Events

VIER MUREN – Marios Bellas

10/08/2024 >> 20/12/2025
@ Antwerp @ Brussels @ Ghent @ Kortijk @ Leuven @ Mechelen @ Ostend

A hip-hop ritual that creates space for the anger, fear, mourning, celebration and hope that comes with the loss of an old world and the welcoming of an unknown future. A bizarre musical mix of hip-hop mantras, slam choruses, screeching guitars, banging drums and freestyle prophecies.

CARE (PAST/PRESENT/FUTURE) – Tamayo Okano

21/09/2024 >> 26/03/2025
@ Antwerp

Through writing, Tamayo Okano explored the complex mother-daughter relationship for her performance Care (Past/Present/Future), which resonates with both personal and universal themes. This creative process allowed her to reconcile different voices and experiences within herself.

TO WRITE MY LIFE – Hafsa Aqqal

28/11/2024 >> 26/04/2025
@ Brussels

TO WRITE MY LIFE reveals forgotten history stories with sincerity and humor. Two actresses, Hafsa Aqqal and Oumoul Kairy Diallo share both real and invented stories.
They highlight the story of Omar Ibn Saïd, a scholar from Futa Toro in present-day Senegal who was enslaved in the United States in the 18th century.

I’LL BE THERE FOR YOU (FOR ME) Lorena Spindler

14/02/2025
@ Brussels

I’ll be there for you (for me) explores the Western culture of self versus our need for connection. Lorena Spindler confesses her ambiguity toward the prevailing system ( ka-pi-ta-lism), her desire to be part of it, her fear of getting out of it and the despondency it evokes, and invites performers to explore these contradictions.

double bill: KIDNAPPED + RETINA MANEUVER

21/02/2025 >> 22/02/2024
@ Brussels

KIDNAPPED is a work in progress for a speculative metaphor: in our illusory world of neoliberal “freedom,” we are all, in a sense, kidnapped.

In Retina Maneuver, Ping-Hsiang Wang explores how Taiwanese millennials’ perspectives on conscription and military violence have evolved over the past decade – all through a queer lens.

RETINA MANEUVER – PING HSIANG WANG

25/02/2025
@ Antwerp

When “Girl on Fire” is no longer just a pop song but a marching tune for soldiers going to war, Ping-Hsiang Wang wonders, will his fragile memories then be destroyed by the fire of war? Retina Maneuver is a solo lecture-performance that springs from Ping’s inexplicable obsession with Alicia Keys’ pop song “Girl On Fire”

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Toonmoment: Shared Research, Shared Practices

28/02/2025
@ Antwerp

In februari gaat onze gedeelde residentie Shared Research, Shared Practices van start! Tijdens deze derde editie verdiepen Gökhan Kizilbuga en Rubin Ajlouni (beiden via MAP) en Colette Goossens (via detheatermaker) zich in hun onderzoek en delen ze hun experimenten in drie culturele huizen: Monty, Rataplan en c o r s o. Elke maker vertrekt vanuit een eigen vraag, praktijk, netwerk en achtergrond die hun werk inspireert en […]

FROM GRAVITY TO GRACE – Anna Karenina Lambrechts

03/04/2025
@ Antwerp @ Brussels @ Leuven

Anna Karenina delves into the content and dance technicalities and explores what krumping means to her. The connection between the earthly and the heavenly is central in an attempt to understand, convey her own roots and touch a higher reality.

Moving Meditations – Briana Ashley Stuart

05/04/2025
@ Antwerp

Moving Meditations: healing through dance, the voice and collective human expression. A spontaneous applause, an enthusiastic cry or a soft whisper: sound and movement are at the heart of how we connect, express and understand each other. In Moving Meditations , through contemporary dance, stepping and singing, choreographer Briana Ashley Stuart explores not only the […]

VLAMINGO – Nela Deleu

24/04/2025
@ Antwerp

With VLAMINGO, Nela Deleu reveals her path to becoming a Fleming.
A specific and recognizable love story.

(OUT)GROWING PAINS Sesa

03/05/2025
@ Antwerp

(out)Growing Pains is a performance about the remaining energy in the body after experiencing trauma. It is about awareness and the healing process as a continuous, cyclical journey.

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