Gaze – Laura Neyskens, Raphaël Vandeweyer, Inter:Action & laGeste

Eve meets Nora meets Madonna

In Gaze, choreographer Laura Neyskens and dramaturg Raphaël Vandeweyer explore how patriarchal dominant narratives control female bodies. Three dancers find themselves caged in a big terrarium which they themselves are unfamiliar with. Lacking agency, these women start to exercise the most recognisable movements that have been mostly performed by female bodies – moving like a doll, rocking a baby, dancing seductively, etc. However, the performance lacks a reflective moment, the agency is never given back to the dancers who after an hour long female-trope exorcism leave their confinement none the wiser.

Ugnė Noreikė

review 07.12.2025

Artists’ Entrance: Kim Noble

In Artists’ Entrance, we ask artists about their life and work. Today: award-winning comedic performance and video artist Kim Noble, known and notorious for, among other things, the much-discussed and acclaimed Lullaby for Scavengers, which can be seen this week on 4 and 5 December at Les Halles in Schaerbeek.

Kim Noble

interview 02.12.2025

Artists’ Entrance: Tim Etchells

In Artists’ Entrance, we ask artists about their life and work. Today: artist and writer, Tim Etchells, who has worked in a large variety of contexts and media, perhaps most famously with performance group Forced Entertainment.

Tim Etchells

interview 26.11.2025

Bottoms up

Anal Pompidou and satire as survival

A cramped upstairs room above a Latin-American restaurant in the Sablon, sixty people crammed around tiny tables. For eight euros, three nights a week, Anal Pompidou turns this improvised stage into Brussels’ most chaotic cabaret, led by Simon Van Schuylenbergh’s delirious alter ego. Intimate, immediate and independent; it is perhaps the most vital art happening in this city wheezing under debt and bureaucracy.

Brenda Guesnet

essay 31.10.2025

Firestarter – Barbara Raes and Alexandra Broeder

A matchbox

How do you write about a ritual that you have no personal connection with, in which the role of the spectator is limited to watching and not participating? Ugnė Noreikė reflects on these questions, after seeing Firestarter, a collective fire ritual that opened the new theatre season of NTGent.

Ugnė Noreikė

review 27.10.2025

Artists’ Entrance: Carolina Bianchi

In Artists’ Entrance, we ask artists about their life and work. Today: writer, director and performer Carolina Bianchi. With her São Paulo-based collective CARA DE CAVALO, Bianchi has most recently created The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella (2023) and The Brotherhood (2025).

Carolina Bianchi

interview 20.10.2025

Kidnapped – Rodrigo Batista & Mariana Senne

The world is a casino

Kidnapped unfolds at a time when, as the opening tells us, ‘the earth was tired’. Although the subtitle promises ‘A Training Ground for the Brutality that is Coming’, any distinction between a looming future and the present moment quickly collapses. What emerges instead is a sense of inescapable urgency.

Lynn Gommes

review 13.10.2025