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Hannes Langolf – HOW ABOUT NOW

October 4th, 2025 The Lowry, Salford
October 15th – 18th, 2025 Les Brigittines, Brussels
60 minutes

A Claustrophobic Encounter

© Hugo Glendinnig

A man steps out for air. Another is already there. One talks too much. One doesn’t say enough.

What begins as small talk quickly spirals into a volatile game of dominance. 

Set entirely within a transparent glass box, HOW ABOUT NOW is a claustrophobic encounter – two people testing what can be said, what can be taken back. Around them, the air thickens: a mind, a digital void, a confessional, where truths distort, and intimacy curdles into threat.

Inspired by Max Frisch’s The Arsonists – a parable of denial and complicity in the face of quiet catastrophe – While Frisch asks how fascism is allowed into the home under the guise of civility and denial, this production transposes societal unease into a more intimate crisis: the erosion of connection, trust, and self-awareness.

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Eric Minh Cuong Castaing – TARAB

October 2nd, 2025 Dream City Festival, Tunis
October 10th & 12th, 2025 ARTONOV, Brussels
February 26th & 28th, 2026 Antigel, Geneva
3h

Participatory Performance

© Pierre Gondard

TARAB is a participatory piece for 6 dancers, 1 live-act composer and 100 ‘accomplices’. 

Choreographer Eric Minh Cuong Castaing invites us to a participatory celebration, under the guidance of artists from the countries of the Levant. He invites musician Rayess Bek and six dancers from the Palestinian, Lebanese and Egyptian diasporas, invoking the lively rhythms and dances of the Levant. For several hours, amateur dancers will rub shoulders with the professionals on stage, guided by choreographic protocols. 

The dabke, a folk dance from the Levant, will take pride of place, in a game of transmission and shared joy.

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Daniel Proietto – Hidden

September 19th, 2025 Lascaux IV, Montignac-Lascaux
October 3rd, 2025 ARTONOV, Brussels
45 minutes

Myth & Movement

© 2021 Daniel Proietto I House of Drama I KNOW

Created by Daniel Proietto, Hidden is a journey to the origins of art, myth and human consciousness. Blending film with live dance and music, the performance was first developed for the monumental spaces of Lascaux IV (International Centre for Parietal Art) and conceived to unfold across architectural and natural environments — evoking a ritual space of presence and ancestral memory.

Performed by acclaimed ballerina Yolanda Correa and Daniel Proietto, the work embodies themes of birth, life, and mortality. It merges myth, movement, and deep time — inviting reflection on what endures in us, what must be reclaimed, and what we carry forward.

Originally created as a commission for Lascaux IV, Hidden was developed in dialogue with Snøhetta, the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, and KNOW NATION. It now appears in a new spatial adaptation for the Artonov Festival, with the Tana Quartet performing music by Belgian composer Jean-Paul Dessy (b. 1963), whose work blends contemporary classical language with a spiritual dimension — resonating with Hidden’s vision of art as presence and offering.

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Israel & Mohamed

July 10th – 23rd, 2025 Festival d’Avignon, Avignon
October 7th, 2025 La Halle aux Grains, Blois
November 26th – 30th, 2025 Théâtre National, Brussels
December 10th – 20th, 2025 Festival d’Automne, Paris
January 8th – 9th, 2026 Scène Nationale de l’Essonne, Essonne
January 30th – 31st, 2026 Le Volcan, Le Havre
February 3rd – 4th, 2026 TANDEM, Douai
February 10th – 14th, 2026 TNB, Rennes
75 minutes

An Exciting Encounter

© Yohanne Lamoulère / Tendance Floue

One of them creates documentary-inspired theatre, films, and installations. The other is a virtuoso and iconoclastic flamenco dancer. By placing their first names side by side, Mohamed El Khatib and Israel Galván attempt to bridge the gap between their artistic worlds and practices as well as between their personal journeys, through a dialogue across the Mediterranean where differences prove as fruitful as affinities. Together, under the bewildered gaze of their fathers, they search for a common language rooted in the body, its wounds, and its scars. Taking their meeting and the sharing of their intimate, familial, and professional stories as a starting point, they explore – as a duo – the concepts of a living archive and a documentary dance.

