A powerful, physical, and musical performance created in collaboration with 26 young people and Projekt DanseDrømme’s professional team.

ANIMAL – The Inner Human Animal

Royal Danish Opera

Lord of the Dance, the global phenomenon that redefined Irish dance, is set to return to the United Kingdom in 2026 to celebrate its 30th Anniversary with an extraordinary new tour. This milestone event promises to be a grand celebration of the production’s legacy, captivating over 60 million fans in 60 countries since its debut in 1996.

Michael Flatley's Lord Of The Dance

Cliffs Pavilion

Hosted by the Engage Department at Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre, this creative and fast paced two days are for young people keen to explore dance and drama.

Dance Theatre Summer School (for ages 11-18)

Dundee Rep Theatre

The oldest dance company in the nation, Martha Graham Dance Company will anchor Jacob’s Pillow’s efforts this year to honor groundbreaking women who have shaped, and are shaping, dance in the U.S., during the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

The program, offered during the company’s own centennial year, will feature some of Graham’s most defining works, including Night Journey (1947)—part of her Greek cycle with sets by Isamu Noguchi and music by William Schuman—and Immediate Tragedy (1937), a politically charged response to the Spanish Civil War. The company will also present We the People (2024), a dance of 21st century Americana choreographed by Jamar Roberts that thrums with folk music and a spirit of collective change, and which features a score by Grammy Award-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens, arranged by Gabe Witcher. These works highlight Graham’s revolutionary voice as an artist who used dance to speak out for democracy, women’s rights, and freedom of expression.

The Graham centennial will also be marked by a new work, En Masse, jointly commissioned and presented by Jacob’s Pillow and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood (Andris Nelsons, Music Director). Choreographed by former Alvin Ailey dancer Hope Boykin, En Masse is set to a score by composer Christopher Rountree which incorporates a recently recovered 49-second composition believed to have been created for Graham by Leonard Bernstein.

Graham’s connections to Pillow founder Ted Shawn began in 1916 when she studied with Shawn and his wife Ruth St. Denis and launched her performing career with Denishawn. Her legacy continues to shape generations of choreographers and performers.

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Martha Graham Dance Company | 

Jacob's Pillow

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ_ZQW5C2pw&amp;t=2s

The Artelize Podcast Presenting Will Shutes: 'Bring it down out of the clouds to human being level'

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFe6mW6x9pc

The Artelize Podcast: 'Amplifying What Makes Us Human'. A conversation with Zuly E. Inirio

Podcast link: https://youtu.be/4hagYvrYbuM

The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36M5Hi6O80

The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

Welcome to outdoor dancing at Ofelia Plads. Here, there is ample opportunity to let sensations and moods guide our movements. A magnificent setting surrounded by culture and nature to inspire both body and soul. Through mindfulness, free movement, dance, and silence, we connect with our bodies, each other, and our surroundings.

Morning dance

Ofelia Plads

The Boys Ballet Summer Intensive 10th anniversary gala featuring dances from American Ballet Theatre, Bayerische Staats Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Ballet West and more

Beyond: 10th Anniversary Gala Pres. by Boys Ballet Summer Intensive 

Martin Marietta Center for the Performing Arts

Musikhuset, Bora Bora and Dansk Danseteater are repeating their success and inviting each other and all of you to dance in Musikhusparken. Put on your dancing shoes and join us on August 15-16, when the festival takes place for the second time.

Aarhus Summer Dance

Musikhuset Aarhus

Spend the afternoon into the evening down by the river watching some incredible performances from young hip-hop artists telling exhilarating stories through dance and music.

ZooNation: Future Artists of Hip-Hop

Southbank Centre

A special one-off performance created in collaboration between Florence Peake and Scottish Dance Theatre, will take place in the Picture Gallery at Hospitalfield, as part of Florence Peake’s exhibition Your Meaning Not Your Materiality. Together with Peake, dancers from the company will devise this new work in the days running up to the performance specifically for the site. Tickets are free but limited, book here.

