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lun 23/08/2021 > dim 29/08/2021

Things That Can Survive In Space (working title) - Anika Edström Kawaji & Robin Haghi

Things That Can Survive In Space - departs from NASA’s voyager mission (1977) and their attempt at a cosmic ’’message-in-a-bottle’’. The initial question for this project is - what would we construct if we knew that the construction had a chance of reaching another "intelligent" life form ? Is there any boundary between fiction and reality when we [...]
 

lun 16/08/2021 > dim 29/08/2021

Friction Project - Sophia Rodriguez, Vincent Focquet & Julie Reist

This research project starts from the realization that friction is gradually being eliminated from our lives and societies. This process is radically intensified by the current health crisis. We define friction as the mechanism of giving and taking between opposing forces. Friction takes place physically, but also mentally. Starting from this [...]
 

lun 09/08/2021 > dim 22/08/2021

Water,Water,… : ; ; water rr... - Castélie Kennedy-Yalombo

Water,Water,… : ; ; water rr... is a performative work’s searching to unfolding the multiples narratives routed in a body. Falling and sliding in between the narrative body of a woman washing her self and an anarchic body trying to stand its structure in order to communicate with the audience. Using poetics of water and clay from this
 

lun 02/08/2021 > dim 08/08/2021

Ne Mosquito Pas - Simon Van Schuylenbergh

The neoliberal ideology that dominates our society is marked by a need to be successful. This need generates more losers than winners. The losers are often made invisible (or they make themselves invisible). In ’Ne mosquito pas’ artists reflect on their relationship to success and failure, by working with elements that they experience as [...]
 

lun 26/07/2021 > dim 08/08/2021

A Reflection on Canon (Research) - Rosslyn Whytes

It is a body of research that explores canon as a choreographic tool. The possibilities of canon in musical composition have been profound and there is more potential for canon’s translation in dance. Canon is dance that references itself. Using the ideas of cognitive scientist and physicist Douglas Hofstadter we can understand this self [...]
 

lun 19/07/2021 > dim 25/07/2021

This Ferris wheel turns as the wind blows - Sana Ghobbeh

Iranian-born artist Sana Ghobbeh is an artist and researcher based in Brussels. She studied Architecture in Tehran and received an MA in Fine Arts in Sweden. She was part of the advanced performance studies of a.pass in 2016. During the residency at Pianofabriek she developed the work " This Ferris wheel turns as the wind blows". A particular
 

lun 12/07/2021 > dim 01/08/2021

ICONIC A - Sarah Maïmouna Koe

ICONIC A seeks to sublimate the imagination and the representation of Afro-descendants. During this residence Sarah Maïmouna will produce a series of portraits inspired by the icones of byzantin periods. And will also prepare a "Power to the people"-inspired performance where images, words and movement will be at the heart, leaving multiple [...]
 

lun 12/07/2021 > dim 15/08/2021

Research - Hannes Dereere & Silke Huysmans

For their new theatre project, Silke Huysmans and Hannes Dereere focus on the topic of deep sea mining : a possible future industry which hopes to extract metals and minerals from the ocean, and in which Belgium positions itself as a global leader. While their two previous pieces Mining Stories (2016) and Pleasant Island (2019) focused on the [...]
 

lun 12/07/2021 > dim 18/07/2021

Ne Mosquito Pas - Simon Van Schuylenbergh

The neoliberal ideology that dominates our society is marked by a need to be successful. This need generates more losers than winners. The losers are often made invisible (or they make themselves invisible). In ’Ne mosquito pas’ artists reflect on their relationship to success and failure, by working with elements that they experience as [...]
 

lun 28/06/2021 > dim 04/07/2021

Gymnastics of the Mind - Femke Gyselinck

1. How a book can be a stage In onzekere tijden waarin live optreden nog een ver vooruitzicht lijkt, zoekt danser en choreograaf Femke Gyselinck haar toevlucht tot een ander, tweedimensionaal medium : ze maakt het boek tot haar podium. Een boek functioneert echter anders dan een podium. Welke vertaalslag is nodig als je beweging te boek zou
 

lun 17/05/2021 > lun 24/05/2021

Choreographic Sculpture #3 - Collective - Vera Tussing

Vera Tussing en de studenten van het Antwerpse Conservatorium (Artesis) werken aan een bewegingspartituur die de basis zal vormen van een durational installation performance onder de noemer, Choreographic Sculpture #3 - Collective met verschillende interventies op DANSAND!*. De afgelopen jaren werkte Tussing aan verschillende sculpturale
 

