every_body

Not Standing

Alexander Vantournhout

In every_body, choreographer Alexander Vantournhout, alongside collaborator Emmi Väisänen, delves into everyday movements. They elevate simple actions like handshakes and walking into a complex canvas of bodily dynamics. The duet transforms an ordinary handshake into an intricate choreography of arms, elbows, and shoulders, while a seemingly endless walk showcases the versatility of leg and footwork. … Continued

Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione

Rosas

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Radouan Mriziga, Amandine Beyer / Rosas, A7LA5, Gli Incogniti In Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Radouan Mriziga set out to explore Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. The starting point for this new choreographic work is the exquisite recording of Vivaldi’s composition by virtuosic violinist and long-time … Continued

Frames

Not Standing

Alexander Vantournhout

in situ In his famous essay Parergon, the French philosopher Jacques Derrida asks the reader the following question: “Suppose a burglar were to steal only the frames of the artworks in your home, and not the artworks themselves. What would change in your dealings with art?” In his new production Frames (2025), Alexander Vantournhout turns … Continued

Back to Kidal

Serge Aimé Coulibaly

Faso Danse Théâtre

Serge Aimé Coulibaly / Faso Danse Théâtre In his most recent creation Back to Kidal, Serge Aimé Coulibaly goes back to the origins of blues and jazz and the hometown of Afro-Blues legend Ali Farka Touré in the northern region of Mali. As usually, Coulibaly seeks to connect not only across disciplines, cultures and continents but also throughout history. For Back … Continued

Creation 2025 (working title)

Rosas

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Solal Mariotte / Rosas In 2025, Rosas presents a new work choreographed to the chansons of Jacques Brel. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker will create and dance a duet with dancer and upcoming choreographer Solal Mariotte. After graduating from P.A.R.T.S. in 2022, Mariotte, who also has a background in hip hop, joined … Continued

Foreshadow

Not Standing

Alexander Vantournhout

After VanThorhout, in which Alexander Vantournhout appeared solo on stage, Not Standing returns with a group show featuring eight acrobat-dancers. The performers move like gears of a collective body to the tunes of experimental rock music. Together they explore quasi-impossible balances, challenge each other and defy gravity. With the tightly orchestrated chaotic movement landscapes of … Continued

Rosas danst Rosas

Rosas

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas In 1983, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker had her international breakthrough with Rosas danst Rosas, a performance that has since become a benchmark in the history of postmodern dance. Rosas danst Rosas builds on the minimalism initiated in Fase (1982):  abstract movements constitute the basis of a layered choreographic structure in which repetition plays the … Continued

Delirium

Miet Warlop

Irene Wool vzw

After the immense success of her previous performance ONE SONG, Miet Warlop now creates an ode to imagination with Delirium, a wave of wonder and pleasure. “Long waves beat diagonally against the beach, bulge hunchbacked with cords of muscle, raise quivering ridges that tip over at their very greenest. Crests stretched tight, already welted white, … Continued

Tolon ke!

Serge Aimé Coulibaly

Faso Danse Théâtre

A danced concert by Serge Aimé Coulibaly & Faso Danse Théâtre In recent years, Faso Danse Théâtre has been exploring pulsating movements inspired by the rhythm of the human heart as part of the company’s choreographic language. While this evolution is present in the newest spectacle C LA VIE (2023), FDT’s artistic director Serge Aimé … Continued

Sono io ?

Circus Ronaldo

A quest for reconciliation, between father and son, between performer and audience, between former glory and fresh opportunities.   Danny and Pepijn Ronaldo, father and son, together on stage. United by a shared passion for music and tricks, they build a bridge between similarities and differences. The father seems entrenched in his past, desperately searching for … Continued

EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm

Rosas

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Meskerem Mees, Jean-Marie Aerts, Carlos Garbin For EXIT ABOVE, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker retraces her steps: to the roots of dance, the roots of Western pop music. Since her earliest work, ‘my walking is my dancing’ is one of her guiding principles: walking as a primary form of movement, so familiar … Continued

ONE SONG: Histoire(s) du Théâtre IV

Miet Warlop

Irene Wool vzw

What is your history as a theatre maker? At the invitation of the Belgian city theatre NTGent, Miet Warlop formulates an answer as only she can. In the long running series Histoire(s) du Théâtre she is the fourth director to accept the challenge of a creation in which present, past and future meet each other … Continued

S 62° 58′, W 60° 39′

Peeping Tom

Gabriela Carrizo & Franck Chartier

To the fathers I keep staging The wreck of a sailboat, a vast icy landscape on the background and a crew of hopeless survivors. S 62° 58’, W 60° 39’ starts with an impossible and frightening situation: to survive. To go back to the life they knew. It is unclear how they got stuck in … Continued

C la vie

Serge Aimé Coulibaly

Faso Danse Théâtre

a contemporary initiatory journey With C la vie Serge Aimé Coulibaly takes his place in a rich tradition and creates a new contemporary initiatory story to explore life and our way of being in the world. The 9 performers join on stage – a public square where anything can happen, and nothing is lost. As … Continued

Chroniques

Peeping Tom

Gabriela Carrizo & Franck Chartier

Peeping Tom & Extrapôle / Gabriela Carrizo Chroniques is a journey through time, unfolding in a series of chronicles or short chapters that speak of beginnings and endings, distant places, ancient and future times, the absence of limits and the unknown. Chroniques takes place in a liminal space, in an uncertain transition between what we … Continued

