From 1 October, you can reserve tickets for the NEXT festival, which this year runs from 8 to 29 November. Not sure what to choose from the more than 30 performances, exhibitions, talks and films? We can help you choose! Festival programmers and staff will guide you through the entire programme and give you personal […]
A dance procession that unmasks discrimination and colonial traditions In this ritual dance performance of choreographer Zwoisy Mears-Clarke a masked group moves on slowly and rhythmically to the rhythm of the little bells attached to their colourful costumes. What begins as a procession through the streets grows into a collective experience that reduces the distance […]
A visual colourful performance with 6,000 metres of silk, six performers and live music Anyone who describes Miet’s work will encounter secrets that are difficult to put into words. Wonder and pleasure sweep you along in a wave. It looks as if that round air cavity takes on the contours of Warlop’s skull, within which […]
A contemporary tribute to our dancing ancestors A ritual folk dance that turns into a rock-hard rave? For the opening performance, choreographer and dancer Jenna Jalonen delves into the dance history to explore the role of the circle in contemporary dance. Eight dancers take you on a tour of folklore, French cancan and club parties. […]
Invisible memories come to life in a performative haunted house. How do ghosts manifest themselves today? In a transitional space where echoes and fragments of light wander, four performers let themselves be flooded by gestures, words, images, sensations, memories, hallucinated material and fictions. With a few spotlights, a mirror and a piece of chalk, Music […]
An explosive dance fanfare that breaks the silence and sets the collective body in motion What if dance and song could wake us up from the collective slumber ? In the hybrid En Fanfaaarre, the new creation of choreographer Tatiana Julien, a group of dancers and singers rush onto the stage as a brutal, poetic fanfare. […]
A swarm of performers investigates the thin line between freedom and control “Working around the figure of the bird is a way to try to understand ourselves better and to look at the human being in a critical way.” From the classical Greek comedy by Aristophanes to the horror birds of Alfred Hitchcock, birds are […]
Infinétude is both a concert for six voices and a dance performance for six bodies. Alma Söderberg returns to her first love and her inexhaustible source of inspiration, flamenco. Because this dance has the ability to evoke and play with deep emotions (joy, sadness, happiness, rebellion, despair, etc.), while following complex rhythmic patterns that constantly change […]
Sham3dan is a dance that combines the traditions of traditional Egypt with the elegance of belly dancing. Carrying an impressive candelabra on their heads, nine women bring this tradition to life in a breathtaking choreography of repetition, energy and resilience. Moving synchronously through the space, they highlight Egypt’s history of colonisation and power. The dancers […]
A seductive yet obnoxious play In the sensual NO MERCY, the duo nasa4nasa drags you into a world where the female body is eroticised, fast food is consumed in large quantities in front of a digital audience (mukbang) and Britney Spears is played in loop. During this 45-minute DJ set, nasa4nasa invokes the ‘Naddaha’, an Egyptian […]
An intimate experience about safety, identity and resistance. “To protect myself, but also my parents, my artistic practice and later my sexuality, I had to go in search of spaces and societies where I could freely express my identity.”In Cis-tem Error the Libanese queer performer Nadim Bahsoun invites you to a warm, seemingly safe space until a […]
A living archive, how does that work? Choreographer Katja Heitmann likes to give you an insight into her mind during a lunch talk – in Dutch – at NEXT café. Over lunch, she talks about how the loss of her father inspired her for this project, how she collects movements and how her dancers experience […]
During this residency, Nermin Habib is finishing her performance Istehwaz (Reclaiming). This solo dance performance will premiere on 14 November at Budascoop during NEXT festival.
