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Philipa Margaret Rothfield, Honorary Staff Member, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University; University of Southern Denmark

Finding culture and community through dance at the 2025 Lyon Dance Biennale

Jan Martens, The Dog Days Are Over. Stefanie Nash/Lyon Dance Biennale

There’s an intensity to festivals, a spillover effect where one event leads to another as if the whole town were participating in one long, articulated show.

It’s not just the proximity of multiple works in space and time. It’s the conversations, the shared experiences, and the ways in which the concerns of one work amplify or contest those of another.

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