We live in an age in which human activity has a profound impact on our physical and ecological surroundings. Nevertheless, these transformations often go unseen. How can we create stories, aesthetics, and spaces of experience to deal with this situation reflectively and critically? Looking for answers, David Weber-Krebs and Jeroen Peeters install a series of hybrid artistic and theoretical interventions in a performative setting.

Antigone in Molenbeek is Stefan Hertman's unrelenting tale of a young woman who goes in search of her dead brother. Birsen Taspinar will introduce the text, three actresses will read extracts, and Hertmans will discuss it with Johan Reyniers.

In the performance Crazy But True, children between the ages of eight and eleven form a panel of experts. A text is whispered to them via headsets. They repeat what they hear, and thus present a growing list of extraordinary facts.

Over the last few years, the Mechelen collective Abattoir Fermé has built up a strong repertoire that swings between dream, hallucination and nightmare. Snuff (Index 1) is the company’s first production for the large stage. It premieres at the Kaaitheater.

In his work with CREW, Eric Joris seeks a mixture of theatre and technology. EUX is based on the idea of the ‘doppelgänger’. Through the use of technological protheses, the visitor’s body is duplicated in a mirror image that appears to be more real than the ‘true image’. The project offers an ‘immersive’ experience for one person at a time. An ‘immersive’ experience.

Melting glaciers, burning forests, cities under water, screens and cameras spying on us, weapons of mass destruction... End starts out from the images the media project onto our retinas. The performance artist Kris Verdonck shows the possible final stages of a human society in ten scenes that are linked by a monologue by a speaking character (Johan Leysen).

Sema Soma is the second project by PONI. The basis for Sema Soma comprises three key words: ritual, illusion and death. It is a powerful, energetic performance in which codes, signs and forms from theatre, art, film, music and so on are brought together: scraps of various languages which together form a new language. We shall be reviving this successful project in the Kaaitheater’s main theatre.

In 2005, the French choreographer Xavier Le Roy created a staged concert with music by the German composer Helmut Lachenmann. We shall be showing the second part of this performance on the closing evening of Pasta for Tired Dancers; the music is Lachenmann’s guitar duet Salut für Caudwell (1977). In the second part you can hear the renowned guitarist and composer Martin Siewert, presenting his musical response to Salut für Caudwell.

14 Récitations by the French-Greek composer Georges Aperghis (1945) is both music and theatre. Aperghis wrote this composition not only for the performer’s voice but for her whole body. The French soprano Donatienne Michel-Dansac literally embodies this music. In the second part we shall be showing a brand new documentary on Aperghis’ fascinating work in music and theatre.