Songs of Disconnection is a next step in Seghers’ research into the potentially tragic relationship between entertainer and spectator. This resides in the irresistible urge to share and connect and the essential impossibility of doing so.

For the new performance ‘The garden of earthly disquiet’, Grace Tjang goes back to the cruelty of her family stories. Bringing the violence of the night alive together with five performers. Grace Tjang tells the dark stories of traumatic nights - an obscure and mysterious world full of restlessness and fears.

A Sublime Mistake — played by Gonzalo Cunill — is based on all the slightly lost male characters in Jan Lauwers’ oeuvre. An intimate portrait of a man who looks at the world in astonishment and fails to understand why he is even part of it.

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21 May 2025
World premiere: Lee Miller in Hitler's Bathtub

On Sundayt 1 June, Lee Miller in Hitler's Bathtub will finally premiere at NEST, Neue Staatsoper in Vienna. After months of preparation and rehearsal, it is time to present the tragic cantata to the public.

The libretto 'Lee Miller in Hitlers Bathtub' is a portrait of a woman who at the end of her life said that she felt like a cow who had been milked dry. A woman in the shadow of many men. Famous men. Notorious men. Jan Lauwers wanted to make a portrait that was no longer that of Lee but of so many women in the history of art who have been gagged.

24 April 2025
OPEN CALL: NEEDCOMPANY’S SUMMER WORKSHOP 2025

NEEDCOMPANY’S SUMMER WORKSHOP 2025
– HOW TO COUNT TO 4 AT 120 BEATS PER MINUTE
(2-7/07/2025)


Needcompany opens the doors of its studio – MILL – for a three-day summer workshop. This masterclass aims to provoke meaningful encounters with and between new generations of performing artists.

Are you a professional performer who wants to explore musicality and movement? Apply by 30/05/2025!

24 April 2025
Karaoke Debat (Nekkersdal x Needcompany)

Nekkersdal and Needcompany join forces for the second time this year. Led by artist Einat Tuchman, the first Karaoke Debate will be held on Wednesday 30 April 2025.

Five talented young people from Molenbeek invite you to sing along to songs they have written themselves. Each song is followed by a debate on the strengths and weaknesses of society. Come and collaboratively imagine the future for social justice.

1 February 2025
DOUBLE BILL(y) comes to Belgium!

Care to waltz through Shakespeare’s tragedies and comedies in a single evening? Needcompany has the pleasure to announce the Double Billy (Billy’s Violence & Billy’s Joy) at 30cc, Leuven. Following two sold-out editions at Impulstanz 2023 (Vienna) and Festival Grec 2024 (Barcelona), this once in a lifetime diptych is being performed in Belgium for the first time.

After Leuven, this double bill goes to Toplocentrala, Sofia!

26/02/2025 (30cc, Louvain) – [Buy your tickets here ici]
05/03/2025 & 07/03/2025 (Toplocentrala, Sofia) – [Buy your tickets here ici]

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