The French musicologist and author Peter Szendy uses his book Ecoute. Une histoire de nos oreilles (Minuit, 2001) as the starting point for his talk. The choreographer Xavier Le Roy will be talking about music-and-performance projects, including his new production of Le Sacre du Printemps.

Linked to Alvin Lucier’s attendance of Pasta for Tired Dancers, the theatre-maker and theorist Bojana Cvejić will be showing music and live art films from the sixties and seventies, including work by John Cage, Nam June Paik, La Monte Young, Alvin Lucier and Robert Rauschenberg.

Mårten Spångberg’s Powered by Emotion is a reconstruction of Steve Paxton’s Goldberg Variations. Bojana Cvejić shows and comments on scenes from concerts, stage plays and dance productions made on the basis of Glenn Gould’s legendary recordings of the Goldberg Variations.

The German choreographer-researcher Thomas Lehmen is after a long absence again appearing on stage himself. He draws up an inventory of what he has already mastered, what he is currently learning, and what he would like to be able to do one day. How does one learn to walk, read, dance, make love, and so on?

The Canadian Antonija Livingstone is best known as a dancer with Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, Benoît Lachambre and Vera Mantero. The Part is her own creation, and is a very humorous mixture of theatre, live art and dance.