Da Capo

Circus Ronaldo

Da Capo is a caravan of life that is passing by. Generations appearing and disappearing. Being born and passing away. Strength. Beauty. Loss. Love. ‘Da Capo’ is a chronicle of a circus family. An evocative, filmic performance of a family history of love, necessity, apparent coincidence and passion. From a 15-year old boy who ran … Continued

DIPTYCH / TRIPTYCH

Peeping Tom

Gabriela Carrizo & Franck Chartier

The missing door, The lost room, (The hidden floor) DIPTYCH / TRIPTYCH consists of two or three short pieces: The missing door (directed by Gabriela Carrizo), The lost room and The hidden floor (both directed by Franck Chartier). In this creation, Peeping Tom is reimagining the three short pieces and adapting them from the originals … Continued

Through the Grapevine

Not Standing

Alexander Vantournhout

Through the Grapevine is a quirky pas de deux between two men. Performers Alexander Vantournhout and Axel Guérin show their bodies, stripped of all frills. They are trained but certainly not perfect. They do not try to convince with virtuous movements. Gradually, their athletic bodies collide with physical limitations and their movements guide them in … Continued

Screws

Not Standing

Alexander Vantournhout

Usually, a bowling ball has only one function: to knock over as many pins as possible at the end of the lane. But what if you remove this object from its usual environment? Screws turns the relationship between the body and the object around. Objects are fastened to the body, either providing support or throwing … Continued

After All Springville

Miet Warlop

Irene Wool vzw

Disasters and Amusement Parks A comic book coming to life with a walking table, a colorful-smoking cottage and a frustrated fuse box about the tragic failure of a community. In it, an explosive narrative unfolds around a colorful-smoking cardboard house, its inhabitants and the neighborhood: an elegant walking table that would like nothing better than … Continued

Swing

Circus Ronaldo

With Swing, Circus Ronaldo opens up the stage to a new generation. With his father Danny Ronaldo as his coach, Nanosh Ronaldo and five young circus performers have conjured up the circus and variety vibe of the first half of the 20th century. Swing is a performance for a wide audience and for all ages, … Continued

Ghost Writer and the Broken Hand Break

Miet Warlop

Irene Wool vzw

“What is your true matter of practice?” a ghost writer asked Miet Warlop once. “Electric jellyfish”, she said. “In transition. From tension to attention, from breathing to singing, from focus to staring, from staring to starring. Vibrating with the smallest detail in galaxy. And there is no frame to add, only gravity. In obeying its … Continued

Africa Simply The Best

Serge Aimé Coulibaly

Faso Danse Théâtre

The three best African dance solos, selected by a jury headed by Serge Aimé Coulibaly, will be touring as from 2020 In 2015, Serge Aimé Coulibaly organised the first Simply The Best, a competition for the best dance solo, which was open to young dancers and choreographers from all over Burkina Faso. in 2019, the … Continued

VanThorhout

Not Standing

Alexander Vantournhout

VanThorhout, a solo by Alexander Vantournhout, forms an energetic and precise dissection of male power and the cultural imagery surrounding it. Whether it be ancient gods, classical heroes, soldiers or athletes, the glorification of male power throughout history has often tended towards a celebration of war, aggression, and violence. Thor, to whom the title refers, … Continued

La Visita

Peeping Tom

Gabriela Carrizo & Franck Chartier

The site-specific project La Visita will bring Peeping Tom’s theatricality, disruption and surrealism into the new world of art galleries. Through Peeping Tom’s own characters, the artworks and the museum’s characters, the audience will be taken into a parallel mental world, portraying what usually remains hidden. For a long time, museums and art galleries have found their … Continued

Fitry

Serge Aimé Coulibaly

Faso Danse Théâtre

The solo Fitry is like a long fado of someone struggling to find his happiness, a man struggling to keep standing.In an exchange of views between Serge Aimé and dancer Jean Robert Koudogbo Kiki, during the confinement as a result of Covid-19, it seemed urgent and necessary to translate our precarious life, our weaknesses, our instability … Continued

Kalakuta Republik

Serge Aimé Coulibaly

Faso Danse Théâtre

Inspired by Fela Kuti, the Nigerian composer, saxophonist, conductor, political activist and inventor of Afrobeat, the Belgian-Burkinan choreographer Serge Aimé Coulibaly creates a performance in which politics is more than just a vague dramaturgical undertone. A dizzying fusion of dance, music and revolution, inspired by the supercharged music and scandalous life of Fela Kuti. Pioneering … Continued

Fidelis Fortibus

Circus Ronaldo

A comical and poetic performance with warm humour and slight melancholy, Fidelis Fortibus is a highly unusual solo performance created and performed by award winning circus legend Danny Ronaldo. Danny appears in the ring alone, surrounded by a circle of buried circus artistes. The powerful illusions he creates brings the dead souls back to life. … Continued

La Cucina dell’Arte

Circus Ronaldo

Since they were children, the brothers David and Danny Ronaldo have been playing the comedy of human weakness, ‘the clown’. Foolish human power games are also the main theme of La Cucina dell’Arte. The hierarchy behind the pots and pans and the relationship between the chef and the assistant provide perfect situations for these clowns.They … Continued