"Moving with Architecture" examines an ecology of architecture and choreography by approaching their relationality in a horizontal way. The project takes the metaphor of weaving to explore how this ecology ...read more
"Institutionalized Resistance: Milo Rau’s NTGent Period" will explore Swiss-German director Milo Rau’s work with Nederlands Toneel Gent (NTGent), one of Belgium’s most important cultural institutions, looking at both Rau’s work as a ...read more
The progress made in the fields of technology, information theory, computational modeling, and immersive multisensory displays put the notion of the body as archive in a new perspective, especially as ...read more
Researchers generally situate the origins of Belgian-Dutch blackface as a way to ridicule Afro-diasporic people in the second half of the nineteenth century, when Anglo-American minstrel troupes arrived in the Low ...read more
This research investigates a music composition model that includes creating the musical instruments for which the score is written. In this method a musical instrument is considered, first and foremost, a ...read more
This research aims to understand the aspects of theatricality and idolatry in Bernard Picart's Cérémonis et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-1743).
Over the past decades, the theatrical landscape of Brussels has increasingly reflected its multicultural everyday reality on stage. Today's multilingual productions pose a heightened challenge to the contemporary theatre translator, ...read more
“Friend” or “Infernal Monster”? Comic and Tragic Representations of the Turk and the ‘Self’ in Sixteenth-Century Venetian Theatre aims to understand dramatizations of Turks and ‘Selfs’ in the Venetian Republic, ...read more
Contemporary dance in the Eastern European periphery is still at the very onset of the process of institutionalization and its particular working modes and (kin)aesthetics are largely understudied and until ...read more