Luiz de Abreu, currently one of the sensations of the São Paulo Biennale, lets the young Brazilian dancer Calixto Neto perform his iconic piece O Samba de Criolo Doido. De Abreu created this piece in 2004, in a Brazil plagued by racist and homophobic violence. Dancing naked in silver glittery boots, all the cliches about the repertoire of Black Brazilian artists are exotically and erotically represented and de(con)structed.

Choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's second and arguably most performed performance takes you to a new dimension. Minute variations allow initially perfectly synchronised movements gradually to slip and shift, creating a complex interplay of changing shapes and patterns. 

In Unearth, we slowly embark on a long journey that stretches and plays with the elasticity of time. Little by little, nine performers gradually weave the wires of an invisible network around us to the sound of polyphonic chants, whispered melodies and pop refrains that turn into shared maxims.

In CASCADE, Meg Stuart and seven dancers reset the clock, challenging reality to take on new forms. Balancing on the edge of a world that is rapidly disappearing, they plunge into another dimension. CASCADE is an unconditional surrender to what we do not know about the other. A return to Brussels after the international tour! 

How a falling star lit up the purple sky is a dynamic visual poem that proposes a paradigm shift, away from the Western cinema genre’s habitual gunfights, vilification of indigenous people and claims to ‘undiscovered’ land. Jeremy Nedd and Impilo Pantsula give life to new stories where nature rather than humankind dominates the scene. 

Together with a group of skaters and dancers, Mette Ingvartsen explores the speed and energy of movement on wheels, a physical memory from her own childhood. Much more than simply a flawless spectacle of virtuoso performances, Skatepark marks the emergence of a community defined by perseverance and hard work.  

A piece as a gateway to recall and look again at forgotten or, in some places, forbidden forms of ecstatic and enchanted dances from the pre-Islamic West Asian cultural heritage. 

What comes before touch? Is it desire? Fear? Disgust? Comfort? Pleasure? Vera Tussing and collaborators take the audience in a multidisciplinary promenade performance to carefully consider and reconsider our own personal relation to touch.