Meet the Aerowaves #Twenty26 artists
17 November 2025We are delighted to announce the Aerowaves #Twenty26 artists! The line-up includes work from 16 countries and showcases an exciting and diverse selection of emerging dance makers working across Europe.
The Twenty26 artists will present their work at the Spring Forward Festival from 6 – 9 May 2026 in Guimarães (PT), hosted by Centro Cultural Vila Flor in collaboration with O Espaço do Tempo. This year’s festival is part of the European Green Capital programme.
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Aerowaves is also making public a list of works that were considered collectively by the partners, and which they can also recommend.
Watch our video about the selection process.
The selection process took place at the Workshop Foundation in Budapest from 19-22 October, hosted by our Hungarian partner Gergely Talló. 52 dance professionals gathered in person to discuss hundreds of dance works.
The #Twenty26 Aerowaves artists are:
- Fábio (Krayze) Januário with ‘Musseque’ (Portugal)
- A. Lisičkinaitė & I. Shugaleev, Be Company with ‘CLAP & SLAP’ (Lithuania)
- Chara Kotsali with ‘IT’S THE END OF THE AMUSEMENT PHASE’ (Greece)
- Johana Malédon with ‘(titre provisoire)’ (France)
- Paula Rosolen/Haptic Hide with ‘NOICE|NOISE’ (Germany/France)
- Charlie Morrissey & Markéta Stránská with ‘Scáling’ (UK/Czechia)
- Bast Hippocrate with ‘Joyaux lourdement sous-estimés’ (Switzerland)
- Nik Rajšek with ‘ KINK’ (The Netherlands/Slovenia)
- Fabla Collective/Inan Sven Du Swami & Mojca Špik with ‘Do Birds Dream of Flying?’ (Slovenia)
- Supergroup x QWERTY/Solène Wachter x Bryana Fritz with ‘Logbook’ (France)
- Simona Dabija with ‘BPM–Beats per Millennium’ (Romania)
- Gleym-mér-ei/Forget-me-not with ‘Femme Physique’ (Iceland)
- Inka Romaní with ‘Volvamos al baile’ (Spain)
- Marie Kaae with ‘Wired’ (Denmark)
- Panos Malactos with ‘NO IM NOT’ (Cyprus)
- Annabel Koele with ‘MAGNITUDE’ (The Netherlands)
- Company Furinkaï & Théâtre de l’Entrouvert with ‘Mizy’ (France)
- Mufutau Yusuf with ‘Proses On Neither Here Nor There’ (Ireland)
- Francesca Santamaria with ‘GOOD VIBES ONLY (beta test)’ (Italy)
- Soraya Leila Emery with ‘TURN ON’ (Switzerland)
Aerowaves also recommends
Each year the Aerowaves Network identifies a lot of promising works. Beyond the 20 performances that will be presented at Spring Forward, and amongst the 700 eligible works that the partners watched, Aerowaves can also recommend works discussed collectively by all the partners.
56 artists will be invited to take part in professional development activities, and the cross country presentation of their works will receive financial support from Aerowaves in 2026-27, should it be presented by the members of the platform.
