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Benelux France

Alexander Vantournhout – FRAMES

  • June 25th – 28th, 2025 VIERNULVIER, Ghent
  • July 31st – August 5th, 2025 Theater Aan Zee, Ostend
  • August 19th – 21st, 2025 Noorderzon, Groningen
  • October 3rd – 5th, 2025 Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Schaerbeek
  • October 21st – 22nd, 2025 Circa Auch, Auch
  • April 8th – 12th, 2026 CENTQUATRE, Paris
  • April 18th – 19th, 2026 CC Maasmechelen, Maasmechelen
  • April 25th – 26th, 2026 Leietheater, Deinze
  • May 9th – 10th, 2026 CC Ter Dilft, Bornem
  • May 21st, 2026 ‘t Vondel, Halle
  • June 19th – 20th, 2026 De Spil, Roeselare
  • June 26th – 27th, 2026 Le Carreau, Forbach

Duration: unknown

Between Frame and Art

© Bart Grietens

How defining is a frame for a painting? What if you remove the frame? Or vice versa: what if you remove the artwork and just look at the frame? Frames explores this relationship between frame and art, placing Not Standing’s physical movement art in outdoor visual frames. 

Alexander Vantournhout and his three co-performers focus once again on movement art in its purest form. Meticulously, the four performers build ever-changing body sculptures in the viewing frames.  Bodies intertwine, hang from and climb on the frames, walk upside down, and defy both gravity and your imagination. Each movement is a continuous search for balance, focusing on cooperation and body control. 

The observer can view all this from all sides: from the front, side, and even from below. Perspectives tilt and physical logic seems to disappear. Frames invites you on a trail along choreographic installations that challenge and blend art and viewing perspectives into physical poetry in the public space.

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Americas DACH region

People Watching Collective – Play Dead

January 15th – June 1st, 2025 Chamäleon Berlin, Berlin*
July 28th – 29th, 2025 GREC festival, Barcelona
August 1st – 2nd, 2025 La Strada, Graz
August 8th, 2025 Danseu Festival, Piles
August 14th – 31st, 2025 Letní Letná festival, Prague

October 23rd – 25th, 2025 Circa Auch, Auch
November 5th – 6th, 2025 MAC Créteil, Créteil

November 15th – 16th, 2025 Cirkuliacija, Vilnius
November 27th – 29th, 2025 Le Diamant, Quebec
March 6th, 2026 Steps Festival, Neuchâtel
March 8th, 2026 Steps Festival, Vevey
March 11th, 2026 Steps Festival, Baden
March 13th, 2026 Steps Festival, Bulle
March 18th, 2026 Steps Festival, Sierre
March 21st, 2026 Steps Festival, St. Gallen
March 24th, 2026 Steps Festival, Delément
March 26th, 2026 Steps Festival, Schaffhausen
March 29th, 2026 Steps Festival, Nyon
Duration: 70 minutes
*adpated version with longer duration

Canadian Circus Sensation

© People Watching Collective

With Play Dead, the Canadian company People Watching has created an astonishing debut work. The show will be re-staged exclusively for the Chamäleon in order to artistically expand the facets of the Chamäleon stage with its extraordinary and powerful aesthetic.

In a shifting universe of domestic trappings and interlocking stories, eight curious individuals dissect the beauty and absurdity of the human condition. A reverie, a purgatory, a place where anatomical logic and gravity don’t seem to apply. Through an otherworldly hybrid of acrobatics, dance and physical theatre, People Watching create contemporary circus that flows like water, sometimes gentle and reflective, sometimes relentless and impactful. Play Dead pushes physical boundaries at the intersection where circus and dance meet to celebrate life in all its eccentricity, the same way people desperately dance to the last song before the party ends.