Us – Maria Hassabi

Unmoved? [EN]

For years, New York-based Maria Hassabi has been working at the intersection of choreography and visual art. It is only fitting, then, that her latest creation Us is being presented in the theatre at the BOZAR museum. Are we witnessing a slowly moving image, or a stilled choreography? An analysis of an agonisingly slow viewing experience.

Natalie Gielen

review 21.05.2026

Visies voor het veld: Carolina Mendonça

The future is one day away

In Visies voor het veld, Etcetera asks key figures for their perspectives on the performing arts of tomorrow. What is going well, and what urgently needs to change? What would they do if, tomorrow, they were an all-powerful Minister of Culture, with unlimited resources and powers? This week: choreographer, performer and dramaturge Carolina Mendonça proposes to reconsider spaces of experimentation as a political necessity – to speculate, play and fail, to prepare our bodies for what cannot be imagined yet.

Carolina Mendonça

vision 20.05.2026

YOU CANNOT CAN – Dana Michel

Ambient insecurity

In You Cannot Can, Dana Michel steps onto the slippery floor of a public pool in the centre of Brussels to question all the manoeuvres one performs in life in order to swim in it. Masterfully, Michel (a marketing executive turned football player turned performer) makes herself infinitely disarming, un-intimidating, small and, at the same time, envelops us in her shine to reveal and loosen the ever-present ambient insecurity of today’s interactions.

Ugnė Noreikė

review 13.05.2026

Centroamérica – Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol

Everyone lies [EN]

Pablo Neruda once described Central America as the “soft waist of America”, a fertile region that has always been defined and dominated by the north. With Centroamérica, the Mexican collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol attempts to capture the pain of this exploited region with their distinctive documentary style. They once believed fervently in the power of theatre, but after a journey through seven countries plagued by moral murkiness, they are no longer so sure. Can theatre save the world?  

Floris Baeke

review 12.05.2026

Old Lady, New Monsters

Are the arts still free in an increasingly authoritarian Europe?

In collaboration with the Wiener Festwochen, Etcetera organises a discussion on the relation between the arts and politics in Europe.

Floris Baeke

calendar 04.05.2026

Visies voor het veld: Jana De Kockere & Carly Rae Heathcote

Neverending Theater

In Visies voor het veld, Etcetera asks key figures for their perspectives on the performing arts of tomorrow. What is going well, and what urgently needs to change? What would they do if, tomorrow, they were an all-powerful Minister of Culture, with unlimited resources and powers? This week: theater maker, performer and philosopher Jana De Kockere and director, writer and designer Carly Rae Heathcote call for a theater that gets rid of ’topics’ and instead obsessively indulges in symbolism.

Carly Rae Heathcote & Jana De Kockere

vision 04.05.2026

Teatro per capita

Argentina cuenta con una rica cultura teatral, sobre todo en Buenos Aires, la ciudad con más teatros del mundo en proporción al número de habitantes. En su primera columna, Romina Paula ofrece una visión general, desde el teatro político durante la última dictadura militar en los años setenta y ochenta hasta el enorme éxito de las obras de Broadway en la actualidad. ¿Sigue siendo el teatro, por el que los argentinos sienten tanta pasión, una herramienta para la transformación política?

Romina Paula

column 30.04.2026