With an annually recurring city cycle, Moussem’s Nomadic Arts Centre offers an insight into contemporary Arab societies and the dynamic of their cities. Every year, an Arab city is a guest in the capital of Europe. Over the course of this ten-day festival, guest artists, relevant thinkers and cultural players tell the story of their city through their work.

PERFORMATIK 2015 - In his new production Xavier Le Roy creates three situations that make the relationship between the audience and actors less straightforward. The three parts – a lecture, a performance and a concert – are controlled by the loss of a protagonist. The actors and spectators mourn together and this leads to inventions and strange situations…

Artists, writers and philosophers present their vision of ‘mobility and identity’, the theme of this Spoken World. An evening of lectures and statements, acts and performances, films and debate. An evening with Paul Scheffer, Tanja Ostojic, Els Dietvorst, Ben Hamidou, Soheila Najand and many others.

Jérôme Bel is a choreographer and dancer, but has for a long time also been a spectator. In Un spectateur he emerges as a superb storyteller and guides us through the visual experiences that taught him the performing arts ‘basics’ and which most influenced him as a spectator.