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
Manuela Deac © Nikola Majtan
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Manuela Deac in Bucharest

Manuela Deac is visiting Artland Academy in Bucharest in the frame of Capacity Grid 2026!

29.06.2026 - 03.07.2026 @ Artland Academy Bucharest
Johanna Figl © Franzi Kreis
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Johanna Figl in Sibiu

Johanna Figl teaches a workshop at Artland Academy in Sibiu in the frame of Capacity Grid in June.

22.06.2026 - 25.06.2026 @ Artland Academy Sibiu
Heta Asikainen © Vasilissa Sadikova
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Heta Asikainen joined the team of MDT Stockholm

Heta Asikainen, who works at MDT Stockholm in the frame of our On The Outset programme, is currently in Zagreb, as an Outsetter abroad, supporting the team of Antisezona.

22.06.2026 - 01.07.2026 @ Antisezona Zagreb
Yoko Haveman © Esme Regter
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Yoko Haveman

Yoko Haveman is on an Artistic Exchange Residency at Uferstudios in Berlin in June 2026!

08.06.2026 - 19.06.2026 @ Uferstudios Berlin
Fatigue by Viktor Szeri © Iringo Simon
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Performance: Fatigue in Taipei

Viktor Szeri's solo Fatigue is touring a lot this year: Next stop: Taiwan!

06.06.2026 - 07.06.2026 @ Cloud Gate Theater, Teipei City
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OPEN CALL – On The Outset in Berlin

Uferstudios Berlin is looking for production interns in the frame of On The Outset!

One for 12 weeks within the period July–September 2026, another for 12 weeks within the period September–December 2026, both include a 1-week exchange to another Life Long Burning Partner.

This application end on 24 June 2026.

05.06.2026 - 24.06.2026 @ Uferstudios Berlin
© Almud Krejza
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01.01.2023 - 31.12.2026
Fatigue by Viktor Szeri © Iringo Simon
Performance: Fatigue at Sziget Festival

Viktor Szeri shows his solo Fatigue in Budapest this summer, at Sziget Festival!

14.08.2026 - 15.08.2026 @ Sziget Festival, Budapest
Nathalie Campbell © Gabor Mayerhofer
Nathalie Campbell in Sibiu

Natalie Campbell is visiting Artland Academy in Sibiu in the frame of Capacity Grid 2026!

06.07.2026 - 10.07.2026 @ Artland Academie Sibiu
Development of critical discourse in Balkan 2026

Antisezona brings the international guest performance of Vienna-based artist and theoretician Michael Turinsky with his solo work Precarious Moves to Zagreb. After the performance, there will be a discussion with the maker, moderated by Iva Nerina Sibila and Igor Zenzerović.

30.06.2026
Close encounters of a dance kind: GORGONA IS BURNING, BITTER, PROUD AND CRIMSON!

Sonja Pregrad, Ivana Bojanić, Sancha Meca Castro and Silvia Marchig invite to this years Close Encounter of the Dance Kind at MSU in Zagreb.

27.06.2026 @ Antisezona / MSU Zagreb
Domino Residency: Mapping the Work of NDA Croatia

Aleksandra Janeva Imfeld, Tamara Curić, Koraljka Begović and Melita Spahić Bezjak | lab are the Domino Residency participants this year! The residency, as part of the summer edition of Karlovac Dance Festival, brings together prominent dance artists and authors and is happening with the organisational and artistic support of Free Dance, a longtime partner of Nomad Dance Academy Croatia.

23.06.2026 - 25.06.2026 @ Karlovac Dance Festival
Heta Asikainen © Vasilissa Sadikova
Heta Asikainen joined the team of MDT Stockholm

Cultural worker Heta Asikainen joined the team of MDT Stockholm in the frame of On The Outset.

01.03.2026 - 30.06.2026 @ MDT Stockholm
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