YEARBOOK 2026
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WARM-UP
Accomplices
Why We Need Each Other
PERSPECTIVES
Adieu Avant-garde
Gabriele Brandstetter Rethinks
Avant-garde Complicity
Performative Turn
Peter Gorschlüter on the Growing
Role of Dance in Museums
Ambivalences
Thusnelda Marín Jungmann
Questions Queer Complicity
Companionship
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
On Companionship at Berlin’s HKW
ACCOMPLICES
New Horizons
Inclusion, Participation and
New Dance Aesthetics
Transcendence
Raphael Moussa Hillebrand
Between Mosque and Cypher
In Bed With a Stadttheater
Adam Linder Calls
for New Alliances
Dare to Risk
Louis Stiens Challenges
Theatre’s Comfort Zone
HORIZONS
Reset
WINNDance Gives
Dance a Second Life
Avatars
Alexander Whitley Choreographs
for Humans and AI
Seduction
Bruno Mars Makes
Everyone Dance
Indispensable
Nine Artists on Their
Essential Accomplices
WINNERS
Highlight of the Year
Staatsballett Berlin
Choreographer of the Year
Sharon Eyal
Online Event
Damien Jalet Storm
Season Standouts
Standout Performances, Inspiring Works:
Companies That Shaped the Season
Lifetime Achievement Award
Marcia Haydée
DEEP DIVE
Trailblazers
Fourteen Dance
Figures to Watch
Global Spotlights
Dance and Politics
Across Five Global Cities
Imprint