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Ayiti, island of mountains, is where the Tainos lived when Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492. Marking the beginning of the genocide, the brutal extractivism of the many territories of Abya Yala, and the transatlantic slave trade in connection...... Read more

The expression ‘killjoy’ refers to a person who deliberately spoils the enjoyment of others. To be "killjoy" is to kill all the fun, to kill happiness. But what does it mean to kill happiness today? What kinds of narratives...... Read more

With L’Océan Clara Guémas conducts a sensitive research into the lives of some of the newcomers in Brussels. Mazina has just turned eighteen. She is curious, discovers the theatre, talks about her point of view as a woman, and...... Read more

Today I am breakable. Today I am strong. Today I don’t know the difference!   What places a body in a state of vulnerability, surrender, or resistance? Look Me Straight in the Eye unravels the fragility of the private moment and the...... Read more

Or How I Became The Room deals with uncontrollable physical manifestations and reflexes of the body, like goosebumps, blushing, stuttering, blinking, tremors and spasms. Leen Van Dommelen calls them betrayals because they feel as if the body...... Read more

PoLy-Mirrors is a pieced based on the notion of reflected Polymeters and Polyrhythms. Over the last years, Naïma Mazic went from simply analyzing what it means to move on-, with- or against a beat and an offbeat, to the idea of speeding up and...... Read more

There is a famous etching by Albrecht Dürer that represents the beginning of perspective drawing. It’s a strange image: a sensuous woman is depicted lying on a table behind a grid; facing her on the other side is a man attempting to...... Read more

Sparks of resistance is a performance that puts children and adults together in a dimension of interpretation of the body: the future, the past, the present and the death through palmistry on a stage. During the performance, the children (wearing...... Read more

In Tactile Quartet(s), Vera Tussing builds on her previous choreographic explorations in the sensory engagement of an audience. This time round, Tussing invites string quartet Quatour MP4 to join four dancers on stage for a playful encounter between...... Read more

 BELGIAN PREMIERE   1/12/2018 – 19:00 Les Brigittines theatre in French / 70 min.  Theatre artist and choreographer, Eric Arnal-Burtschy has also been involved in the French army for several years and has...... Read more