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The ballad of Ricky and Ronny - A Pop Opera » MaisonDahlBonnema & Needcompany 28/10/2010 A performance in English. A play and a concert in one. A penetrating and peculiar dialogue between two lovers that escalates from a ‘kinky soap’ into a psychedelic concert. »

Voyageurs Immobiles » Cie Philippe Genty 9/10/2010 Philippe Genty is reviving on his 1996 visual show ‘Voyageurs Immobiles’, which he has reworked. An impressive and poetical experience, on the border between figure theatre, dance and mime. For all ages from 8 upwards. »

Investment » Random Scream 18/1/2011 A performance in English. An absurd mix of theatre, dance, music and especially a lot of humour, on the subject of winning the Lottery and having to decide what to do with the money. »

Moby Dick » Spymonkey 5/2/2011 Theatre performance in English. The British actors perform a burlesque version of the well-known story of Moby Dick with a mix of slapstick, acrobatics, mime and utter nonsense. »

Schrödinger » Reckless Sleepers 29/4/2011 Theatre performance in English. A chaotic succession of absurd scenes vaguely inspired by the ideas of the mathematician and Nobel Prize winner, Erwin Schrödinger. »

Concert Bob Geldof » Bob Geldof 16/10/2010 The Irish singing legend Bob Geldof, with a brilliant band behind him, plays Irish traditionals as well as his best-known songs including ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’, ‘Rat Trap’ and many more. »

Maria T » Balanescu Quartet 18/11/2010 The Balanescu Quartet, an innovative string ensemble, combines contemporary classical music with experimental pop. The quartet pays tribute to the greatest Rumanian singer, Maria Tãnase. »

Nutmeg & Ginger » Musicians of the Globe & Richard Thompson 28/11/2010 The British chamber orchestra called Musicians of the Globe wants to keep the music of Shakespeare’s time alive and do it with the powerful, virtuoso and versatile guitar and voice of the folk legend Richard Thompson. »

Foyerconcert » Heidi Minten & Karel Van Maele 27/1/2011 A foyer concert by two classically-trained musicians, a pianist and a flutist, who combine classical works with other musical influences such as jazz. »

Flamenco Sin Fronteras » Paco Peña Company 31/1/2011 A concert by the legendary flamenco guitarist Paco Peña, some exceptional flamenco singers and dancers and an impressive ensemble, which looks into the similarities between the musical traditions of Venezuela and Andalusia. »

Foyerconcert Blackie & The Oohoos » Blackie & The Oohoos 9/2/2011 A foyer concert by a young, promising group. Giving their imagination free rein, two singers and a group of versatile musicians perform heartbreaking and intimate songs. »

The Astounding Eyes Of Rita » Anouar Brahem Quartet 11/2/2011 The music of the Tunisian master oud player Anouar Brahem lies at that subtle point where Eastern tradition and Western jazz meet. He and his quartet will be performing music from his recent CD, ‘The Astounding Eyes of Rita’. »

Ontmoeting met Oum Kalthoum » Ghalia Benali 19/2/2011 The Belgian-Tunisian singer Ghalia Benali performs a heartfelt tribute to the legendary Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. »

Planet Janis » Beverly Jo Scott 5/3/2011 A tribute to the mythical singer Janis Joplin and other Woodstock icons. A varied show filled with music, old clips, archive images and psychedelic visuals from the sixties. »

Theatertour 2010-2011 » Daan 12/3/2011 During his intimate acoustic concert tour, Daan plays subdued new arrangements of a surprising selection of his favourite numbers. »

Foyerconcert Steppe » Steppe 16/3/2011 A foyer concert by a promising young group comprising a female singer and a multi-instrumentalist who play and sing warm, honest songs using meticulously chosen sounds and arrangements. »

The Last/Lost Blues Survivors » Music Maker Relief Foundation 24/3/2011 A musical project that hunts out old blues legends and gets them to perform again. Artists include Eddie Tigner, Beverly Watkins, Albert White and Lil Joe Burton. »

Concert Cuarteto Cedrón » Cuarteto Cedrón 9/4/2011 Singer Juan Cedrón and his enthusiastic quartet, originally from Buenos Aires, play Argentine tango with passion, emotion, poetry and dance. »

Wait For Me, Attends-Moi, Sababou » Stef Kamil Carlens, Mamadou Diabaté, Awa Démé 21/5/2011 A dazzling and colourful concert by Stef Kamil Carlens (from Zita Swoon) and the musicians Mamadou Diabaté and Awa Démé from Burkina Faso. »

