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Jan Martens – THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER 2.0

  • September 17th – 19th, 2025 Biennale Danse Lyon, Lyon
  • September 24th – 25th, 2025 Theater Rotterdam, Rotterdam
  • October 12th, 2025 Festival Aperto, Reggio Emilia
  • October 23rd – 24th, 2025 SPAF, Seoul
  • November 7th – 9th, 2025 National Theater NPAC-NTCH, Taipei
  • November 20th – 21st, 2025 La Comédie, Valence
  • November 26th – 27th, 2025 La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand
  • December 2nd, 2025 Les Salins, Martigues
  • December 12th – 13th, 2025 TANDEM, Douai
  • January 13th, 2026 Schouwburg Concertzaal, Tilburg
  • January 20th, 2026 Parkstad Limburg Theaters, Heerlen
  • January 21st, 2026 Theater de Veste, Delft
  • January 31st, 2026 Grand Theatre, Groningen
  • February 3rd – 4th, 2026 VIERNULVIER, Ghent
  • February 11th – 12th, 2026 KLAP, Marseille
  • April 2nd – 3rd, 2026 ITA, Amsterdam
  • April 21st, 2026 centre culturel, Hasselt
  • April 22nd, 2026 centre culturel, Sint-Niklaas
  • April 24th – 25th, 2026 De Singel, Antwerp
  • May 5th – 7th, 2026 STUK, Leuven

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The Dog Days Are Back

© Alwin Poiana

Thanks to its radical choreographic form, THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER revealed the audience’s perception of dancers, choreographers, spectators and the cultural policy at the time. Ten years on, these questions are still very much relevant due to current political and social trends: Where does the thin line between art and entertainment lie? Who are we as an audience when we contemplate the suffering of dancers from the theatre like a bullfight in an arena? Is contemporary dance striptease for the elite? THE DOG DAYS ARE OVER makes the viewer shift in his position: from being merely subjected to the experience to actively reflecting on it.

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Alexander Vantournhout – every_body

November 12th, 2024 CC sint niklaas, Sint Niklaas
November 14th, 2024 Theater Malpertuis, Tielt
November 21st – 23rd, 2024 Les Brigittines, Brussels
November 28th – 29th, 2024 La Soufflerie, Rezé
January 24th – 25th, 2025 3 bis f, Aix-en-Provence
Feburary 8th, 2025 cultuurcentrum Hasselt, Hasselt
Feburary 12th, 2025 CC Het Gasthuis, Aarschot
Feburary 13th, 2025 Belgica Theater, Dendermonde
Feburary 19th – 22th, 2025 kunstencentrum Nona, Mechelen
Feburary 25th – 26th, 2025 Festival DañsFabrik, Brest
60 minutes

From Ordinary to Extraordinary

© Bart Grietens

In every_body, choreographer Alexander Vantournhout, alongside collaborator Emmi Väisänen, delves into everyday movements. They elevate simple actions like handshakes and walking into a complex canvas of bodily dynamics. The duo crafts a tapestry of choreography, turning even the subtlest of movements into something remarkable.

The performance is further enriched by the sonic landscape created by composer and guitarist Geoffrey Burton. Fashion designer and scenographer Tom Van der Borght designs both the costumes and the surreal setting where every_body takes place.

Over the last decade, Alexander Vantournhout has built a diverse oeuvre, from ensemble pieces to solos. Every_body (2024) is his fourth duet, following projects like Through the Grapevine (2020). The new creation marks his next step to dissect and reinterpret everyday movements, redefining the limits of human physical expression.

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Wim Vandekeybus – VOID

October 23rd – 31st, 2024 KVS, Brussels
November 8th – 9th, 2024 Pumpenhaus, Münster
December 18th, 2024 CCHA, Hasselt
January 16th, 2025 Teatro Bonci, Cesena
January 18th, 2025 Teatro Storchi, Modena
January 31st, 2025 Cultuurcentrum De Schakel, Waregem
Feburary 27th, 2025 Cultuurcentrum Brugge, Bruges
March 15th, 2025 Posthof, Linz
60 minutes

The Unstoppable Ultima Vez

© Danny Willems

In this new creation, Vandekeybus embraces the void – even more so – he seeks it out. He starts anew, goes back to square one, taking the simple emptiness as a starting point to arrive at a new form of awareness. He not only seeks to feel existence, life, in a different way, but also aims to add a new way of valuing the performance. By looking differently, within complete simplicity.

“Enlarging by emptying” sounds contradictory but works in a simple way: an empty room seems bigger than a full one. True essence demands throwing off all ballast. An emptiness filled with elusive dignity. Bodies attracting each other like minerals and magnets. Movement as expression of the deepest inner state… An emptiness that offers countless possibilities to be filled…

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