This summer, Teatro di Roma launched the first edition of the Teatro Ostia Antica Festival (23–26 July 2025), renewing its collaboration with the open-air Roman theatre of Ancient Ostia.

During the summer months, Vienna was brought to life by Impulstanz, one of the most important European festivals, offering an extensive, month-long programme. It featured a range of world-renowned names, among which Canadian choreographer, contemporary dance icon, and regular festival guest Marie Chouinard shone brightly.

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.

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).