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new foyer of the kurtheater, baden Steps! the contemporary dance festival, a MIGROS-Kulturprozent project in which around 40 theatre institutions from across Switzerland collaborated by opening their venues, celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. Taking place from 5–29 March 2026, the festival featured 10 dance companies, invited by general artistic director Valeria Felder from Switzerland and abroad, who presented 11 different programmes to the audience. These companies represented a wide range of dance forms, not only contemporary dance but also examples of choreography flirting with new circus disciplines and acrobatics.  The festival wasn't just about performances; there were also additional events such as workshops for amateurs and professionals, a hip-hop all-style dance battle, and workshops and performances designed specifically for primary and secondary school students. After each performance, there were also half-hour talks planned in the foyers with dancers, choreogr...

Atta, Turkey's first and only international arts festival for babies and children, organized around November 20th, World Children's Rights Day, since 2016, celebrated its ninth anniversary in 2025. Having welcomed numerous international groups to date, the festival unites babies aged 0–3, children and young people aged 3–18, their accompanying adults, and children and young people with disabilities aged 3–18 through theatre, dance, music, film, exhibitions, and interactive activities. This year's programme included a variety of performances, ranging from dance theatre for babies aged 6–18 to a new circus for audiences aged 4 and over, as well as dance and object theatre. Between 20 and 30 November 2025, performances by groups from Turkey, Finland, Denmark, France, Norway, Lithuania and Ireland were staged in Istanbul at the Paribuart, Arter, Barış Manço Cultural Centre and Hisar Schools Cultural Centre.  In the third of our conversations with participants from the latest i...

In this series of interviews we try to get to know the artists of İstanbul Theatre Festival 2020. Our first guest is Fabrice Guillot from Retouramont. Ayse Draz, Art Unlimited Performing Arts Editor & Mehmet Kerem Ozel, Writer  [The Turkish translation of this interview is published on  art.unlimited ] What is the spirit of dance/ in your opinion? How do you define contemporary dance today?   Dance is a no words art, each choreography is a question for the spectator. What does it mean ?  Do you believe in the transformative power of art? How?   Yes this langage of dance can be a symbol of a situation in our society. This no word langage can open new pespectives. My discipline is performing in public space, we create a new use in the city. The frontier of the wall becomes an opening.  How do you think that this pandemic which humanity is facing at a global scale today will transform performing arts in the future?    We have to imagine for a mome...