Drama and Dance
Barcelona What's on
8 March-9 April 2006. The recently-formed Trakatap tap-dance troupe is being hosted by Barcelonas Versus Theatre for a four-week run. Directed by Roser Font, who also dances, the company performs to l...
Amsterdam What's on
14 Feb-5 March 2006. The Dutch National Ballet celebrates its 45th year with a series of old favourites and new works presented in a cycle of performances entitled Hollandse School 1 & 2, showcasing t...
Barcelona What's on
14-26 Feb 2006. One of Barcelonas foremost alternative theatre venues, the Versus Teatre, is hosting the Madrid-based dance company Malucos Danza with its contemporary flamenco show Malucos Flamenco....
Copenhagen What's on
10 Feb-15 March 2006. The Royal Danish Ballet returns to the Gamle Scene (Old Stage) of the Det Kongelige Teater for eight performances of its outstanding 2003 production of Manon, created by British...
Oxford What's on
31 Jan-1 Feb 2006. The Oxford Playhouse presents Michael Clarks latest opus entitled O (Stravinsky Project Part 1). Described by the Financial Times as a beautiful work of art, O is actually a reworki...
London What's on
10 Jan-11 Feb 2006. One of the best-known and most influential of the Romantic ballets, Giselle, a story of love betrayed, is currently playing in rep at the Covent Garden Opera House. Five different...
Barcelona What's on
The Zurich Ballet at the Teatro Liceu.
19-21 Jan 2006. Directed by Heinz Spoerli, one of Europes leading choreographers, the corps de ballet of the Zurich Opra presents their latest work, In den winden im Nichts at the Gran Teatro del Lice...
Vienna What's on
20-28 Jan 2006.
Willi Dorners new contemporary dance project, 404, packs a powerful punch. Named for the Internet error message signifying inability to connect, 404 explores the contrast between glos...
Berlin What's on
3-15 Jan 2006. The annual contemporary dance festival at Berlins Sophiensaele features a mix of dancers and young choreographers from all over Germany, and also showcases works by foreign performers c...
Paris What's on
12 Dec 2005-12 Jan 2006. The Opra National de Paris Opra Bastille presents Nureyevs staging of Swan Lake, first performed at the Opra in 1984. The famous ballet is based on an ancient Nordic legend,...
Dublin What's on
15-18 Dec 2005. Dublins Point Theatre hosts the acclaimed Russian State Ballet company in this festive season production of Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, with Tchiakovskys beautiful music performed by...
Copenhagen What's on
Royal Ballet School Exhibition
12 May-30 Oct 2005. Hans Christian Andersen is not the only Dane whose bicentenary is being celebrated in the Danish capital this year. August Bournonville, who was born in Copenhagen in 1805, and who...
Vienna What's on
I say I On I-Saying in Dance and Performance.
14 - 24 September 2005. This two-week artistic programme is devoted to I-narration in contemporary dance and performance. Opening with works by Lebanese director and author Rabih Mrou and the Netherla...
Berlin What's on
Tanz im August International Dance Festival Berlin.
1130 August 2005. The dance festival is a central forum for contemporary dance and performance. It features an innovative and wide-ranging programme of the avant-garde from the international dance sce...
London What's on
21 July - 14 Aug 2005.
Set in the decadent aristocratic world of pre-Revolutionary Paris, Loclos' epistolary novel describes the cruel games played by arch-seducers Marquise de Merteuil and her ex-l...
Madrid What's on
Until 14 August 2005. A beautiful, leisurely and sensual dance entitled A pedir de boca opens the 2005 Veranos de la Villa festival, which will this year be hosted in a massive new complex, the Matade...
Vienna What's on
ImPuls Tanz International festival for contemporary dance and performance
Until 14 August 2005
Vienna once again stages one of the most important festivals for international avant-garde dance, bringing together the works of celebrated choreographers and bright newcomers on...
Madrid What's on
Until 24 July 2005. The Russian school of Vaganova, Ivanov, Pavlova, Fokine and Lifar has gone down in history as one of the finest in the world. Formed by the great Maya Plisetskaya in 1994, this Imp...
Vienna What's on
Plug in - The Electrifying Friday Club Night.
Until 29 July 2005. Banane Volksgarten presents an exclusive club night every Friday in July where you can plug in to the most contemporary dance music around: a chance to savour soul, funk and jazz i...
Dublin What's on
10 June-27 August 2005. Riverdance returns home to Dublin after 10 years entertaining and enthralling over 18 million people worldwide. With music by Bill Whelan, production by Moya Doherty and the di...
