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Lecture-performance (60 min, English spoken) A voice is as singular as a fingerprint. When we scream, we catapult ourselves inside out, revealing that dimension of ourselves in between body and mind, maybe closest to our soul. “To open our mouth and let out sounds from a hole in the middle of our face”, revealing both our strongest power and deepest vulnerability. In collected screams, Sarah Vanhee shares different uttered and non-uttered screams from scientific, philosophical, mythological, artistic and political backgrounds,...

Gaëtan Rusquet + Philip Janssens + Yann Leguay

the eYe in the light in the eYe

Europalia

Gaëtan Rusquet’s the eYe in the light in the eYe resonates with Brancusi’s self-portraits and sculptural clichés, and his desire to make visible the absolute, the very essence of a form or an idea.

The performance echoes Brancusi's desire to dissimulate or highlight qualities for one point of view, the one of the camera or spectator, while acknowledging the impossibility to control the multiplicity of images that occurs in a performative situation. The project is realised in collaboration with visual artist Philip Janssens and Yann Leguay. The space Philip creates, gives access to both a collective and individual experience. Each image appears only in the viewer's eye, who is the medium itself. The proposition of Yann highlights the...

SunBengSitting is a piece straddling yodeling, folk dance and contemporary dance, a trip to the past and a playful, humorous search for identity.

Austrian farm boy and performance artist Simon Mayer invites the audience to get to know his life, his contradictions and his indignation at having to submit to categories and conventions. Having grown up on a farm facing traditions, nature, youthful rebellion and a bucolic heavy metal band, Simon Mayer moved to Vienna in 1997, attended Vienna's State Opera's dance school, spent a season as an aspiring dancer in the corps de ballet and very unexpectedly landed in a world where the word farmer could be used as an insult. The move was equal...

Gaëtan Rusquet + Philip Janssens + Yann Leguay

the eYe in the light in the eYe

Europalia

Gaëtan Rusquet’s the eYe in the light in the eYe resonates with Brancusi’s self-portraits and sculptural clichés, and his desire to make visible the absolute, the very essence of a form or an idea.

The performance echoes Brancusi's desire to dissimulate or highlight qualities for one point of view, the one of the camera or spectator, while acknowledging the impossibility to control the multiplicity of images that occurs in a performative situation. The project is realised in collaboration with visual artist Philip Janssens and Yann Leguay. The space Philip creates, gives access to both a collective and individual experience. Each image appears only in the viewer's eye, who is the medium itself. The proposition of Yann highlights the...

Can the money we all use on a daily basis, be held responsible for the disastrous state the world is in today? In other words, if it is true that “money rules the world”, are we then not entitled to make it accountable for what has happened to the world under its governance? Trials of Money approaches this somewhat candid statement with the seriousness of a court of justice.

Based on interviews made with different bankers, lawyers, persons in extreme precarity, psychotherapists, economists, philanthropists, debt relief workers, representatives of indigenous nations, or monetary activists, Christophe Meierhans delivers their testimonies by responding to any questions the audience might want to ask them. This piece is an invitation to collectively investigate what money actually is and what it does. It is an invitation to challenge the idea that money is only a means at the service of human intentions and to attempt...

Gallop (Biography of a Body) tells the bizarre story of the life cycle of a body. It is a chronically ill body that has reached a turning point after forty years, and often seems to have a life of its own. Its service fails and resistance loses.

Dolores Bouckaert researches the complex and ambiguous relationship between her body and spirit, in which an irrepressible desire to move often conflicts with reality. Dolores Bouckaert's co-star in this solo is a fast and powerful horse. The two are one another's opposites until they become interchangeable, when the horse's gallop coincides with the rhythm of her heartbeat....

Initiated in 2018 by Marialena Marouda and later joined by composer Charlie Usher and performance maker Elpida Orfanidou, The Oceanographies Institute (TOI) studies the kinship between humans and oceans. Focusing on the relation between these two bodies of water, TOI seeks to give particular attention to their affectual and sensual encounters.

TOI therefore explores the relations of hands to mud, ears to the breaking waves, feet to the feeling of sinking, rather than the ocean "in itself", as if devoid of human presence. The Institute collects, analyzes and reenacts people's personal stories about their encounters with the ocean. In doing that, TOI aims at becoming both an institute and an ocean – simultaneously. On the one hand, TOI seeks to undergo a process of institutionalization, by which it can affirm and disseminate the personal knowledge(s) of the ocean that it studies. On...

Gaëtan Rusquet + Philip Janssens + Yann Leguay

the eYe in the light in the eYe

Europalia

Gaëtan Rusquet’s the eYe in the light in the eYe resonates with Brancusi’s self-portraits and sculptural clichés, and his desire to make visible the absolute, the very essence of a form or an idea.

The performance echoes Brancusi's desire to dissimulate or highlight qualities for one point of view, the one of the camera or spectator, while acknowledging the impossibility to control the multiplicity of images that occurs in a performative situation. The project is realised in collaboration with visual artist Philip Janssens and Yann Leguay. The space Philip creates, gives access to both a collective and individual experience. Each image appears only in the viewer's eye, who is the medium itself. The proposition of Yann highlights the...

SunBengSitting is a piece straddling yodeling, folk dance and contemporary dance, a trip to the past and a playful, humorous search for identity.

Austrian farm boy and performance artist Simon Mayer invites the audience to get to know his life, his contradictions and his indignation at having to submit to categories and conventions. Having grown up on a farm facing traditions, nature, youthful rebellion and a bucolic heavy metal band, Simon Mayer moved to Vienna in 1997, attended Vienna's State Opera's dance school, spent a season as an aspiring dancer in the corps de ballet and very unexpectedly landed in a world where the word farmer could be used as an insult. The move was equal...

Karel Burssens

Currents

Beyond the Black Box

Currents unfolds in two parts, as a durational installation and a performance. The installation explores the simplest of forms, a line, turned into a light sculpture. Through repetition, it defines not only rhythm, space and light, but also the movements of a dancer. He will meet and confront the moving sculpture in an effort to reconfigure the relationship between man and machine.

The initial state of alienation is pushed to reach a poetic realm, a layered landscape to dream into. As such, both installation and performance aim to reveal our contemporary position as entities forced to adapt to an ever-changing world on both a technological and socio-political level. How do we deal with these situations? How do we continually find a new balance within our own environment and how do we deal with this on a larger scale?...

