In the book Are we here yet? Meg Stuart reflects on her own practice in dialogue with Jeroen Peeters and several past and present members of Damaged Goods. It links together significant moments from Stuart’s artistic career by means of reflections on creation, performing, improvisation and dramaturgy. In addition, the book includes illustrations, documents and performance scripts, as well as an actual guide with exercises.

Is sexism really spreading in the media? Has political incorrectness become the done thing? Do we have to be ‘incorrect’ to be sharp and funny? Or is there nothing new under the sun?

Using some kind of copy-and-paste, Maria Clara Villa Lobos lets you dance some of the big moments from the 20th-century dance repertoire yourself.
To close the Re:Move festival, DJ Eddy & Patrick play their dance classics. Come down and party along!

How can dance be reconstructed? Is it desirable? Can or should one update dance material or use it in a new context? These are some of the many questions asked at this colloquium.

A talk by Christel Stalpaert on Vaslav Nijinski (1890-1950), the Russian dancer and choreographer who created trail-blazing choreographic works to Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps and Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.

Timmy De Laet, a researcher at Antwerp University, will be talking to Kattrin Deufert, Thomas Plischke and DD Dorvillier about archiving, sharing and passing on dance material.

Computers, Privacy and Data Protection is a two-day-conference for academics, practitioners, policy-makers and activists to come together, exchange ideas and discuss emerging issues of information technology, privacy, data protection and law. This year’s conference theme ‘An Element of Choice’ has been chosen because of the many options open for data protection policy. Technological change is dictated by higher forces, but can be steered.

The B’Rock baroque orchestra and LOD music-theatre from Ghent will be presenting an alternative annual New Year’s concert called Lecture Songs. B’Rock will be playing music by Henry Purcell, Matthew Locke and their contemporaries. The science philosopher Jean Paul Van Bendegem does the talking.

How can we limit CO2 emissions? There are many varied opinions on how this can be done. For many years Aviel Verbruggen has been closely involved with climate and energy policy. For example, he questions the emissions trading scheme (ETS) as a policy instrument in counteracting global warming. In this lecture he presents his views on the choices that could and should be made in Copenhagen.

The world is in a wretched state, as we know. How can we change it? Peter Tom Jones and Vicky De Meyere – both guests in Burning Ice #1 last year – have published a book that focuses not on the problems, but the solutions. It’s a superb book that shows us how to change course. Terra Reversa offers appealing guidelines for a better society, whose main elements are comfortable living, justice, ecological sustainability and meaningful employment.

Is it possible to say, 20 years after the fall of the Wall, that Germany has been reunited? Is 20 years enough time for Eastern Europe to have shaken off decades of communist dictatorship? How do people deal with major turning points? How much time is needed for real change?