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.

Beginning during Berlin Art Week and developing over the following months, the joint curatorship of Sophiensæle, Georg Kolbe Museum, and Haus am Waldsee, presented a retrospective on the body of work of Franco-Austrian choreographer, director, interdisciplinary artist, and puppeteer Gisèle Vienne to Berlin.

In times of shift towards authoritarianism, militarisation, and planned major funding cuts, Berlin festival Tanz im August, founded just before the Wall came down, is preserving its original spirit to provide an open space for an international and local dialogue.

According to artistic director Patrick Bonté, this year’s International Festival at Les Brigittines in Brussels is a “whirlwind of perceptions”...