Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found

Life Long Burning is a network of European institutions which are dedicated to contemporary dance and performance. The project Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3) is our third 4-years-project, which got funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. 

© Almud Krejza
© Stéphane Rossetti
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ChoreoCon #4

The programme of our forth and final Choreographic Convention – on 13 November in Helsinki – is online!

The day unfolds through different routes, each with its own programme and dramaturgy. Participants choose one parcours and follow it from beginning to end together with their group. 

13.11.2026 @ Moving in November Helsinki
© Kerstin Schroth
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Soup Talks 2026

Also this year in Helsinki at Moving in November Festival: The Soup Talks, where informal conversations raise between audience and artists, mingling around a hot pot full of soup.

05.11.2026 - 15.11.2026 @ Moving in November, Helsinki
Lisen Pousette © Erik Molberg Hansen
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Lisen Pousette at Moving in November

Lisen Pousette visits Moving in November for an Artistic Exchange Residency. She enters a choreographic exploration of whistling practices as breath, tones, movement and forms of listening, inviting dance artist Hannah Krebs into the studio.

05.11.2026 - 15.11.2026 @ Moving in November, Helsinki
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Ole Meland at the [8:tension] Podcast

Episode 35 of the [8:tension] Podcast is out today. Welcome, Ole Meland! His group piece JEG BRAKK was invited to this year's [8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series during ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna.

29.10.2026 - 19.11.2026 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
© Joeri Thiry / STUK
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Artificial Intelligence between figure and background

Michiel Vandevelde and Arkadi Zaides invite to a 3 day long Performance Situation Room at STUK in Leuven on how they use AI in their dance practice.

27.10.2026 - 30.09.2026 @ STUK Leuven
Alina Arshi © Almud Krejza
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Alina Arshi at the [8:tension] Podcast

Episode 34 of the [8:tension] Podcast is out now! Come take a walk with Alina Arshi, who's performance States of Bewilderment was invited to this year's [8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series during ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna.

22.10.2026 - 12.11.2026 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
Lisa Hinterreithner Many In A Garden © yakoone_
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danceWEB: applications for 2027 are now open!

The application ends 4 December 2026 at 12:00 PM (CET).

The danceWEB programme is a 5 week further education and exchange programme taking place every year in July and August in Vienna in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival. danceWEB 2027 takes place from 7 July to 11 August 2027.

This programme for young professional dancers and choreographers focuses on the exchange of ideas and knowledge, not limited by national borders, on concentrated further training, on meeting with internationally renowned artists gathering at ImPulsTanz with the aim to orient the career of its participants and establish a network.

20.10.2026 - 04.12.2026 @ ImPulsTanz
Maria Hassabi © Thomas Poravas
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Maria Hassabi in dialogue with Adam Linder – danceWEB Mentorship 2027

danceWEB 2027 will take place under the artistic mentorship of choreographer, performer and visual artist Maria Hassabi in dialogue with dancer and choreographer Adam Linder. 

20.10.2026 - 31.12.2026 @ ImPulsTanz
Ehsan Hemat © Almud Krejza
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Ehsan Hemat at the [8:tension] Podcast

Episode 33 of the [8:tension] Podcast is out now! Meet Ehsan Hemat, who performed Everything brings us back to the body at this year's [8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series during ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna.

15.10.2026 - 05.11.2026 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
Wojciech Grudziński © Almud Krejza
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Wojciech Grudziński at the [8:tension] Podcast

Season 4 of the [8:tension] Podcast has started! First of the 11 is Wojciech Grudziński, who presented his solo performed by two CUTE & AKWARD at this year's [8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series during ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna.

08.10.2026 - 29.10.2026 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
Tuuli Vahtola © Hilja Kurkinen
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Tuuli Vahtola is back

Tuuli Vahtola is back at Moving in November, for a second round of On The Outset.

15.09.2026 - 15.12.2026 @ Moving in November, Helsinki
© Almud Krejza
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01.01.2023 - 31.12.2026
Liquid Border of Solid Hope by Jasmin İhraç © Harald Hoffmann
Performance: Liquid Border of Solid Hope

Creative Crossroads artist Jasmin İhraç premieres her new work Liquid Border of Solid Hope in December.

17.12.2026 - 20.12.2026 @ Radialsystem Berlin
© CoFestival 2026
CoFestival 2026

Nomad Dance Academy invites to the 15th edition of CoFestival this year!

27.11.2026 - 04.12.2026 @ Ljubljana
Living Dance Archives

The workshop Living Dance Archives brings together dance archivists and historians from across Europe.

26.11.2026 - 29.11.2026 @ Ljubljana
Are you still with me?

BAU in Amsterdam invites to a Performance Situation Room in November 2026: Are You Still With Me? delves into the changing and complex role of dramaturgy within dance, performance, and live arts today.

