A leading figure on the New York scene, Richard Maxwell has conquered the world with his inimitable style. Supported by surgically precise language, his intimist theatre exposes the American myths buried under modern life. He describes Neutral Hero as a ‘country opera’.

An evening with lecture-performances, film and music. The Beursschouwburg is presenting work by the Russian activist art collective Chto Delat?, the young Dutch artist Hedwig Houben, the English performer Zoe Laughlin and the Swiss fashion designer, performer and musician Christoph Hefti.

For two years the Austrian film-maker Nikolaus Geyrhalter focused his camera on the European food industry to show us what happens to our food before it reaches us. Geyrhalter deliberately does not comment, but allows the images to speak for themselves by focusing only on the monotonous drone of engines. What price are we willing to pay for our daily bread? The Antwerp band DAAU composed a soundtrack for Our Daily Bread and plays this live at the screening.

Steve Reich’s Drumming (1971) is a key work of the minimal music. It was included in Ictus’ repertoire ten years ago. This is one of the ensemble’s evergreens you should not miss.

After 31 years the dancer Miguel Pereira returned to his native country, Mozambique. In DOO he confronts the European identity with that of the African ‘other’. An intense performance !

Two pieces of choreography are performed simultaneously to the same music and in the same stage set. This is the concept that choreographer Marc Vanrunxt presented to his colleague Salva Sanchis. Only during the final days of the creative process they brought the two dances together.

The actor Dirk Roofthooft and pianist and composer Kris Defoort take fifteen of Joseph Brodsky’s poems as a basis for this stirring performance. In search of the very essence of Brodsky’s poems.