In the beginning there was only shapeless darkness. For centuries man has been telling himself various stories about what came next: the birth of the world. In SUN-SET Ezra Veldhuis, Bosse Provoost and Oshin Albrecht try to find out how a ‘cosmogonic moment’ can be imagined, the fragile moment when ‘nothing’ turns into ‘something’.

Shifting between light and darkness, abstraction and figuration, SUN-SET evokes bastard worlds, in a theatre hall that seems to be alive itself. An intimate performance that brings you to - or just beyond - the limits of your imagination. ...

Hiros, Caravan Production, workspacebrussels, Arts Management Agency (AMA), ZOO/Thomas Hauert, Entropie Production & invited guests join forces to meet Brussels-based artists and cultural workers who have questions about the realisation of their projects within the Flemish and Walloon arts decree.

Once a month during openoffice we throw open the doors or our workings, each time at a different cultural location in Brussels. Everyone who is looking for advice on projects in the performing arts, or who would like to exchange experiences, is welcome. We discuss specific themes during an information session/workshop and then organise a moment for all possible questions. Keep an eye on our agenda or facebook page for new dates! With the support of cultuurculture.be Spoken languages Dutch, English, French,...

The act of speaking and the uncanniness of the voice are in the center of Begüm Erciyas’ research. With Pillow Talk, Erciyas presents another performance, in which the voice remains an inscrutable medium.

In the digital age, the voices we hear leave us constantly in doubt, if a person or a non-person is speaking. In this immersive performance, doubt and conviction change roles in the blink of an eye. Spread out on a hilly landscape, audience engages in a conversation with something that is there and not there at the same time. An artificial voice functions as a mediator, a partner and a mirror to one's own. While conversations are constructed word-by-word, impressions are shared, naps are taken, and time is passes, Pillow Talk you to engage in...

In Voicing Pieces, one’s own voice is staged to become the protagonist. In the intimacy of an isolated sound booth, guided by a simple score, the audience becomes spectator of their own voice.

The act of speaking and simultaneously hearing one's own voice turns into a theatrical and choreographic experience, sculpted anew with each individual interpretation of the score. The voice becomes a place for action, a spectacle or a surprise. Isn't one's own voice always inauthentic and uncanny? Who is speaking, when one's own voice speaks? Rather than recognizing oneself in the stranger, Voicing Pieces is an invitation to recognize the stranger in oneself....

Can the money we all use on a daily basis, be held responsible for the disastrous state the world is in today? In other words, if it is true that “money rules the world”, are we then not entitled to make it accountable for what has happened to the world under its governance? Trials of Money approaches this somewhat candid statement with the seriousness of a court of justice.

Based on interviews made with different bankers, lawyers, persons in extreme precarity, psychotherapists, economists, philanthropists, debt relief workers, representatives of indigenous nations, or monetary activists, Christophe Meierhans delivers their testimonies by responding to any questions the audience might want to ask them. This piece is an invitation to collectively investigate what money actually is and what it does. It is an invitation to challenge the idea that money is only a means at the service of human intentions and to attempt...

Initiated back in 2016, the long-term research we dreamt of utopia and we woke up screaming (named after writer Roberto Bolaño’s ‘First Infrarealist Manifesto’) takes on different forms and unfolds with each episode in the fashion of a radio series. By either immersing themselves within a live radio documentary show, or by activating a performative installation, the audience bares witness to the processes of conception, production and broadcasting of two carefully scripted works. The audience becomes both the contemporary listener and broadcaster. They carry the voices of past struggles and avant-garde propositions. In this way, they are invited to re-enact the solidarity with and between otherwise invisible actors of global history.

Against the backdrop of the Cold War's bi-polar tensions during the 1960s and 1970s, militants from all the continents convened in Algiers and witnessed a forging of a 'third way', other possible futures. The Algerian capital hosted everyone from national liberation movements, political exiles, rebels and disillusioned Westerners. Drawing on the liberation movements' broadcasts aired by the Algerian national broadcasting company (RTA), the polyglot and polyphonic productions echo Yasmina Reggad's journey through the worlds of ideas and ideals...
Lecture-performance (60 min, English spoken) A voice is as singular as a fingerprint. When we scream, we catapult ourselves inside out, revealing that dimension of ourselves in between body and mind, maybe closest to our soul. “To open our mouth and let out sounds from a hole in the middle of our face”, revealing both our strongest power and deepest vulnerability. In collected screams, Sarah Vanhee shares different uttered and non-uttered screams from scientific, philosophical, mythological, artistic and political backgrounds,...

Hiros, Caravan Production, workspacebrussels, Arts Management Agency (AMA), ZOO/Thomas Hauert, Entropie Production & invited guests join forces to meet Brussels-based artists and cultural workers who have questions about the realisation of their projects within the Flemish and Walloon arts decree.

Once a month during openoffice we throw open the doors or our workings, each time at a different cultural location in Brussels. Everyone who is looking for advice on projects in the performing arts, or who would like to exchange experiences, is welcome. We discuss specific themes during an information session/workshop and then organise a moment for all possible questions. Keep an eye on our agenda or facebook page for new dates! With the support of cultuurculture.be Spoken languages Dutch, English, French,...

Begüm Erciyas

Pillow Talk

Postponed

The act of speaking and the uncanniness of the voice are in the center of Begüm Erciyas’ research. With Pillow Talk, Erciyas presents another performance, in which the voice remains an inscrutable medium.

In the digital age, the voices we hear leave us constantly in doubt, if a person or a non-person is speaking. In this immersive performance, doubt and conviction change roles in the blink of an eye. Spread out on a hilly landscape, audience engages in a conversation with something that is there and not there at the same time. An artificial voice functions as a mediator, a partner and a mirror to one's own. While conversations are constructed word-by-word, impressions are shared, naps are taken, and time is passes, Pillow Talk you to engage in...

This work springs from the desire to develop a dance performance within the habitat of an already existing dance style, taking the exploration of its intrinsic complexity as the departure point for the elaboration of a choreographic object. Farmer Train Swirl – Étude is a kinesthetic and subjective investigation of the field of House dance – a style born in the clubs of Chicago & New York in the early eighties.

