Now, let's hand things over to artistic director Wayne McGregor, who can take us deeper into this year's theme and the ideas behind it.

Perhaps unknowingly, choreographers, dancers, and audiences too have always been secret quantum experts.

Our evolving understanding of time, influenced by contacts and concepts from quantum mechanics, is reshaping and reasserting our perspective in various fields, including the arts.

Take, for example, the idea of entanglement in quantum mechanics, where particles can be interconnected regardless of distance.

Artists have always engaged in partnerships across different mediums, cultures, and timeframes, creating works that reflect a shared consciousness of collective human experience.

This interconnectivity evidenced in much of the work in Biennale Dancer 26 encourages a deeper exploration of how individual and collective histories shape artistic expression and our fundamental understanding of reality.

Time does not exist, profoundly engages with themes of memory, identity, and existence, encouraging our audiences to reflect on and re-perceive their connection with their own lifeline, their own lifetime, an invitation to changing relationships and states.

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As you might imagine, I'm absolutely passionate about dance.

I'm passionate about making it, about watching it, about encouraging others to participate in it.

And I'm also really passionate about creativity.

Um, creativity for me is something that's absolutely critical, and I think it's something that you can teach.

I think the technicities of creativity can be taught and shared, and I think you can find out things about your own personal physical signature, your own cognitive habits, and use that as a point of departure to misbehave beautifully.

I was born in the 1970s, um, and John Travolta was big in those days.

Smith's, fresh for everyone.