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Generation XIII – a documentary podcast

5 dancers * 3 years * 1 school

Every three years 1000 young dancers from all over the world audition for PARTS, the renowned school for contemporary dance in Brussels, directed by choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Every three years, only 40 are chosen to enter the Training Cycle. The documentary podcast Generation XIII drafts a portrait of the generation that has been studying at PARTS since September 2019, through the experiences and voices of five students. Through interviews and audio-diary entries, we follow Eleni from Greece, Marllon from Brazil, Zoé from France, Renátó from Hungary and Kia from New Zealand, all through their training.

Delphine Hesters

multimedia 20.09.2022

When Playwrights Complicate Dramatic Form

Recent Developments in African American Plays of the 2010s

African American drama, theater and performance has a rich and complex history. Only recently, however, the U.S. theater establishment seems to recognize the work of young Black playwrights more often. This is evident, for example, from the awards and nomination lists of multiple prestigious prize committees such as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama or the Tony Awards for Broadway productions. The winning plays are not only lauded for addressing racial themes, but for doing this in a way that experiments with dramatic conventions and African American performance history. How exactly, then, do these playwrights engage with dramatic form? How are their stage experiments connected to topical debates sparked by the Black Lives Matter movement? Above all, how is their work relevant for the Belgian context?

Jade Thomas

essay 10.08.2022

Nieuwsbrief

The city theatre of the past

On Luk Perceval’s Ghent Manifesto 2.0

The day after the premiere of Red – the final chapter in a trilogy produced by NTGent – the director Luk Perceval dropped a bomb in De Standaard’s opinion pages. Together with actors Bert Luppes and Oscar Van Rompay, he published a manifesto ‘against the arbitrariness of Milo Rau’. The text came some four years after the Ghent Manifesto that heralded Milo Rau’s artistic directorship at NTGent.

Sébastien Hendrickx

opinion 09.05.2022