The making of this solo prolongs a 2-year process in which Cassiel Gaube mainly dedicated himself to learning and practicing House dance, in Paris' and New York's lively club scenes. Sampling, appropriation & transformation are at the core of this dance form, which is in itself a synthesis and a development of other dance styles : a.o. Hip hop, Salsa, Rasta dancing, Tap dance. Embracing these principles, the artist's undertaking is here understood, not so much as a creation ex nihilo, but rather as the work of sensibly navigating this...

Lecture-performance (70min)

At the occasion of 7 years Lecture For Every One, Sarah Vanhee made a performance with stories and memories, looking at the places where, today, we are supposed to be “together.”

For the past seven years of her life, Vanhee was an intruder. Unasked and uninvited, she walked into meeting-rooms, and started to speak about how we live together as human beings, about society as a co-creation by every-one. One could see her intervention as a bomb or as a gift. People were surprised, shocked, moved, angry. With her guerilla-speech, she tried to transform any meeting into a political moment. She surprised more than 10.000 people this way, interrupting their daily routines by asking big and small questions about life. She...

openoffice

Online session

Hiros, Caravan Production, workspacebrussels, Arts Management Agency (AMA), ZOO/Thomas Hauert, Entropie Production & invited guests join forces to meet Brussels-based artists and cultural workers who have questions about the realisation of their projects within the Flemish and Walloon arts decree.

Once a month during openoffice we throw open the doors or our workings, each time at a different cultural location in Brussels. Everyone who is looking for advice on projects in the performing arts, or who would like to exchange experiences, is welcome. We discuss specific themes during an information session/workshop and then organise a moment for all possible questions. Keep an eye on our agenda or facebook page for new dates! With the support of cultuurculture.be Spoken languages Dutch, English, French,...

Lecture-performance (70min)

At the occasion of 7 years Lecture For Every One, Sarah Vanhee made a performance with stories and memories, looking at the places where, today, we are supposed to be “together.”

For the past seven years of her life, Vanhee was an intruder. Unasked and uninvited, she walked into meeting-rooms, and started to speak about how we live together as human beings, about society as a co-creation by every-one. One could see her intervention as a bomb or as a gift. People were surprised, shocked, moved, angry. With her guerilla-speech, she tried to transform any meeting into a political moment. She surprised more than 10.000 people this way, interrupting their daily routines by asking big and small questions about life. She...

openoffice

Online session

Hiros, Caravan Production, workspacebrussels, Arts Management Agency (AMA), ZOO/Thomas Hauert, Entropie Production & invited guests join forces to meet Brussels-based artists and cultural workers who have questions about the realisation of their projects within the Flemish and Walloon arts decree.

Once a month during openoffice we throw open the doors or our workings, each time at a different cultural location in Brussels. Everyone who is looking for advice on projects in the performing arts, or who would like to exchange experiences, is welcome. We discuss specific themes during an information session/workshop and then organise a moment for all possible questions. Keep an eye on our agenda or facebook page for new dates! With the support of cultuurculture.be Spoken languages Dutch, English, French,...

Lecture-performance (70min)

At the occasion of 7 years Lecture For Every One, Sarah Vanhee made a performance with stories and memories, looking at the places where, today, we are supposed to be “together.”

For the past seven years of her life, Vanhee was an intruder. Unasked and uninvited, she walked into meeting-rooms, and started to speak about how we live together as human beings, about society as a co-creation by every-one. One could see her intervention as a bomb or as a gift. People were surprised, shocked, moved, angry. With her guerilla-speech, she tried to transform any meeting into a political moment. She surprised more than 10.000 people this way, interrupting their daily routines by asking big and small questions about life. She...

Can the money we all use on a daily basis, be held responsible for the disastrous state the world is in today? In other words, if it is true that “money rules the world”, are we then not entitled to make it accountable for what has happened to the world under its governance? Trials of Money approaches this somewhat candid statement with the seriousness of a court of justice.

Based on interviews made with different bankers, lawyers, persons in extreme precarity, psychotherapists, economists, philanthropists, debt relief workers, representatives of indigenous nations, or monetary activists, Christophe Meierhans delivers their testimonies by responding to any questions the audience might want to ask them. This piece is an invitation to collectively investigate what money actually is and what it does. It is an invitation to challenge the idea that money is only a means at the service of human intentions and to attempt...

This work springs from the desire to develop a dance performance within the habitat of an already existing dance style, taking the exploration of its intrinsic complexity as the departure point for the elaboration of a choreographic object. Farmer Train Swirl – Étude is a kinesthetic and subjective investigation of the field of House dance – a style born in the clubs of Chicago & New York in the early eighties.

The making of this solo prolongs a 2-year process in which Cassiel Gaube mainly dedicated himself to learning and practicing House dance, in Paris' and New York's lively club scenes. Sampling, appropriation & transformation are at the core of this dance form, which is in itself a synthesis and a development of other dance styles : a.o. Hip hop, Salsa, Rasta dancing, Tap dance. Embracing these principles, the artist's undertaking is here understood, not so much as a creation ex nihilo, but rather as the work of sensibly navigating this...

Lecture-performance (70min)

At the occasion of 7 years Lecture For Every One, Sarah Vanhee made a performance with stories and memories, looking at the places where, today, we are supposed to be “together.”

For the past seven years of her life, Vanhee was an intruder. Unasked and uninvited, she walked into meeting-rooms, and started to speak about how we live together as human beings, about society as a co-creation by every-one. One could see her intervention as a bomb or as a gift. People were surprised, shocked, moved, angry. With her guerilla-speech, she tried to transform any meeting into a political moment. She surprised more than 10.000 people this way, interrupting their daily routines by asking big and small questions about life. She...

openoffice

Online session

Hiros, Caravan Production, workspacebrussels, Arts Management Agency (AMA), ZOO/Thomas Hauert, Entropie Production & invited guests join forces to meet Brussels-based artists and cultural workers who have questions about the realisation of their projects within the Flemish and Walloon arts decree.

Once a month during openoffice we throw open the doors or our workings, each time at a different cultural location in Brussels. Everyone who is looking for advice on projects in the performing arts, or who would like to exchange experiences, is welcome. We discuss specific themes during an information session/workshop and then organise a moment for all possible questions. Keep an eye on our agenda or facebook page for new dates! With the support of cultuurculture.be Spoken languages Dutch, English, French,...

Karel Burssens

Currents

30CC/Schouwburg

postponed

Currents unfolds in two parts, as a durational installation and a performance. The installation explores the simplest of forms, a line, turned into a light sculpture. Through repetition, it defines not only rhythm, space and light, but also the movements of a dancer. He will meet and confront the moving sculpture in an effort to reconfigure the relationship between man and machine.