Concert Ondřej Havelka & His Melody Makers » Ondřej Havelka & His Melody Makers 17/10/2010 A fifteen-piece Czech orchestra plays original interpretations of the great standards from the swing era, complete with the typical clothes and hairstyles from that period, not forgetting the tap dancing. »

The Devil's Fiddler » Roby Lakatos 31/10/2010 A swirling concert from the Hungarian gypsy violinist Roby Lakatos, equally outstanding as a classical violinist, adventurous jazz improviser and an inspired performer of Hungarian folk music. »

Repertoireconcert » Operstudio Vlaanderen & Jeugd en Muziekorkest Antwerpen 14/11/2010 A concert by young and talented opera students. They perform well-known and less familiar excerpts from the repertoires of opera, operetta and musical, accompanied by an orchestra of young musicians. »

Grand Café Boedapest » Danny Malando 19/12/2010 The Malando orchestra is joined by gypsy musicians from Budapest. Together, they give an impassioned concert, playing Malando favourites and traditional Hungarian music. »

Clap yo' hands! » Deep River Quartet 23/1/2011 Four born entertainers sing a lively mix of gospel, soul, jazz, swing, blues and ballads with flair and enthusiasm. »

Concert Swing Time Society » Swing Time Society 17/4/2011 A swinging concert by a 22-piece big band from Bruges that combines standards from the swing era with well-known pop tunes from artists like Stevie Wonder and Phil Collins. »

Brocante Sonore » Compagnie Zic Zazou 19/9/2010 Nine musicians set to work in a ‘sound factory’ with an unusual mishmash of work-benches, electric drills, garden hoses and cooking utensils to put together a lively and ingenious percussion show. »

Out of Context » Alain Platel / les ballets C de la B 28/9/2010 An acclaimed dance production in which choreographer Alain Platel has nine virtuoso performers dance an affectionate and subdued portrait of a hysterical world in contorted and uncontrolled movements. »

Woza » Via Katlehong Dance 21/11/2010 A compellingly energetic and heart-warming evening of dance by twelve young dancers from Katlehong, a black district in Johannesburg. A swirling mix of dance, song and percussion. »

Slips Inside » OKidOK 6/3/2011 An accessible and hilarious performance for all ages from 8 years upwards, in which two clown-acrobats attempt to convince the world of their muscle-power. »

Broekvent » Wurre Wurre 21/12/2010 A humorous performance from a duo who are perfectly attuned to one another and able to make everyone laugh with their absurd visual humour. »

Slotconcert Viering 500 jaar Beiaard » Wim Mertens Ensemble 25/9/2010 An evening with Wim Mertens, the Belgian pianist and composer of minimal and repetitive music, for the celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the Bruges Carillon. »

Foyerconcert Viper Rosa » Viper Rosa 5/10/2010 Foyer concert by six slightly eccentric musicians who sing songs in an ironic vein about the darker side of love. They couple Western and Americana with dark and trashy rock ‘n roll. »

This door is too small (for a bear) » Grace Ellen Barkey / Needcompany 20/10/2010 A performance in English. A surrealistic, absurd and psychedelic mix of theatre, dance, performance and visual arts. »

Rankefod » Kitt Johnson / X-act 29/10/2010 A fascinating and physical solo dance in which the Danish dancer and choreographer Kitt Johnson follows in the footsteps of Darwin’s theory of evolution in search of the source of human anatomy. »

Tercera Llamada » Maria Juncal Y Compania 19/11/2010 The Spanish flamenco dancer Maria Juncal guarantees hot-blooded, magical and alluring virtuoso flamenco. She will perform together with Ciro Romero, three singers, two guitarists, a cellist and a flutist. »

32, rue Vandenbranden » Peeping Tom 24/11/2010 Total theatre with five dancer-actors and a mezzo soprano in an impressive decor that makes the strange, melancholy, bleak and desolate atmosphere of the performance unavoidably palpable. »

Be Your Self » Australian Dance Theatre / Garry Stewart 14,15/1/2011 The new choreographic work by the Australian Dance Theatre is an extremely powerful mix of energetic physical dance, video, visuals, thrilling sound effects and a transformable set. »

Chouf Ouchouf » Le Groupe Acrobatique de Tanger / Zimmermann & de Perrot 25,26/1/2011 Twelve young acrobats from Tangiers fight their way out of a labyrinth of questions. An intense show filled with surprises and full of boyish tough-guy acts and humour that puts everything into perspective. »

