From bodies walking on the glass windows of the Neue Nationalgalerie to a glacier melting on screen, from the Romantic night of the Staatsballett’s Giselle to the platforms of the Volksbühne, Berlin’s autumn dance and performance season swung between what vanishes and what darkness keeps.
Its artistic director framed this year’s Tanz im August as a weather map of turbulence. Across the thirteen shows spanning three weeks – from Gaza and Belarus to a swimming pool in Prenzlauer Berg – the metaphor held.
From 17 to 19 July 2026, Žďár nad Sázavou came alive for the fourteenth time with the KoresponDance festival.
Following a period of cultural drought, at least for dance, when July arrived in Rome, it felt like two months squeezed into one: a lot of performances in a short time.
During the last hot week of June, Prague hosted a major dance event. A five-day symposium on improvisation entitled Inner Speech as a Stage Gesture in Instant Composition took place from 22 to 26 June 2026 at HAMU and at the Žižkostel Community Centre.
As surely as spring turns into summer, the dance season in London continued its course from late April right through to July.
