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Riverdance at Expo 2020 is a bespoke and unique show created specifically for Expo 2020 Dubai, merging familiar sounds and slick choreography with a fusion of new sounds and Emirati instrumentation to reflect the world coming together at Expo 2020.

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With a striking design inspired by fossilised sand dunes, Jubilee Stage is an open-air festival stage. Located in Jubilee Park, it hosts performances and large concerts.

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One of the top African-American dance companies in the United States is coming to Expo! This percussive dance troupe has dazzled audiences all over the world, so you can expect a truly artistic experience.

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One of the top African-American dance companies in the USA. Their percussive dance style is an array of contemporary dance and art forms, integrating songs, storytelling, humour and audience participation.

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From the 18th-century writers of the Declaration of Independence to the creators of today’s smartphones and social-media networks, innovation and love of liberty have always been at the very core of America’s identity. The USA Pavilion at Expo 2020 celebrates these twin national pillars with an immersive exploration of the past and future of the American spirit.

Hop on board a moving walkway and see the sights across several large exhibit areas. Attractions include dynamic digital presentations on America’s history of innovation, a fun ceiling-displayed science narrative, an enormous replica space rocket and much more.

The United States Pavilion centres on a broad façade decorated with a modular pattern of large white metal stars, evoking the American flag. A screen of lofty vertical metal slats stands perpendicular to the left edge of the structure, bordering a walkway that leads guests inside, while a wide roof screen overhangs the full length of the façade, providing shade.

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The New Zealand Kapa Haka or traditional Māori performing arts, forms a powerful and highly visual part of the New Zealand cultural experience. Kapa haka literally means to form a line (kapa) and dance (haka). Come and experience an authentic performance!

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An authentic traditional dance from New Zealand, known as the Kapa Haka.

The Dubai Millennium Amphitheatre is a performance space hosting cultural performances and live music for seated crowds, located in Al Forsan Park. The venue’s design features a model of two Ghaf trees that intertwine above the centre of the stage. 

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The Whanganui River is so important to New Zealand’s Maori people that in 2017, it was granted a special legal identity, giving it the rights of a citizen. Now, the New Zealand Pavilion offers a sweeping cultural tour narrated by the Whanganui River itself.

With a design inspired by the Maori tradition of hand-crafting containers to safeguard items of value, the pavilion leads you on a journey of conservation where the greatest treasure to be protected is our natural world. Immerse yourself in the river’s story, deepen the experience with the pavilion’s web-based app, and journey through a 10-metre-high “vertical river” of water droplets.


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The New Zealand Pavilion features a tall box clad in titanic wavy panels of chainmail-like architectural mesh called Kaynemaile. Its flexible façade pulses to evoke a living building and sits on a base crafted from New Zealand Abodo eco-timber. The ground floor’s wooden exterior lends a warm feel to the modernist design, welcoming visitors through a small gap beneath the mammoth Kaynemaile panels.

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Watch a Flamenco show based on the question 'does dance movement have a gender?' With choreographer and principal dancer of the Spanish National Ballet, this is a co-production with Sadlers Wells Theatre, Seville Flamenco Biennial, and the Flamenco Festival.

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A Spanish Flamenco show co-produced with Sadlers Wells Theatre, Seville Flamenco Biennial, and the Flamenco Festival.

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The Spain Pavilion at Expo 2020 is an open, eco-friendly exhibition that seamlessly blends ancient heritage and cutting-edge innovation.

An airy ground floor features several small, naturally cooled plazas that are ideal for relaxing or snacking on tapas. Venture underground into aroomy basement, and you’ll explore a “forest of the future” filled with thought-provoking exhibits on Spain’s contributions to global sustainability.


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Inspired by Spain’s age-old links to the Arab world, the Spain Pavilion takes the shape of a lively field of sheer, conical towers in hues of brick, orange, and saffron yellow. Visitors venture under this vast canopy of peaks, built from reusable materials including wood, iron and fabric, to explore a series of breezy plazas. The underside of each airy dome is decorated with unique textures that reflect their exhibits: swirls of woven straw, a green canopy of plants, falls of digital water, and more. One dome also shelters a tasty tapas restaurant.

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From Seville to Dubai, Riverdance comes full circle at Expo

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See incredible Irish dance show, Riverdance, at Expo 2020 Dubai