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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...

openoffice

Online session

International edition

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Karel Burssens

Currents

installation

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?...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

openoffice

Online session

international edition

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,...

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...

Vera Tussing + Quatuor MP4

Tactile Quartet(s)

Dag van de Dans 2021

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...

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...

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...

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...

Myriam Van Imschoot + HYOID + WALPURGIS

newpolyphonies rewired

Wilde Westen, Night Air Festival

postponed

In newpolyphonies rewired the presence of sound is contagious, stirring the air and wobbling wave-patterns to the point of sweet vertigo. Among 20 little loudspeakers the listener surrenders to an ever-changing journey, where elastic landscapes arise before they sink back under the skin.

As always in the work of Myriam Van Imschoot all the sounds in newpolyphonies rewired are made by the bare human body and voice without technical added effect, as surprising as it might be. This time the singers attune their polyphony to the traffic of airplanes and the drum of insects beyond points of recognition of what is individual and what is collective, human or machine. The sound installation of Myriam Van Imschoot and HYOID voices, developed with WALPURGIS, is based on the recordings of the concert newpolyphonies where 4 singers of...

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. ...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Myriam Van Imschoot + HYOID + WALPURGIS

newpolyphonies rewired

Almost Summer

premiere

In newpolyphonies rewired the presence of sound is contagious, stirring the air and wobbling wave-patterns to the point of sweet vertigo. Among 20 little loudspeakers the listener surrenders to an ever-changing journey, where elastic landscapes arise before they sink back under the skin.

As always in the work of Myriam Van Imschoot all the sounds in newpolyphonies rewired are made by the bare human body and voice without technical added effect, as surprising as it might be. This time the singers attune their polyphony to the traffic of airplanes and the drum of insects beyond points of recognition of what is individual and what is collective, human or machine. The sound installation of Myriam Van Imschoot and HYOID voices, developed with WALPURGIS, is based on the recordings of the concert newpolyphonies where 4 singers of...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 —...

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...

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...

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 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...

Ezra Veldhuis & Bosse Provoost

Indoor Weather

Love at first Sight

premiere

What if the theatre were the belly of a huge whale? Or no, wait – a futuristic, completely unknown ecosystem? Ezra Veldhuis and Bosse Provoost deploy the theatre’s full technical apparatus to evoke an environment that echoes both Jeff VanderMeer’s eco science fiction and Inger Christensen’s poetry.

In Indoor Weather, the lighting, sound and fly bars are on an equal footing with the human performers. All of these elements are involved in a mysterious game whose rules lie just beyond our comprehension. A moldy green glow suddenly falls upon the stage and then spreads like an oil slick through the theatre; an actor recites passages from it, the monumental cycle of poems by the Danish poet Inger Christensen from 1969; soundscapes swell and recede in the space as if coming from high and low pressure areas. Who is influencing whom in 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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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 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. ...

Karel Burssens

Currents

Dag van de Architectuur

installation

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?...

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...

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...

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,...
Ammar is infiltrated by Yasmina Reggad inside a multiple day public event. A committed secret informant to Reggad's instructions, Ammar attends all the activities organised during the gathering, in the same way as the general audience. Ammar looks like others. He watches, listens, takes notes, claps, eats, drinks, dances and he regularly joins smokers outside the venue. Like so many others. Sometimes he yawns, gets bored, or even falls asleep. But Ammar is conducting an undercover investigation. Every day, Ammar’s presence echoes the common...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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 —...

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...