Dance

The Bird Experience is a cross-European dance project that explores war, migration and loss, in four simultaneous live performances taking place across the participating cities. In Athens at the Roes Theater (16 Iakchou), choreographer Iris Karayan, in collaboration with Melissa Network, which aims to empower refugee women, invites 11 women to share their own stories through voice and dance.

The only contemporary dance festival in Greece for children and teens, Moving Colors aims to bring young audiences into contact with the fascinating world of contemporary dance and movement through innovative performances that fuel their imagination and emotion, as well as to enrich their experience in the art of dance.

On International Dance Day (29.04.), over 1,300 dancers from all over Bulgaria gathered in front of the National Palace of Culture (NDK) and sent a message of peace.

"The longest horo in Sofia" is an initiative of the National Folklore Ensemble "BULGARE" and the Association of Choreographers in Bulgaria, whose idea is that every year the event grows and includes more and more people.

The 71st Ljubljana Festival, the largest summer festival in the country, will bring an eclectic mix of performances from 20 June to 3 September. Ballet, opera and classical music remain the mainstay, but they will be interspersed with music for fans of fantasy, rock and musicals.

Maria Sakkari took umbrage with opponent Diana Shnaider's vocal celebrations after winning points at the Australian Open on Wednesday but silenced the teenage qualifier with a finger-wagging rant on the way to a comeback 3-6 7-5 6-3 win.

Giselle, sometimes referred to as the Queen of Romantic Ballet, will premiere at Ljubljana's Cankarjev Dom on 12 January in a co-production with the national opera and ballet company that has been choreographed by Jose Carlos Martinez, the new director of ballet at the Paris Opera.

A former Turkish head ballet dancer from the Ankara State Opera and Ballet (ADOB) is training dancers in North Macedonia.

Bahri Gürcan said that he established a dancing school in the Turkish capital Ankara in 2007 and discovered talented children. His decision to open a school came after dancing abroad for years.

The world-famous Saint Petersburg Ballet Theater will perform the "Swan Lake" ballet at Istanbul's TİM Show Center on Dec 3, 4, and 5.

The ballet company will be accompanied on the stage by Antonina Chapkina and Fuad Mamedov, the lead singers of the Bolshoi Ballet, one of the oldest ballet companies in the world.

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A show adapted for the stage from Miguel de Cervantes' immortal piece "Don Quixote" will meet with the audience on Oct. 16 at Istanbul's Cemal Reşit Rey (CRR) Concert Hall with the performance by Spanish José Huertas Flamenco Ensemble.

Describing Don Quixote's emotional world with music and costumes reflecting Spanish folklore, the show will be staged for the first time in Turkey.

Salsa dancing was among the first casualties of restrictions on close-contact indoor activities during the coronavirus pandemic - and among the last in the U.K. to see bans lifted.

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Now enthusiasts of the paired-dance technique set to Latin beats of the same name have wasted no time shimmying back onto the dance floor.