Working Title Platform #3 - The first working phase of Monkey see, Monkey do will focus on the writing of a score that will investigate the primary actions which any confrontation with a mirror. Onstage, two characters, heterozygous twin sisters, will serve as prototypes to put into focus this experience. The double is here intended as "one". It will act in total symbiotic mimesis or, otherwise, it will melt in order to meet the other and will be capable of a sort of mutation-evolution.

Working Title Platform #3 - This piece explores the way athletes experience movement, the
physicality of athletes and sportsmen: their bodies, their beauty, their
rhythmical movements, their facial expressions, the sounds their
actions produce, and how the experience of competitive sports is
structured for the spectator: how athletic events are organized, how
they are portrayed and commented on in the media (through television,
documentaries, radio and newspapers).

Spoken World -
Can we still be sure about the difference between what is real and what
is performed in our super-mediatised world? Perhaps ‘Speech!’ deals with that topic. Barbara Matijević and Giuseppe Chico examine the fact that we experience everything as stories, whether it be social and political matters or everyday events.

Spoken World - In a festival that concentrates on the word, the choreographer and performer Eleanor Bauer is launching a counter-movement: what lies behind the words? She will set up a parliament without words together with students from PARTS.

In Ideography the dancer and choreographer Noé Soulier links the philosophical to the artistic. He aims to combine ideas and lines of reasoning which at first sight have little to do with each other. To compose this ‘mixed’ discourse Soulier uses strategies from music, dance and film.

Utopia::47 is a musical Passion in two parts. The point of departure of the first part is the sacred music composed by Heinrich Schütz during the Thirty Years War. The second part leads us to 2047, the final year of a future Thirty Year global conflict. Music and direction by Eric Sleichim.

Sound artist Christoph De Boeck and writer-theatre maker Patricia Portela invite you to explore their Hortus. Sounds, messages and micro-stories travel through the garden of the Erasmus house, as pollen floats through the air or seeds drop to the grass floor.