20.11.2026 @ BAU, Amsterdam
Grace+Love by ElizaTrefas & Florin Flueraș © Denise Oliviére / Agora
Performance: Grace + Love

Creative Crossroads artist Eliza Trefas has a premiere coming up: Grace + Love, two interwoven performances by Elisa Trefas and Florin Flueras are presented at festival Iridescent of National Dance Center Bucharest.

18.11.2026 @ festival Iridescent, Bucharest
Premiere: gröpt

A LLB Co-Production premeire is coming up: gröpt by Jennie Bergsli and Molly Engblom, a choreographic installation with two dancers and seven tons of clay.

12.11.2026 - 18.11.2026 @ MDT Stockholm
Film still Constant changes, silent witnesses by Jasmin İhraç © Viola Yeşiltaç
Jasmin İhraç in Istanbul

Jasmin İhraç invites to the exhibition Currents at DEPO/Istanbul for Tarabya Cultural Academy’s 15th anniversary programme: Water Finds Its Way

During the exhibition opening she performs an adaption of her solo deep eye sea and her film Constant changes, silent witnesses is screened until 22 November.

05.11.2026 - 22.11.2026 @ DEPO/Istanbul
Claudia Stoleru © Ansh Kumar
Claudia Stoleru at Uferstudios

Claudia Stoleru joined the team of Uferstudios in Berlin in the frame of On The Outset.

01.10.2026 - 31.12.2026 @ Uferstudios Berlin
© Moving in November
Moving in November & ChoreoCon

This year's programme of Moving in November in Heksinki is online! In the frame of this contemporary dance festival, we will also host our final Choreographic Convention of Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found. So, mark it in your calendars: 5–15 November Moving in November, 13 November ChoreoCon #4!

17.09.2026 - 15.11.2026 @ Moving in November Helsinki
European Commission: European Education and Culture Executive Agency and Favero, I. (ed.)
Tracing Constellations

Life Long Burning is featured in Tracing Constellations, a publication by the European Union on the achievements of projects funded under the European Cooperation Projects call for proposals.

02.06.2026 - 31.12.2026 @ online
Fanni Somlyai © Blanka Somlyai
Fanni Somlyai

Fanni Somlyai joined the team of Workshop Foundation in Budapest in the Frame of On The Outset.

01.06.2026 - 31.12.2026 @ Workshop Foundation Budapest
Welcome Bau

Our new partner in Amsterdam is Bau! 

Earlier this year we unfortunately had to say goodbye to Veem House – due to the complete cut of national fundings the production house had to close. Bau steps in for them. 

20.10.2025 - 31.12.2026 @ Life Long Burning
Life Long Burning Partner Meeting 2024 in Zagreb © Sindri Uču
These are the Creative Crossroads artists of cycle 2

During ChoreoCon 2024 we introduced the artist of the second cycle – her's a sneak peek, more details will follow next year.

01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026
Viktor Szeri © Wang Songtao
Viktor Szeri

Creative Crossroads Artist 2025–2026

01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026 @ Workshop Foundation Budapest
Viktorija Ilioska © Sasho N. Alushevski
Viktorija Ilioska

Creative Crossroads Artist 2025–2026

01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026 @ Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia
Marko Milić © Noel Hutapea
Marko Milić

Creative Crossroads Artist 2025–2026

01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026 @ Antisezona Zagreb
Philip Berlin © Jon Ariel Borgsø
Philip Berlin

Creative Crossroads Artist 2025–2026

01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026 @ MDT Stockholm
Anna Karenina Lambrechts © David Jacobs
Anna Karenina Lambrechts

Creative Crossroads Artist 2025–2026

01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026 @ STUK Leuven
Eliza Trefas © Florian Austraudo
Eliza Trefas

Creative Crossroads Artist 2025–2026

01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026 @ 4Culture Bucharest
@ private
Stanislav Genadiev & Violeta Vitanova

Creative Crossroads Artists 2025–2026

01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026 @ Brain Store Project Sofia
© Neven Allgeier
Camilla Schielin

Creative Crossroads Artist 2025–2026

01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026 @ danceWEB Vienna
Jasmin İhraç © Linda Rosa Saal
Jasmin Ihraç

Creative Crossroads Artist 2025–2026

01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026 @ Uferstudios Berlin
Ghyslaine Gau © Sara Maurin Kane
Ghyslaine Gau

Creative Crossroads Artist 2025–2026

01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026 @ ICI–CCN Montpellier
Maud Blandel © Elie Grappe
Maud Blandel

Creative Crossroads Artist 2025–2026

01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026 @ Arsenic Lausanne
Noha Ramadan © Vita Buivid
Noha Ramadan

Creative Crossroads Artist 2025–2026

01.01.2025 - 31.12.2026 @ Veem House Amsterdam
Artistic Exchange Residencies, Co-Productions, Creative Crossroads  
Capacity Grid, On The Outset, Outsetters Abroad  
Performance Situation Rooms, Choreographic Conventions