In Moving Ballads, Femke Gyselinck takes the word ‘ballad’ literally: it is a danced song. Inspired by folk legend Joni Mitchell, she invites you to explore the connections between the music, the words and the movements. Welcome to this no-man’s-land where movements do not speak.

Drumming (1998) is returning to Brussels! It’s one of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s most iconic choreographies, written to the eponymous, minimalistic percussion score by Steve Reich. A  wave of pure dance and pure sound, a vortex of vital energy.

What might the musical heritage of polyphony mean today? Myriam Van Imschoot was inspired by insects, climate marches and the recent protests against budget cuts in the arts and civil society. A group of Brussels-based singers takes to the stage with the vocal ensemble HYOID. United, they move through mass singing, often on the edge of audibility.

At the beginning of this year, HOT BODIES - TV invited a number of woodworking and motor vehicle mechanics students from the Saint Joseph Institute in Etterbeek. Gérald Kurdian joined forces with the Kunstenfestivaldesarts for this project. The group is now presenting a utopian fanzine as a conclusion of the collaboration.

After The Six Brandenburg Concerto, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker continues her journey with Bach in dialogue with these variations. Along with pianist Pavel Kolesnikov she brings The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, a solo performance danced by De Keersmaeker herself. Here too, the musical score forms a blueprint for the choreography.

Can duration in performances be a tool for resistance against the neatly packaged and overproduced things we are fed everywhere in our society, so the audience are pushed to invest their time—and themselves—in the work, instead of just experiencing something that is forced into an easy-to-digest format?

Hoewel steeds meer mensen het gevaar van klimaatverandering inzien, lijken we maar niet te slagen dit bewustzijn om te zetten in grootschalige politieke acties. Hoe kan dat?

Als onze fundering bestaat uit met elkaar spreken, naar elkaar luisteren en aanvaarden dat we het soms wel en soms niet met elkaar eens zijn, lukt het dan om op dat abstracte fundament een werkelijk, concreet bouwwerk te construeren, zoals een huis waar we ons beiden thuis voelen?

2. How to make room for more people to make decisions?

4. What do corona and the theatre have to do with each other?