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The Grave’s Tears is a full-length choreographic work that expands on themes first explored in kNoname Artist’s Venom (2024), taking a deeper and more expansive look at the psychological toll of systemic oppression and the hatred directed toward the LGBTQIA+ community. Begun with seven male dancers, the work centers queer bodies as vessels of memory—sites where grief, resistance, intimacy, and survival coexist.

Following the international success of her first three multi-award-winning pieces, the solos and duets Pode ser / You’re the one we love / Bouffées Leïla Ka creates Maldonne, her first group piece nominated for the International Dance Prize 2025 at Sadler’s Wells in London and performed more than 100 times. It will be the USA premiere.

In La Nuée, performers experience what it is like to combine centrifugal momentum and pulsation inside their bodies. Accompanied by rustling noises, cries and songs, their silhouettes are inhabited by an image that their dance transmits. Confronted with this circle or round object, the audience is invited to not refuse the impossible, namely that of perceiving clarity in the darkness, and silence in the din.

g r oo v e is a solo performance by Soa Ratsifandrihana that draws on a wide range of dance styles, from baroque-influenced forms to the Afindrafindrao of her native Madagascar. She revisits the Madison, her first learned choreography, popularized in the 1960s by African American singer Al Brown, and references Ghost in the Shell, an anime she loved as a teenager.