De Schpountz is a farce in which misunderstandings between a conceited young artist and a hardworking shopkeeper are settled amid the sausages and the Roquefort cheese. A piece of genuine, captivating folk theatre.

Working Title Situation #01 - Etrange Miroir is an artistic laboratorium based in Nantes (FR), made up of musicians, graphic designers, developers, videographers and documentary makers. With the cinematic concert Mother Border, the collective follows a young Tunisian refugee, evoking a road movie across both sides of the Mediterranean.

Working Title Situation #01 - In Room D, an audio choreography for 8 participants, the imagination of the audience is guided by a narrators voice on a personal trip through a series of spaces, both actual and fictional, individual and collective. During Working Title Situation #01, a first try-out of this creation will be shared with and feedbacked by the audience. 

Working Title Situation #01 - Gosie Vervloessems' work focuses on observing natural phenomena and asking questions about it. Recipes for Disaster is the umbrella title of her work, in which she more recently comes back to questions about classification and control. How do we cope with chaos in our daily lives?

Working Title Situation #01 - Syden is a utopian land that functions as a parallel universe, ruled by own rules, routines and rhythms, displaying its own identity and aesthetics. Visual artists Hedvig Biong and Pablo Castilla develop a multimedia installation with musician and sound designer Niko Hafkenscheid on the theme of tourism and authenticity.

Working Title Situation #01 - As an official negotiator during the climate conference in Lima in December 2014, Jozef Wouters started visualising the metaphors connected to the ecological and political discourse. During Working Title Situation #01, he will pursue their impact on the ways we depict the world around us, in conversation with Jeroen Peeters.

Working Title Situation #01 - Ruta Butkute develops complex sculptural installations, inspired by other media such as video and movement research. Recently she started to collaborate with acrobats and improvisation dancers, who would increasingly determine both the shape as well as the spacing of her installations, and which stimulated her work to expand into the direction of performative installation work.

Working Title Situation #01 - In his new performance A PIECE OF 2 - balancing human sized rocks, Nick Steur zooms in on his earlier work FREEZE. The original small stones that are meticulously balanced by hand will be replaced by two monumental rocks, balanced with the use of a crane manipulated by several performers.

Working Title Situation #01 - Dongyoung Lee is a graphic designer in residency at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. In her work she develops forms of layout and graphics that are as good as they are autonomous and philosophically charged. Invested with visual paradoxes the aim of the work is to generate a sort of mental movement in the perception of the audience.

The students of the theatre department at Rits/School of Arts are presenting their graduation pieces. Come and get to know the latest generation of actors and technicians at the Kaaistudios.

Las Ideas draws us into the life and mental universe of an artist. We see the transformation of an idea at work from the inside: how it takes shape, grows and acquires a definitive expression.