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maa 28/08/2017 > vri 08/09/2017

Alma Söderberg - Deep Etude

Deep Etude is a deep etude of embodied rhythm. Polyrhythm is the living object of study. A layering of rhythms by means of recorded sound (machine drum), live sound (voice) and dance (body) will take the listener back to where she already is. Deep Etude is a piece of dance and a piece of music where one and the other are both separable and [...]
 

maa 28/08/2017 > vri 08/09/2017

Youness Khoukhou — Noon

"One may be wrong even about “there being a hand here”. Only in particular circumstances is it impossible. Even in a calculation one can be wrong – only in certain circumstances one can’t.” Ludwig Wittgenstein There is no narrative in Noon, no logic. What we witness is the mental voyage of the choreographer, questioning meaning in movement.
 

maa 14/08/2017 > vri 25/08/2017

David Weber Krebs – THE GUARDIANS OF SLEEP

To what place do people wander when they fall asleep? They temporarily interrupt their activities and withdraw from the world. They escape from the globally connected present and enter into a place and a time of their own. But what role do people take when they are witnesses of this withdrawal in a theatre? The Guardians Of Sleep is a [...]
 

maa 14/08/2017 > vri 25/08/2017

Varinia Canto Vila - Attention.app (working title)

In Attention.app (working title) two figures, two women, two bodies are committed in an exercise of reaching out to surfaces. The surface of their own bodies, the surface of the floor that is under their feet or even the walls of a building. The performers are aiming at testing borders, limits and passages to other territories in order to [...]
 

maa 07/08/2017 > zat 12/08/2017

Liz Kinoshita - You can’t take it with you

Liz Kinoshita is inspired by her relationship to necessity vs. waste and the weight it bears upon us, physically, mentally and emotionally. In You Can’t Take It With You she investigates what we need to survive, and what we need to discard in order to sustain ourselves and our environments. Dealing with necessity and waste is something we do
 

maa 31/07/2017 > vri 04/08/2017

Silke Huysmans & Hannes Dereere - Mining Stories

Op 5 november 2015 breekt de dam van een opvangbekken met giftig mijnafval in de bergen van de Braziliaanse mijnprovincie Minas Gerais. Een verwoestende modderstroom veegt verschillende dorpen van de kaart, om zich vervolgens in de zeshonderd km lange rivier Rio Doce te storten. In een regio waar drie op vier mensen in de mijnindustrie werken, [...]
 

maa 17/07/2017 > vri 28/07/2017

Dounia Mahammed - w a t e r w a s w a s s e r

w a t e r w a s w a s s e r (werktitel) wil een intieme ontmoeting zijn met een publiek. Het wordt een voorstelling over aandacht voor het hier en nu, en voor wie en wat ons omringt. In deze tijd zonder tijd om tijd te nemen, wil Dounia stilstaan, leegte laten bestaan en vanuit die leegte opnieuw waarnemen. Wat ze hiermee hoopt op te roepen, [...]
 

maa 17/07/2017 > vri 11/08/2017

Louis Vanhaverbeke - Transpanopticon (working title)

Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. The theatre-maker Louis Vanhaverbeke is working on what could be the human measure. Measurement is useful in assessing physical forms and sharing them with fellow humans. But what about the inside of the human body? What measure do we apply to internal processes and how do we
 

maa 26/06/2017 > zat 01/07/2017

Youness Khoukhou - NooN

Youness Khoukhou is researching the body and its representation in different situations. The meaning the body can take in using the body as a tool and referring to objects as I. The distance between the I and me, the structural existence of the body anatomically, the body as a transparent mass that could be printed with different experiences, [...]
 

don 22/06/2017 > zon 02/07/2017

ESZTER SALOMON - MONUMENT 0.4: Lores & Praxes (a ritual of transformation)

By embodying and transforming war dances and dances of resistance, Lores & Praxes brings into question our collective imagination and our imagination of the collective. Performers coming from Costa Rica, Belgium, France, England, Hungary, Lithuania, Netherlands, Singapore, and South Africa indulge in a physical and vocal journey defined
 

maa 19/06/2017 > zon 02/07/2017

RÓSA ÓMARSDÓTTIR – TRACES

“Maybe it is worth running the risks associated with anthropomorphism (superstition, devinization of nature, romanticism) because it, oddly enough, works against anthropocentrism: a chord is stuck between person and a thing, and I am no longer above or outside a nonhuman environment”. (Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter) Together with Katie Vickers
 

maa 12/06/2017 > zon 18/06/2017

Youness Khoukhou - NooN

Youness Khoukhou is researching the body and its representation in different situations. The meaning the body can take in using the body as a tool and referring to objects as I. The distance between the I and me, the structural existence of the body anatomically, the body as a transparent mass that could be printed with different experiences, [...]
 

