Every two years a new generation of dancers and choreographers graduates
from the PARTS dance school in Brussels, which was founded and is
headed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. In spring 2012, nineteen students
from eleven countries will be working on their graduation pieces for
three months.

Working Title Platform#4 - Dolores Hulan works around the idea of layering and constructing scenes
that ceaselessly aim to give a new definition and turn to events at any
given moment.
The work constructs and deploys itself through the multi layering of its
various elements - movement, costume, sound and light – which
eventually all share the same weight in the work.

The Extra Sensorial Garden is a fictional garden that has been artificially created to stimulate the visitor’s sensory system and evoke strong physical experiences. There is not always a lot to see, but instead there’s a lot to be sensed.

Very occasionally, something makes your hair stand on end. Nick Steur’s FREEZE! is just such a performance: small in scale, big on ideas. Nick Steur creates a pile of natural stones. He doesn’t use any glue or trickery, just intense concentration and ‘a balance between my own willpower and that of the stone’.  FREEZE!, won the KBC Young Theatre Prize 2011 at Theater Aan Zee.

With a sharp instrument he cuts pieces out of the photos: glaciers, sea-beds, natural panoramas, flowers, plants, animals, all things that might be threatened with extinction or have already become extinct. The Italian artist Cristian Chironi dissects images and structures and creates new and contrasting relationships. He wants the viewer to have the same reaction as to a perfect masterpiece of art, because he wonders whether we aren’t all tourists looking at the Himalayas with a cheeseburger in our hands.

Kate McIntosh is already known for performances such as Dark Matter and Hair from the Throat, evidence of a rich, somewhat bizarre imagination and superior craftsmanship. In Untried Untested,
she once again goes hard at it. The performers test various materials
and each other and so find themselves in situations that are often
funny, frequently unexpected and sometimes downright dangerous.

In 1880, the French socialist politician Paul Lafargue, son-in-law of Karl Marx, wrote the satirical treatise Le doit à la paresse. If he were to return to our world today, he would shake his head in astonishment. What value does our society attach to relaxation, rest, silence, sleep and laziness? What influence can theatre have on your mental attitude? Fortunately, we have theatre-maker and artist Kris Verdonck and dancer and choreographer Alix Eynaudi who lovingly lull you to sleep in EXIT ...