
Flanders, which historically included parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands, is now a lively region of modern-day Belgium of which Brussels is the capital. The Flanders Festival is actually a series of festivals throughout the summer months and beyond. Between June and December there are over 550 concerts in more than 80 cities…
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