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KU Leuven's young historian comes to talk about the phenomenon of gossiping as an introduction to the 10th libretto lecture

Beatrice and Benedict, libretto reading #10 - WALPURGIS

As usual, WALPURGIS unravels an opera classic to the bone and treats you to an entertaining evening in which spoken and sung dialogues and mischievous comments constantly alternate.

To Be Determined - ātmā: Kevin Skelton (CA), Barbara Drazkowska (PL), Szymon Brzoska (PL) and Tsubasa Hori (JP)

A Canadian tenor with a particular affinity for Early Music and contemporary dance, a Japanese taiko (big drum) player who also plays koto (Japanese zither) and sings, a Polish pianist who devours contemporary music and is not averse to a theatrical experiment, and a Polish composer who feels like a fish out of water in the company of singers, musicians, dancers, choreographers, actors and filmmakers. Four super talents decide to share the stage and give each other space for an interplay whose outcome is not known in advance.

Wandering Souls - Belle Di Mai: Alice Casarosa (IT) & Irene Rametta (IT)

A woman. And another woman. Or is it her shadow? Two wandering souls. They are singing. In their suitcase the philosophical adventure novel The Baron in the Trees by Italian writer Italo Calvino.

Higher Selfie (text reading) - NEST

Nine young actors take inspiration from the Great Art and get angry.

Flying Me (2^e edition) - WALPURGIS & NEST

Open stage for young people in collaboration with theatre workshop NEST.
Young rapper Naoufel Boubekri was given a master class with NoMoBS member

Workshops musical theatre for children

You'd better brace yourself, because this workshop will turn you into a real musical theatre artist!

If everything can be done, nothing can be broken (8+) - Copper: Stan Nieuwenhuis (NL), Aline Goffin (BE) & Olympe Tits (FR)

Grandma is lost in her mind. Anna tries to follow her. But granny can't keep up. Granny dances and dances out of the world.

Grassland (8+) - Usine à Neige: Tjyying Liu (NL, Jeroen Malaise (BE), Lotte Stek (NL), Letizia Renzini (IT), Mikel van Gelderen (NL) & Peter Quasters (BE)

Surrealism nothing for children? Usine à Neige proves otherwise and invites young and old alike for a fresh dive into the humorous, sometimes dark music of Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti, from which speaks a boundless desire for freedom.

BARTóK - ARType: Carmien Michels, Max Greyson, Jolien Deley, Wide Vercnocke & Tim Coenen (BE)

Two slam poets, two musicians and a sand artist explore the musical oeuvre and letters of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. Armed with juicy dialogue, cello, guitar, electronics and a contemporary eye, they penetrate the secret chambers of Bluebeard's castle.

Tips & Tricks - Joris Blanckaert & Sarah Eisa

Sarah Eisa is a German actress with Palestinian roots who has lived in Belgium since 2003. Tips and Tricks is a very personal quest that alternately floats on melancholy and militancy.

Duo à l'Encre - Teun Verbruggen & Vincent Glowinski

A table, a lamp, a camera, Chinese ink, paper , a monkey. That's all Brussels graffiti artist Vincent Glowinski, aka BONOM, needs to keep you spellbound for 15 minutes. Drummer Teun Verbruggen, known from groups such as Flat Earth Society and Jef Neve Trio, provides musical resistance, complements and challenges.

Disguised and unadulterated - Ensemble Leporello: Mieke Laureys & Annelore Stubbe

Mieke Laureys and Annelore Stubbe tell the story of 2 pirate women, femminists avant-la-lettre, assisted by cellist Frans Grapperhaus.

Along came Polly (docu) - The Veerman

Five young people worked with video artist Ilke De Vries this summer on an audiovisual installation around polyphonic music from the 16th century. The music was filmed, the world of the past connected to the present and the experience of listening transformed into images. A collaboration between De Veerman, AMUZ and Alamire Foundation in the context of the exhibition and music festival Petrus Alamire.

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