The Middle Ages does not pose the question of who or what we are, but when we are. When is now? Through an exuberant use of costumes and a rigorous study of movement the performance attempts to assume a place and time in which historical references overlap. Five dancers travel through time and the history of movement.

PERFORMATIK 2015 - In his new production Xavier Le Roy creates three situations that make the relationship between the audience and actors less straightforward. The three parts – a lecture, a performance and a concert – are controlled by the loss of a protagonist. The actors and spectators mourn together and this leads to inventions and strange situations…

PERFORMATIK 2015 - Visual artist Joëlle Tuerlinckx ventures into new territory and creates an ‘all-round show’ in which she draws from her vast archive. A part of that archive – images she uses to ‘theatricalise’ the world – was the basis of her impressive solo exhibition in WIELS.

Poet and professor Geert Buelens, is the author of Europa Europa!, a magnum opus on the First World War and European cultural history. On this occasion, he speaks to the highly renowned German historian Philipp Blom (The Vertigo Years and A Wicked Company). Actress Femke Stallaert recites war poems, pianist Thomas Dieltjens and cellist Martijn Vink perform compositions by Frank Bridge.