Spoken World - The writer and theatre-maker Tim Etchells builds up a new performance – a speech for the performance artist Kate McIntosh – out of bits and pieces of other speeches. Although We Fell Short is comical and unsettling, subjecting the familiar rhetorical strategies of political speeches to a test of their linguistic breaking-point.

Spoken World - The playwright and director Paul ‘Township Tarantino’ Grootboom delves into the recent past of South Africa and the current political impasse involving the ANC. At the time the ANC came up with some memorable political speeches.

Eleven bodies rolled, washed, tumbled over the stage like a wave, a
flowing movement that remained in motion from beginning to end: Pororoca,
by the Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues, was astonishing in its
liveliness, effort and power. And now Rodrigues is returning with a new
creation, again a piece for eleven dancers, which explores in greater
depth the relationships between the group and the individual.

As far as its form is concerned, Zombie Aporia is like a rock concert. The choreographer and dancer Daniel Linehan questions the relationship between dance and music and examines how emotion determines expression and whether it could be any different. Is it the music that makes people dance, or is the dancing able to direct the music?

The stage is shared by 19 dancers and singers who explore the limits of their ability. Dancers sing and singers dance in dialogue with the wilful 14th-century scores of the Ars Subtilior. Ann Veronica Janssens will for the third time provide a stage setting in colour and light, a sculpture of passing time, of the constant transformation of what is around us and of what only becomes visible in the course of time. The start of a new day, or a new look at a distant past.