KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS 010 - The starting point of ZERO is the body as tabula rasa: a body with no memory, no past, no future, which performs each movement as if for the first time; a tool with neither purpose nor function. ZERO explores the relation between memory and the body, its bearings and reflexes, with remarkable physical intelligence.

15 architecture students from La Cambre will be doing something unique with 2,500 cardboard boxes. At the same time they are inviting the visitor to reflect on how one actually makes use of a theatre space. In This Side Up, the Madrilenian performer Maria Jerez charmingly explores the notion that every object is accompanied by an invisible choreography. (a Bozar programme)

The Cypriot Maria Hassabi, who lives in New York and is appearing in our country for the first time, has made this portrayal of the female body in art and popular culture the subject of her SoloShow. She has merged hundreds of iconic images seamlessly together and with aesthetic precision and extreme physicality developed them into a live installation.

Robert Steijn plays a woman who believes devoutly in everything she does. He becomes a Martha Graham and thereby reaps great success, until he goes out of fashion and takes to drink. He dies, but is reincarnated as a Trisha Brown, who takes a postmodern approach to seeking contact with a new audience. An absurdly comical musical on suffering, working hard and living as a diva.

In the series ANARCHIV, the ‘artistwins’ Kattrin Deufert and Thomas Plischke look back at the works they have made together over the last eight years. They cooperate with other artists and let them change their material to suit themselves. For this production, deufert+plischke reformulate their work together with performers DD Dorvillier and Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt.

The dancer and choreographer Boyzie Cekwana grew up in Soweto. In his work, he links the history of (South) Africa to the universal human condition. His new solo plays on identities and their ambiguities. The title refers to an Apartheid law, and at the same time sounds like a call for the right to humanity.