Choreographer Magda Kachouche and her accomplices Alice Martins, Gaspard Guilbert and Bia Kaysel invite you on a transcendental journey between cultures, worlds, the dead and the living. Through a tender death dance celebrating life, an energetic field for reunion and reconciliation arises. This sacred funeral ceremony floats on a deep yearning for rebirth and transforms […]
At ClubINC, host Connor Schumacher and eight dancers take you on a whirlwind total experience that swings to the tones of opera, techno and everything in between. Expect joy and vulnerability in an energetic dance performance by a group of people who are different from you, while you are also that other. In this inclusive feast […]
“We’re too close to the fire to see what’s burning”. This, according to Katerina Andreou, is the phrase that best describes her current state of confusion in the face of a world losing its bearings. Fuelled by energy and surrounded by three performers, she sets out to find a new impetus to combat distress and […]
Through subtle humour, Japanese simplicity and French flair, you will gain insight into the early work of French choreographer Martine Pisani. From a beach in Kobe to the port of Marseille, from Paris to Vienna, a new dance emerges between the lines of archived memories, personal stories and encounters. Japanese-Austrian performance-maker Michikazu Matsune, Dutch painter-performer […]
Starting from both their performances Sottobosco and Songs of the Wayfarer, Claire Cunningham and Chiara Bersani use the art of moving through a landscape for an extraordinary artist’s conversation. As they meander through their minds and space, they explore unexpected encounters within both their choreographic practices through mutual questioning.
What is the choreography of crip* navigation? To which north does the compass of crip-knowledge point? What are the maps we would draw? What can be learned from those of us who reach for the ground through crutches, as 4-legged creatures? “I really love turning into this sort of four-legged creature. All the little places […]
Italian award-winning performer Chiara Bersani and her performers take the audience into the undergrowth of an imaginary forest. Are they lost or did someone abandon them ? Or has the forest grown around them one day? What happens to their hearts, wheelchairs and crutches? Chiara Bersani’s new play SOTTOBOSCO creates a new world between horizon and […]
In this solo dance performance, Egyptian choreographer Nermin Habib questions social oppression and psychological violence against women. She uses movement as a means of resistance and as a way to shape the body’s resilience in a harsh and changing environment. Her body language – composed of traditional Balady and contemporary movements – revitalise society, placing […]
A choreography for the collarbone, a dance of navel and ribcage, the anatomy of a sigh. Those who collect and study the archives of humanity are often interested in the measurable traces of humanity, reducing human beings to comparable data, to differences that can be categorised, to mere paper trails. But what about our bodies? […]
There is friction when you rub together two pieces of wood to create a spark but the word is also used when people quarrel or when there’s tension in the air. The Venezuelan dancer, singer and circus artist Sophia Rodriguez finds that friction is gradually disappearing from society. Especially in capitalism, which puts the individual […]
The starting-point of this creation is the bourree with two counts, a traditional group dance from the French Massif Central. Branle takes on the form of a ball – a space in which dance and music come together but that also evokes specific feelings and makes for circulation. Choreographer Madeleine Fournier is fascinated by the […]
The platform ‘Africa Simply the Best’ gathers the very best of solo dance Africa can offer. During a two-year competition solos from all over the continent are judged on creativity, originality and innovation. Initiator is the famous choreographer Serge Aimé Coulibaly, founder of Faso Danse Théâtre and a welcome guest on the greatest European stages. […]
In All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace Ezra Veldhuis and Bosse Provoost explore freedom and lack of freedom with relation to technology. At the centre of the staging is the poem of the same name from 1967 by Richard Brautigan, in which the American author sings the praise of a dreamed ecology in […]
Amina Abouelghar is an Egyptian dancer and choreographer. For Young Dreams she examines the collective memory of the society in Cairo where she was born. The sounds, gestures, images, and expressions that have been passed on from generation to generation. Abouelghar and Betris explore the question of what nostalgia means through songs, fairytales, tastes, and […]
Let’s think back to the very beginning. There lies man. Dirty, stranded, full of nostalgia for his origin in the slippery water. What happens when we penetrate this image, if we want to catch a glimpse of the precious life in the ‘lower’ layers of our experience that are now sealed under the concrete of […]
“Africa doesn’t have to catch up with anyone. It doesn’t have to walk the beaten tracks but decides to go its own chosen path.” It’s time to decolonize the minds on both sides of the Mediterranean, Felwine Sarr thinks. According to the Senegalese intellectual and economist Africa can offer a new model of civilisation with […]
