The 27th Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival welcomes THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER 2.0, the acclaimed work by Belgian choreographer Jan Martens that helped redefine contemporary dance audiences across Europe. More than ten years after its international breakthrough, the production returns with a new cast while retaining its demanding physical intensity and provocative questions about performance, perfection and spectatorship. As both an original performer in the first production and artistic assistant on the 2025 revival, Naomi Gibson offers a unique perspective on how this influential work has evolved while remaining remarkably relevant today.
She performed it, helped rebuild it and knows every secret behind it. Naomi Gibson reflects on the return of one of contemporary dance’s most…