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mar 27/08/2019 > dim 01/09/2019

Trails & Grooves - Cassiel Gaube

Trails & Grooves expands the research of the solo Farmer Train Swirl - Étude and explores the dynamic relations walking and running bodies can entertain with each other. Starting from walking, the dancers will draw individual and collective trails through space, designing the landscape for the piece to unfold into. Not only will the design
 

lun 19/08/2019 > dim 25/08/2019

Dances of death - Michiel Vandevelde

The dance of death or ‘Danse Macabre’, originating in the 14th century, has been an ongoing theme throughout Western culture. Together with six dancers, choreographer and curator Michiel Vandevelde, looks into different dances of death, sourced from paintings, pictures, music and videos. From Mary Wigmann to Kurt Jooss, over the erotic cult [...]
 

sam 17/08/2019 > dim 01/09/2019

Godefroid de Bouillon : the Bastard Son of Antara Bin-Shaddad - Samah Hijawi

A story that jumps through time and across geographies brings the artist and her grandmother in Palestine, together with two well-known European personalities ; Godefroid de Bouillon, known as the first king of Jerusalem and the illegitimate son of the famous Arabian poet Antar Bin-Shaddad, and the 16th-century Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel. [...]
 

lun 12/08/2019 > dim 25/08/2019

Sophia Rodriguez - Ostentation (research)

Sophia Rodriguez research period looks into the physical repertoire in which ostentation materializes, its modes of expression, its gestures, and poses... As part of western culture, we feel much more trained to establish a conversation with an object than with oneself, as if in looking at them or wearing them, our emotions and thoughts [...]
 

lun 05/08/2019 > ven 16/08/2019

Anouk Friedli - Een lofzang op chaos en verlangen !

Samen met de band Murheen Murthama en drie spelers maakt Anouk Friedli een voorstelling waarin je wordt meegenomen in het labyrint van een grootstedelijk kantoor. Alex Moons is een aanklacht tegen de bureaucratische en hiërarchische maatschappij. Een kleine actie van ongehoorzaamheid mondt uit in een absurde trip. In de bijenkorf van gangen en
 

lun 05/08/2019 > dim 11/08/2019

Rosslyn Whytes - Deep Listening

Deep Listening is a duet by choreographer and dancer Rosslyn Wythes and Canadian Brussels-based musician Julia Dyck. It is a performative experience that invites audience members to enter a state of mediation. We are interested in the conundrum of creating a meditation state that is both introspective and extroverted. This eyes-open meditation [...]
 

lun 29/07/2019 > dim 04/08/2019

David Weber-Krebs - The Actual Event (working title)

“Maybe the real drama is actually that there is not enough drama.” Bruno Latour Since the beginning of his career David Weber-Krebs has been putting special attention on the spectators’ active participation in the situation that is proposed. With The Actual Event (working title) he would like to introduce a new level of participation. A
 

mar 16/07/2019 > dim 04/08/2019

COMING in out - Alban Ovanessian

These men were my coming out, having led me to leave a space, to land in another Focused on the dialogue that heteronormativity maintains with the coming out process, the coming out is a process of acceptance and identity consolidation that can take any form in response to societies daily questioning of gender and sexual orientation. The
 

lun 08/07/2019 > dim 21/07/2019

Suicide - Sébastien Hendrickx

Vandaag doorkruisen natuurhistorische omwentelingen individuele levensbogen. Suicide wordt een documentair scenisch gedicht met tegen de achtergrond de vraag naar het goede leven. Sébastien Hendrickx laat zich inspireren door antinatalisten, klimaatspijbelaars, rebellen, filosofen en de silent majority. Samen met componist Jürgen De Blonde
 

lun 01/07/2019 > dim 07/07/2019

Tactile Quartert(s) - Vera Tussing & Quatuor MP4

In Tactile Quartet(s), Vera Tussing builds on her previous choreographic explorations in the sensory engagement of an audience. This time around Tussing invites string quartet Quatuor MP4 to join four dancers on stage for a playful encounter between movement and sound. What if we take the movements of a string quartet seriously as a [...]
 

lun 17/06/2019 > dim 30/06/2019

HAITI o AYITI - Cecilia Lisa Eliceche and Leandro Nerefuh -

Ayiti, island of mountains, where the Tainos, Arawaks, Marien, Magua, Maguana, Higuey, Xaragua and many others lived when christopher columbus set foot in 1492. 1492 marks the beginning of the genocide, the brutal extractivism of the many territories of Abya Yala, and the enslavement of African peoples in the triangulated trade. For more than [...]
 

lun 17/06/2019 > dim 23/06/2019

Hagar Tenenbaum - Opening Dance (working title)

Hagar comes this time interested in working with the idea of the mute body. A body that in order to be heard, needs to be looked at. Such a body approaches movement as an elaborated speech. Following this line of thought, she is creating a dance piece focusing on physical humour and inspired by mime techniques, where the body can be more [...]
 

lun 18/02/2019 > dim 24/02/2019

Sophia Rodriguez - Ostentation (research)

Sophia Rodriguez research period looks into the physical repertoire in which ostentation materializes, its modes of expression, its gestures, and poses... As part of western culture, we feel much more trained to establish a conversation with an object than with oneself, as if in looking at them or wearing them, our emotions and thoughts [...]
 

lun 18/02/2019 > dim 03/03/2019

Again The Sunset - Inga Huld Hákonardóttir

Again The Sunset is where identity is multiplied over and over again by what it touches. It moves. It is a song, a speech and a story... It is a hard rock made hard when you hold it. It is quiet. And then it gets so loud. The form of a love song and it’s concept is stretched to a physical and visual unfolding of events. A dance appears. It’s [...]
 

