Birds Cries is a dance performance that begins with the desire to collaborate—with other bodies and other rhythms. Using familiar concepts of rhythmic systems, Amina explores how rhythmic patterns guide and control the body, evoke memories, and shape behavior. Together with other dancers on stage, she creates a new soundscape that reinterprets old sounds, unravels […]
Welcome to Ksaarland: The Kingdom of Party is an energetic performance that celebrates party as a way of life. Ksaar, originating in Darija, was reinvented by Brussels youth as a way to name – AND claim – pleasure and relaxation. Israël uses the concept as an engine for a shared experience: one that centers on […]
Agni Kai is a glowing choreography about inner struggle and liberation. Inspired by the fire duel from the world of Avatar, Zoë brings an intense dialogue between mastery and surrender. In a charged play of strength and vulnerability, the dancers search for who they should be and, more importantly, who they want to become. The […]
VOI(X)E is a raw and intuïtive dance performance in which movement and sound dialogue with each other – breathing becomes groove, groove becomes voice and voice becomes rhythm. Four dancers – Abir Gharbi, Lalou Bernard, Maïté Huizenga & Constantin Tombroff – explore the fields of tension between chaos and calm, voice and body, rhythm and […]
S O B R A N (Leftover. Surplus. Plenty) departs from an examination of movement and composition. Anchored in cumbia dance and gatherings, the piece focuses on popular street culture: Sonidero, a Mexican self-organized space for cumbia street dance in Mexico City. The goal is to discover how we use this as a new narrative […]
RÊVE is a physical dance duo to make the audience pause for a moment, step back and reflect: be still and discover the world in and around you. It is a look back at your true self: what made you who you are today and how did the world and your origins help shape it? […]
Press A to Start is a dance performance inspired by nostalgic and contemporary video games. With her five dancers, Jolien Baeyens explores the intriguing soundscapes and impressive 3D landscapes from the virtual game world. They explore, fight, achieve higher levels and endure the necessary bugs and glitches. Jolien Baeyens (she/her) is a master’s student in […]
Anastassya Savitsky (she/her) graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. Since then she worked mainly as a dancer and creator in the children’s and youth circuit (Theater FroeFroe, HETPALEIS, solo Dinska Bronska MartHa!tentatief – selected for the Theater Festival 2014).
How we look affects how we experience the world. Attractive people are often treated better in our society, but pretty privilege also has a downside. In the three-part dance solo The Ethereal Paradox, Zoë Chungong explores the meaning of beauty. In her triptych, Zoë outlines different ways a woman presents or deploys her body: three […]
SARA MANUBENS is an artist, choreographer and transvestite in Barcelona. She has an MA in Performing Arts Practice and Visual Culture (Museo Reina Sofía, ARTEA). Her work moves between site-specific, performance and dance and focuses on trans-bodiedness and its impact on reality. She has been developing her own creative processes since 2015.
Justine Theizen is a 25-year-old dancer, choreographer and hip-hop artist. She trained first in hip-hop for several years and then in krump for 3 years. She grew up in an urban culture, with battles, choreographic competitions and music videos.
Anna Karenina Lambrechts is a dancer from Leuven, Belgium. Since graduating from Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (Tilburg /NL), she has been mainly active professionally in Brussels. In 2017, she started at Anton Lachky Company and collaborated in three productions: Cartoon, Family Journey and Ludum. At Ultima Vez, she can be seen in: Go Figure Out Yourself, Traces, Hands Do Not Touch Your Precious Me and Scattered Memories. From 2021, she will be looking into her own work and delving into Krumping. Her first solo performance The Sensual Side explores the multiple layers of personality.