The initial state of alienation is pushed to reach a poetic realm, a layered landscape to dream into. As such, both installation and performance aim to reveal our contemporary position as entities forced to adapt to an ever-changing world on both a technological and socio-political level. How do we deal with these situations? How do we continually find a new balance within our own environment and how do we deal with this on a larger scale?...

Programmers’ Days

Kunstenwerkplaats, Grand Studio, Ultima VezBrussels, Belgium

Cancelled

Several Belgium-based artists are invited to present their practice through talks, videos and (fragments of) their work and research. This encounter and exchange is created for programmers and professionals active in the performing arts field.

The Programmers' Days take place over the course of a couple of days, once a year in May. Initiated by Kunstenwerkplaats and Flanders Arts Institute, they bring together different partners every year (Hiros, BOZAR, CAMPO, Caravan Production, wpZimmer, Kosmonaut Production, Entropie Production, WBDT, a.o.)....

Lecture-performance (70min)

At the occasion of 7 years Lecture For Every One, Sarah Vanhee made a performance with stories and memories, looking at the places where, today, we are supposed to be “together.”

For the past seven years of her life, Vanhee was an intruder. Unasked and uninvited, she walked into meeting-rooms, and started to speak about how we live together as human beings, about society as a co-creation by every-one. One could see her intervention as a bomb or as a gift. People were surprised, shocked, moved, angry. With her guerilla-speech, she tried to transform any meeting into a political moment. She surprised more than 10.000 people this way, interrupting their daily routines by asking big and small questions about life. She...

In Voicing Pieces, one’s own voice is staged to become the protagonist. In the intimacy of an isolated sound booth, guided by a simple score, the audience becomes spectator of their own voice.

The act of speaking and simultaneously hearing one's own voice turns into a theatrical and choreographic experience, sculpted anew with each individual interpretation of the score. The voice becomes a place for action, a spectacle or a surprise. Isn't one's own voice always inauthentic and uncanny? Who is speaking, when one's own voice speaks? Rather than recognizing oneself in the stranger, Voicing Pieces is an invitation to recognize the stranger in oneself....

Vera Tussing + Quatuor MP4

Tactile Quartet(s)

postponed

In Tactile Quartet(s), Vera Tussing builds on her longstanding choreographic practice in exploring the sensory potentialities of the audience. The piece puts the string quartet Quatuor MP4 in communication with a quartet of dancers – Yoh Morishita, Zoltán Vakulya, Esse Vanderbruggen, Vera Tussing – inviting the audience into a deeply layered and multi-sensory encounter between movement and sound.

What happens when we take the movements of a string quartet seriously as a choreography, and dance along? The four musicians play passages from canonical works by Franz Schubert and Florence Price, as well as contemporary works by Georg Friedrich Haas, Michael Picknett, and Caroline Shaw. As they play, the musicians engage in one-on-one tactile encounters with the audience, creating physical interaction. Everything arises from touch – a bow on a string, an arm on a shoulder, an acoustic sensation on your skin. The dancers mediate the...

The focus of Sons of Sissy is the universe of traditions, folk dances and folk music from which the Upper Austrian country lad Simon Mayer originates.

In an experimental manner, four performers and musicians make use of traditional alpine live music, various group dances and ritualised practices. Liberating them from conservativism and conventions, they establish an unseen fusion of artistic reinterpretations and temporary social attributions of meaning. Defying categorisation and pigeonholing, the Sons of Sissy do everything they can to live up to their name as they conduct themselves as part weird folk-music quartet, part experimentally playful ritual dance combo, using humour to radically...

This work springs from the desire to develop a dance performance within the habitat of an already existing dance style, taking the exploration of its intrinsic complexity as the departure point for the elaboration of a choreographic object. Farmer Train Swirl – Étude is a kinesthetic and subjective investigation of the field of House dance – a style born in the clubs of Chicago & New York in the early eighties.

The making of this solo prolongs a 2-year process in which Cassiel Gaube mainly dedicated himself to learning and practicing House dance, in Paris' and New York's lively club scenes. Sampling, appropriation & transformation are at the core of this dance form, which is in itself a synthesis and a development of other dance styles : a.o. Hip hop, Salsa, Rasta dancing, Tap dance. Embracing these principles, the artist's undertaking is here understood, not so much as a creation ex nihilo, but rather as the work of sensibly navigating this...

openoffice

Online session

Hiros, Caravan Production, workspacebrussels, Arts Management Agency (AMA), ZOO/Thomas Hauert, Entropie Production & invited guests join forces to meet Brussels-based artists and cultural workers who have questions about the realisation of their projects within the Flemish and Walloon arts decree.

Once a month during openoffice we throw open the doors or our workings, each time at a different cultural location in Brussels. Everyone who is looking for advice on projects in the performing arts, or who would like to exchange experiences, is welcome. We discuss specific themes during an information session/workshop and then organise a moment for all possible questions. Keep an eye on our agenda or facebook page for new dates! With the support of cultuurculture.be Spoken languages Dutch, English, French,...

The focus of Sons of Sissy is the universe of traditions, folk dances and folk music from which the Upper Austrian country lad Simon Mayer originates.

In an experimental manner, four performers and musicians make use of traditional alpine live music, various group dances and ritualised practices. Liberating them from conservativism and conventions, they establish an unseen fusion of artistic reinterpretations and temporary social attributions of meaning. Defying categorisation and pigeonholing, the Sons of Sissy do everything they can to live up to their name as they conduct themselves as part weird folk-music quartet, part experimentally playful ritual dance combo, using humour to radically...

Begüm Erciyas

Voicing Pieces

State of the Arts

Cancelled

In Voicing Pieces, one’s own voice is staged to become the protagonist. In the intimacy of an isolated sound booth, guided by a simple score, the audience becomes spectator of their own voice.

The act of speaking and simultaneously hearing one's own voice turns into a theatrical and choreographic experience, sculpted anew with each individual interpretation of the score. The voice becomes a place for action, a spectacle or a surprise. Isn't one's own voice always inauthentic and uncanny? Who is speaking, when one's own voice speaks? Rather than recognizing oneself in the stranger, Voicing Pieces is an invitation to recognize the stranger in oneself....

