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
Hunt by Helén Tamaskó © Szombathy András
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Hunt by Helén Tamaskó

A new LLB co-production is in the making in Budapest right now: Hunt by Helén Tamaskó premieres on 8 October in mu Theater.

08.10.2026 @ mu Theater Budapest
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Janina Rajakangas, Liu Chang & Janne Aspvik at Agora

Janina Rajakangas, Liu Chang & Janne Aspvik are nominated by Moving in Novemeber for an Artistic Exhcange Residency in Montpellier, at Agora, Cité Internationale de la Danse. This residency serves as a research and development phase for the new work Drummer boy, which will be completed in 2027.

01.10.2026 - 16.10.2026 @ Agora, Cité Internationale de la Danse, Montpellier
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
gergő d. farkas © András Szombathy.
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gergő d. farkas

gergő d. farkas is currently on an Artistic Exchange Residency in Zagreb. They are contributing to Antisezona#3 with open studio sessions and a process showing on 24 September.

14.09.2026 - 02.10.2026 @ Workshop Foundation Budapest
© 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 ini December.

17.12.2026 - 20.12.2026 @ Radialsystem Berlin
© Kerstin Schroth
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
© Joeri Thiry / STUK
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
© 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, 13–15 November ChoreoCon #4!

17.09.2026 - 15.11.2026 @ Moving in November Helsinki
Maciej Sado © Sebastian Runge
Maciej Sado

Maciej Sado joined the team of Uferstudios Berlin in the frame of On The Outset.

16.07.2026 - 30.09.2026 @ Uferstudios Berlin
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