Spring Forward Festival

A hypnotic audiovisual experience in which past and present become one. Immersed in electronic music a performer sculpts laser lights in a sci-fi version of the afterlife.

"Altrove" explores a body diagnosed with a disease causing atrophy of the nerves and muscles in your hands, imagining that this spreads and estranges you from your own body and senses.

"Bolero" is about tenacity. The duet explores the fine line separating pleasure and exhaustion When the best things are repeated too much, they end up breaking up, don’t they?

A rethinking of the meaning and importance of dreams. Taneli Törmä is in search of one of his dreams - be classical ballet dancer - and some unexpected help.

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"Kids" is a tribute to death. The choreography explores how a beloved body transforms in the final days of life. A rite with freakish and twisted movements.

You are invited to enter a digital mausoleum. Two talking heads invite their bodies to join them. A recipe for disaster and succes that experiments with morphing tricks and humour.

Inspired by Japanese origami techniques a 40 foot container turns into a shifting performance space. A romance between a symbol of globalisation and the human body.

How does a body react when its movement is forced or prevented? Mithkal Alzghair examines the Syrian body in the context of war, migration and revolution.

Are you ready to meet Death? A solo with a skeleton, dance macabre, rituals, violence, exhaustion, gore and eroticism that will make you feel alive more than ever.

"Sync" is an invitation to experience the ephemeral beauty of togetherness. Nine dancers sway back and forth, hypnotic and meditative, asking, what keeps us together?

Turning David and Goliath into a Centaur, climbing a mountain or singing a love song, Žigan Krajnčan and Gašper Kunšek invite dream-like images on stage.

Centered on a mother-daughter relationship, four dancers respond to a voice narrating a traumatic childhood - and lets you in to experiences that you had never before imagined.

A tribe of five muscular dancers cross the boundaries between hip hop, contemporary dance and theatre in this riotous exploration of dorsal body language.

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Are classics made to be re-written? A playful enterprise of reconstruction and destruction of the most iconic work in dance history, Pavlova’s ‘Dying Swan’.

How to stay yourself when you meet the Other? Playful solos and joint movements explore the tension between what divides and what unites us.

Full of fire, resistance and hope, "WOMAN" playfully challenges stereotypes by exploring the relationship of a trans man to femininity as it is presented by society.

In dialogue with a live improvised soundscape, Daniele Ninarello creates an uninterrupted flow of movements as an exploration of the physical and sonic expression of the body.

A distillation of the Male and thumping sweaty theatre and an attempt to deconstruct the stereotype of the deprived male.

The metamorphosis of a dancer breaking free from invisible strings. Linda Hayford overtakes genres and conventions, mixing hip hop and popping to craft her own language.

See the music and hear the movements. Rhythmic stomping feet, choral singing and beautiful sound of hand bells all comes together when four dancers fill the room with energy.

What could be so important that you haven’t got to call me back for three days? You just cannot disappear like this! A duet using dances created from everyday situations.

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