11 — 14.05

Nadia Beugré Abidjan-Montpellier

Prophétique (On est déjà né·es)

dance — premiere

Le Rideau

An ode to the possibility of being multiform. A choreographic exploration of gender with a transgender community that navigates between hairdressing salon and dance floor.

11.05 — 03.06

Amol K Patil Mumbai

Talking Sweepers / Black Masks on Roller Skates

durational performance / exhibition — premiere

Skate park Ursulines / Les Brigittines

An exhibition of objects, a collection of songs and a performance on roller skates to denounce precarious working conditions in the public space.

11 — 13.05

Susanne Kennedy, Markus Selg Berlin

ANGELA (a strange loop)

theatre — premiere

Théâtre National

An intense visual trip, reconstructing the life of a woman, between lip-sync and virtual reality.

11 — 15.05

Adam Seid Tahir, Amina Seid Tahir Stockholm

several attempts at braiding my way home

performance / dance

Les Brigittines

A powerful choreography about recovery and belonging, in a landscape intertwining Swedish weaving of fishing nets and the Eritrean practice of braided hair.

12 — 14.05, 16.05

Sarah Vanhee Brussels

Mémé

theatre — premiere

De Kriekelaar

Intergenerational tragicomedy starring Sarah Vanhee’s grandmothers. An ode to invisible women, the earth, work and life itself. 

12 — 16.05

Midori Kurata, / akakilike Kyoto

Family Portrait

theatre / dance

Les Brigittines

Simultaneously profound and lighthearted, balancing between ballet and theatre, Midori Kurata questions the value of a human life in Japanese society.

13.05, 14.05, 17.05, 18.05

Lenio Kaklea Athens-Paris

Αγρίμι (Fauve)

dance — premiere

La Raffinerie / Parc Duden Park

In the theatre or in Duden Park at dawn, an intense play unfolds that explores sexuality, conquest and hunting, under the rule of the gaze.

13 — 19.05, 21 — 26.05, 28.05 — 03.06

Tania Bruguera Havana-Boston

The School of Integration / Lexicon

free school — premiere

Les Brigittines

A polyphonic language school offering artistic language classes in Arabic, Ukrainian, Lingala, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese and Polari.

13.05, 20.05, 27.05

The Politics of Language

talks & encounters / poetry / lecture performance

Maison poème

14 — 17.05

Rayyane Tabet Beirut-San Francisco

The Return

performance — premiere

KVS BOX

Following the history of a looted bull’s head, we travel across fifty years of troubled relationships between the antiquities and the national identity of Lebanon. 

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