Troika

After previously choreographing two movements of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony in the ruins of Delphi, Sasha Waltz, Germany’s most prominent choreographer since Pina Bausch, took the entire score as the starting point for a new performance by 14 dancers. →

Together with dancers Robson Ledesma and Júlia Rúbies Subirós, choreographers Marc Vanrunxt and Georgia Vardarou present a dance tribute to artist Blinky Palermo, set to music reminiscent of early Belgian electro. →

The six performers that make up the heart of O amor natural bring together diverse worlds in terms of age, (in)visible disabilities, ethnicity, libertine or conservative mindsets, experience and more. Together, they transcend the binary codes of yes and no and explore consent in all its non-verbal richness. →

Alesandra Seutin takes you on a journey in this exciting performance, inspired by her experiences as a woman with a mixed background. In a provocative game, she peels away the different layers of her identity and mixes dance, theatre, text and song. A journey brimming with dark humour and energy. →

They are twins. Dressed identically, they step out on a bare stage. The two bodies – one abled, the other with a neurological disorder (cerebral palsy) – launch into a dance made up of embraces and separations. They hug, cling to each other, then talk or bicker. →

In Version(s), Dorothée Munyaneza brings together two men: Christian Nka, a former boxer and cult figure in Marseille, and Ben LaMar Gay, a composer and musician from Chicago. While Ben’s sounds unfurl a portrait of Christian, for the first time Munyaneza explicitly questions masculinity. →

From 2004 to 2009, PeepingTom toured the world with Le Salon, a piece that reflects decay and loss in seemingly ordinary families. Twenty years later, Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier reflect on the erosion of our certainties with a new generation of artists and audiences. →

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker explores Philip Glass’s minimalist debuts through four early pieces composed between 1969 and 1970. De Keersmaeker pushes to its extreme a radical language based on repetition, trance and choreographic material reduced to its essentials. →

Moya Michael et Igor Shyshko build on their 2012 duet Darling with six new performers and explore how personal contexts intersect with national events: tyranny, disasters, migration and more. A poetic reflection on how the body carries history and how connection can arise from difference. →

In the afterglow is an ode to motherhood and ballet. Emiel Vandenberghe, age 31, dances a duet with ballet legend Birgit Keil, age 82. The duet is a meeting between generations, between master and student, between artistic mother and son. →

Voetvolk celebrates its 20th anniversary with the return of this successful performance. Inspired by the sermons of the ultra-conservative tele-evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, Gruwez masterfully evokes the physical persuasiveness of the word, set to a hypnotic soundscape by Van Cauwenberghe. →

Ten years after his last piece, William Forsythe has created a new choreography for the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company. In the second part of this double programme, Thomas Hauert engages the dancers in a playful dialogue with Sergei Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto no.3. →

In A Wave, choreographer Zoë Demoustier takes on iconic scenes from the 80s and 90s. She and her multigenerational cast take stock of the dance heritage of the ”Flemish Wave“ and make it their own. →

Thirty years after his father’s death, world-renowned choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui searches in vain for his grave in a cemetery in Tangier. He continues to search for him in this deeply personal creation, which also serves as a tribute to Ihsane Jarfi, the victim of a racist, homophobic murder in Liege in 2012. →