Press is based on childlike fantasies about monsters: how in the darkness and shadows objects or body parts can assume monstrous shapes, become unrecognisable and frighten us. The French choreographer and dancer Pierre Rigal finds himself in a sort of box: a small, empty space which changes mechanically and to which the body has to adapt. The result is an absurd performance that is both frightening and amusing.

The writer and theatre-maker Peter Verhelst is creating a new piece for three female dancers and one voice in the Kaaistudios. It’s called Headbanger’s Wall and is primarily about consolation. There is a passage of music from Requiem for my friend, the music Zbigniew Preisner wrote for his dead friend, the film maker Krzysztof Kieslowski. There are three female bodies trying to overcome gravity. There are minor rituals that bring the women together. There is a voice that says we shall never give up. There is strength. Obstinacy. The will to remain standing.

WORKING TITLE FESTIVAL - The Argentine choreographer and dancer Diego Gil and the Serb dramatist Igor Dobricic have created several unruly and radical dance performances in a short space of time. About Falling is another uncompromising performance.

WORKING TITLE FESTIVAL - Komposition was created in three lengthy periods of work in which the dancers rehearsed before a ‘live audience’. The dance performance circles around the theme of the group: how do we look at a group, how do we experience a group and how does the audience appear to a group on stage. The dancers have performed with companies like Rosas and Superamas.

WORKING TITLE FESTIVAL - An intimate dance performance about relationships. Our relationships are generated by convictions (or the shadows of them), feelings, experiences, winks, expectations, secrets, and so on. When a third person looks at us from the outside…