Although Savion Glover is still young, he is already a dance legend. In his virtuoso performances he rediscovers the tap-dancing genre. Together with his trio he brings Caribbean beats, rhythms from hip hop, jazz and even Bach to life on the dance floor. Their show is streetwise and sublime, and an infectious performance!

Tom and Bess O’Bedlam are two archetypical lunatics from England. Their madness inspired poets, musicians, painters and dramatists. These two archetypes accompany us on a trip through English culture. The show focuses on the English Renaissance, a period when composers used their new musical idiom to convey an astonishing repertoire of ‘madness arias’.

KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS 010 - On stage a stack of torn books, a screen spits out random images. What starts out as a discussion about pizzas can suddenly continue with a history lesson, switches from flamenco to post-punk, from reflections on love to comments on the relation between humiliation and the economy. The director Rodrigo García – last year at our Performatik festival – seems to ask: what are we to do, say what we think, withdraw, or take part? And what if our actions were in vain?

Wittgenstein Incorporated is a re-construction of three lectures the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein gave in Cambridge before the Second World War for a select audience of colleagues and close friends. Wittgenstein paced up and down the room while philosophising out loud and in impromptu fashion – while allowing others to witness it. Rerun of the legendary Kaaitheater production made 20 years ago.

The music of Harry Partch’s (1901-1974) is reminiscent of experimental blues, the spoken word or the classical monodrama. Specially for Ictus, Tim Mariën has now reworked The Wayward, a series of songs that resulted from Partch’s wanderings around America during the Great Depression. In the same spirit, the concert also includes the first performance of a new work by Tim Mariën.

In the past decade, Ensemble Explorations, led by cellist Roel Dieltiens, has won a permanent position in the international music scene. The ensemble will perform a celloconcerti by Vivaldi at the KBC-Muziekprijs 2009-2010. Please book in advance: only € 5.

In the book Are we here yet? Meg Stuart reflects on her own practice in dialogue with Jeroen Peeters and several past and present members of Damaged Goods. It links together significant moments from Stuart’s artistic career by means of reflections on creation, performing, improvisation and dramaturgy. In addition, the book includes illustrations, documents and performance scripts, as well as an actual guide with exercises.

Stef Kamil Carlens and Zita Swoon are exploring a new path and a new collaboration: with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and her dance company Rosas. Dancing with the Sound Hobbyist is a masterly dialogue between movement and sound, an adventuresome dance trip through the cosmopolitan music world of Zita Swoon.

The recurring themes in New York choreographer DD Dorvillier’s work are language, perception and representation and their imperfections. Choreography, a Prologue for the Apocalypse of Understanding, Get Ready! is a triptych in which Dorvillier looks at the way we try to communicate and understand each other.

Following the success of Roman Tragedies and Angels in America, Kaaitheater is once again presenting a theatre marathon by Toneelgroep Amsterdam. The director Ivo van Hove mobi-lises the whole ensemble to tackle a light-hearted comedy of manners by the 18th-century Ital-ian playwright Carlo Goldoni. Summer Trilogy focuses on the materialist excesses and amo-rous intrigues of an upper middle-class family.

The  young Spanish composer Hèctor Parra and tThe American physicist Lisa Randall wrote a new type of opera bridging the worlds of art and science. Hypermusic Prologue does project us beyond the known frontiers of the universe. It promises to be a musical voyage to the deepest parts of ourselves and our own « hidden dimensions ».