By Season

HOW TO USE THIS PAGE:

The “By Season” page is a category list of all dance- and culture-related events, divided into spring/summer/autumn/winter/all seasons. Certain other posts about general travel or journal entries are included if they complement a specific event (eg. Living in Berlin if you’re attending b12 Festival).

For easy searching, you can use the CTRL-F keyboard shortcut to find a specific event or use the search bar below for a site-wide search.

This page is a work in progress. New posts will be added periodically.

Spring

Coming soon.

If you’d like to write a guest post for dance travel happening in spring, please see the “Contact” page for guidelines.

Summer

  • Passion, Play, and Pleasure: Dance Retreat in Southern Portugal

    7 days of fun, sun, and everlasting love. Passion, Play, and Pleasure is a dance retreat held at Monte da Orada in southern Portugal. Facilitated by Alvin Collantes, Evan Swisher, and Evgenia Chetvertkova, the annual retreat started in 2022. Using…

  • Passion, Play, and Pleasure: Dancing on the Beach

    A nude beach, might I add 😉 On day four of the Passion, Play, and Pleasure dance retreat in Portugal, our facilitators surprised us with an impromptu visit to a nearby beach, Praia dos Alteirinhos. The drive’s about twenty minutes…

  • Living in Berlin for One Month: Local Life & Culture

    As observed by a solo traveller, dancer, and short-term expat. I stayed in Berlin from June 29 – July 29, 2024. There’s a lot of ambiguity around what constitutes as having “lived” somewhere. Is it the length of time? Is…

  • The Guide to Attending Tanzwerkstatt Europa: Munich Dance Festival (2024)

    Everything you need to know about the program, funding, accommodation, and more — from a dancer. Tanzwerkstatt Europa (meaning “Dance Workshop Europe”) is an annual dance festival every August in Munich, Germany. Organized by JOINT ADVENTURES, it is a training…

Autumn

  • GagaEden at Orsolina28: A Review

    An introduction to Gaga, the travel, and the program. Gaga is a formal movement methodology developed by Israeli choreographer/dancer Ohad Naharin (so, no, it definitely has nothing to do with Lady Gaga). The principles of Gaga focus on the concepts…

  • Orsolina28: The Hidden Dance Haven in Rural Italy

    I attended GagaEden at Orsolina28 from October 16-19, 2023. Orsolina28 is an amazing dance campus and haven situated in the hilly village town of Moncalvo, Italy. Despite its large physical coverage, it’s still unknown to many outside the dance industry…

Winter

Coming soon.

If you’d like to write a guest post for dance travel happening in winter, please see the “Contact” page for guidelines.

All Seasons

  • 4 Best Berlin Dance Studios for Adult Drop-In Classes

    Berlin doesn’t just have a huge professional arts scene (my colleagues describe it as a “freaky arts scene”); it also has a huge recreational dance scene. The great thing is they aren’t necessarily separated. Whether you’re a professional, an amateur,…

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