din 06/06/2017 > zon 18/06/2017

Hans Beckers - Klopotec Orkestra

Klopotec Orkestra is a music theatre show in which the so called sound installation is being played. A klopotec is an old wooden ratchet windmill from Slovenia, which forms the base of this project. Hans built a first prototype of this installation in 2015 and has since then been building different klopotec-models, each with their own [...]
 

din 06/06/2017 > zat 24/06/2017

Varinia Canto Vila - Attention.app

Attention.app (working title) wants to understand what happens with our body and with our experience of the environment we live in when our visual field is overloaded with stimuli of various kinds. Inspired by the notion of collage, Varinia develops a visual and physical landscape which gives shape to a multitude of signs, codes and [...]
 

maa 29/05/2017 > vri 09/06/2017

Oneka Von Schrader - She

SHE is a solo performance on the crossroads of DIY-spiritualism, urban shamanism, and feminist channeling practices. SHE invites us to a working studio, where SHE is present, armed with a tool-belt and engaged in one clear task: building a shrine, for something or someone bigger than herself. The material of the shrine is made up of every-day [...]
 

vri 26/05/2017 > zat 03/06/2017

Bahar Temiz - In March

In March is inspired by a walking scene from the movie Gerry by Gus van Sant. Two characters, both named Gerry, are lost in the Death Valley. Their march without water or food under the burning sun strains their friendship. Towards the end of the movie, we see them exhausted, barely moving forward towards their mysterious goal. With the rising [...]
 

maa 15/05/2017 > vri 26/05/2017

Jaha Koo - CUCKOO

One day in spring 2015, while eating a meal, it occurred to Jaha that he would be quite satisfied if he could lead his life making money fair and square, feed himself with that money and sleep comfortably. But the reality he has witnessed all his life was 고립무원(孤立無援) — which means ‘isolation without help.’ Then suddenly, his rice cooker, Cuckoo talked to [...]
 

woe 03/05/2017 > don 11/05/2017

Rósa Ómarsdóttir - Second Hand Knowledge

Rosa comes from Iceland, a rather isolated country in the midst of the Atlantic Ocean. She has however been living, studying and working in Belgium for the last 5 years and during that time she has realized to a greater extent Iceland’s isolation. With this project she wants to look at how this isolation influences the Icelandic dance scene,
 

din 02/05/2017 > don 11/05/2017

SILKE HUYSMANS & HANNES DEREERE - MINING STORIES

In the documentary theatre performance Mining Stories, Silke Huysmans and Hannes Dereere bring together different perspectives on one catastrophic event. Their starting point is the recent mining disaster in Brazil (November 2015) nearby the house where Silke grew up as a child. A mud stream, caused by a dam failure, washed away several [...]
 

maa 01/05/2017 > vri 12/05/2017

DOUNIA MAHAMMED - WATERWASSER

In de lente van 2017 creëert Dounia Mahammed een nieuwe solo rond rituelen en ontmoeting. De voorstelling gaat in première op Theater aan Zee (27 juli > 5 augustus 2017). w a t e r w a s w a s s e r (werktitel) wil een intieme ontmoeting zijn met een publiek. Het wordt een voorstelling over aandacht voor het hier en nu, en voor wie en wat ons
 

maa 24/04/2017 > vri 28/04/2017

Citlalli Avalos Montoya & Paola Madrid - As long as I am… I’m not…

As long as I am… I’m not… [work in progress] Two dancers, same nationality, same language, same school, but in different moment, space, with different perspectives, dreams, expectations, experiences and approaches to/from the movement, the body… Taking as a point of departure our need to create, to communicate, to dance, we got together to
 

din 04/04/2017 > vri 14/04/2017

Rósa Ómarsdóttir - Traces

"Maybe it is worth running the risks associated with anthropomorphism (superstition, devinization of nature, romanticism) because it, oddly enough, works against anthropocentrism: a chord is stuck between person and a thing, and I am no longer above or outside a nonhuman environment”. Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter Traces is a dance performance
 

maa 03/04/2017 > zat 22/04/2017

Mårten Spångberg - Gerhard Richter, une pièce pour le théâtre

Mårten Spångberg is a radical theoretician and pioneer of dance. Like no other he masters the art of leading the audience off into fascinating conceptual experiences of dance. For his latest creation, Spångberg is collaborating with nine renowned dancers. All of them are over 40 and have passed the peak of their physical form. On stage, they take [...]
 

maa 20/03/2017 > vri 31/03/2017

Michiel Vandevelde - Andrade

But we never permitted the birth of logic among us. (Oswald de Andrade, Manifesto Antropófago) In 1928 the Brazilian artist and theorist Oswald de Andrade wrote his famous Manifesto Antropofago. This manifesto advocates to not reject the culture of those that colonised Brazil, but rather to eat this culture, digest it and shit it out in a
 

din 14/03/2017 > zat 18/03/2017

Mehdi-Georges Lahlou - The Ring of the Dove

With The Ring of the Dove Mehdi-Georges Lahlou will, for the first time, translate his work to the stage. Based on the eponymous text by poet Ibn Hazm (994-1064), the show will combine the historical background of the author with the cultural influences that Mehdi-Georges likes to manipulate in his visual work, consisting of photo-sculptures
 

maa 06/03/2017 > vri 24/03/2017

Mette Ingvartsen - 21 pornographies

Mette Ingvartsen is working on her new solo „21 pornographies“, that will premiere in the fall of 2017 in PACT Zollverein Essen. With the support of Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek.
 

