01 — Founding house
Paris
Palais Garnier
Where the company played its first four nights in November 1998, on a stage lent between two opera runs. Still our opening house every October.
- Joined
- 1998
- Seats
- 1,979
- Season 26·27
- Æther · Flamma
Home / The Houses
The Houses
Eleven theatres from Naples to Oslo, bound by a single agreement: each one gives Dance Europa its stage for four weeks a year, and each one keeps a company class running every morning of the season.
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Milan
Teatro alla Scala
Three seasons after the founding, La Scala opened its November slot to the company. Matteo Ferranti has made every one of his fourteen works in its rehearsal rooms.
- Joined
- 2001
- Seats
- 2,030
- Season 26·27
- Salt · Flamma
03
Vienna
Wiener Staatsoper
Our winter house, and the second base of the international dancers' office. Every January premiere since 2009 has opened here.
- Joined
- 2003
- Seats
- 1,709
- Season 26·27
- Nocturnes · Salt
04
Budapest
Hungarian State Opera
The closing house. Every season since 2006 has ended on this stage, and every closing night has finished with the company facing the audience in silence for one full minute.
- Joined
- 2006
- Seats
- 1,261
- Season 26·27
- The Last Garden · Nocturnes
05
Barcelona
Gran Teatre del Liceu
Home of the character-dance programme since 2008, and the only house where the company rehearses with a live cuadro rather than recorded music.
- Joined
- 2008
- Seats
- 2,292
- Season 26·27
- Flamma
06 — Laboratory
Dresden
Semperoper
Two floors below the stage, the company keeps a permanent research studio: light, sound, motion capture, and a standing invitation to any choreographer under forty.
- Joined
- 2010
- Seats
- 1,300
- Season 26·27
- Nocturnes
07
Naples
Teatro di San Carlo
The oldest continuously active opera house in Europe, and the one where the corps de ballet takes its December residency — three weeks of nothing but class and repertoire.
- Joined
- 2012
- Seats
- 1,386
- Season 26·27
- Salt · Flamma
08
Brussels
La Monnaie · De Munt
The administrative heart of the touring operation, and the house that hosts the associate urban troupe for its own short season each spring.
- Joined
- 2014
- Seats
- 1,152
- Season 26·27
- Æther · Corpus
09
Copenhagen
Operaen
The house that said yes to seating nine hundred people on its own stage. Corpus was built for this room and will probably never travel intact.
- Joined
- 2016
- Seats
- 1,703
- Season 26·27
- Corpus · Salt
10
Oslo
Operahuset
Every March the company dances one free performance on the sloping marble roof, weather permitting. It has been cancelled twice in nine years.
- Joined
- 2018
- Seats
- 1,364
- Season 26·27
- Corpus · Nocturnes
11 — Newest house
London
Royal Opera House
Joined the network in the winter of 2020, with an agreement signed in an empty auditorium and honoured eighteen months later.
- Joined
- 2020
- Seats
- 2,256
- Season 26·27
- Æther · Giselle
Behind the curtain
Eleven stages,
one rehearsal
Every house in the network has been surveyed to the centimetre. A set built in Dresden fits Naples without a single cut; a lighting plot written in Vienna loads in Copenhagen in four hours. It took nine years and a great deal of arguing.
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Partner houses
A twelfth house, in 2028
We are in conversation with three theatres in central and eastern Europe. Directors of programming are welcome to write to us directly.