Next season we shall be presenting a new work by the choreographer Jean-Luc Ducourt and the pianist Alain Franco called Works by 3/1, a choreographic composition for one female and three male dancers, and a piano. It was only a few years ago that Ducourt developed a language of movement based on classical ballet. This provides the basis for the new work too, which he conceived for three male dancers with one female dancer as a counterpoint.

KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS 08 - Dance N° 1 is an exuberant duet by the choreographers Eszter Salamon, who has often appeared at the Kaaitheater and also at Kunstenfestivaldesarts 07, and Christine de Smedt (of Les Ballets C. de la B.). Together they composed an ingenious score that is performed several times and in which the body constantly transforms. The seriousness of the study is countered by a clever carousel of lighting, sound and costume changes that play a frivolous game with the viewer’s perceptions.

In KAMP Hotel Modern imagines life and death in the Auschwitz concentration camp. A huge model of Auschwitz fills the stage. Thousands of dolls depict the prisoners and their executioners. The actors walk around the model, armed with miniature cameras, film the terrible events and make the audience witnesses to them. An impressive and authentic performance.

This new dance performance opens at The Kitchen in New York and a week later will be on at the Studios. The title of this performance is a pictogram. It tells us that we are departing, that we have quit a place, a situation. The way one reads this sign in daily life is in transit, on the road. One perceives it for but a few moments.

1993: the former Yugoslavia collapses. Sarajevo is an occupied city. In New York, five characters meet. One of them has just returned from Sarajevo. This symbolic city becomes the benchmark against which the five gauge their own questions, expectations and even ambitions. What can they do? What should they do? In Sarajevo, the playwright and director Rudi Meulemans explores new territory in his writing.