ŻfinDays 2026 | ŻfinMalta National Dance Company

Name: ŻfinDays 2026 | ŻfinMalta National Dance Company
Location: Valletta Campus Theatre VCT (Ex MITP), Merchants Street, Valletta, Malta

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Valletta Campus Theatre VCT (Ex MITP), Merchants Street, Valletta, Malta

Valletta Campus Theatre VCT (Ex MITP), Merchants Street, Valletta, Malta,Valletta Campus Theatre VCT (Ex MITP), Merchants Street, Valletta, Malta,179 86 Merchants Street

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Over two weekends, experience the breadth of ŻfinMalta’s work, and the distinct visions of three European choreographers making their mark in the international dance scene. Featuring the world premiere of NÁCAR by Paloma Muñoz, alongside BORDER by Matthew William Robinson, and Sita Ostheimer’s profound work, Mortal Heroes.

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WEEK ONE - 20, 21 & 22 February 2026

NÁCAR explores a desire to inhabit ghosts; those that survive in images, that persist in our bodies, and call out from the invisible. In this powerful new creation by Paloma Muñoz, one of Spain’s most innovative choreographic voices, suspended figures appear frozen, breathing and decomposing under the gaze of others. As their flesh is exposed their bodies call out, striking one another as a call to resist and remember. NÁCAR invites us to lend our bodies to the memory of others — to become vessels of presence, beauty, and shared echoes.

Choreography | Paloma Muñoz

Assistant Choreographer | Amanda Rubio Sánchez

Rehearsal Director | Zoe Camilleri

Costume Design | Linda Rowell

Music | Alejandro Da Rocha

Light Design | Moritz Zavan Stoeckle

Duration 30 minutes

NÁCAR is supported by the Embassy of Spain.

BORDER, reflects on the lines we draw between us, that divide us and sustain us. Like rope binding and fraying, bodies combine and fracture, revealing an abyss of repetitive memories and ritual. BORDER explores a return to tradition in response to decay, a search for definition guided by a fear of the future.

Choreography | Matthew William Robinson

Costume Design | Holly Knowles

Light Design | Dali Aguerbi

Music | The Haxan Cloak and Kanding Ray

Duration 30 minutes

BORDER is commissioned by Festivals Malta as part of Notte Bianca 2025.

WEEK TWO - 27,28 February & 1 March 2026

Mortal Heroes invites us into a visceral exploration of human potential – an odyssey through chaos and love, shadow and light, fragility and force. Ostheimer’s choreography becomes a poetic search for the ’other’, a love letter to resilience, to the human capacity for survival, renewal, and transformation.

Choreographer | Sita Ostheimer

Composer | Adrien Casalis

Light Designer | Barnaby Booth

Costume Designer | Holly Knowles

Rehearsal Assistant | Elena Martello

Production Coordinator | Tillmann Becker

Duration 50 minutes

Mortal Heroes is supported by the Embassy of France in Malta and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany

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