In French-language education, it has for several years been possible to study ‘performance’. Quite a number of students and graduates took part in the Fragile! programme that is part of the Trouble festival. The 2015 Fragile! will conclude with a presentation in the Kaaistudios.

The diptych Manon and Jean van Florette tells the story of an urbanite who takes up residence in a village in le Midi. This ‘alien’ is not really welcome. Comp. Marius performs with a minimal set and a maximum of imagination, in the open air and by daylight. 

Working Title Situation #01 - Gosie Vervloessems' work focuses on observing natural phenomena and asking questions about it. Recipes for Disaster is the umbrella title of her work, in which she more recently comes back to questions about classification and control. How do we cope with chaos in our daily lives?

Working Title Situation #01 - Etrange Miroir is an artistic laboratorium based in Nantes (FR), made up of musicians, graphic designers, developers, videographers and documentary makers. With the cinematic concert Mother Border, the collective follows a young Tunisian refugee, evoking a road movie across both sides of the Mediterranean.

Working Title Situation #01 - Blurring the boundaries between performative action and installation, BRIGHT aims to stimulate all of our senses, evoking a direct experience of a multiple space, where every sign also signifies something else.

Working Title Situation #01 - Geographia aims to rediscover the boundaries between our mental space, personal space and the social space that surrounds it, in interaction with the audience. Starting from a round table format, philosophical and poetic questions about identity, memory, place, time, boundaries and landscape compose an imaginary voyage that gradually evolves in a series of one-on-one interviews and a walk.

Working Title Situation #01 - As an official negotiator during the climate conference in Lima in December 2014, Jozef Wouters started visualising the metaphors connected to the ecological and political discourse. During Working Title Situation #01, he will pursue their impact on the ways we depict the world around us, in conversation with Jeroen Peeters.

Working Title Situation #01 - With MARVELOUS Bryan Campbell developed both a performance and a magazine. The experience of flipping through its pages is recreated in the collective theatre space.

Las Ideas draws us into the life and mental universe of an artist. We see the transformation of an idea at work from the inside: how it takes shape, grows and acquires a definitive expression.

How many lies, chance encounters and mishaps have actually determined history as we know it? In his new creation, Jan Lauwers travels through history by way of the family trees of all Needcompany’s members. The Blind Poet is about strong women who throw stones and end up on the stake. About a crusader whose suit of armour is too small.

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.