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DESCRIPTION:Jun 20 - Jul 4\, 2026\nJust before his final festival\, in 2024
 \, the late Jean-Paul Montanari—Montpellier Danse’s director since its
  1980 launch—weighed in on the current state of the art: “Dance is eve
 rywhere\,” he told The New York Times. “It has been absorbed by the wo
 rld.” To usher in this “dance is everywhere and for everyone” theme 
 (which is also everywhere\, if not for everyone)\, a new quartet of direct
 ors\, among them the choreographer Hofesh Shechter\, has stretched the exe
 mplary festival to neighboring towns\, while the inaugural event is a free
 \, outdoor-indoor walking tour that covers the whole festival grounds. Man
 y of the dances\, however\, reverse the terms: they don’t reside in the 
 world so much as swallow it up. The dancers clump together—a little soci
 ety—before breaking into eccentric solos that only underscore their stat
 us as “group.” The moves are also social\, though shrunk way down\, li
 ke a cat twitching in its sleep. Among the dozens of new and recent works\
 , including 11 world premieres\, I am especially intrigued by the endearin
 g Collectif XY\, a circus version of the conceptually savvy\, pedestrian w
 orks of the postmodern pioneer Yvonne Rainer\; the newcomer Efthimios Mosc
 hopoulos’s autofictional solo FÁE\, in which a tic-plagued gay disco da
 ncer doubles as a Greek sheepherder\, replete with hay bales and video she
 ep\; and the festival regular Emanuel Gat\, whose subtle provocations are 
 always worth attending to. The better question\, though\, is not what to s
 ee but how much. I’d say enough that the pieces’ prevailing mode of so
 cial herding plus individualism measured out in micro-moves begins to spea
 k to you.
LOCATION:Various Venues
SUMMARY:Montpellier Danse
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