This work springs from the desire to develop a dance performance within the habitat of an already existing dance style, taking the exploration of its intrinsic complexity as the departure point for the elaboration of a choreographic object. Farmer Train Swirl – Étude is a kinesthetic and subjective investigation of the field of House dance – a style born in the clubs of Chicago & New York in the early eighties.

The making of this solo prolongs a 2-year process in which Cassiel Gaube mainly dedicated himself to learning and practicing House dance, in Paris' and New York's lively club scenes. Sampling, appropriation & transformation are at the core of this dance form, which is in itself a synthesis and a development of other dance styles : a.o. Hip hop, Salsa, Rasta dancing, Tap dance. Embracing these principles, the artist's undertaking is here understood, not so much as a creation ex nihilo, but rather as the work of sensibly navigating this...

SunBengSitting is a piece straddling yodeling, folk dance and contemporary dance, a trip to the past and a playful, humorous search for identity.

Austrian farm boy and performance artist Simon Mayer invites the audience to get to know his life, his contradictions and his indignation at having to submit to categories and conventions. Having grown up on a farm facing traditions, nature, youthful rebellion and a bucolic heavy metal band, Simon Mayer moved to Vienna in 1997, attended Vienna's State Opera's dance school, spent a season as an aspiring dancer in the corps de ballet and very unexpectedly landed in a world where the word farmer could be used as an insult. The move was equal...

Helena Dietrich + Thomas Proksch

Critical Techno

Working Title Festival

Online session

Biomorphia

Critical Techno is a trance lecture dance meditation — a two-hour collective journey in-between listening, dancing, words, sounds, beats, sweat, constellations, and bodies in space towards an unknown destination.

In this project, we swim through a sea of voices and sounds to understand and unfold their momentary and collective meaning. Listening in relation to our body language becomes the energetic architecture that we align to with the energetic structure of our bodies, eventually channeling the words we perceive through the movements of our physical bodies. Theoretical texts are combined with poetic texts and somatic scores, creating a journey where listening becomes an embodied experience, with a desire to give voice to the underrepresented —...

In Both, Two Tussing & Vanderbruggen examine the duet, the smallest unit of togetherness. The dance duet is a genre with a history. In their most familiar forms, duets reflect the range of possibilities for relating, which resonate within a certain cultural imaginary. In particular, they reveal common-sense attitudes towards who gets to move, how, and under what conditions.

When two people dance together, a whole constellation of invitations, permissions and prohibitions is put on display. Both, Two invites the spectator to jump into this complex more-than-human ecology with her whole body: the work asks us not just to see but to sense. Can we hear a duet? What does it feel like? Costumes with palpable textures, swirling currents of air and sound, and a tactile program note complement the movements of tangibly enfleshed bodies; a journey for the proximal senses that intersects with the visual and the aural in...

In newpolyphonies 4 singers of HYOID join forces with 15 performers in a curious high mass about little differences with big impact.

Manyfold, meditative, monstrous, machinic, Messianic, mimetic, mesmerizing, minuscule, mighty, methodical, momentary, mystical. Inspired by insects, climate marches and airplane traffic coming to a halt, the leitmotif in this concert/performance is not the loud collective chant, but the experience that each individual - like a link in a chain - can set a vortex of sounds in motion. The process for newpolyphonies has also resulted in the installation newpolyphonies rewired, an immersive experience where 20 speakers create a moving landscape...

The focus of Sons of Sissy is the universe of traditions, folk dances and folk music from which the Upper Austrian country lad Simon Mayer originates.

In an experimental manner, four performers and musicians make use of traditional alpine live music, various group dances and ritualised practices. Liberating them from conservativism and conventions, they establish an unseen fusion of artistic reinterpretations and temporary social attributions of meaning. Defying categorisation and pigeonholing, the Sons of Sissy do everything they can to live up to their name as they conduct themselves as part weird folk-music quartet, part experimentally playful ritual dance combo, using humour to radically...

This work springs from the desire to develop a dance performance within the habitat of an already existing dance style, taking the exploration of its intrinsic complexity as the departure point for the elaboration of a choreographic object. Farmer Train Swirl – Étude is a kinesthetic and subjective investigation of the field of House dance – a style born in the clubs of Chicago & New York in the early eighties.

The making of this solo prolongs a 2-year process in which Cassiel Gaube mainly dedicated himself to learning and practicing House dance, in Paris' and New York's lively club scenes. Sampling, appropriation & transformation are at the core of this dance form, which is in itself a synthesis and a development of other dance styles : a.o. Hip hop, Salsa, Rasta dancing, Tap dance. Embracing these principles, the artist's undertaking is here understood, not so much as a creation ex nihilo, but rather as the work of sensibly navigating this...

This work springs from the desire to develop a dance performance within the habitat of an already existing dance style, taking the exploration of its intrinsic complexity as the departure point for the elaboration of a choreographic object. Farmer Train Swirl – Étude is a kinesthetic and subjective investigation of the field of House dance – a style born in the clubs of Chicago & New York in the early eighties.

The making of this solo prolongs a 2-year process in which Cassiel Gaube mainly dedicated himself to learning and practicing House dance, in Paris' and New York's lively club scenes. Sampling, appropriation & transformation are at the core of this dance form, which is in itself a synthesis and a development of other dance styles : a.o. Hip hop, Salsa, Rasta dancing, Tap dance. Embracing these principles, the artist's undertaking is here understood, not so much as a creation ex nihilo, but rather as the work of sensibly navigating this...

Initiated in 2018 by Marialena Marouda and later joined by composer Charlie Usher and performance maker Elpida Orfanidou, The Oceanographies Institute (TOI) studies the kinship between humans and oceans. Focusing on the relation between these two bodies of water, TOI seeks to give particular attention to their affectual and sensual encounters.

TOI therefore explores the relations of hands to mud, ears to the breaking waves, feet to the feeling of sinking, rather than the ocean "in itself", as if devoid of human presence. The Institute collects, analyzes and reenacts people's personal stories about their encounters with the ocean. In doing that, TOI aims at becoming both an institute and an ocean – simultaneously. On the one hand, TOI seeks to undergo a process of institutionalization, by which it can affirm and disseminate the personal knowledge(s) of the ocean that it studies. On...

SunBengSitting is a piece straddling yodeling, folk dance and contemporary dance, a trip to the past and a playful, humorous search for identity.

