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Two bodies. They attract each other, repel each other, manipulate each other, seek to approach one another again, lick their wounds and start from the beginning again. The intense physical action becomes a strange video installation in a way that is both disturbing and fascinating. For the fault lines the American-Belgian choreographer Meg Stuart and her Austrian colleague Philipp Gehmacher invited the Russian video artist Vladimir Miller to join them.

PERFORMATIK2013 -
The artist Martin Creed (Turner Prize 2001) structures his Work No. 1020 Ballet using the five basic positions of classical ballet, numerical sequences and letters of the alphabet. All this appears to be an inexhaustible source of humour and creativity. Supported by poetic punk rock (live!), in passing Creed makes statements about composition, dance and life.

In this new lecture performance, Mette Ingvartsen
aims to create a virtual performance in the spectator’s mind. In word, gesture and physical action she voices ideas about artificial
nature, catastrophic constructions and the autonomy of objects.

In ELEANOR!, her debut production, Eleanor Bauer presented a lively and (self) critical diatribe on artists who want to do their work honestly and yet have to fight for recognition and money in the bank. In 50/50 Mette Ingvartsen seeks a form of physical expression that is both extreme and spectacular. 

In Black choreographer Mette Edvardsen – almost like a magician – tries to make several objects appear on stage. For Forecasting, Barbara Matijević converses 'physically' with images shown on her laptop. Two short presentations on how it is possible, on stage and using minimal resources, to evoke people and things that acquire a ‘life’ – however invisible – which the audience accepts. Enthralling!

Agency is working on a list of 'things'. The material consists of legal
disputes over intellectual property. At the Kaaistudio’s, Agency selects
two 'things' on the work of the American choreographers George
Balanchine and Martha Graham. Several witnesses and guests will answer:
Myriam Van Imschoot, Fabián Barba, Barbara Manzetti, Sara Jansen, Severine Dusollier, Christophe Jeannot a.o. 

Willi Dorner’s dancers have many surprises in store. As at Festival Kanal 2010, they invade the city in a unique way. They remove home, garden and kitchen furniture from their familiar context and give these items a new life on the street.

For Birdwatching 4x4 Benjamin Vandewalle and Erki De Vries have built a magic bus in which you take your seat with about twenty fellow travellers for a trip through the city. The production is being made with dancers and residents of the canal zone.