Review Spring Forward

And already the Spring Forward Festival 2024 is almost a month away.

The Hessian State Ballet, this year’s host, presented the European dance festival in collaboration with tanzmainz. The festival of the dance network Aerowaves attracted 228 professional dance organizers and 1750 local spectators in three cities and offered all guests a concentrated program.

From March 21 to 23, there was an incredible amount of dancing in the cities of Darmstadt, Wniriesbaden and Mainz: 20 groups of artists from all over Europe, this year’s Aerowaves Twenty, presented their pieces selected by the network on the stages of the state theaters, as well as in the Hessian State Museum Darmstadt and the Viktoriaschule Darmstadt. The Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main also collaborated with former Twenty artists Olga Dukhovnaya and LEE/VAKULYA and presented the resulting pieces in the foyer of the Staatstheater Darmstadt’s main auditorium.

The festival concluded with the revival of the double bill V/ertigo, presented by the Hessisches Staatsballett.

More information about the guest performances in Wiesbaden and Darmstadt can be found here

Photos: Sinah Osner & Anna Kushnirenko