Austrian farm boy and performance artist Simon Mayer invites the audience to get to know his life, his contradictions and his indignation at having to submit to categories and conventions. Having grown up on a farm facing traditions, nature, youthful rebellion and a bucolic heavy metal band, Simon Mayer moved to Vienna in 1997, attended Vienna's State Opera's dance school, spent a season as an aspiring dancer in the corps de ballet and very unexpectedly landed in a world where the word farmer could be used as an insult. The move was equal...
Lecture-performance (60 min, English spoken) A voice is as singular as a fingerprint. When we scream, we catapult ourselves inside out, revealing that dimension of ourselves in between body and mind, maybe closest to our soul. “To open our mouth and let out sounds from a hole in the middle of our face”, revealing both our strongest power and deepest vulnerability. In collected screams, Sarah Vanhee shares different uttered and non-uttered screams from scientific, philosophical, mythological, artistic and political backgrounds,...

In conditions of solitude – as for travelers or prisoners – people have often resorted to writing letters as a means of communication with their closests, revealing the very sensation of being in isolation. Sam Melville has done so from the Attica prison, where he was held on charges of sabotaging public property in protest of the Vietnam war, and where he would die during the Attica prison riots in 1971.

His and others' voices in similar conditions connect the sensations of loneliness and the one of determination. In her artistic works Begüm Erciyas often uses sound and instruction to accompany the spectator in an experience that is deeply solitary and yet collective. For Letters from Attica she imagines for the first time a project for the public space. Multiple voices give a personal form to sound waves. They inscribe words in public space and generate unforeseen sentences. As a first encounter with the city, Letters from Attica is a search...

This work springs from the desire to develop a dance performance within the habitat of an already existing dance style, taking the exploration of its intrinsic complexity as the departure point for the elaboration of a choreographic object. Farmer Train Swirl – Étude is a kinesthetic and subjective investigation of the field of House dance – a style born in the clubs of Chicago & New York in the early eighties.

The making of this solo prolongs a 2-year process in which Cassiel Gaube mainly dedicated himself to learning and practicing House dance, in Paris' and New York's lively club scenes. Sampling, appropriation & transformation are at the core of this dance form, which is in itself a synthesis and a development of other dance styles : a.o. Hip hop, Salsa, Rasta dancing, Tap dance. Embracing these principles, the artist's undertaking is here understood, not so much as a creation ex nihilo, but rather as the work of sensibly navigating this...

Helena Dietrich + Thomas Proksch

Critical Techno

Biomorphia

Critical Techno is a trance lecture dance meditation — a two-hour collective journey in-between listening, dancing, words, sounds, beats, sweat, constellations, and bodies in space towards an unknown destination.

In this project, we swim through a sea of voices and sounds to understand and unfold their momentary and collective meaning. Listening in relation to our body language becomes the energetic architecture that we align to with the energetic structure of our bodies, eventually channeling the words we perceive through the movements of our physical bodies. Theoretical texts are combined with poetic texts and somatic scores, creating a journey where listening becomes an embodied experience, with a desire to give voice to the underrepresented —...

This work springs from the desire to develop a dance performance within the habitat of an already existing dance style, taking the exploration of its intrinsic complexity as the departure point for the elaboration of a choreographic object. Farmer Train Swirl – Étude is a kinesthetic and subjective investigation of the field of House dance – a style born in the clubs of Chicago & New York in the early eighties.

The making of this solo prolongs a 2-year process in which Cassiel Gaube mainly dedicated himself to learning and practicing House dance, in Paris' and New York's lively club scenes. Sampling, appropriation & transformation are at the core of this dance form, which is in itself a synthesis and a development of other dance styles : a.o. Hip hop, Salsa, Rasta dancing, Tap dance. Embracing these principles, the artist's undertaking is here understood, not so much as a creation ex nihilo, but rather as the work of sensibly navigating this...

Sarah Vanhee

We Are Before

Online version Covid-19

Lecture-performance (70min)

At the occasion of 7 years Lecture For Every One, Sarah Vanhee made a performance with stories and memories, looking at the places where, today, we are supposed to be “together.”

For the past seven years of her life, Vanhee was an intruder. Unasked and uninvited, she walked into meeting-rooms, and started to speak about how we live together as human beings, about society as a co-creation by every-one. One could see her intervention as a bomb or as a gift. People were surprised, shocked, moved, angry. With her guerilla-speech, she tried to transform any meeting into a political moment. She surprised more than 10.000 people this way, interrupting their daily routines by asking big and small questions about life. She...

In the beginning there was only shapeless darkness. For centuries man has been telling himself various stories about what came next: the birth of the world. In SUN-SET Ezra Veldhuis, Bosse Provoost and Oshin Albrecht try to find out how a ‘cosmogonic moment’ can be imagined, the fragile moment when ‘nothing’ turns into ‘something’.

Shifting between light and darkness, abstraction and figuration, SUN-SET evokes bastard worlds, in a theatre hall that seems to be alive itself. An intimate performance that brings you to - or just beyond - the limits of your imagination. ...

Sarah Vanhee

We Are Before

Online version Covid-19

Lecture-performance (70min)

At the occasion of 7 years Lecture For Every One, Sarah Vanhee made a performance with stories and memories, looking at the places where, today, we are supposed to be “together.”

For the past seven years of her life, Vanhee was an intruder. Unasked and uninvited, she walked into meeting-rooms, and started to speak about how we live together as human beings, about society as a co-creation by every-one. One could see her intervention as a bomb or as a gift. People were surprised, shocked, moved, angry. With her guerilla-speech, she tried to transform any meeting into a political moment. She surprised more than 10.000 people this way, interrupting their daily routines by asking big and small questions about life. She...

Initiated in 2018 by Marialena Marouda and later joined by composer Charlie Usher and performance maker Elpida Orfanidou, The Oceanographies Institute (TOI) studies the kinship between humans and oceans. Focusing on the relation between these two bodies of water, TOI seeks to give particular attention to their affectual and sensual encounters.

TOI therefore explores the relations of hands to mud, ears to the breaking waves, feet to the feeling of sinking, rather than the ocean "in itself", as if devoid of human presence. The Institute collects, analyzes and reenacts people's personal stories about their encounters with the ocean. In doing that, TOI aims at becoming both an institute and an ocean – simultaneously. On the one hand, TOI seeks to undergo a process of institutionalization, by which it can affirm and disseminate the personal knowledge(s) of the ocean that it studies. On...