Florence Peake and Scottish Dance Theatre Live Performance

ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company, founded by Kate Prince in 2002, is a leading hip-hop dance theatre company known for creating full-length narrative productions inspired by hip-hop culture and music.

ZooNation: Hip-Hop Showcase for All Ages

Award-winning choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui explores grief and connection while paying homage to North Africa and the Middle East.

Ihsane

Festival Theatre Edinburgh

Lord of the Dance, the global phenomenon that redefined Irish dance, is set to return to the United Kingdom in 2026 to celebrate its 30th Anniversary with an extraordinary new tour. The 30th Anniversary Tour will feature brand-new choreography, stunning costumes, state-of-the-art special effects, and cutting-edge lighting, ensuring that the production continues to push boundaries and deliver an unforgettable experience.

Lord of The Dance - 30th Anniversary

Sheffield City Hall

The feared sorcerer Rothbart has transformed Princess Odette of a distant land into a swan. At the lakeside, Prince Siegfried encounters a flock of swans and Odette, with whom he falls in love. Can the prince break the spell, or will Rothbart condemn Odette to an eternal curse?

Swan Lake

Finnish National Opera and Ballet

What does the life of a dancer look like? At our open rehearsals, you get the opportunity to get up close, without filters, and take part in our dancers' everyday life.

Meet the Choreographer

Royal Swedish Opera

How do you continue to value yourself when society doesn’t value you? EXXY (Australian slang for, ‘that’s expensive, mate’) takes us back to where queer, disabled artist Dan Daw began – working class, with very little.

EXXY

King's Theatre

Created by Mikīs Theodōrakīs, who reworked the soundtrack he composed for the film Zorba the Greek, 1964 (based on the namesake book by Nikos Kazantzakis), with choreography by Lorca Massine, the ballet made its debut in the Arena in August 1988 with Vladimir Vasiliev and Gheorghe Iancu. Since that world premiere, Zorba the Greek has toured the stages all over the world and now returns to Verona at the Teatro Romano. Are you ready to dance again to the sirtaki rhythm?

Zorba il greco

Roman Theatre

Danish Dance Theatre’s Summer Dance returns from August 26–30, 2026 – this year in new, spectacular surroundings right at the water's edge in front of the Opera House.

Danish Dance Theatre's Summer Dance

Det Kongelige Teater

San Francisco Ballet presents a provocative myth for the AI age, in their futuristic retelling of Pandora’s Box.

Mere Mortals

Edinburgh Playhouse

The Royal Danish Ballet is inseparably bound to the legacy of August Bournonville. Experience four of his classical ballets in one evening as we open the season in tribute to the master and his enduring art.

ANIMAL – The Inner Human ...

Det Kongelige Teater

Michael Flatley's Lord Of...

Cliffs Pavilion

Dance Theatre Summer Scho...

Dundee Rep Theatre

Martha Graham Dance Compa...

Martha Graham Dance Company

The Artelize Podcast Pres...

Artelize

The Artelize Podcast: 'Am...

Artelize

The Artelize Podcast and ...

Artelize

The Artelize Podcast - A ...

Artelize

Morning dance

Det Kongelige Teater

Beyond: 10th Anniversary ...

Boys Ballet Summer Intensive

Aarhus Summer Dance

Musikhuset Aarhus

ZooNation: Future Artists...

Southbank Centre

Florence Peake and Scotti...

Dundee Rep Theatre

ZooNation: Hip-Hop Showca...

Southbank Centre

Ihsane

Edinburgh International Festival

Lord of The Dance - 30th ...

Armed Forces Day

Lord of The Dance - 30th ...

Sheffield City Hall

Swan Lake

Finnish National Opera and Ballet

Meet the Choreographer

Kungliga Operan

EXXY

Edinburgh International Festival

Zorba il greco

Fondazione Arena di Verona

Danish Dance Theatre's Su...

Det Kongelige Teater

Mere Mortals

Edinburgh International Festival

To Joy

Det Kongelige Teater