In an installation by stage designer Jozef Wouters, choreographer Claire Croizé is working with three young dancers. Primitive plays with the positive yet also destructive forces of youth.

The sea kisses the shore, the waves break and the wind blows the sand. Can you hear the murmur of the sea in the Canal? Visual artist Erik Nerinckx builds a sound installation in which the sounds of the sea blend with those of the Canal. Do water and air sound the same everywhere?

Arnold Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht (1899) is inspired by a poem by Richard Dehmel, about a woman who tells the man she loves she is pregnant by another man. In 1995 Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created a group choreography based on Schönberg’s composition. She has now rewritten the piece as a duet. A shameless romantic love story in the dark light of a Verklärte Nacht (transfigured night).

Burning Ice - Following her splendid Animalia during Burning Ice #6, we are inviting the Brussels theatre-maker Isabelle Dumont once again, this time with her new production Hortus Minor. With words, music and a superb collection of 'rarities', she tells the story of our relationship with plants.