Between the performances of the new Rosas production The Six Brandenburg Concertos, we invited Cynthia Loemij and Thomas Vantuycom to reflect with us on Rosas’ almost forty-year history. A conversation with two generations.

In onze huidige, complexe wereld zien we de maatschappij steeds meer als een ‘buiten-wereld’, meent de Nederlandse filosoof Thijs Lijster. Tegenover het idee dat geschiedenis iets is dat ons overkomt, breekt hij een lans voor het collectieve vermogen om geschiedenis te maken. Herbekijk dit gesprek.

Alexis Blake selected a series of female poses found in artworks from the Renaissance to early Modernism and created a choreography and performance that explores subjectivity and examines gender and representation through embodiment, repetition and sound. Two dancers and four musicians in the Horta Hall at BOZAR will abstract the poses, strip them of their history and context, and confront the viewer to address, contradict and question preconceived notions of a body. 

How can dance, choreography, performance, and architecture create a new kind of space together? During Performatik19, choreographer and Kaaitheater artist-in-residence Radouan Mriziga will install a residency project at KANAL – Centre Pompidou. He is inviting dance, theatre and architecture students to share their knowledge and practice.

A written interview with Jimmy Robert on Joie noire.

Now that bodies are occupying more and more museums, choreographer and philosopher Noé Soulier is presenting an opposite movement: what if instead of bodies, the artworks themselves adapted to a new space? Noé Soulier on Performing Art in a video by Centre Pompidou.

The School of Speculative Documentary is an interdisciplinary space for encounter that seeks to question the documentary act. Creators take the floor to discuss uncertainty and guesswork, to confront the unfixable holes in their work and the messiness of reality. Watch the symposium here.

What would you tell dance if you had the chance to meet it? What is your favourite dance move? The artistic duo deufert&plischke make this encounter possible in their project Letters to Dance/Just in Time. A conversation with deufert&plischke.

In the Conversations series of evening discussions, leading authors, intellectuals and philosophers debate the concept of authenticity. For Conversation #4, we invited Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging.

The Brussels Biennial of Performance Art appears on the horizon

Chrystèle Khodr & Waël Ali will present their first two collaborations at Moussem Cities: Temporary Stay and I once entered a garden.The two artists started collaborating two years ago. Distance and the attendant delays are part of their process and that is by no means a purely negative experience.