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.

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.

A leading figure on the New York scene, Richard Maxwell has conquered the world with his inimitable style. Supported by surgically precise language, his intimist theatre exposes the American myths buried under modern life. He describes Neutral Hero as a ‘country opera’.

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.

Two figures in search of intense physical expression, from stillness and silence to speed and ecstasy. ‘Real’ emotions become formal constructions through their repetition, variation and filming. ingvartsen and fellow performer Guillem seek forms of expression on the borderline of the human and the inhuman.

Together with fifteen performers the director Jan Ritsma presents a theatrical show with stylistic references to Ariane Mnouchkine, The Wooster Group, Bob Wilson, William Forsythe and The Nature Theater of Oklahoma. Oidipous, my foot shows an Oedipus who takes his fate into his own hands.

The internet is everywhere, and now in the theatre too! Superamas invite you to post your dreams on a site (www.youdream.be). You may be lucky enough to see your dream come true, either live on stage or in a film.

After 31 years the dancer Miguel Pereira returned to his native country, Mozambique. In DOO he confronts the European identity with that of the African ‘other’. An intense performance !

The Berlin collective from Antwerp creates fascinating multimedia performances. In Tagfish six people enter into a discussion on a new use for an enormous abandoned industrial site. Or do they discuss something completely different?

Artists, writers and philosophers present their vision of ‘mobility and identity’, the theme of this Spoken World. An evening of lectures and statements, acts and performances, films and debate. An evening with Paul Scheffer, Tanja Ostojic, Els Dietvorst, Ben Hamidou, Soheila Najand and many others.

The Swiss artist and theatre-maker Massimo Furlan has reconstructed the 1973 Eurovision Song Contest as a performance. The television show is reproduced exactly on stage, with live commentary by several philosophers disguised as seventies musicians. A hit at the recent Avignon Festival!’