Chiririn

Emi Kodama

artistic contribution 15.12.2025

Artists’s Entrance: Alesandra Seutin

In Artists’ Entrance, we ask artists about their life and work. Today: choreographer, performer, and director Alesandra Seutin. Alesandra’s distinctive multidisciplinary approach weaves together movement, text, and music to explore identity, memory, and the politics of the body.

Alesandra Seutin

interview 13.12.2025

The erotics of asymmetry

Chloe Chignell & Amina Szecsödy’s Shadow Text brings Monique Wittig’s lesbian-feminist epic Les Guérillères to the stage.

Can a dance piece read a text rather than reproduce it in stage form, as in the classic sense of adaptation? The performance Shadow Text by Chloe Chignell and Amina Szecsödy seeks to bring feminist philosopher and writer Monique Wittig’s novel Les Guérillères to the stage. Wittig’s novel, from 1969, — now considered part of the feminist and lesbian canon Feminist critic Mary McCarthy for example, called the book ’the only work of beauty to come out of the Women’s Lib.’1 The novel is a cyclical narrative, in which collective life is continuously destroyed and rebuilt. Wittig’s book is structured as a triptych and in this sense resembles epic more than the conventional novel. Wittig’s novel may be perfect for the stage, as it is concerned with citation, cyclic movement, non-linear time, and the materiality of the body.  

Tessel Veneboer

essay 12.12.2025

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