DeSrives » Ballet Actuel 2/2/2011 A pure dance performance by the French choreographer Nathalie Bard. A clear, aesthetic creation of a high technical standard. »

Vertical Road » Akram Khan Company 8/2/2011 The British-Bengali choreographer Akram Khan intertwines Indian kathak with contemporary Western dance. ‘Vertical Road’ is based on stories about angels from all over the world. Set to the music of Nitin Sawhney. »

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness » Erna Ómarsdóttir 22/2/2011 A dance performance on the theme of the intense relationship between women who live in close proximity to each other. Erna Omarsdottir combines dance, fairytales and live music to present a frightening yet liberating experience. »

Ciao Bella » Herman Diephuis 2/3/2011 A dance performance with a splash of humour in which the Dutch choreographer Herman Diephuis and five female dancers go in search of the stereotypical representation of woman throughout the history of art as we know it. »

Children / A Few Minutes of Lock » Louise Lecavalier 11/3/2011 Two pieces choreographed and danced by the Canadian Louise Lecavalier. There is the powerful yet graceful ‘Children’, set to the music of Janis Joplin, Maria Callas and others, and ‘A Few Minutes of Lock’ to the music of Iggy Pop. »

To the Ones I Love » Thierry Smits / Compagnie Thor 22/3/2011 A new, pure and abstract dance performance by the choreographer Thierry Smits, in which nine male dancers of African origin dance both powerfully and gracefully to the music of Bach. »

Creatie 2011 (werktitel) » Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus 30/3/2011 A new dance production by the choreographer Wim Vandekeybus, where seven of his best performers investigate the boundaries between circus, theatre and dance. »

Babel(words) » Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui / Damien Jalet / Antony Gormley 8/4/2011 A new dance performance by the choreographers Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet and the artist Antony Gormley. »

A Dance Tribute to the Art of Football » Jo Strømgren Kompani 10/4/2011 A humorous dance performance by the Norwegian choreographer Jo Strømgren, in which four dancers accurately imitate the typical movements, rituals and customs of the world of football and transform them into dance. »

Bound/ Southern Comfort » Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Gregory Maqoma 12/4/2011 A powerful virtuoso duet danced by the South African dancers Gregory Maqoma and Shannell Winlock, choreographed by Maqoma and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and accompanied by live music. »

Öper Öpis » Zimmermann & de Perrot 13/12/2010 To the rhythm of scratch music, Swiss duo Martin Zimmermann and Dimitri de Perrot perform invigorating, acrobatic movement theatre, a cross between clowning and choreography. Öper Öpis is a family show in which the duo dig deeper into the relationship between movement, music and scenography. »

4 Elements – 4 Seasons » Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin / Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola / Midori Seiler 1/12/2010 In this choreographic concert, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin performs two very different Baroque works. Dancer-choreographer Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola (Sasha Waltz & Guests) created this performance, to be danced to the music of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and Jean-Féry Rebel’s The Elements. »

Les Corbeaux » Josef Nadj & Akosh Szelevényi 2/12/2010 To the music of saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Akosh Szelevényi, choreographer Josef Nadj uses the movement of his hands, arms, face and ultimately his entire body as a paintbrush, to capture the essence of a crow’s passage on a large canvas. The result is an impressive, glossy black and transforming painting. »

My dearest... My fairest » Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola & Joanna Dudley 3/12/2010 Joanna Dudley and Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola sing, whistle and recount -in sign language - the concise history of romantic music. They sit either side of a long table and play their favourite toy instruments. This musical performance is a jewel of the purest fantasy! »

Falling8 » Zsuzsa Rózsavölgyi / Tamás Bakó 4/12/2010 In Falling8, Hungarian duo Zsuzsa Rózsavölgyi and Tamás Bakó tell us - in very creative and delightfully audacious dance and music - about the separation of two lovers. Via a ‘pop-up song book’, featuring the saddest long songs in the history of music, they also confront us with our own memories. »

Mine » Ivan Fatjo & Pascal Merighi 4/12/2010 Two male dancers play a game of cat and mouse, which gradually becomes a dance duet. They need each other to exist and feel a constant need to get closer to each other. This is a delightfully amusing and playful performance by Ivan Fatjo (who has danced with Josef Nadj) and Pascal Merighi (who earned his stripes with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch). »

