A discussion on Iraq on the occasion of the 8th anniversary of the
invasion. Prof. Christopher Parker from
the Middle East and North Africa research group at Ghent University will
be speaking with Dirk Adriaensens of the BRussells Tribunal and the
Iraqi novelist Ali Bader. The chairman is Lieven De Cauter. He will also give an introduction.

The Austrian choreographer Philipp Gehmacher invites dancers and choreographers to talk about their work, idiom and (dance) history in movements and words. On the bill tonight: Mette Ingvartsen and Chrysa Parkinson.

The Austrian choreographer Philipp Gehmacher invites dancers and choreographers to talk about their work, idiom and (dance) history in movements and words. On the bill tonight: Philipp Gehmacher and the French choreographer Anne Juren.

Barbara Matijevic and Giuseppe Chico present their own form of ‘history’ in three sparkling, imaginative and highly entertaining lecture performances. In a way the city of New York is the subject of Forecasting. The performers examine subtle and often invisible changes in our ideas and bodies, inspired here by modern scientific and technological developments.

Barbara Matijević and Giuseppe Chico present their own form of ‘history’ in three sparkling, imaginative and highly entertaining lecture performances. In I AM 1984, Barbara Matijević takes us on a journey through the year 1984. She shows us bits of world history, science fiction, film, the virtual world of internet, and video games.

The choreographer Boris Charmatz, director of the Musée de la danse/Centre Choréographique in Rennes, talks to Cosmin Costinaș, curator of BAK (Base for Contemporary Art) in Utrecht, about his Musée and about two of its projects: expo zero, an exhibition without objects, and Brouillon, where performers ‘activate’ an exhibition-in-progress showing works of art. An opening discussion that sets the tone for this festival.

How do artists work today? How do they speak about their method? The question of new artistic practices and discourses is at stake in a series of monthly salons, organized by Sarma in Brussels. We open with a presentation of Jonathan Burrows’ A Choreographer’s Handbook.