08 — 11.05
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Chiang Mai
A Flower of Forgetfulness
performance / expanded cinema — premiere
Les Brigittines
Weerasethakul creates an immersive dreamscape that invites us to reflect on the fragility of memory.
08 — 11.05
Bouchra Ouizguen, Dançando com a Diferença Marrakesh-Funchal
Este Mundo
dance
La Raffinerie
A tranquil dance performance that celebrates the small moments we share every day in a world that never stops moving.
08 — 11.05, 13 — 15.05
Alice Diop Seine-Saint-Denis
Le Voyage de la Vénus Noire
lecture performance
Le Rideau
For her first theatrical performance Diop allows herself to be permeated by Voyage of the Sable Venus, a text that restores the place of Black women in art history.
08 — 10.05, 12.05, 13.05
Davi Pontes, Wallace Ferreira Rio de Janeiro
Repertório N.1
dance
Théâtre Les Tanneurs
How to create a dance of self-defence? With disarming simplicity, Pontes and Ferreira engage in a choreography that grows into an act of defiance.
09 — 11.05
Germaine Kruip Brussels
A Possibility
theatre / visual arts
KVS BOL
Kruip’s new creation unfolds as an immersive visual and acoustic journey, a love letter to the magic of theatre.
09 — 12.05
Ewa Dziarnowska Berlin
This resting, patience
dance / durational performance
Bodeek
Ultramarine blue carpet and Dionne Warwick on repeat set the stage for two dancers to perform a mesmerizing choreography among the audience.
09.05, 10.05, 12 — 14.05
Dana Michel Montreal
YOU CANNOT CAN
performance — premiere
Piscine du Centre/Zwembad van het Centrum
How can you feel safe if you cannot float in the liquid that makes up a large part of your body? Michel searches for ultimate liberation in a swimming pool.
09.05, 10.05, 12 — 15.05
Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol Mexico City-Yanhuitlán
Centroamérica
theatre
Beursschouwburg
A woman forced to flee cannot cross the border, so the theatre collective does it for her. What begins as an artistic delegation evolves into political action.
10 — 14.05
Emmanuel Van der Auwera Brussels
Can You Make a Hurricane?
theatre — premiere
Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Through a skilfully minimalist composition, Van der Auwera ventures into the construction of the conspiracist narrative, weaving real dialogues with live cinema and found footage.
12 — 16.05
Orian Barki, Meriem Bennani New York
Bouchra
film
Cinema Galeries
The jackal Bouchra faces a wall of silence from her mother after coming out. A must-see animated feature that takes you from New York to Casablanca.
12.05, 13.05, 25.05, 26.05
Laura Huertas Millán Brussels
Coca Orbits
lecture performance — premiere
argos centre for audiovisual arts
In a lecture performance, Huertas Millán tells the story of how the coca plant is caught between the geopolitical “war on drugs” and colonial regimes of knowledge.
14.05, 16.05, 19 — 21.05, 24.05, 25.05, 28 — 30.05
Jozef Wouters, Decoratelier Brussels
The Latecomers
theatre — premiere
Decoratelier
A site-specific performance in which Decoratelier and Cassonade together with local residents explore the ground beneath our feet asking what kinds of worlds we want to leave behind.
14 — 17.05
Marlene Monteiro Freitas Lisbon
NÔT
dance
Théâtre National
In her distinctive choreographic style, Monteiro Freitas plunges us into the morphing energy of the night with a performance that exhibits the logic of a nightmare.
14 — 17.05
Michael Disanka Mbanza Ngungu-Kinshasa
Je suis l’acteur de la poésie de ma mère
theatre — premiere
KVS BOX
In his first solo performance, Disanka intertwines his family history with that of the Congo in a poetic whirlwind dedicated to mourning and memory.
16 — 19.05
Alberto Cortés Madrid
El corazón de Ester
theatre — premiere
Théâtre Varia
Cortés draws a parallel between surrendering to a lover and surrendering to the audience, in a ritual confession about the performativity of love that both nourishes and wears us out.
17 — 19.05
Maria Hassabi Athens-New York-Paris
Us
dance — premiere
Bozar
Five performers form a living sculpture. Hassabi mesmerizes with the intensity of micro-movements and a radical form of spectatorship.
18 — 22.05
Cedric Mizero Kigali-Gishoma
UMUNYANA
dance / visual arts
La Raffinerie
Mizero reflects on the tension between tradition and consumption through Umunyana, a spirit from Rwandan culture that appears in the form of a cow.
19 — 23.05
Ali Asghar Dashti, Nasim Ahmadpour Tehran
Noli Me Tangere
theatre — premiere
Beursschouwburg
An Iranian actor, currently imprisoned, is made present precisely through his absence. Can theatre become a space to rehearse emancipation?
20 — 23.05
Leu Wijee, Mio Ishida Palu-Yogyakarta-Chigasaki
RIDDEN
dance
Théâtre Les Tanneurs
In a hypnotic, rhythm-driven choreography, Wijee and Ishida explore the impact of natural disasters on everyday life and how bodies and landscapes deform one another.