Impromptus » Sasha Waltz 4,5/12/2010 As her basis for this intimate choreography, choreographer Sasha Waltz chose the Impromptus by Franz Schubert. The atmosphere is subdued, romantic and melancholy. It is aesthetic, uncomplicated and abstract. Intimate duets are contrasted with dynamic group choreographies, to piano music and Schubert lieder sung live. »

My private biopolitics » Saša Asentić 4/12/2010 My private biopolitics is a remarkable solo by young Serbian choreographer Saša Asentić. Starting as an investigation into how dance is experienced in the changing East European cultures, it develops into a genuine dialogue with the audience, in which the dancer considers the global expectations of a dancing body. »

Within » Milan Tomášik 5/12/2010 Within – the young Slovak dancer Milan Tomášik’s first solo piece - shows us that what we see and what we feel is never quite as clear cut as we think. To the audience it seems as if they can now see and feel the invisible, the intangible, that which is within. The press has lavished praise on Within, calling it ‘an exceptionally sensual performance’. »

Can’t get no / Satisfaction » Mart Kangro 5/12/2010 In Can’t get no / Satisfaction Estonian performer Mart Kangro translates stand-up comedy into dance. He examines how a performer deals with the realisation that his success is directly dependent on the laughter of the audience. A sensitive and funny dance performance. »

Journey Home » Les SlovaKs Dance Collective 6/12/2010 In their Journey Home the Brussels-Slovak dance collective Les SlovaKs – five dancers and a musician – play six different characters. They found their inspiration in Charlie Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy films and in the Slovak dance tradition. Les SlovaKs are building a bridge between nostalgia and the dance of the future. »

InTime » Pàl Frenàk 7/12/2010 In his latest creation, InTime, Hungarian choreographer-dancer Pál Frenák gives us an insight into the subtlety and complexity of human relationships. It is an intimate, aesthetic performance, where the focus is on pure dance, and it is bathed in a highly individual, sensual and insistent atmosphere. »

Fake It! » Janez Janša 8/12/2010 In Fake It ! Slovenian Janez Janša performs ‘counterfeits’ of works by such great masters of contemporary dance as Pina Bausch, Trisha Brown, Tatsumi Hijikata, Steve Paxton and William Forsythe, works that have never been seen in Slovenia for a variety of reasons. »

Waiting » Mikołaj Mikołajczyk 9/12/2010 Polish dancer-choreographer Mikołaj Mikołajczyk studied at the ballet school in Poznan, Poland. In his solo Waiting he ‘plays’ himself in all intimacy. Is his nakedness a contrived comedy and tasteless provocation, or does he become ‘an icon of the human mould’? It is up to us, the audience, to decide. »

Cherry-Brandy » Josef Nadj 10/12/2010 This new Josef Nadj choreography for twelve dancers is inspired by the Russian author Anton Chekhov and the German mathematician Georg Cantor. Nadj questions the concept ‘time’, particularly the way in which ‘time’ interacts with memory and tradition and thus determines our relationship with our origins. »

Lili Handel » Ivo Dimchev 10/12/2010 The work of Bulgarian Ivo Dimchev is a violent and colourful mixture of performance art, dance, theatre and music. His controversial performance Lili Handel is the final cry of a variety theatre diva. The subtitle is: ‘a physical performance about blood, poetry and music, coming from a white boudoir …’ »

Comédy » Nasser Martin-Gousset / La Maison 11/12/2010 Comédy is the latest production by Nasser Martin-Gousset. It is a cinematic mix of various burlesque situations and dance scenes, set to Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond jazz music, performed by the Steve Arguelles Quartet. The kitschy setting is that of a detective film from the Sixties. »

Öper Öpis (DD) » Zimmermann & de Perrot 12/12/2010 To the rhythm of scratch music, Swiss duo Martin Zimmermann and Dimitri de Perrot perform invigorating, acrobatic movement theatre, a cross between clowning and choreography. Öper Öpis is a family show in which the duo dig deeper into the relationship between movement, music and scenography. »

Diptych » José Navas / Claire Chevallier / Company FLAK 14/5/2011 In ‘Diptych’ José Navas and Claire Chevallier work with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The focus is on the relationship between body, movement and space. »

Personae » José Navas 15/5/2011 Personae is a new solo performance by José Navas. In a compilation of solos, he throws all ballast overboard, so that only he, the performer, remains. »

Monkey Sandwich » Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus 14/10/2010 A new dance production by the choreographer and film-maker Wim Vandekeybus. One performer on stage interacts with the fictional characters in the projected film images. »

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