Nine performers give it everything they’ve got to the accompaniment of loud techno music. They dance, dance and dance. A physical and emotional marathon, a bomb of non-stop energy which you still feel in your body long after it has ended.

How can you get out of your body? How long can you stay out of yourself …without losing it altogether? TALES OF THE BODILESS explores a condition that is hard to imagine : a world without human bodies.

For his second opera production, Jan Decorte, the uncrowned king of Flemish theatre turns once again to the English baroque composer, Henry Purcell. The Indian Queen (1695) is a ‘semi-opera’. Decorte’s quest for basic simplicity is perfectly in keeping with the strength and freshness of this ‘not-yet-opera’.

A composite evening of new and existing scenes, short pieces and one-act plays, possibly alternated with music and dance. Different actors, dancers or musicians will take part at different times in a variety of pieces.

A few years ago the young Iraqi theatre-maker Mokhallad Rasem arrived in Belgium from Baghdad. In Iraqi Ghosts, his first major project in Belgium, he shows us the unreal violence and increasing alienation of the recent wars in his country. 

Barbara Matijevic and Giuseppe Chico present their own form of ‘history’ in three sparkling, imaginative and highly entertaining lecture performances. In a way the city of New York is the subject of Forecasting. The performers examine subtle and often invisible changes in our ideas and bodies, inspired here by modern scientific and technological developments.

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.

Barbara Matijević and Giuseppe Chico present their own form of ‘history’ in three sparkling, imaginative and highly entertaining lecture performances. In I AM 1984, Barbara Matijević takes us on a journey through the year 1984. She shows us bits of world history, science fiction, film, the virtual world of internet, and video games.

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.

This new circuit performance by the theatre-maker and artist Kris Verdonck exudes the atmosphere of Franz Kafka’s writing and of the German expressionist film. We recognise several of his recurring themes: the Unheimlichkeit of the world, the tension between man and machine, between the living being and dead material.