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 - 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 - 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 - Prince of Networks materialises as an experiential capsule where we gather to visually reflect upon different states of matter and its natural cycles. During this particular experiment, Rodrigo Sobarzo will focus on the cultivation of flies. Out of decomposition a newborn insect/technology is conceived and dies again. Prince of Networks is a visual manifesto probing new ecologies that blends the digital and the analogue as one.

Working Title Situation #01 - In his new performance A PIECE OF 2 - balancing human sized rocks, Nick Steur zooms in on his earlier work FREEZE. The original small stones that are meticulously balanced by hand will be replaced by two monumental rocks, balanced with the use of a crane manipulated by several performers.

Working Title Situation #01 - Salva Sanchis' series Islands consists of a collection of small dance pieces that will be presented both individually and in different combinations. There are solos, duets and trios ranging from 1 to 12 minutes long each. Each piece results from a different research topic and has its own separate identity.

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.