Created in 1994 and performed more than a hundred times in major theatres, this production of Object Constant is being supervised by the choreographer especially for the Norwegian company Carte Blanche, whose dancers possess all the energy and precision required for this opus, which combines texts, contortions and breathtaking falls, leaps, humour, violence and tenderness.

In 2005, while reflecting on the notion of freedom, the famous Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard came up with bODY_rEMIX/les_vARIATIONS_gOLDBERG, which features the ten dancers from her company.

The Cullberg company took on a challenge that, at first, seemed slightly mad: giving carte blanche to Benoît Lachambre, a master of Extreme Dance from Quebec and partner of numerous European artists, including Boris Charmatz, Sacha Waltz, and Meg Stuart.

Time stands still for those who watch Shantala Shivalingappa moving on stage, accompanied by her four wonderful musicians.

This is the story of three little girls, told through dance. One of them scatters little papers, the second gathers them up; one cuts them up carefully, the third one makes them into little boats...

In a winding stream, in the twist of a gazelle's horns, in the wind as it wisps and turns, in the pattern of a sea shell or in the double helix of our bodies’ DNA: spirals are everywhere, in the infinitely great and the infinitely small; in nature and in living beings; in things we can see and things which remain invisible to us.

For more than twenty years, José Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu have been creating jubilant and iconoclastic dance, rich with visual imagery and bodies that cry out their joy in movement!

Adrien Mondot, an artist working at the junction between circus and dance, is fascinated by images. For his productions, he has developed his own computer programme - juggling with digital materials, modelling them, moulding and crumpling them to piece together an imaginary world.

With two funny little men who look like they've stepped straight out of a child's drawing, the effervescent choreographer Maria Clara Villa Lobos, a regular at the Théâtre de la Place and the Pays de Dance Festival, leads her audience from the warmth of the maternal embrace out into the immensity of the universe.

We've been waiting for Gallotta! We’ve missed his unique and contagious electric energy: the pure emotion unleashed by his dance. These qualities were already present in his first shows, one of which was Daphnis é Chloé.

The choreographer Haïm Adri, originally from Israel, in a mood of floating gentleness, imagined this fairytale for little children: a mix of dance, music and images.

The young shepherd David confronted the giant Goliath with his slingshot in a demonstration more of intelligence than of strength.

For some years now, Olga de Soto has been pondering the mysteries involved in the transmission of gestures, what remains after having watched or danced a piece of choreography.

Resolutely interdisciplinary, Love is Strange [rough cut], is the second production by the German-speaking company Trotz Ensemble, which has already produced Projekt Eden at Théâtre de la Place.

The dancers of the Ballet de Lorraine always excel in their approach to vastly differing eras and styles; and this production, which was especially created for Pays de Danses, is no exception: a journey from pure ‘made in the USA’ dance style  through to a recent production from one of South Africa's brightest rising stars, the choreographer Boyzie Cekwana.

The insistent rhythm and the monumental crescendo which characterise Maurice Ravel's iconic Bolero form the basis for this show, which has become a point of reference in Emio Greco's work since its creation in 1998.

Uiko Watanabe is a dancer, actress and choreographer. She has been living in Europe for more than ten years.

If contemporary dance is the foremost art form by which to journey through unknown lands, then with this production Fernando Martin offers us a veritable cruise!

Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring has been inspiring choreographers since Nijinsky revolutionised dance and made this an iconic composition in 1913.

Featuring nine dancers, eight singers, a 28-voice male choir and the musicians of the Liège Royal Philharmonic, the opening of Pays de Danses (Land of Dances) will surely be one of the big events of the season.