lun 11/02/2019 > sam 16/02/2019

Micha Goldberg - Invisible to drones

With Invisible to Drones performer and theatermaker Micha Goldberg and Simon Van Schuylenbergh aim to develop a walking practice that embrace two approaches : A somatic one with hyper sensibility for weight in relation to the body posture creating a walk in constant change. On the other hand, aestheticized walks from the pop culture like the [...]
 

lun 11/02/2019 > dim 17/02/2019

Cassiel Gaube - Farmer Train Swirl-Étude

Walking is one of our fundamental ways of relating to the world, deeply engrained in our neuro-motor system. In Farmer Train Swirl - Étude, locomotion is conveyed as the empathic medium between the spectator’s and the performer’s body. The walk progressively transforms itself into complex and musical feet constellations, revealing the vast step
 

lun 21/01/2019 > ven 01/02/2019

Katja Dreyer & Karen Røise Kielland - Cry me a river

Cry Me a River – the Quest for the Source started as an expedition to the source of the River Styx, in Greece. In Greek mythology, Styx is the river that constitutes the border between the earth and the underworld. Achilles was dipped in it, Narcissus fell in love with his own image and drowned in it, the Gods swore oaths by it and memory [...]
 

lun 07/01/2019 > dim 13/01/2019

Sébastien Hendrickx - Suicide

Sébastien Hendrickx worked on the scenography and composition principles of a scenic poem called Suicide. In what should become an associative constellation of sounds, music, text, light and virtual images, Hendrickx and his team will touch upon topics such as suicide, vitalism and the good life in the end times. Every storytelling tradition
 

jeu 20/12/2018 > dim 06/01/2019

Silke Huysmans and Hannes Dereere - Pleasant Island

In the Pacific Ocean lies the small island state of Nauru, once known as ’Pleasant Island’ by British whalers. The history of the island can be read as a parable of modern times. After the discovery of large phosphate supply, the island knew growth and wealth. Every piece of land, every garden, every corner of the island was forked over… until [...]
 

lun 03/12/2018 > ven 14/12/2018

K.A.K. - Snøw

EEN VOORSTELLING VOOR 3+ Beste kløter, De Grote Mensen willen niet luisteren, dus jij moet mij helpen ! Help ! Ik smelt ! Mijn vriend zijn huis smelt ook !!! Wij hebben jullie hulp nodig ! Help ons alsjeblieft ! Kom snel ! Nee ! Nu !!! Met vriendelijke groeten, De Sneeuwman SNØW is een kløtervoorstelling van K.A.K. over de klimaatcrisis.
 

lun 26/11/2018 > dim 02/12/2018

Nathan Ooms - Into A Walk Into Nature (working title)

As long as we perceive Nature as a Theatre, with it’s Characters (the birds) and Sceneries (the trees, the oceans), and ourselves (humans) as Spectators, we will not manage to develop a truly ecological understanding and coexistence. This thought is the starting point of ‘Into A Walk Into Nature’ (working title) of a performance by and with Anna [...]
 

ven 09/11/2018 > ven 30/11/2018

Samah Hijawi - Reflections on the Failure of the letter H(eitch)

As part of her on-going work on the aesthetics of the political in artworks that allude to the history of Palestine, Samah Hijiaw has recently been working on the artistic and historical narratives related to the sculpture of Godefroid de Bouillon by Eugene Simonis on Place Royal in Brussels, and the painting of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, [...]
 

lun 29/10/2018 > sam 03/11/2018

Sara Hamadeh - Wonderings of a flaming body

A body in flames wanders around the city in despair. Walking erroneously in the street, just before the world as we know it falls apart, crumbles into small particles and disappears, the catastrophe seems to have just eluded it. It retains no memory, no document or testimony. All it can recall is that only a moment earlier it was late fall and [...]
 

lun 29/10/2018 > sam 03/11/2018

Clara Amaral - In our eyes, a cascade

In our eyes, a cascade is a lecture performance in which Clara Amaral explores the fall of a smartphone and the shifts in perspective that come with it. Just like a cascade that keeps on falling again and again - downward and onward - Clara Amaral stares into the same surface in order to produce porosity, depth and poetics. The water races
 

mar 18/09/2018 > sam 29/09/2018

Rósa Ómarsdóttir - OOOphilia

(working title) “Nature is…animals, trees, the weather…the bioregion, the ecosystem. It is both the set and the contents of the set. It is the world and the entities in that world. It appears like a ghost at the never-arriving end of an infinite series : crabs, waves, lightning, rabbits, silicon…Nature.” -Timothy Morton Oooophilia is
 

lun 17/09/2018 > mer 19/09/2018

Ula Sickle - Relay

A black flag floats in the night in slow motion. The movement of the flag, symbol of resistance, and the flapping of its fabric become choreography and sound. Loyal to her broad vision of artistic disciplines, Ula Sickle lets her dancers, accompanied by sound artist Yann Leguay, relay one another in a physical and fascinating endurance race. [...]
 

lun 10/09/2018 > sam 15/09/2018

Andros Zins-Browne - Already Unmade

Over the past decade, Andros Zins-Browne has been developing a hybrid body of work at the intersection of installation, performance and conceptual dance. In each of his pieces, the American choreographer pays particular attention to the nature of the images, how they are produced and how they circulate, how they enter into movement, in both [...]