In the beginning there was only shapeless darkness. For centuries man has been telling himself various stories about what came next: the birth of the world. In SUN-SET Ezra Veldhuis, Bosse Provoost and Oshin Albrecht try to find out how a ‘cosmogonic moment’ can be imagined, the fragile moment when ‘nothing’ turns into ‘something’.

Shifting between light and darkness, abstraction and figuration, SUN-SET evokes bastard worlds, in a theatre hall that seems to be alive itself. An intimate performance that brings you to - or just beyond - the limits of your imagination. ...

This work springs from the desire to develop a dance performance within the habitat of an already existing dance style, taking the exploration of its intrinsic complexity as the departure point for the elaboration of a choreographic object. Farmer Train Swirl – Étude is a kinesthetic and subjective investigation of the field of House dance – a style born in the clubs of Chicago & New York in the early eighties.

The making of this solo prolongs a 2-year process in which Cassiel Gaube mainly dedicated himself to learning and practicing House dance, in Paris' and New York's lively club scenes. Sampling, appropriation & transformation are at the core of this dance form, which is in itself a synthesis and a development of other dance styles : a.o. Hip hop, Salsa, Rasta dancing, Tap dance. Embracing these principles, the artist's undertaking is here understood, not so much as a creation ex nihilo, but rather as the work of sensibly navigating this...

This work springs from the desire to develop a dance performance within the habitat of an already existing dance style, taking the exploration of its intrinsic complexity as the departure point for the elaboration of a choreographic object. Farmer Train Swirl – Étude is a kinesthetic and subjective investigation of the field of House dance – a style born in the clubs of Chicago & New York in the early eighties.

The making of this solo prolongs a 2-year process in which Cassiel Gaube mainly dedicated himself to learning and practicing House dance, in Paris' and New York's lively club scenes. Sampling, appropriation & transformation are at the core of this dance form, which is in itself a synthesis and a development of other dance styles : a.o. Hip hop, Salsa, Rasta dancing, Tap dance. Embracing these principles, the artist's undertaking is here understood, not so much as a creation ex nihilo, but rather as the work of sensibly navigating this...

Gaëtan Rusquet’s the eYe in the light in the eYe resonates with Brancusi’s self-portraits and sculptural clichés, and his desire to make visible the absolute, the very essence of a form or an idea.

The performance echoes Brancusi's desire to dissimulate or highlight qualities for one point of view, the one of the camera or spectator, while acknowledging the impossibility to control the multiplicity of images that occurs in a performative situation. The project is realised in collaboration with visual artist Philip Janssens and Yann Leguay. The space Philip creates, gives access to both a collective and individual experience. Each image appears only in the viewer's eye, who is the medium itself. The proposition of Yann highlights the...

Hiros, Caravan Production, workspacebrussels, Arts Management Agency (AMA), ZOO/Thomas Hauert, Entropie Production & invited guests join forces to meet Brussels-based artists and cultural workers who have questions about the realisation of their projects within the Flemish and Walloon arts decree.

Once a month during openoffice we throw open the doors or our workings, each time at a different cultural location in Brussels. Everyone who is looking for advice on projects in the performing arts, or who would like to exchange experiences, is welcome. We discuss specific themes during an information session/workshop and then organise a moment for all possible questions. Keep an eye on our agenda or facebook page for new dates! With the support of cultuurculture.be Spoken languages Dutch, English, French,...

This work springs from the desire to develop a dance performance within the habitat of an already existing dance style, taking the exploration of its intrinsic complexity as the departure point for the elaboration of a choreographic object. Farmer Train Swirl – Étude is a kinesthetic and subjective investigation of the field of House dance – a style born in the clubs of Chicago & New York in the early eighties.

The making of this solo prolongs a 2-year process in which Cassiel Gaube mainly dedicated himself to learning and practicing House dance, in Paris' and New York's lively club scenes. Sampling, appropriation & transformation are at the core of this dance form, which is in itself a synthesis and a development of other dance styles : a.o. Hip hop, Salsa, Rasta dancing, Tap dance. Embracing these principles, the artist's undertaking is here understood, not so much as a creation ex nihilo, but rather as the work of sensibly navigating this...

In his solo performance Being Moved, Simon Mayer explores different states of „being moved”. What moves us? What does it mean to be moved? How can we let go and surrender to the present moment?

Together with the sound designer Pascal Holper, Simon Mayer investigates the manifold manifestations of a universal folk dance and finds an answer in breathing - as a necessity and as a practice. Being Moved is a performance of transgression and transformation that immerses us in the unknown, where breath becomes movement and vice versa. A dance that inspires us to tap into our full expressive potential - based on spontaneous creativity instead of fixed rules -. A dance that explores what makes us move and what moves us. To celebrate our...

SunBengSitting is a piece straddling yodeling, folk dance and contemporary dance, a trip to the past and a playful, humorous search for identity.

Austrian farm boy and performance artist Simon Mayer invites the audience to get to know his life, his contradictions and his indignation at having to submit to categories and conventions. Having grown up on a farm facing traditions, nature, youthful rebellion and a bucolic heavy metal band, Simon Mayer moved to Vienna in 1997, attended Vienna's State Opera's dance school, spent a season as an aspiring dancer in the corps de ballet and very unexpectedly landed in a world where the word farmer could be used as an insult. The move was equal...

In newpolyphonies 4 singers of HYOID join forces with 15 performers in a curious high mass about little differences with big impact.

Manyfold, meditative, monstrous, machinic, Messianic, mimetic, mesmerizing, minuscule, mighty, methodical, momentary, mystical. Inspired by insects, climate marches and airplane traffic coming to a halt, the leitmotif in this concert/performance is not the loud collective chant, but the experience that each individual - like a link in a chain - can set a vortex of sounds in motion. The process for newpolyphonies has also resulted in the installation newpolyphonies rewired, an immersive experience where 20 speakers create a moving landscape...

In his solo performance Being Moved, Simon Mayer explores different states of „being moved”. What moves us? What does it mean to be moved? How can we let go and surrender to the present moment?

Together with the sound designer Pascal Holper, Simon Mayer investigates the manifold manifestations of a universal folk dance and finds an answer in breathing - as a necessity and as a practice. Being Moved is a performance of transgression and transformation that immerses us in the unknown, where breath becomes movement and vice versa. A dance that inspires us to tap into our full expressive potential - based on spontaneous creativity instead of fixed rules -. A dance that explores what makes us move and what moves us. To celebrate our...