lun 17/05/2021 > dim 23/05/2021

Do Not Touch Me - Laura Bachman / Vincent Peirani

« Ne me touchez, ne me touchez pas, car j’ai peur de ressentir » Doris Lessing, Le carnet d’or Before the pandemic struck our planet, we were living in a world of constant physical contact. In our Western societies, bodies touching were such a normality, we barely noticed it anymore. Today, facing the prohibition of physical closeness, Touch
 

lun 03/05/2021 > dim 16/05/2021

mixed feelings - Adriano Wilfert Jensen

It was an ordinary grey afternoon, the fog appeared to clear in the park, when the street foxes came out in numbers, “it’s so romantic, I’m gonna come” they howled. The magic hour approached with it’s bait. Something behind their backs gave it away. There was no way but forward. Their backs hollowing, hidden in plain sight, pleasantly leaking souls [...]
 

sam 01/05/2021 > dim 16/05/2021

In Other Words - Ingrid Berger Myhre

Is dance a language ? And if so, how does it speak ? This piece explores the compatibility between dance and language, using rhetoric devices as compositional tools. With the stage as page, the choreographic writing unfolds a physical discourse with its own syntax, grammar and vocabulary. But what conditions these dance utterances ? And what [...]
 

lun 26/04/2021 > dim 02/05/2021

Zijlijn - Stijn Demeulenaere

North Sea noise pollution expressed in an installation Underwater visibility is often less than thirty metres ; underwater sounds, however, can carry extremely far. It need come as no surprise then that several underwater species communicate via mysterious songs, or that other species use echolocation to navigate. The noise from ships motors,
 

lun 26/04/2021 > dim 02/05/2021

Do Not Touch Me - Laura Bachman / Vincent Peirani

« Ne me touchez, ne me touchez pas, car j’ai peur de ressentir » Doris Lessing, Le carnet d’or Before the pandemic struck our planet, we were living in a world of constant physical contact. In our Western societies, bodies touching were such a normality, we barely noticed it anymore. Today, facing the prohibition of physical closeness, Touch
 

lun 19/04/2021 > dim 25/04/2021

Disquiet - LISA VEREERTBRUGGHEN

DISQUIET - sensational aesthetics of a technokin - onderzoekt verstoring en dystopie als inherente elementen van hardcoretechno-subgenres zoals gabber, hardstyle, jungle en drum-’n-bass, met een speciale aandacht voor deze laatste.  Hardcoretchno wordt gekenmerkt door een intensieve bas en drum, een snelheid van minimaal 160 bpm en een verstoring
 

lun 19/04/2021 > dim 25/04/2021

Monstrare et/ou Monere - Milo Slayers

Monstrare et/ou Monere est un solo qui mélange danse hip hop et recherche contemporaine sur la question de la ‘monstruosité’ comme une forme de philosophie par le corps. Où se situent les limites entre le corps ’normal’ (normatif) et un corps perçu comme déformé, monstrueux ? Quelles contradictions s’ouvrent dans l’idée du monstre ? Et quelles [...]
 

lun 05/04/2021 > dim 18/04/2021

ONE - Veerle van Overloop

Leven is van de ene kamer naar de andere gaan, terwijl je je best doet jezelf niet te stoten. – Georges Perec In een dynamische cross-over van danstheater, videografie en live muziek toont ‘ONE’ het caleidoscopische verhaal van O. Voor deze jonge, anonieme vrouw is de natuurlijke verbinding tussen haar binnenwereld met de buitenwereld verbroken.
 

lun 05/04/2021 > dim 18/04/2021

FLY (Dance Day Special) - Sidney Leoni

Sidney Leoni est chorégraphe, interprète et réalisateur. Il se dédie au théâtre et au cinéma immersifs, qui explorent les possibilités de la perception sensorielle et imaginaire dans le public. Dans sa dernière œuvre, FLY, il expose également son propre parcours, ses rencontres avec des œuvres d’art et des artistes qui l’ont fortement influencé : un
 

lun 22/03/2021 > dim 28/03/2021

NOON III (working title) - NOON

Project and young collective NOON creates a series of performative installations in which imagination is used as a tool to connect, to come together. NOON always departs from the bodies. The awareness of - and connection with - our body could be the first step to connect human beings with their environment - again, but differently, and who [...]
 

