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Our Landlords are doing some building works so we've made this wee video to show you the path to the studio!

See you on the dance floor 💃 taken in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK by @citymovesdance

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DanceLive opens tomorrow running to 19 Oct in venues across the city.

We spoke to chief exec Hayley Durward about the founding of the festival and its 20-year legacy.

⭕ Only on POST. Get there from our bio. Article share graphic headlined "Twenty Years of DanceLive Seen From the Top" with standfirst "Hayley Durward on two decades of DanceLive and what it means to Aberdeen", over a black and white portrait of Hayley Durward against a red and orange background. by @citymovesdance

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✨How do you choreograph something you cannot control? ✨

A leaf responds to its environment. A vibration travels through an instrument. A body senses another body moving nearby.

Different forms of life, intelligence and perception. Interconnected in ways we are only beginning to understand.

In Sensorial Symphonies, five dancers, live music, plant bio-data and scent come together in an exploration of symbiosis, transformation and the intricate relationships that sustain life.

Inspired by the intelligence of living systems, the choreography invites us to experience the world as a continuous exchange - where every movement, every presence, every encounter has the potential to affect another.

✨What does it mean to exist with others, rather than independently of them?✨

Dance: Manuela Hierl, Marla King, Marine Tournet, Aurore Mettray, Noa Nies
Music: Rachmaninov x Schumacher
Costumes&Set: Agnes Hamvas

Come closer to the world of *Sensorial Symphonies*.

18 October · DanceLive, Aberdeen

#InsideAWork #SensorialSymphonies #DanceLive2026 #ContemporaryDance #ArtAndScience by @citymovesdance

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It is DanceLive Festival Week! 💃

We cannot wait to welcome you to venues across Aberdeen City Centre for our 5-day dance festival.

Tickets are selling fast, with one show already SOLD OUT, and our Festival Artist Studio Classes are booking up quickly too!

Be sure to snag your tickets before it is too late.

You can find everything you need to know about DanceLive on our website at the link in our bio

Citymoves and DanceLive Festival are supported by Aberdeen City Council's Culture Investment Programme and Creative Scotland.

See you on Thursday!
Love,
Team DanceLive, and everyone here at Citymoves by @citymovesdance

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This Friday, join us for a performance of Balfour Reparations as part of the @citymovesdance DanceLive 2026 Festival of Dance. We are delighted to have Dr. Alessandra Cecolin on our post-show panel discussion.

Dr Alessandra Cecolin is a historian and a Lecturer in Middle Eastern History at the University of Aberdeen.

Her research explores the intellectual history of minoritised Jewish communities of Sephardi and Arab origin. She is the author of a book on Iranian Jews in Israel. Beyond the university, she is active in public life and community relations across Scotland. She has worked with the Scottish Government on issues around Islamophobia and antisemitism, and after 7 October, she contributed to television and radio programmes on events in the region. She is also a member of the Scottish Universities Jewish Staff Network and a trustee of the Aberdeen Palestine Education Initiative.

#aberdeen #palestine #dance #palestinelivesmatter by @citymovesdance

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Our first pop-up performance by Fushion Youth Dance Company, giving us a taste of what is to come at this year’s DanceLive! Here they are performing to Diablo’s Lair by Douglas MacGregor taken in Aberdeen Art Gallery by @citymovesdance

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Yangled World premiere at #DanceLive2026 Sat Oct 17 at 11am & 2.30pm Aberdeen Art Gallery FREE 25 minute high energy dance and acrobatic performance by @vincevirrdancecompany

Creative Team
Artistic Lead and Choreographer: Vince Virr
Performers: KJ Clarke-Davis, Parsifal James Hurst, Oran Longmuir
Understudy: Sky Su
Composer: Luke Sutherland
Costume Designer: Alison Brown
Wardrobe Supervisor: Tatjana Stevenson-Oake
Dramaturg: Nic Green
Vocals: Gill Higgins (Curlew)
Producer: Vince Virr
Producer Support: Feral Arts

Funded by @creativescots and supported by @citymovesdance & @platformglasgow

@articulationarts @outdoorartsuk @manipulatearts #dance #outdoorarts #circus #acro taken in Glasgow, United Kingdom by @citymovesdance

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Announcing our two pop-up performances at Aberdeen Art Gallery - Fusion Youth Dance Company and Killer Quines Acapella!

Diablo’s Lair by Macgregor Douglas and Fusion Youth Dance Company
2pm - Aberdeen Art Gallery Sculpture Court

Lost down a rabbit hole where direction makes no sense, Diablo’s Lair takes you through a shifting, maze-like search for a way out—where every move is calculated, and daily life starts to feel like a high-stakes game of chess. But what happens when the finish line just dumps you right back at the beginning? We spend our days grinding to reach the end, only to realize the exit was just the start of another loop.

