Les saisons de la danse...

The dance seasons follow one another, like the seasons of the year and like those of BALLET2000, now a quarterly magazine once again, as it was at its beginning, a long time ago.
Les Saisons de la Danse, indeed, was the title of a French magazine older than ours, which became a true point of reference for generations of dancers and dance lovers. And I cannot deny that I was inspired by Les Saisons de la Danse — more than by the British Dancing Times or the American Dance Magazine — while conceiving this magazine as a ‘novum’ in relation to it, and as very different in its resolutely international spirit and European vocation, something also clearly reflected in the circle of our contributors, who from the outset were among the best-known and most experienced dance critics in the world.
The seasons… The approach of summer was once a moment of eager expectation for the discoveries offered by festivals scattered throughout Europe, but above all for the stimulating aura of the festivals themselves, often held in attractive places, true meeting grounds and formative centres for an authentic artistic world of dance, without genres and without borders.
To expect anything similar from the summer of 2026 now before us would perhaps be misplaced, and certainly out of time. Yet, once again, we can prepare for a fairly rich summer in which – despite the usual compilations of small companies and almost unknown choreographers, virtually imposed by ephemeral fashions but above all by financial restrictions – we shall certainly find some revelation.
A.A.