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La Nuée

Nacera Belaza

Blurred dancer © Luca Ianelli
Nov 7th - 8th, 2026 Event Festival in Shanghai

In 2026, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival is presenting La Nuée by Nacera Belaza in collaboration with China Shanghai International Arts Festival. 

Nacera Belaza is known for her meticulous, minimalist and mesmerising choreography. She translates diverse influences and dance traditions into addictive kinetic scores which cannot leave you unmoved. Dance here reveals itself in its purest form: it is something to be experienced rather than explained. Two core principles of research run through Belaza’s work: the circle and rhythm. In her earlier creations, Le Cercle (2018) and L’Onde (2020), she explored each of these dimensions separately with
depth and precision.

Today, for the first time, they converge: on the one hand, the force of the circle unfolding its orbit around an unchanging centre, as if to bring order to the disorder of scattered lives; on the other, rhythm carving into time, lifting bodies to grant them a dazzling freedom. Together, they become a ritual, an impulse towards perpetual motion, an opening onto infinity. In this singular experience, the audience surrounds the dancers, containing and sharing their incandescent energy.

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Nacera Belaza

In 2026, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival is presenting La Nuée by Nacera Belaza in collaboration with China Shanghai International Arts Festival. 

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China Shanghai International Arts Festival

In 2026, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is presenting seventeen performances in collaboration with the China Shanghai International Arts Festival as part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival in Shanghai. 

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