Killer Quines
3.50pm - Aberdeen Art Gallery Sculpture Court

We are The Killer Quines! The University of Aberdeen’s award-winning all female and non-binary a cappella group! Last year we became the first Quines generation to make it to the ICCA (yes the competition from Pitch Perfect) UK finals!!! We are so excited to be back for another incredible year of fun with all of our Quines! <3 by @citymovesdance

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One of the best parts of DanceLive is welcoming a lineup of world-class dancers into the studio for our Festival Artist Studio Classes, which are open-level and suited for dancers of all skill levels, and give you an opportunity to work with and learn from the phenomenal artists you'll see performing on the DanceLive stages all weekend long.

Malcolm Sutherland Festival Artist Class
Friday the 16th @ 10:30-12:00
The class focuses on finding the initiation point of movements to better understand body coordination. Through improvisational tasks combined with set exercises, we will build awareness of body and space, culminating in heightened movement sensitivity. The class style blends ideas drawn from Malcolm's 15 years of professional experience in the industry.

Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası Festival Artist Class
Saturday the 17th @ 10:30 - 12:00
This improvisation class will be led by Mihran Tomasyan and Leyla Postalcıoğlu, accompanied by live music from Berke Özcan. They will share their personal interests in improvisation and invite participants, through structured improvisation, into a playful exploration of movement, rhythm, space, and the connections between sound and movement. In the final part of the class, they will also share a movement score from The Things We Carry, giving participants an opportunity to experience and explore material from their sharing at the opening night of DanceLive

White & Givan Festival Artist Class
Sunday the 18th @ 10:30 - 12:00
A contemporary company class, focusing on skeletal alignment, articulate placement, and core stability. Participants will move with fluidity, precision, power, and strength, developing a grounded understanding of the body’s physicality in performance.

Sharon Took-Zozaya Festival Artist Workshop
Monday the 19th @ 14:15-15:15 in Aberdeen Art Gallery
Sharon leads this creative dance and physical theatre workshop, with themes from her latest project, Everything That’s Still Is Preparing to Move.

Class spaces are limited, so you will want to be sure to book ahead so you don't miss your chance to dance with these world-class artists. You can book through our website or on the Citymoves App! by @citymovesdance

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Looking for something fun and fabulous to do with your children during the October Holidays???

Why not join us at Aberdeen Art Gallery for May Fly/ May Not and Yangled on the 17th & 18th of October as part of DanceLive Festival?

Yangled is a thrillingly energetic, family-friendly dance piece with three performers doing jaw-dropping circus lifts, using visually striking costumes to explore times of re-defining ourselves in an interconnected world.

Yangled will be in the Art Gallery Sculpture Court Saturday, 17 Oct @ 11 am and 2:30pm

May Fly/ May Not is a show for early years children and their families which tells the inspiring story of Lilian Bland, the first woman in the world to design, build and fly her own aeroplane. The show features dancer/collaborator Laura Booth as Lilian Bland and Sarah Ord (Creative Producer) playing "May Not".

The show combines movement and storytelling, and ends with an interactive workshop inviting families to play and be creative together.

You can find May Fly / May Not in the Art Gallery Learning Space @ 2:30 on Sunday, 18 Oct. by @citymovesdance

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16 days ago

DanceLive turns twenty this year, and the programme reflects it with works for young children to immersive adult performance.

We've taken a look at what's on across the five days.

⭕ Now on POST by @citymovesdance

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DanceLive 2026 welcomes Elisabeth Schilling & Company back the festival to perform Sensorial Symphonies in Cowdray Hall on Sunday, 18 October @ 7pm as part of our special 20th Anniversary Festival!

In Sensorial Symphonies, Elisabeth asks, "What if we could feel the world as plants do? "

Sensorial Symphonies invites the audience into an immersive, multi-sensory journey, where plants are not mere decorative metaphors but active protagonists, taking centre stage with their elaborate, interconnected systems. The choreography honours the wisdom of plant life, its symbiotic relationships, resilience, and boundless adaptability, asking us to reconsider our place in a shared ecological web.

Set against the backdrop of Sergei Rachmaninov’s iconic Piano Concerto No. 2—reimagined and interwoven with a contemporary score by Pascal Schumacher and the organic sounds of The Plant Philharmonic—this creation is as ambitious in scope as it is intricate in execution.

This is a perfect piece to enjoy alongside Dudendance's Alien Aquatic at Bon Accord Baths, why not make a weekend of it?

Here are the details 👇

Venue: Cowdray Hall

When: Saturday, 18th Oct 19:00-20:00

Tickets available at the link in our bio

Citymoves and DanceLive Festival are supported by Aberdeen City Council's Culture Investment Programme and Creative Scotland.

Sensorial Symphonies is brought to DanceLive with support from Creative Scotland's Expanded Festivals Fund.

Commissioned by – Theatre de la Ville de Luxembourg
Co-produced by – Elisabeth Schilling & Company & United Instruments of Lucilin
DanceLive 2026 welcomes Elisabeth Schilling & Company back to the festival to perform Sensorial Symphonies in Cowdray Hall on Sunday, 18 October @ 7pm as part of our special 20th Anniversary Festival! taken in Cowdray Hall by @citymovesdance

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