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Amir Sabra & Ata Khatab – Badke(remix)

  • June 11th – 13th, 2025 KVS, Brussels
  • September 19th, 2025 De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam
  • September 24th – 25th, 2025 VIERNULVIER, Ghent
  • September 26th, 2025 De Spil, Roeselare
  • October 1st, 2025 Concertgebouw Brugge, Bruges
  • October 18th – 19th, 2025 Dream City Festival, Tunis
  • November 11th, 2025 EXPORT/IMPORT FESTIVAL, Brussels
  • November 15th, 2025 Toneelhuis, Antwerp
  • May 19th, 2026 Pole-Sud, Strasbourg
  • May 21st, 2026 Espace 1789, Saint-Ouen
  • May 22nd – 23rd, 2026 MC93, Bobigny

75 minutes

A Different Image of Palestine

© Kurt Van der Elst

Badke(remix) is a remake of the dance performance created by Koen Augustijnen, Rosalba Torres and Hildegard De Vuyst. With 10 Palestinian dancers, Badke toured worldwide between 2013 and 2016. The reissue of Badke is now artistically in Palestinian hands, namely Amir Sabra and Ata Khatab, and becomes Badke(remix).

The title is a conscious reversal of dabke, the name of the Palestinian folk dance and the starting point of the performance. With backgrounds in traditional dabke, contemporary dance, hip-hop, capoeira or circus, the Palestinian performers bring a contemporary version of this dance traditionally reserved for (wedding) parties. Badke(remix) displays a zest for life and passion for dancing as a form of resistance.

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Peeping Tom – Chroniques

  • June 4th – 6th, 2025 Théâtre National de Nice, Nice
  • June 18th – 20th, 2025 Festival de Marseille, Marseille
  • September 27th – 28th, 2025 I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia
  • October 2nd – 4th, 2025 Torinodanza, Turin
  • October 8th – 9th, 2025 Triennale Milano, Milan
  • October 13th – 14th, 2025 Dialog Festival, Wrocław
  • November 14th – 16th, 2025 Anthéa, Antibes
  • November 20th – 21st, 2025 Les Salins, Martigues
  • November 27th – 29th, 2025 Châteauvallon Liberté, Toulon
  • December 5th – 6th, 2025 Le Carré Leon Gaumont, Sainte-Maxime
  • December 9th – 18th, 2025 KVS, Brussels
  • January 23rd – 24th, 2026 Tanz Köln, Cologne
  • March 4th – 6th, 2026 Le Vilar, Louvain-la-Neuve
  • March 20th – 21st, 2026 Teatro Central, Seville
  • March 28th – 29th, 2026 Emilia Romagna Teatro, Caserna
  • April 2nd – 8th, 2026 La Villette, Paris
  • April 14th – 15th, 2026 CSS Udine, Udine
  • April 28th – 30th, 2026 Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • June 4th – 14th, 2026 TNC, Barcelona

90 minutes

Peeping Tom’s
Next Chapter

© Sanne De Block

Among the immortal, each act (and each thought) is an echo of those who anticipated it in the past or the faithful omen of those who, in the future, will repeat it to the point of vertigo. – Jorge Luis Borges

Five figures are trapped in a temporal maze, mutating and colliding in an attempt to defy immortality. Their existence takes place in a vast sulfuric landscape, unfolding in a series of chronicles. Is this landscape the ground for new creations, or made out of remnants of what once existed?

Confronted with different laws and physical phenomena, their bodies reveal other behaviors and possibilities of being, without knowing if they are at the twilight or dawn of their existence. We are witnessing a bodily metamorphosis in an abyssal and poetic dimension.

Chroniques unveils the next chapter in Peeping Tom’s universe.

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Ali Chahrour – When I Saw the Sea

June 2nd – 3rd, 2025 HAU, Berlin
June 11th, 2025 Les Rencontres à l’Échelle, Marseille
June 24th – 25th, 2025 Festival Theaterformen, Hannover
July 5th – 8th, 2025 Festival d’Avignon, Avignon
December 9th – 11th, 2025 Les Tanneurs, Brussels
70 minutes

A Celebration of Life

© Lea Skayem

The internationally acclaimed dancer and choreographer Ali Chahrour has created a language inspired by Arab myths and by the political, social, and religious context of his country. Through it, he explores the deep relationships between the body and movement, between tradition and modernity.

His new work When I Saw the Sea unfolds on a minimalist stage: the activists Rania, Zena and Tenei – the last two came to Lebanon as migrant workers – embark on a powerful journey of their previously unheard stories through dance, theatre and music. In doing so, they give a voice to countless other labourers from countries such as Cameroon, Sudan and Sierra Leone – people who have been deprived of their rights by the kafala system, which is similar to serfdom – and thus create a deep insight into the political and social reality of Lebanon. 

