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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20 June 2025
MILL'S BEAUTY REALITY SALON 2025
The fellowship MILL'S BEAUTY REALITY SALON is back! MBRS is a fellowship developed by and within Needcompany out of a desire to continue the multidisciplinary artistic quest. With a worth of 10.000 euro's, Needcompany want to give artists the opportunity to think and create in a timeless and non-result-oriented way.
For MILL'S REALITY SALON we are inviting artists who have never before worked with Needcompany. The call has been launched and is open to all nationalities and ages with an extra focus on artists with a link to Brussels, the heart of transnational thinking.
Deadline = 7 September 2025, 23:35 CET.
17 June 2025
Try-out: Pornopera
Pornopera will be performed on the shortest night, as daylight fades and the eye releases, the ear takes over. The audience surrounds the performers. The concert becomes an act of listening and exposure. Of desire, discipline, surrender, held in the grip of the minor second.
21/06/2025
Palazzo, Rue Théodore Verhaegen 190, 1060 Saint-Gilles
19:30: doors, drinks & food
20:30: start concert
21:45: end concert & drinks
DAS HAUS – ‘Pornopera’ by Timo Tembuyser, Wijnand Gomes, Natasha Pirard and Aïda Gabriëls
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!
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