During a walk, Bryan Campbell hit a tree with a branch. This trivial act aroused strong associations in him with – among other things – sadomasochism. But where man finds both pain and pleasure in such a relationship, we don’t know what the tree experiences. Did this blow leave the tree indifferent? What does this […]
Behind the scenes of utopia In the trilogy Golden Age artists Igor Cardellini and Tomas Gonzalez question the foundations of our time. Via a ‘conducted tour’ they guide you as a first-class tourist along banks, offices and shopping centres. It’s places we pass every day but which -apart from their function- we don’t pay much […]
THERE’S MORE IN A BREAK THAN YOU THINK Rhythm, voice and movement are always central to Alma Söderberg’s work. But where in her first collaboration with Cullberg, The Listeners (2020), she intertwined voice and movement, here she explores the break moment: the cut, the break, the moment when what flows is broken up or reversed. […]
INTENSE WEDDING OF DANCE AND MUSIC In The Listener suit 2020, the Swedish choreographer continues her research with nine dancers from the famous Cullberg ensemble. Again, rhythm, voice and movement underpin a multi-layered performance. In it, your own perceptions are especially central. In polyrhythmic music, you choose which layers of rhythm to focus on. Between […]
HISTORY OF MADNESS What place do we give people who deviate from the norm in our society? What does it mean to care for each other in changing times? Between 2018 and now, Struyf and his team made about eight trips in which they closely followed Willard’s people and landscape. The result will be a […]
AFTER THE DISASTER: BEIRUT IN MUSIC The events in this performance take place in a parallel universe, where an anti-heroine dancer and her musician, in retaliation for decades of evil and corruption, form a powerful, underfunded and loosely organised couple fighting crime to bring justice! With good intentions and no experience whatsoever; they are a […]
A LAMENTATION FOR WHAT WE HAVE FORGOTTEN Leçons de Ténèbres refers to a 17th-century Baroque musical genre of the same name, in which the Biblical Lamentations of Jeremiah are rendered with polyphonic singing. The songs usually revolve around mourning for the destroyed city of Jerusalem. Betty Tchomanga makes her own leçons de ténèbres for NEXT, […]
WOMEN’S TALES In 2021 startten Raquel Andre en Cristina Carvalhal een onderzoek naar de verhalen van mensen uit verschillende gemeenschappen die zich als vrouw identificeren. By listening to these voices, they aim to contribute to greater awareness of the inequalities and wrongs that patriarchal societies have instituted throughout history and assimilated as the norm. The […]
A STRING QUARTET IN MOTION What happens in the musician’s body when they play? How does music make a body move, or even dance, very concretely and precisely, but also invisibly inside? IN YOUR HEAD, is based on an important 20th-century piece of music: the String Quartet No 8 in C minor by Dmitri Shostakovich. […]
AND THE LIGHT…LED THE DANCE In a world punctuated by an overflow of images, R É V E R B É R E R is imagined as a care session for the eyes. Dance and light are intertwined. The light is here the starting point and its presence defines what we see or don’t see. […]
Can you spend spare time? When is one a big spender? How do you spend spare time? How do you spend your spare time? Do you like to play? Sports? Do you work? Out? Do you go to the gym? I’m pretty sure I saw you there… In SPARE TIME WORK buren musically approaches thoughts […]
Exciting dialogue between a dancer and a pianist Sonatas et Interludes (1946-1948) was a music series by John Cage for ‘prepared piano’, in which objects are placed on or under the strings or hammers. Dancing to this music, which beats and pulls, Kaklea also underlines the forces that acted on women’s bodies in the 1940s. […]
Intimate search for the plural human being What archive preserves and embodies each individual? By inviting two dancers who find themselves at different moments in time, in different cultures and sexes, Pol Pi creates a crossroads between three generations and three stories. In daté.e.s bodies become seismographs of intimate signs, in which the intensity, the […]
When funghi die, they contribute to the growth of the community. Can fungi make us think differently about death? This performance links the fungi to martyrdom by means of traditional Palestinian music. A unique and musical performance. with the support of Mophradat
Real monuments do not stand still In the performance Replay choreographer Eszter Salamon returns to the dance material she developed for Reproduction (2004), inspired by positions from the legendary Kama Sutra. What remains of those movements? Replay shows the pleasure of moving ánd watching movement while bodies get rid of social norms. A work of […]
Love songs break teenage taboos In this musical show, the young people themselves take the floor about love and sexuality. Each time, local peers join the Icelandic choir to write and sing songs with them. In this melodious ode to the coming-of-age love and sexuality are represented in all forms and colours.
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