When I saw the Sea highlights the abuses of this repressive labour system while paying tribute to the courage and resistance of women fighting for justice and freedom. With a mixture of personal and collective testimonies, the work touches on themes such as love, motherhood, war, exile and home. With the music of Abed Kobeissy and the soulful voice of singer Lynn Adib, this is a determined celebration of life, rising above the pain of past struggles.

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Lia Rodrigues – Borda

  • May 28th – 31st, 2025 Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels
  • June 3rd – 4th, 2025 PACT Zollverein, Essen
  • June 7th – 8th, 2025 One Dance Festival, Plovdiv
  • June 16th – 17th, 2025 MUFFATWERK, Munich
  • June 20th – 21st, 2025 WIENER FESTWOCHEN, Vienna
  • July 10th – 12th, 2025 Julidans, Amsterdam
  • August 27th – 28th, 2025 Tanz im August, Berlin
  • September 6th & 8th, 2025 Biennale Danse Lyon, Lyon
  • September 12th – 17th, 2025 Centquatre-Paris, Paris
  • September 19th – 21st, 2025 Théâtre Chaillot, Paris
  • September 24th, 2025 L’Azimut, Antony | Châtenay-Malabry
  • October 10th – 11th, 2025 Romaeuropa Festival, Rome
  • May 22nd – 23rd, 2026 DE SINGEL, Antwerp

60 minutes

Comfort and Hope

© Sammi Landweer

Borda in Portuguese refers to embroidery, decoration, but also to a border, the periphery, something that separates. Geographical and political borders create contradictions: hospitality and hostility, native and non-native. Who belongs and who is excluded, who has a right to exist? Metaphorically, the word ‘borda’ also means imagination, the ability to cross borders, to transcend.

With a new generation of dancers, choreographer Lia Rodrigues weaves a porous embroidery of liquid otherness, with edges that fray, float and dance. In her signature style, starting from the energy of the collective and using simple materials like textiles and plastic, she creates a unique ballet between bodies and matter whose recipe only Rodrigues seems to know. Bodies clump together into constellations, form masses and separate again. With great care, what was separated is brought back together. The result is a succession of powerful images and colourful tableaux. 

Rodrigues, after the savoured large-venue productions Fúria and Encantado, once again blankets us in comfort and hope.

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Cherish Menzo – FRANK

May 22nd – 26th, 2025 Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels
June 1st, 2025 One Dance Festival, Plovdiv
June 17th – 18th, 2025 PACT Zollverein, Essen
July 3rd – 4th, 2025 Montpellier Danse, Montpellier
July 9th – 10th, 2025 Julidans, Amsterdam
September 24th – 25th, 2025 Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam
October 10th – 11th, 2025 Festival Actoral, Marseille
October 22nd, 2025 Take Me Somewhere festival, Glasgow
November 10th – 11th, 2025 Moving in November, Helsinki
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Cherish Menzo’s New Work

© Bas de Brouwer

Choreographer Cherish Menzo examines the figure of the monster in FRANK —short for Frankenstein. More than (re)producing a physical or visual portrayal of the monster, she is researching the monstrous as an embodiment of beliefs and narratives that terrify and horrify, and yet also attract us. Distortion is a choreographic leitmotif used to generate movement material and as a tool to devour the dance and loosen its structure. Cherish Menzo investigates the action of decay and how something gradually breaking down and becoming less or worse can affect one’s gestures.

The performance space fabulates on the Baka Gorong, a place located at the back of the former plantations and in front of the wetlands, where enslaved people in Suriname secretly went to carry out Winti rituals – demonized under Dutch colonial rule – and to consider fleeing.

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Friends of Forsythe

May 11th, 2025 Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels
June 26th – 29th, 2025 Montpellier Danse, Montpellier
March 25th – 29th, 2026 New National Theatre, Tokyo
60 minutes

A Captivating Dialogue

© Bernadette Fink

FRIENDS OF FORSYTHE is a collaboration between the renowned choreographer William Forsythe and Rauf “Rubberlegz” Yasit together with a group of outstanding dancers from different cultural and dance backgrounds. The piece explores the origins of folk dance, hip hop, and ballet, showcasing the diverse backgrounds and languages of the dancers through their physical communication on stage. It serves as a testimony to the power of movement as a universal language, capable of transcending cultural barriers and connecting people from different walks of life. In a captivating dialogue, the performers delve into the similarities and differences of these dance styles, celebrating the unique ways in which each style can be embraced and evolved. The choreography weaves a vibrant tapestry of storytelling that transcends the boundaries of traditional dance forms and emphasises the diversity and possibilities that arise when different dance styles merge harmoniously.

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