Dance in all its forms takes over one of the stages at the City of Arts and Sciences
Are you passionate about movement, music, and stories told through the body?
Les Arts has prepared a dance season that is absolutely amazing.
You will enjoy proposals for all tastes: Spanish dance with a live orchestra, flamenco, breakdance, and major international classics.
Grab your calendar and mark the dates for each show, because you will want to go to all of them.
Full programme for «Les Arts és Dansa»
October 23, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. and October 24, 2026 at 7:00 p.m. – Les Ballets Espagnols de «La Argentina»
Antonio Najarro and his company invite you to rediscover the ballets that Antonia Mercé —La Argentina— premiered in Paris in 1927.
This time with the pieces «Juerga», by Julián Bautista, and «Triana», by Isaac Albéniz, performed by the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, alongside music by Granados and Jacinto Guerrero.
December 4, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. – La Leona
Olga Pericet, 2018 National Dance Award winner, and her ensemble engage in a dialogue with musicians and the voice of singer Israel Moro through rondeñas, bamberas, fandangos, and farrucas in a hypnotic show.
February 12, 2027 at 7:30 p.m. – Le Murmure des Songes
Kader Attou, an icon of French hip-hop, takes you back to childhood with this show featuring a quartet of dancers fusing breakdance, jazz, and contemporary dance.
April 16, 2027 at 7:30 p.m. and April 17, 2027 at 7:00 p.m. – Estela
Valencian dancer Alba Castillo —trained with Nacho Duato and at Ballet Theater Basel— premieres this piece inspired by the poetry of Antonio Machado at Les Arts.
The bodies will interact and disperse before your eyes, creating a truly striking landscape.
May 7, 2027 at 7:30 p.m. and May 8, 2027 at 7:00 p.m. – La Mort i la Primavera
Marcos Morau immerses you in the subconscious of Mercè Rodoreda's most enigmatic novel with a piece described as «dark as a Goya Black Painting and solemn as a Requiem mass». Sounds amazing, doesn't it?
May 28, 2027 at 7:30 p.m. – Norma
Antonio Ruz has prepared a scenic ritual for five bodies for this occasion, playing with the opposition between the normative and the distinct, the everyday and the unexpected, and the beautiful and the ugly.
June 24 and 25, 2027 at 7:30 p.m. and June 26 and 27, 2027 at 7:00 p.m. – Swan Lake
Ben Van Cauwenbergh offers a version of Swan Lake faithful to the spirit of Petipa and Ivanov, with the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana performing Tchaikovsky's music.
