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From the Press: "Fantasy, folly and fancy footwork: cosmic dance comes to Manchester" by The Guardian
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Invisible Cities part of Manchester international festival. © Tristram Kenton i
"Performed in a cavernous former railway depot, Invisible Cities features actors, dancers, digital animations and amazing stage designs.In adapting Italo Calvino’s novel of the same name, it aims for sweeping themes such as imagination, power, belonging, morality and mortality. “The question of whether this was one of my best ideas or an act of pure folly remains open,” writes director Leo Warner in the programme. My answer is that it’s both."
To read The Guardian's full review, click here.
Invisible Cities is the winner of the FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet 2019.
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Nederlands Dans Theater and S-E-D win the Swan Award 2025 for Into the Hairy
23 October 2025
Maastricht / Netherlands
The dancers of NDT 1 (Nederlands Dans Theater) and S-E-D (Sharon Eyal Dance) have been awarded the Swan Award for “Most Impressive Dance Achievement 2025” for Into the Hairy, presented during the Nederlandse Dansdagen Gala on 3 October in Maastricht.
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Discover the winners of the FEDORA Prizes Biennale 2025 announced on 26 April 2025 at the Wiener Staatsoper in Vienna, Austria and livestreamed on Vialma.
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New creations by our former FEDORA Prizes winners at the Opera Forward Festival
24 February 2025
Amsterdam / Netherlands
The Opera Forward Festival (OFF) will take place from 14 to 31 March at the Dutch Nationale Opera & Ballet in Amsterdam and will feature three of our former FEDORA Prizes winners.
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