Next season we shall be presenting a new work by the choreographer Jean-Luc Ducourt and the pianist Alain Franco called Works by 3/1, a choreographic composition for one female and three male dancers, and a piano. It was only a few years ago that Ducourt developed a language of movement based on classical ballet. This provides the basis for the new work too, which he conceived for three male dancers with one female dancer as a counterpoint.

KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS 08 - Dance N° 1 is an exuberant duet by the choreographers Eszter Salamon, who has often appeared at the Kaaitheater and also at Kunstenfestivaldesarts 07, and Christine de Smedt (of Les Ballets C. de la B.). Together they composed an ingenious score that is performed several times and in which the body constantly transforms. The seriousness of the study is countered by a clever carousel of lighting, sound and costume changes that play a frivolous game with the viewer’s perceptions.

In KAMP Hotel Modern imagines life and death in the Auschwitz concentration camp. A huge model of Auschwitz fills the stage. Thousands of dolls depict the prisoners and their executioners. The actors walk around the model, armed with miniature cameras, film the terrible events and make the audience witnesses to them. An impressive and authentic performance.

This new dance performance opens at The Kitchen in New York and a week later will be on at the Studios. The title of this performance is a pictogram. It tells us that we are departing, that we have quit a place, a situation. The way one reads this sign in daily life is in transit, on the road. One perceives it for but a few moments.

1993: the former Yugoslavia collapses. Sarajevo is an occupied city. In New York, five characters meet. One of them has just returned from Sarajevo. This symbolic city becomes the benchmark against which the five gauge their own questions, expectations and even ambitions. What can they do? What should they do? In Sarajevo, the playwright and director Rudi Meulemans explores new territory in his writing.

Eduard Gabia often explores the boundaries of physical experience. 8 days a week plays with notions of time. In his own words: ‘Now, the moment I am writing this and you are reading it, is the present. But I do not write at the same time as you read. It is this permanent present, in which there is no past or future, that I want to make visible in this performance.’

They grew up in the USSR, where several of them were musicians on the underground scene in Moscow, and after the fall of the Wall they left for Berlin, where, in 2006 and on the initiative of the artist, poetess and singer Irina Doubrovskaya, they formed the group Ersatzmusika. It has a sound all its own, in which one hears traces of dub, urban folk, world, minimal, gipsy music and musical cast-offs from the Soviet period.

Mythobarbital / Val der Titanen (formerly announced as Deviant), a new piece by Stef Lernous, Tine Van den Wyngaert, Kirsten Pieters and Chiel van Berkel who share a fascination for the outsider, the underground and everything that deviates from the norm. Their nasty but witty plays can best be described as existential horror theatre.

Last season, the actress Manah Depauw and the dancer An Verstraete worked with children from the Kleurdoos primary school. Together they made Club Caval, a story about war, peace and utopia. The group journeyed from the Kaaitheater Studios to the Grand’Place with the horse called Caval. The whole project was filmed by Guerin Vandevorst.

The brothers Roberto and Gustavo Ramos set up D.A.M., which stands for Desenvolvimento Animico do Movimento (Animistic Development of Movement). D.A.M. has made a name for itself on the Brazilian contemporary dance scene and is now coming to Belgium for the first time, with two productions. Breathtaking, hypnotic, easy-flowing performances.

Tristero is presenting AN, their own version of Attempts On Her Life (1997), Crimp’s masterpiece. Who is An? She seems to be able to assume a great many guises. On this ‘confusing’ basis, Tristero as always creates an accessible, intelligent and humorous theatre experience with a bitter aftertaste.