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🌺 Where Bolero Meets the Body: A Bridge of Rhythm and Memory

Se me hizo fácil by Buika & Chucho Valdés enters the moment like a warm undercurrent — a reminder that dance is never just movement, but emotion carried in breath, phrasing, and pulse. The song’s smoky bolero, shaped by Buika’s raw voice and Valdés’s luminous piano, mirrors the season’s deeper theme: the body as an archive of unspoken memory. Its slow burn, its tenderness, its quiet ache echo the tension running through the 2026 dance program — works where choreographers let vulnerability rise to the surface, where rhythm becomes confession, and where every gesture feels like a truth finally allowed to speak.

🎶 🩰🌍✨🕊️🔥🎭💫🌫️📜💙 🔊 Se me hizo fácil - Buika, Chucho Valdés

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“The dancer’s body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.” — Vaslav Nijinsky

The 2026 dance season unfolds like a constellation of visions — bodies in revolt, in trance, in tenderness, in fire. From radical reinventions to spiritual excavations, from flamenco ruptures to baroque hallucinations, these sixteen works trace the emotional and political landscapes of our time. Each piece is a world, each choreographer a cartographer of the invisible. Here is the essential guide to the performances that will shape the year ahead.

“Imminentes” — Jann Gallois 🌀

A tense, magnetic exploration of waiting as a physical and social condition. Gallois sculpts bodies on the edge of rupture, suspended between stillness and collapse.

March 4–6, Théâtre de la Ville, Paris

“Derrière Vaval, Pleurs, cornes et fwèt” — Thomas Lebrun 🎭🔥

A vibrant homage to Caribbean carnivals, where celebration meets memory and resistance. Lebrun crafts a choreography of cries, rhythms, and ancestral echoes.

March 12–17, CCN de Tours

“Maldonne” (unreleased version) — Leïla Ka ⚡

A sharper, more visceral reimagining of Ka’s signature piece — a battle between control and eruption, danced like a pulse on the verge of breaking.

March 22, Le Quartz, Brest

“Gesualdo passione” — Amala Dianor 🎶🌫️

Dianor transforms Gesualdo’s madrigals into a hypnotic weave of voices and bodies. Polyphony becomes movement, oscillating between ecstasy and vertigo.

April 3–5, Maison de la Danse, Lyon

“Matarife y Paraíso” — Andrés Marín & Ana Morales 🔥💃

Two giants of contemporary flamenco ignite a dialogue between tradition and abstraction. A performance of tension, fire, and exquisite risk.

April 10–12, Chaillot – Théâtre National de la Danse, Paris

“Nyst” & “Intro” — Mellina Boubetra 🌬️✨

Two choreographic miniatures exploring breath, precision, and the intimate mechanics of movement. Boubetra continues her delicate yet powerful micro‑writing.

April 18, Le Gymnase CDCN, Roubaix

Dance Theater of Harlem 🩰🌟

The legendary company returns with a program blending classical virtuosity and Black cultural brilliance — a celebration of identity through movement.

April 25–27, Opéra de Nice

“May B”, “Singspiele” & “Les applaudissements ne se mangent pas” — Maguy Marin 🎭🕊️

A monumental triptych tracing Marin’s raw humanity, political urgency, and theatrical force. Three works that reaffirm her place as a pillar of European dance.

May 2–7, Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse

“Afanador” & “Étude” — Marcos Morau 🎨📸

Morau’s baroque, cinematic universe unfolds in two pieces where bodies become living tableaux. Precision meets orchestrated chaos in his unmistakable visual language.

May 15–17, Le Volcan, Le Havre

“In the Brain” & “Theatre of Dreams” — Hofesh Shechter ⚡🌑

Shechter delivers two electrifying works driven by pulse, trance, and political urgency. A choreography that shakes, unsettles, and awakens.

May 22–25, La Villette, Paris

Forsythe, Eyal & Lérus — Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin 🩰✨

A rare program uniting three major voices: Forsythe’s radical geometry, Eyal’s futuristic sensuality, and Lérus’s elemental poetry.

May 30 – June 5, Opéra de Strasbourg

“La Dame aux Camélias” — John Neumeier 🌹🎼

Neumeier’s masterpiece returns in all its emotional grandeur — a tragic love story where dance and drama intertwine with devastating clarity.

June 8–12, Opéra de Bordeaux

“Sorcières / Kimpa Vita” — DeLaVallet Bidiefono 🔥🌍

A spiritual and political ritual honoring Kimpa Vita, prophetess and resistance figure of the Kongo kingdom. A piece of trance, power, and ancestral memory.

June 14, Les Subsistances, Lyon

“Brel” — Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Solal Mariotte 🎤🖋️

De Keersmaeker strips Brel to his essence — every word, breath, and silence becomes movement. A rare encounter between two forms of intensity.

June 20–22, DeSingel, Antwerp

“My Fierce Ignorant Step” — Christos Papadopoulos 🌊🔍

A hypnotic study of micro‑variations and collective transformation. Papadopoulos crafts a choreography that feels almost biological.

June 28, Montpellier Danse Festival

“Un saut dans le bleu” — Carolyn Carlson ☁️💙

A poetic meditation on emptiness, breath, and freedom. Carlson offers a dance like a haiku — suspended between sky and earth.

July 3–5, Théâtre National de Bretagne, Rennes

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