lun 22/03/2021 > dim 28/03/2021

Mowgli - Sorour Darabi

Mowgli est la nouvelle création de l’artiste iranien(ne) Sorour Darabi. Le point de départ de ce travail est le titre-même - tiré d’une chanson de PNL - où la référence à la jungle dénonce la projection toujours actuelle de la sauvagerie sur le corps de jeunes citoyen·ne·s issues de l’immigration. Mais l’image de la jungle invite aussi à être réappropriée [...]
 

lun 01/03/2021 > dim 07/03/2021

NooN - Youness Khoukhou

Sociale referentiekaders en systemen zijn als pijlers waarmee het bewegende lichaam zichzelf ondersteunt. Zijn het vaste patronen en herinneringen in ons lichaam ? Staan onze lichamen op de automatische piloot ? Wat als deze referentiekaders en systemen er niet waren ? Welk type lichaam zouden we hebben ? Is er een gemeenschappelijke taal ? [...]
 

lun 22/02/2021 > dim 28/02/2021

Monstrare et/ou Monere - Milo Slayers

Monstrare et/ou Monere est un solo qui mélange danse hip hop et recherche contemporaine sur la question de la ‘monstruosité’ comme une forme de philosophie par le corps. Où se situent les limites entre le corps ’normal’ (normatif) et un corps perçu comme déformé, monstrueux ? Quelles contradictions s’ouvrent dans l’idée du monstre ? Et quelles [...]
 

ven 19/02/2021 > dim 28/02/2021

Echoic Choir - Ula Sickle

A new collaboration between vocalist Stine Janvin (NO) and choreographer Ula Sickle (CA/PL/BE), Echoic Choir, evokes the ritual of coming together on a dance floor around music in the late hours of the night. Relying on the power of acoustic voices and spatial resonance, the project aims to create a collective and immersive sensorial event, by [...]
 

lun 15/02/2021 > dim 21/02/2021

Friction Project - Sophia Rodriguez, Vincent Focquet & Julie Reist

The current research project starts from the realization that friction is gradually being eliminated from our lives and societies. This process is radically intensified by the current health crisis. We define friction as the mechanism of give and take between opposing forces. Friction takes place physically, but also mentally. Starting from [...]
 

jeu 11/02/2021 > dim 14/02/2021

Castélie Kennedy-Yalombo

Ce que la poésie peut au langage, la danse le peut au corps. Alors j’aimerais danser à mettre en branle la chair du monde. Qu’elle se torde, se tende, se flasque, s’étale, et ce, doucement, sensiblement… se particules, se corps ondulatoire. Se dissémine sous nos yeux pour nous offrir en boomerang, du fond de nos êtres, nos soi voilés, si
 

sam 06/02/2021 > dim 07/02/2021

L’inconnu - Christine De Smedt

L’inconnu is a research project aiming to develop ways of thinking together around Low Intensity Violence from the point of view of 3 different frames : language, memory and repetition. How do we speak about Low Intensity Violence (LIV) ? How do we engage physically with the topic ? How can we articulate the ways our thinking and acting moves [...]
 

lun 25/01/2021 > dim 14/02/2021

Zijlijn - Stijn Demeulenaere

North Sea noise pollution expressed in an installation Underwater visibility is often less than thirty metres ; underwater sounds, however, can carry extremely far. It need come as no surprise then that several underwater species communicate via mysterious songs, or that other species use echolocation to navigate. The noise from ships
 

lun 18/01/2021 > dim 24/01/2021

The Sensual Side - Anna Karenina Lambrechts

The Sensual Side is een solo waarin Anna Karenina Lambrechts op zoek gaat naar verschillende fragmenten van haar ’sensuele’ persoonlijkheid. Zo stoot ze op de complexe gelaagdheid van haar karakter en op onderdelen die tegengesteld zijn maar elkaar vaak in evenwicht houden. Doch niet altijd. Als performer probeert ze de fragiliteit en
 

lun 11/01/2021 > dim 17/01/2021

$$$ Liquid Love $$$ - Yuni Mahieu

$$$ Liquid Love $$$ is een work-in-progress installatie over het consumisme (Zygmunt Bauman) van liefde. Drie personages verlichamelijken typische momenten van op een bruiloft waar liefde in de schaduw staat van kort flitsende verzadiging. Als toeschouwer betreed je het universum van kortstondig plezier. Het verlangen lijkt meer de wens om te [...]
 

