Guy Cassiers takes on Jonathan Littell’s novel The Kindly Ones, almost a thousand pages long, about the persecution of the Jews during World War II.

Thierry De Mey has been exploring the grey area between dance and music for more than 30 years. He has composed music for dance performances, directed films about dance, and constructed choreographic multimedia installations. In 2016, for the first time, he has created a dance performance for the big stage, in collaboration with Ensemble intercontemporain, the legendary Paris music ensemble founded by Pierre Boulez.

The Dutch artist Germaine Kruip transforms the theatrical space into a ‘field of cinematic experience’. Shadow, reflection, architecture, and stage become the characters in a filmic experience created in the moment itself.

As an annual rendezvous for those working on a sustainable future, this latest Ecopolis starts out from the question ‘what can we do about the current ecological challenge, and by what means?’

What might eroticism have to do with the complex philosophy of Hegel? The French writer and philosopher Georges Bataille (1897-1962) gained special access to Hegel’s conceptual framework. In this RE:THINK TALK, Laurens ten Kate demonstrates how.

This is a woman who, on payment, you briefly possess, but rarely to love her. She wants to save her daughter from the solitude into which her own fate has plunged her. She sees the hope of a new life disintegrate at the start of the Arab Spring.

It is not since staging of/niet ten years ago in 2006 that the STAN actors have created a performance featuring just the four of them, with no guest actors. Now they are presenting wat/nu, based on Sleep you little child of mine by Jon Fosse and A Piece of Plastic by Marius von Mayenburg.

Dr. Marlies De Munck examines the relationship between philosophy and music. At the University of Antwerp she deals with questions like ‘What language does music/musical philosophy speak?’ and ‘what is (the philosophical importance of) the relationship between music, politics, and society?’

A performance about the clash between Mozart’s dynamic talent and the craftsmanship of the hardworking Salieri. As well as a duel between two theatre-makers. Vincent Rietveld of De Warme Winkel and Marien Jongewaard, cofounder and inspirer of Nieuw West, take up the gauntlet.