21 — 24.05
Romeo Castellucci, Scott Gibbons Cesena-New York
To Carthage then I came
performance — premiere
Parking Panorama
Castellucci conceived in close dialogue with Parking Panorama a work on the threshold of theatre and concert through a mechanical movement of bodies.
21 — 24.05
Janaina Leite São Paulo
História do Olho
theatre
Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Leite explores the relationship between theatre and pornography in a reflection on intimacy – with live music, theatrical storytelling, and provocative scenes.
21 — 24.05, 26 — 28.05
Boris Charmatz, Terrain Brussels-Hauts-de-France
Muette
dance — premiere
Kaaistudios
A performer moves with his mouth wide open, dancing to music that isn’t there. Charmatz takes us into an inner world of expression with raw vulnerability.
cancelled
Silke Huysmans & Hannes Dereere Brussels
In Future Hands
theatre — premiere
De Kriekelaar
Artist duo Huysmans and Dereere examine their desire to have children. Drawing on a documentary theatre practice, they weave their intimate reality into a global discussion.
24 — 29.05
Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou‑Rahme Palestine-New York
Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom
performance / expanded cinema — premiere
La Balsamine
Abbas and Abou-Rahme let poems and songs written by Palestinian prisoners resonate in a cinematic experience that surpasses repressive structures.
25 — 27.05
Angélica Liddell Madrid
Seppuku. El funeral de Mishima o el placer de morir
theatre
KVS BOL
Liddell pushes theatre to its emotional extremes and offers an ode to the untameable, refusing to reduce life to dry productivity.
25 — 29.05
Thanapol Virulhakul Bangkok
Comrade, Miracle, Curse
dance
La Bellone
A lightly subversive performance in which the chada, the Thai symbol of royalty and divinity, is handled with both nonchalance and care.
27 — 30.05
Salim Djaferi Brussels
Bâtir
theatre — premiere
Théâtre National
Djaferi dissects social housing after discovering a disturbing resemblance between the banlieue where he grew up and housing estates in French Algeria.
27 — 30.05
Chien‑Han Hung, Wei‑Yao Hung, Ray Tseng Taipei
Family Triangle
theatre
KVS BOX
Hung and Tseng envision having a child and ask Hung’s brother to donate sperm. An investigation into how tradition, gender expectations, and the law shape the desire to become a parent.
28 — 30.05
MEXA São Paulo
Reality Show
theatre — premiere
Zinnema
MEXA – founded in a shelter for unhoused people in São Paulo – returns with a sharp and exuberant depiction of their struggle for housing, visibility, and recognition.
14 — 16.05
Faye Driscoll Los Angeles-New York
With or Without You
Free School / workshop
L'Envers
In Driscoll’s sensory choreographic workshop participants explore how movement emerges through contact, longing, and negotiation.
19.05, 20.05
Bart Seng Wen Long, Kaisa Saarinen London
Rubber Dreams of Its Lifetime
Free School
L'Envers
Seng Wen Long and Saarinen invite participants to trace the history of rubber as a fetishised colonial commodity.
22 — 24.05
Ali Cherri Paris
Archaic Matter: Mud, Myth, and the Politics of the Elemental
Free School
L'Envers
Cherri creates a hands-on school to investigate the politics and mythology embedded in mud and clay, as carriers of memory, violence, and transformation.
19 — 24.05
Doruntina Kastrati Prishtina
A Horn That Swallows Songs
Free School / video installation
Théâtre Les Tanneurs
Kastrati presents a sculptural installation inspired by the factory floor where her mother made Turkish delight, revealing the physical labour behind the sweet softness.
14.05
McKenzie Wark New York
On Being Plastic
public talk / literature
Théâtre Les Tanneurs
Wark presents a talk on clay, desire, the malleability of language, and her text On Being Plastic.
24.05, 26.05, 28.05
Carolina Bianchi São Paulo-Amsterdam-Brussels
The Heart of Darkness
talks
Théâtre Les Tanneurs
Bianchi presents three late-night talks – with Romeo Castellucci, Alice Diop and Edouard Louis – where conversations can unfold in the softness of a shared moment at night.
13.05, 20.05, 27.05
Habib Ben Tanfous Brussels
Longing is longing for you
karaoke
Théâtre Les Tanneurs
Every Wednesday, the Festival Centre hosts karaoke with Ben Tanfous. Surrender to the shared energy and vulnerability of singing together in public.
29.05
Industria Indipendente Rome
Merende
Théâtre Les Tanneurs
Slip off your shoes and give yourself over to Merende: an artistic party filled to the brim with music, dancing, manicures, tarot, political banners, and performances.
08.05, 09.05, 15.05, 16.05, 22.05, 23.05, 29.05, 30.05
Nightlife
Ancienne Belgique / Théâtre Les Tanneurs
Workshops for children
Les Brigittines / KVS BOX / De Kriekelaar
Bring the whole family to the festival!
Workshops with festival artists
workshop
La Raffinerie / Decoratelier / argos centre for audiovisual arts
Workshops guided by festival artists, for performing arts students and professionals
