New Baltic Dance

New Baltic Dance is the largest contemporary dance festival in the Baltic Region! It invites audiences and professionals to join for inspiring labs and discussions and explore and shape the future of contemporary dance together. In 2026, we are celebrating 30 years of the Festival – What's Next?The International contemporary dance festival New Baltic Dance (NBD) is one of the most significant events of the year, the festival will shine the light on worldwide tendencies of the art of dance and will introduce promising Lithuanian artists as well as foreign choreographers, who are making the history of contemporary dance.The creative team of NBD festival visits all the most essential global dance events and puts together a program out of the most interesting dance companies and shows, which are leading the whole contemporary dance community ahead in Europe and beyond. While being the biggest event in The Baltic States of such nature, NBD carries out a triple mission: to inform, educate, and gather people who are interested in contemporary dance.The festival organisers are proud to have featured companies such as the Ballet national de Marseille (France), Dimitris Papaioannou (Greece), Catherine Gaudet (Canada), Eun-Me Ahn (South Korea), Yoann Bourgeois (France), Marlene Monteiro Freitas (Portugal), Oona Doherty (Ireland), Euripides Laskaridis and Osmosis (Greece), Les Ballets C de la B (Belgium), Nederlands Dans Theater II (Netherlands), Club Guy and Roni (Netherlands), Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (Taiwan), Compagnie Marie Chouinard (Canada), Louise Lecavalier (Canada), La La La Human Steps (Canada), Cullbergballet (Sweden), Aterballetto (Italy), Liquid Loft (Switzerland), Kibbutz Dance Company (Israel), Russell Maliphant Dance Company (UK), Ballet de Lorraine (France), Danish Dance Theatre (Denmark), Christos Papadopoulos (Greece), Frederic Gravel (Canada), Cherish Menzo (Netherlands, Belgium), Marco da Silva Ferreira (Portugal) and others. Festival organiser: Lithuanian Dance Information Centre. Festival directors: 1997–2016 Audronis Imbrasas Since 2017 Gintarė Masteikaitė