With Isabella’s Room, Needcompany scored an international hit; this summer will see the first night of the company’s new piece, The Lobster Shop, at Avignon. You can see it at the Kaaitheater next season, but there will also be try-outs before the summer.

The final-year students at the P.A.R.T.S. dance school in Brussels will be presenting their graduation projects. In the Studios they will be presenting two separate programmes, each of which will be shown on two evenings. The second programme consists of a choreography by Lance Gries and creations by Louise Baduel, Eleanor Bauer, Tarek Halaby and SueYeon Youn.

Mozart’s keyboard works form the thread that runs through the programme. The choreographers Philip Gehmacher, Salva Sanchis and Johanne Saunier bring an ode to the master in a solo, a duet and a trio, with piano accompaniment by Alexander Lonquich.

Milli Bitterli, who performed in Meg Stuart’s Appetite, examines the relationship between movement and emotion. Bitterli: ‘Does a choreography of the emotions exist? Behind every attitude my body adopts lies an emotion that powers me like an engine. Every movement is linked to a particular feeling, an experience, which in its turn influences the execution of the movement.’ Dissipating I is a joyful and ecstatic dance performance full of infectious dance pleasure.

In the spring of 2006 the four actors at Tg Stan (Jolente De Keersmaeker, Sara De Roo, Damiaan De Schrijver and Frank Vercruyssen) plan to make a new performance together without the participation of any outsiders; they have not done this since 1997. Itis called of / niet and it is based on texts by Harold Pinter and Alan Ayckbourn. Expect to a play and a performance with strong acting and a highly individual interpretation.