CANAL ASIA 2025 (1st edition) in Beijing

CANAL ASIA 2025 (1st edition) IN BEIJING

November 25 and 26, 2025, at the Beijing Dance Academy

Canal, a professional platform created in 2020 by the French National Center for Dance, will debut in Asia for the first time in 2025. An event aimed at the choreographic community, Canal Asia will highlight French and Chinese creations, promote exchanges between industry professionals, and strengthen collaborations between France and China and more broadly Asia.

For two days, the studios of the Beijing Dance Academy will be taken over by invited French and Chinese cultural institutions to present choreographers whose work they support.

In total, 16 choreographers – 8 French and 8 Chinese – , as well as 2 choreographers presented by the BDA, will come to present their artistic project to professionals (programmers, broadcasters, representatives of educational institutions, artists, etc.) from all over Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Singapore…).

French structures

Agora-Cité Internationale de la Danse, Montpellier

with Jann GALLOIS et Pierre RIGAL

FAIR-E – Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne

with Linda HAYFORD et Mounia NASSANGAR

Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble

with Aina ALEGRE & Yannick HUGRON et Ola MACIEJEWSKA

Le Manège, Scène nationale de Reims

with Joana SCHWEIZER et Nina VALLON

Chinese structures

Young Artist Platform

with CHEN Shuchang

Compagnie LTDX – Pékin

with XU Yiming

Guangdong Modern Dance Company (GMDC) – Canton
with LU Qingyu

Move to move festival – Aranya

with LI Chao

Xiexin Dance Theater (XDT) – Shanghai

with XIE Xin

Shanghai International Dance Center – Shanghai

with SONG Xinxin & WANG Shuhuan

Banshan Wuren – Changsha

with GONG Zhonghui

Beijing Normal University

with SHEN Yingying

Carte Blanche given to the Beijing Dance Academy, partner of the event

with TIAN Tian et LI Wenqi

The presented projects can be at different stages of their creation: in the design phase, in production, or already completed and seeking distribution. Each choreographer will be free to choose the format of their presentation: excerpts from performances, run-throughs, projections, oral presentations, etc.

In addition to the presentations, several sessions will be organized to foster exchanges between choreographers and professional audiences: collective moments, conferences, and debates.

The exchanges will be conducted in French, Chinese, and English with interpreting devices. To learn more about the previous editions of Canal in France click here.

Canal 2025 is presented by the French Embassy in China and the Centre national de la Danse, in partnership with the Beijing Dance Academy and with the support of the French Institute.

Registrations and detailed program in September 2025