Moscow’s Center for Contemporary Dance and Performance, TsEKh, kicked off its annual Festival of Theater Dance this weekend. Now in its eleventh year, Moscow audiences are being treated to a weeklong kaleidoscope of some of the best contemporary dance, theater and performance around. In a city dominated by the Bolshoi in particular and ballet in general, the festival, which runs through Dec. 11, offers a rare opportunity to see a more experimental side of dance.

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Here’s “Sad Tropics” (Tristi Tropici) by Virgilio Sieni, one of two Italian shows that will finish the TsEKh contemporary dance festival.