Ylka and Thomas are having their house renewed. Two renovators are at work there for months. During their coffee breaks, they discuss the coming stages. In the background radio Contact is playing, the coffee is served lukewarm, there are no more cookies and, between the lines, a bit of discomfort weaves itself into place. De verbouwing (The Renovation) is a sublime blend of humour and sadness.

Twenty-two students from 14 countries are coming to the end of their four-year course at PARTS, the Brussels dance school headed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. A group of eleven students has opted for its own artistic project. In the course of three months they have been working on 2 trios, 1 duet and 3 solos. 

A group of eleven students are working for three months on a creation based on Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s piece The Song (2009), a work for eleven dancers based on the Beatles’ White Album.

Twenty-two students from 14 countries are coming to the end of their four-year course at PARTS, the Brussels dance school headed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. In Student Repertoire, the students draw on a wealth of personal work created during their studies.

We say goodbye to the old season and hello to the new with a festive evening! Presentation of the 2014-15 season by Guy Gypens and Katleen Van Langendonck + Sketches/Notebook by Meg Stuart + 2013-14 CLOSING PARTY by Kaaitheater & Workspace Brussels. At the decks: DJ Jasper and DJ just in. 

Me, Myself & We. This was the title of a series of performances and talks we have presented in the season that is now approaching its end. The thread running through it all was ‘collectivity versus individualism’. Wouter Hillaert (rekto:verso) looks back together with choreographer Meg Stuart, Anoek Nuyens, Veridiana Zurita, Kristof van Baarle and Kate McIntosh. And you can join in at the table.

Guy Cassiers and Tom Lanoye are focusing on ‘the play of all plays’: Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In pursuing his ambitions and fighting his fears, the young Hamlet comes face to face with himself.

The New York science writer and author Dava Sobel is coming to Brussels on the invitation of VUB. For the closure of her stay, performers Kate McIntosh and Jerry Killick will hold a staged reading of a theatre text written by Sobel as part of her book A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos.

In the film The Rabbit and the Teasel, integrally shot in the Irish countryside, fiction and autobiographical elements are interwoven into a lyrical tale that drags the viewer into a world of beauty, death, and decay. Documentary maker and artist Els Dietvorst paints a picture of the human condition in Ireland today as well as of man and nature in the 21st century.

How can we live together in the same space and integrate with the ‘other’ through dance and movement? How can we affect an encounter while carefully securing everyone’s particular place within the group? From Rio de Janeiro to Brussels, this is a ‘social’ approach to movement.

Through the Back: Situating Vision between Moving Bodies seeks to articulate this critical potential in a series of essays that explores the work of experimental choreographers active throughout the noughties: Alexander Baervoets, Boris Charmatz, Meg Stuart, Benoît Lachambre, Vera Mantero, Philipp Gehmacher, Jennifer Lacey and Nadia Lauro, and deufert & plischke.