lun 11/01/2021 > dim 07/02/2021

MANNAHATTA - Renée Goethijn

De ultieme les van het Darwinisme is dat de natuur knutselt en improviseert. Er is geen Evolutie : catastrofes en verbroken evenwichten zijn onderdeel van de natuurgeschiedenis ; op ontelbare momenten in het verleden had het leven een volledig andere richting kunnen nemen. (Slavoj Žižek) Voor de voorstelling ‘MANNAHATTA’ transformeert
 

jeu 07/01/2021 > mar 12/01/2021

Zijlijn - Stijn Demeulenaere

Underwater visibility is often less than thirty metres ; underwater sounds, however, can carry extremely far. It need come as no surprise then that several underwater species communicate via mysterious songs, or that other species use echolocation to navigate. The noise from ships motors, sonar systems and wind turbines disrupts these species’ [...]
 

lun 04/01/2021 > dim 17/01/2021

Categoreez - Yassin Mbrafiti

Categoreez part de la fascination de Mrabtifi pour le voguing, une danse de la scène ballroom. Le parallèle avec le hip-hop l’intrigue : les deux cultures underground sont nées quasi simultanément dans le même contexte new-yorkais, à partir de motivations analogues. Bien que les deux scènes constituent une forme de résistance artistique à travers [...]
 

lun 04/01/2021 > dim 10/01/2021

Always coming hole - Paula Almiron

’Always coming hole’ is a research around the interconnectedness of a group of bodies of water located in South America. It’s mostly a political exercise in taking a space as a point of depart, an act of listening to its movements and forces. Currently, the project is mostly focused on Lake Poopo, a disappearing lake located in Bolivia. Created
 

lun 14/12/2020 > mer 23/12/2020

A Nublo - Edurne Rubio & Maria Jerez

Tussen de scenografie van een opera en een bewolkte vallei, tussen geologie en een pretpark, is A Nublo een verhaal met moeilijk te identificeren karakters omdat het geen mensen, dieren, monsters of goden zijn … maar fenomenen: atmosferisch en geodynamische gebeurtenissen, veroorzaakt door het microklimaat en de topografie van het theater, door [...]
 

lun 23/11/2020 > sam 05/12/2020

11 O Clock - Liz Kinoshita

Dans sa nouvelle création, Liz Kinoshita se concentre sur un mécanisme particulier, le "numéro de 23 heures", que l’on trouve traditionnellement dans les comédies musicales, comme avant-dernier numéro dans lequel un protagoniste réalise un pivot à travers un discours de type soliloque, généralement avec beaucoup d’émotion, de conviction, d’énergie et de [...]
 

lun 16/11/2020 > sam 28/11/2020

MONSTRARE ET/OU MONERE - MILØ SLAYERS

Monstrare et/ou Monere est un solo qui mélange danse hip hop et recherche contemporaine sur la question de la ‘monstruosité’ comme une forme de philosophie par le corps. Où se situent les limites entre le corps ’normal’ (normatif) et un corps perçu comme déformé, monstrueux ? Quelles contradictions s’ouvrent dans l’idée du monstre ? Et quelles [...]
 

lun 09/11/2020 > sam 28/11/2020

Disquiet - Lisa Vereertbrugghen

After approaching hardcore techno dancing from her own background through the style of gabber in the piecesCamouflaging Kelly (2014) and SOFTCORE (2018), Lisa Vereertbrugghen now continues her research with sound designer Michael Langeder to include other hardcore dance styles, like UK jungle, drum-‘n-bass and othercontemporary hardcore [...]
 

lun 02/11/2020 > sam 21/11/2020

$$$ Liquid Love $$$ - Yuni Mahieu

$$$ Liquid Love $$$ is een work-in-progress installatie over het consumisme (Zygmunt Bauman) van liefde. Drie personages verlichamelijken typische momenten van op een bruiloft waar liefde in de schaduw staat van kort flitsende verzadiging. Als toeschouwer betreed je het universum van kortstondig plezier. Het verlangen lijkt meer de wens om te [...]
 

