International dance company — since 1998
Europe dances as one body
Eleven opera houses. Twenty-seven nationalities. One season that crosses the continent, October to June.
The manifesto
Written in Paris in 1998. Read aloud by the company at the start of every season.
We believe that a body rising in Naples and a body folding in Oslo speak the same language — and that this language is the oldest one in Europe.
Dance Europa is not a building. It is an itinerary. Every autumn, eighty-six dancers leave their cities to meet on a single stage; every spring they leave again carrying a work that none of them could have written alone.
We stage the classical repertoire the way restorers approach a fresco — patiently, and without nostalgia. We commission new work the way you open a window. And we teach, because a company that does not teach is a company quietly going out.
“Spectres”, created 2025 — fifteen minutes, not one fixed light.
Stage photography — Vienna
What we dance
Six repertoires,
one standard
Every dancer in the company works in at least two of the six. It has been the rule since 1998 — and it is the reason our new work sounds like no one else's.
Season 2026 · 2027
Six premieres,
eleven cities
Æther
World premiere by Matteo Ferranti for twenty-four dancers and a chamber orchestra.
Salt
Isadora Lindqvist rereads Giselle from a shore on the Baltic. Eighty minutes, no interval.
Nocturnes
Seven solos written for the company's seven principals, danced in near-total darkness.
Corpus
A piece for two bodies and nine hundred spectators, all of them seated on the stage.
Flamma
The corps de ballet meets six bailaoras from Jerez. Original score by Anton Weiss.
The Last Garden
Closing night. The entire company on stage together for the first time since 2019.
Portrait
Émilie Vasseur
Chief of International Dancer
You do not run an international company from an office. You run it from stage left, three minutes before curtain, when nobody in the wings is speaking their mother tongue.
Trained in Lyon and then in Saint Petersburg, Émilie Vasseur danced twelve seasons before taking charge of Dance Europa's international dancers. She oversees recruitment, casting and the career of every one of the company's eighty-six artists across the eleven houses of the network.
- Joined the company
- 2011
- Title
- Chief of International Dancer
- Based in
- Paris · Vienna
- Working languages
- FR · EN · RU · IT
The network
Eleven houses,
one stage
Hover a city to step inside its hall.
The Academy
Forty students,
seven teachers
In Lyon, inside a former silk workshop, forty dancers aged fourteen to twenty receive a complete training every year — and a scholarship. No exceptions, no tuition fees.
Gallery
Four seasons
in pictures
Click to enlarge — 2023 to 2026, eleven cities, thirteen photographers.
What they say
You leave Nocturnes the way you leave a dream you have somehow kept at the right temperature.Le Monde — Paris
The only company on the continent able to make an entire tour feel like a single gesture.Corriere della Sera — Milan
Eighty-six dancers, twenty-seven passports, and not one visible border on the stage.Der Standard — Vienna
Join the circle
Get the season before anyone else
Members of the circle receive the full programme a fortnight before tickets open, together with an invitation to the dress rehearsal in their own city.