Pornopera (working title) is a concert stripped to its bare core: voice and body. Two singers and an electronic musician confront the audience with the physicality of sound. Early music meets the gaze of the present. What happens when music once meant for God enters the realm of arousal? When divine ecstasy pulses through bodies instead of belief?

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.

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.

Bridge Stories started in the cold winter of 2022 when people were sleeping on the bridge in front of Klein Kasteeltje / Petit-Château. Next to the many solidarity actions of the neighbours providing food and shelter, Cinemaximiliaan felt the need to invite people for artistic expression, as art would give them their name back.

Bridge Stories - a sense of belonging is a way to ‘bridge’ the gap and nurture connections between newcomers and locals.

In his only opera, 'Le Grand Macabre', György Ligeti created a large, discursive world theatre in which the plain, unvarnished human condition, with all its base desires and weaknesses becomes the cause of a full-blown, imminent apocalypse.

Haunted by the night and inspired both by her ancestors and the Javanese theatre of shadows wayang, Grace Ellen Barkey, who was born in Surabaya, Indonesia, enters into a dialogue with the obscure and searches for forms of re-imagination in her installative performance MALAM / NIGHT.