lun 26/10/2020 > dim 08/11/2020

Dances of Death - Michiel Vandevelde

A ‘danse macabre’ for the 21st century The concept of the ‘danse macabre’ has been a constant throughout Western cultural history. Michiel Vandevelde and his five dancers explore various ‘dances of death’, from the Middle Ages to the present. In the 21st century, with its rising suicide rate and climate disasters, death is perhaps just as
 

lun 19/10/2020 > dim 25/10/2020

Soirée d’études - Cassiel Gaube

In Soirée d’études, Cassiel Gaube expands the research set out in his solo Farmer Train Swirl - Étude and creates a trio exploring the rich vocabulary of House Dance in a series of études. An étude, in the musical sense of the word, is a composition designed as an occasion to explore the possibilities of a particular technique and to experiment
 

lun 12/10/2020 > dim 25/10/2020

Come and go - Martina Barjacoba

"Need" imply the principle that every action, thought or movement presented on stage is motivated by the imperative feeling of having to do it. This feeling of necessity does not need to be linked to a logical process of reasoning or thinking. We often find it visceral or hidden in the subconscious. This need can lead to a truth in our [...]
 

lun 05/10/2020 > dim 18/10/2020

Trieb - Liza Baliasnaja

Translated from German, Trieb stands for impulsion, drive, instinct, qualities of life located on the opposite end of the Western conception of human being. To abandon Trieb means to ascend above passions into the space of reason governed by rationality. In the work, I pose a critical question to a tradition of Western thought constructed upon [...]
 

lun 28/09/2020 > dim 04/10/2020

Re-claiming space - Khadija El Kharraz Alami

Each evening Khadija El Kharraz Alami invites someone on stage. A performer, artist, actor, writer, human being, dancer... always a woman. You witness their first meeting. Re-claiming Space is an exploration of the space of womanhood and how to transcend it. In this research-performance, Khadija manifests womanly beauty, vulnerability, unheard [...]
 

lun 21/09/2020 > dim 27/09/2020

Hegemony - Ofelia Jarl Ortega

It’s a slippery slope. A volatile experience. It can change in a second. We witness them cornering themselves, doing it to each other, luring each other into a cavity. There, a constructed solidarity in a play of gymnastic interventions ; a reassemblage takes place. It’s like a machine where you can join in, it just keeps on going. To the sound
 

lun 21/09/2020 > dim 11/10/2020

Soulless - Hagar Tenenbaum

What we find comedic (or just funny) is sensitive to changing contexts. It is sensitive because the funny is always tripping over the not funny, sometimes appearing identical to it. (Lauren Berlant) Soulless plays on the desire to be seen and the need to subvert and retreat. Hagar Tenenbaum is interested in working with the idea of the mute
 

lun 14/09/2020 > dim 20/09/2020

Ne Mosquito Pas - Simon Van Schuylenbergh

L’idéologie néolibérale qui domine notre société est marquée par un besoin de réussir. Ce besoin engendre plus de perdants que de gagnants. Les perdants sont souvent rendus invisibles (ou ils se rendent invisibles). Dans “Ne mosquito pas”, les artistes ont réfléchis à leur relation au succès et à l’échec, en travaillant avec des éléments de leur pratique [...]
 

lun 07/09/2020 > dim 20/09/2020

Disquiet - Lisa Vereertbrugghen

After approaching hardcore techno dancing from her own background through the style of gabber in the pieces Camouflaging Kelly (2014) and SOFTCORE (2018), Lisa Vereertbrugghen now continues her research with sound designer Michael Langeder to include other hardcore dance styles, like UK jungle, drum-‘n-bass and other contemporary hardcore [...]
 

lun 31/08/2020 > dim 06/09/2020

A modest opera (working title) - Myriam Pruvot

The light has momentarily disappeared, with it colors and outlines. In the dark, only sounds remain. Nestled in an underground quarry, five voices chant an eroded code. They emit from Chôra, a mantic radio. Each of their words begin with "the image may contain." It is followed by an inventory of things and objects. In this code are housed five [...]
 

lun 24/08/2020 > dim 13/09/2020

angel - Nele Vereecken

"Macht kommt von machen, etwas tun können" Domineesdochter Angela Kasner groeide op in Oost-Duitsland. Haar tante uit West-Duitsland stuurde vaak cadeautjes op zoals een Levi’s jeans en een plaat van The Beatles. Angela verlangde naar vrijheid, naar het westen. Toen de muur viel, besloot ze haar wetenschappelijke carrière los te laten en de