After 11 days of attending performances, it's high time we perform ourselves. Who doesn't love a firm encounter with the dance floor – in the here & now? Beats & grooves provided by Mieko Suziki, Stav Yeini and Ula Sickle.

How can dance, choreography, performance, and architecture create a new kind of space together? During Performatik19, choreographer and Kaaitheater artist-in-residence Radouan Mriziga will install a residency project at KANAL – Centre Pompidou. He is inviting dance, theatre and architecture students to share their knowledge and practice.

Now that bodies are occupying more and more museums, choreographer and philosopher Noé Soulier is presenting an opposite movement: what if instead of bodies, the artworks themselves adapted to a new space? Noé Soulier on Performing Art in a video by Centre Pompidou.

Every other year, Performatik showcases contemporary performance art or ‘live art’, together with a great many Brussels partners. For eleven days, artists enter a twilight zone in which they tinker with the codes of both the performing arts and the visual arts. Performance has flourished in the arts world in the past, but over the past few years has increasingly come to occupy its own distinct space. 

In this essay, art historian and critic Elize Mazadiego gives an overview of what took place during Performatik17, its interventions and resonances, while also reflecting on the continuities and ruptures.