Box with holes seeks to explore the relationship between touch and its visualisation. How do we see and experience inter- human interaction in a world where we contact each other more and more through technology?
Box with holes focuses on a displacement of the senses, which places the spectator into another mental state.

A rain of ash floats down onto a musician and his instrument. Its impact on the musician and his music slowly becomes visible. Sound and vision gradually transform – until finally everything judders to a halt. How does ‘little’ man relate to the ‘grandeur’ of the universe?

Young theatre maker Orion Maxted builds a performance machine. Humans take the role of the different machine parts – applying a simple algorhythm, they transform each other’s words and gestures into complex structures.

This – unexpectedly current – rerun from 2008 shows Paris from the perspective of the artist-immigrant. During the 20th century countless people took refuge in the French capital, including many artists and intellectuals. Just as likely, they ended up working as taxi drivers or street cleaners. Christian Bakalov’s depictions of their social exclusion and humiliation urge you to question your own feelings of empathy and solidarity.

What if scenography becomes the starting point from where a story unfolds? Meryem Bayram developed a series of pure and basic forms made from cardboard, that transform from an apparently empty and flat surface into a whole repertory of evocative scenic elements.

In Still Animals, Tuur Marinus brings the famous photographic studies of Eadweard Muybridge to life. Naked human bodies that are subtly manipulated by camouflaged performers, perform iconic series like the jumping cat or the flying pigeon.

How can we perceive reality if we reinvent the primary elements of language? In Holy Words, Niko Hafkenscheid revisits his passion for language and history. How did man get to the point of writing things down by using signs?

This landmark in expanded cinema generates an endless amount of shapes, constallations and possibilities with a minimal projection setup.

What happens when a voice creates space and this space is filled with movement? ‘S approaches performance as a love relation. Between you, the performer and his materials.

Het Theaterfestival 2015 - The Lover is a unique encounter between the highly individual movement idiom of Bára Sigfúsdóttir and the surreal photography of Noémie Goudal. They are underpinned by Borko’s captivating soundscape and the combination draws you into the mysterious new world where reality and fiction, man and nature come together.

Working Title Platform #6 - A new constitution for democratic systems - that is the remarkable starting point of ‘Some use for your broken clay pots’, a tripartite project by Christophe Meierhans. A theatrical performance, a book and a film will be based on a legal text that prescribes all the institutions, organs, laws and procedures necessary for the establishment of a realistic and functional democratic regime.