Lecture-performance (70min)

At the occasion of 7 years Lecture For Every One, Sarah Vanhee made a performance with stories and memories, looking at the places where, today, we are supposed to be “together.”

For the past seven years of her life, Vanhee was an intruder. Unasked and uninvited, she walked into meeting-rooms, and started to speak about how we live together as human beings, about society as a co-creation by every-one. One could see her intervention as a bomb or as a gift. People were surprised, shocked, moved, angry. With her guerilla-speech, she tried to transform any meeting into a political moment. She surprised more than 10.000 people this way, interrupting their daily routines by asking big and small questions about life. She...

In his solo performance Being Moved, Simon Mayer explores different states of „being moved”. What moves us? What does it mean to be moved? How can we let go and surrender to the present moment?

Together with the sound designer Pascal Holper, Simon Mayer investigates the manifold manifestations of a universal folk dance and finds an answer in breathing - as a necessity and as a practice. Being Moved is a performance of transgression and transformation that immerses us in the unknown, where breath becomes movement and vice versa. A dance that inspires us to tap into our full expressive potential - based on spontaneous creativity instead of fixed rules -. A dance that explores what makes us move and what moves us. To celebrate our...

This work springs from the desire to develop a dance performance within the habitat of an already existing dance style, taking the exploration of its intrinsic complexity as the departure point for the elaboration of a choreographic object. Farmer Train Swirl – Étude is a kinesthetic and subjective investigation of the field of House dance – a style born in the clubs of Chicago & New York in the early eighties.

The making of this solo prolongs a 2-year process in which Cassiel Gaube mainly dedicated himself to learning and practicing House dance, in Paris' and New York's lively club scenes. Sampling, appropriation & transformation are at the core of this dance form, which is in itself a synthesis and a development of other dance styles : a.o. Hip hop, Salsa, Rasta dancing, Tap dance. Embracing these principles, the artist's undertaking is here understood, not so much as a creation ex nihilo, but rather as the work of sensibly navigating this...

Cassiel Gaube

Soirée d’études

Les Inaccoutumés

Postponed

Soirée d’études was born out of Cassiel Gaube’s passion for the vocabulary of house dance, of which he explores the potential intersections with the compositional approaches of contemporary dance.

Conceived as a series of short, interconnected pieces, this choreographic soirée (evening) is a pas de deux for three, with the dancers passing the floor to each other to compose different duos. Underpinned by a process of mapping out the kinaesthetic possibilities of this practice, Soirée d'études deconstructs the lexicon of house dance to better play with it. From its characteristic groove to the various forms of footwork, the different aspects of this style are successively examined, brought into light and honored. An étude, in the...

Initiated back in 2016, the long-term research we dreamt of utopia and we woke up screaming (named after writer Roberto Bolaño’s ‘First Infrarealist Manifesto’) takes on different forms and unfolds with each episode in the fashion of a radio series. By either immersing themselves within a live radio documentary show, or by activating a performative installation, the audience bares witness to the processes of conception, production and broadcasting of two carefully scripted works. The audience becomes both the contemporary listener and broadcaster. They carry the voices of past struggles and avant-garde propositions. In this way, they are invited to re-enact the solidarity with and between otherwise invisible actors of global history.

Against the backdrop of the Cold War's bi-polar tensions during the 1960s and 1970s, militants from all the continents convened in Algiers and witnessed a forging of a 'third way', other possible futures. The Algerian capital hosted everyone from national liberation movements, political exiles, rebels and disillusioned Westerners. Drawing on the liberation movements' broadcasts aired by the Algerian national broadcasting company (RTA), the polyglot and polyphonic productions echo Yasmina Reggad's journey through the worlds of ideas and ideals...

In newpolyphonies 4 singers of HYOID join forces with 15 performers in a curious high mass about little differences with big impact.

Manyfold, meditative, monstrous, machinic, Messianic, mimetic, mesmerizing, minuscule, mighty, methodical, momentary, mystical. Inspired by insects, climate marches and airplane traffic coming to a halt, the leitmotif in this concert/performance is not the loud collective chant, but the experience that each individual - like a link in a chain - can set a vortex of sounds in motion. The process for newpolyphonies has also resulted in the installation newpolyphonies rewired, an immersive experience where 20 speakers create a moving landscape...

This work springs from the desire to develop a dance performance within the habitat of an already existing dance style, taking the exploration of its intrinsic complexity as the departure point for the elaboration of a choreographic object. Farmer Train Swirl – Étude is a kinesthetic and subjective investigation of the field of House dance – a style born in the clubs of Chicago & New York in the early eighties.

The making of this solo prolongs a 2-year process in which Cassiel Gaube mainly dedicated himself to learning and practicing House dance, in Paris' and New York's lively club scenes. Sampling, appropriation & transformation are at the core of this dance form, which is in itself a synthesis and a development of other dance styles : a.o. Hip hop, Salsa, Rasta dancing, Tap dance. Embracing these principles, the artist's undertaking is here understood, not so much as a creation ex nihilo, but rather as the work of sensibly navigating this...

Soirée d’études was born out of Cassiel Gaube’s passion for the vocabulary of house dance, of which he explores the potential intersections with the compositional approaches of contemporary dance.

Conceived as a series of short, interconnected pieces, this choreographic soirée (evening) is a pas de deux for three, with the dancers passing the floor to each other to compose different duos. Underpinned by a process of mapping out the kinaesthetic possibilities of this practice, Soirée d'études deconstructs the lexicon of house dance to better play with it. From its characteristic groove to the various forms of footwork, the different aspects of this style are successively examined, brought into light and honored. An étude, in the...

openoffice

Online session

Hiros, Caravan Production, workspacebrussels, Arts Management Agency (AMA), ZOO/Thomas Hauert, Entropie Production & invited guests join forces to meet Brussels-based artists and cultural workers who have questions about the realisation of their projects within the Flemish and Walloon arts decree.

Once a month during openoffice we throw open the doors or our workings, each time at a different cultural location in Brussels. Everyone who is looking for advice on projects in the performing arts, or who would like to exchange experiences, is welcome. We discuss specific themes during an information session/workshop and then organise a moment for all possible questions. Keep an eye on our agenda or facebook page for new dates! With the support of cultuurculture.be Spoken languages Dutch, English, French,...