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.

There is no sign of God, but here and there we see dolls. Each of us is a character in someone else’s subjective reality. This is the thread running through We.art. dog.com. The performance is about nature and culture, death and life. Anyone who has ever seen Dimchev at work will know these are not just empty words.

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.

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.

An evening with lecture-performances, film and music. The Beursschouwburg is presenting work by the Russian activist art collective Chto Delat?, the young Dutch artist Hedwig Houben, the English performer Zoe Laughlin and the Swiss fashion designer, performer and musician Christoph Hefti.

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.

Christoph De Boeck approaches sound as a visual and tactile medium. His interactive installation Steel Sky confronts the visitor with an acoustic representation of his electrical brain activities : a ceiling of steel segments responds to his state of consciousness in real time. The intimate topography of the cerebral cortex of each person walking under the roof, is mirrored as pins hit different locations on a matrix of steel in shifting rhythms and combinations.