Schwalbe Speelt Op Eigen Kracht is a CO2-neutral production. All the energy needed for the performance is generated by the performers themselves. Schwalbe stands up to darkness, cold and cynicism with perseverance and boundless energy. And they have to cycle to appear in the spotlight.

Brussels, 27th May 2011. Traffic in the city has reached critical mass and comes to a standstill. The result is an almost apocalyptic landscape, but see how the inhabitants make the best of it by reinventing their city. This is the futuristic situation that C&H will be staging for one hour in the centre of Brussels. 

After the debate Kernenergie. Maken we ons illusies? (in Dutch), the theatre-maker Davis Freeman will present the occasionally hilarious but none the less highly relevant performance Seven Promises in the Kaaicafé. Together with the actor Jerry Killick, he plays the part of a green preacher and they try to persuade the audience to make ‘sustainable’ promises.

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.

Living Archive is a performance in which the dance historian and dramaturge Myriam Van Imschoot brings her personal archives to the stage. She draws on interviews she did when she was a critic, as well as other audio relics. Living Archive is an associative poem of sound and image, with Van Imschoot as a living index, guardian and administrator, prosthesis, ear, and lover and stealer of voices.

Matijević and Chico give an associative view of how they experienced 1989, the year the Wall fell and the world was turned upside down. Their material consists of authentic and fictional audio documents either made in 1989 or related to it by content: pop songs, excerpts from radio and TV shows, private recordings and so on. This second part concentrates on sound.

In their performances, Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki set out in search of the poetry of the everyday. Through tiny shifts in reality they create a dreamy, absurd in-between world. Field Works-hotel is a performance for just one spectator at a time. You will be immersed in the mysterious past of an ordinary hotel room.

The lecture performance by Agnes Meyer-Brandis deals with art, science and weightlessness. Dawn Scarfe’s Turning to Spheres is a performance with wine glasses, a sine-tone generator and small speakers.

Apainting by Lucas Devriendt, was the inspiration for Performance of A Portrait. In it the painter and his model, the dancer Vincent Dunoyer, looked back on their collaboration. The painting and the performance have now resulted in Pairforming, a collection of videos, dances, photos and drawings.

The Portuguese writer and theatre-maker Patricia Portela discovered a box containing the writings and designs of Acácio Nobre, an early 20th-century Portuguese member of the avant-garde whose name has been erased from the history books. Using a vintage typewriter and wireless keyboard she brings Nobre’s work back to life and so questions the collective memory of a nation.