maa 27/02/2017 > zat 04/03/2017

Julien Bruneau - A Field

This residency is the first stage in a long term research titled A field. The research grapples with the question of space, the space we are in and the space we are made of. Space as an occasion for experience. Space as a field always already full of potentialities that both precede and permeate any personal intention, choice or action. [...]
 

maa 20/02/2017 > vri 03/03/2017

Sonja Jokiniemi - Blab

`Being lost in the world´ is the starting point of a research in which objects and human bodies blur into each other, proposing another being. Blab is a performance work in which Sonja Jokiniemi investigates a fragmented and chaotic experience of show-orientated reality. The proposition suggests immersion, synaesthesia and sensorial mutualism [...]
 

zat 11/02/2017 > vri 17/02/2017

Youness Khoukhou - NooN

Youness Khoukhou is researching the body and its representation in different situations. The meaning the body can take in using the body as a tool and referring to objects as I. The distance between the I and me, the structural existence of the body anatomically, the body as a transparent mass that could be printed with different experiences, [...]
 

maa 16/01/2017 > vri 20/01/2017

Eisa Jocson - Princess Studies

In Disneyland Hong Kong, a legion of dancers from the Philippines are employed as professional entertainers to repeat formatted performances of ’happiness’ as their daily labour. Excluded from the main roles that are reserved for specific racial profiles, they are assigned anonymous supporting roles such as a zebra in lion king, a coral in [...]
 
Chindogu, uit de serie Two Kinds of Memory and Memory Itself

maa 02/01/2017 > zat 14/01/2017

Renée Goethijn & Dries Gijsels - Totally

In TOTALLY proberen Dries Gijsels en Renée Goethijn een voorstelling te maken waarin niets kan misgaan. Met alles houden ze rekening: de mogelijkheid van een lege zaal, een vergeten lap tekst die de hele betekenis verandert, brand, een overstroming, het overlijden van een acteur op scène. Voor elk mogelijk probleem dat zich zou kunnen gaan [...]
 

din 01/11/2016 > zat 05/11/2016

NÉSTOR GARCÍA DÍAZ - NICE WEATHER FOR OPERATIVE SYSTEMS

If we observe the demands that digital media have placed in our psyche, it seems that we have achieved Marinetti’s dream society: as if globalization has found the ideas of the early avant-garde’s aesthetic model. International freelance labour increases and culture becomes global due to the influence of the internet. More and more we experience [...]
 

din 01/11/2016 > zon 06/11/2016

ROEL HEREMANS & ÁRON BIRTALAN - COURT (WORKING TITLE)

Court (working title) is an in-production participatory experience, where the players are invited to step into an ecosystem of choreographed rituals, that lay in the liminal borders of fiction and reality. Drawing upon the formal traditions of instruction tapes, team-building exercises and live-action role playing, the experience aims to give [...]
 

maa 24/10/2016 > woe 02/11/2016

JAHA KOO - [CUCKOO]

One day in spring 2015, while eating a meal, it occurred to Jaha that he would be quite satisfied if he could lead his life making money fair and square, feed himself with that money and sleep comfortably. But the reality he has witnessed all his life was 고립무원(孤立無援) — which means ‘isolation without help.’ Then suddenly, his rice cooker, Cuckoo talked to [...]
 

maa 17/10/2016 > vri 04/11/2016

SILKE HUYSMANS & HANNES DEREERE - MINING STORIES

In the documentary theatre performance Mining Stories, Silke Huysmans and Hannes Dereere bring together different perspectives on one catastrophic event. Their starting point is the recent mining disaster in Brazil (November 2015) nearby the house where Silke grew up as a child. A mud stream, caused by a dam failure, washed away several [...]
 

maa 03/10/2016 > vri 14/10/2016

Rósa Ómarsdóttir - Second Hand Knowledge

Rosa comes from Iceland, a rather isolated country in the midst of the Atlantic Ocean. She has however been living, studying and working in Belgium for the last 5 years and during that time she has realized to a greater extent Iceland’s isolation. With this project she wants to look at how this isolation influences the Icelandic dance scene,
 

din 16/08/2016 > maa 05/09/2016

Vera Tussing - Maze

What does it mean to be together in 2016? In Mazing, five dancers are set in motion by the audience, creating visible networks of action which emerge from simple social negotiations. This gently destabilizing performance both challenges and strengthens notions of community, re-affirming the power of touch in the digital age. Today, the