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Reference book 2019, preview 2020

Read the reference book of the International Choreographers Week 2019 here with columns, reports, participant quotes and Dance&Dare-essays! Sign up for 2020!

IMPROVISATION INTENSIVE

Work with LIQUID LOFT composer Andreas Berger & dancer/choreographer Katharina Meves during November Music!

Micro and Macro Dramaturgies

EU-project for mid-career choreographers who feel the need for further professional growth, and potential dance dramaturges who want to pursue this profession in the future.

International Choreographers Week

Final call, apply now. The 10th International Choreographers Week takes place in Tilburg (NL) – 7 – 11 March 2020 and focuses on the theme ‘Training perspectives through sensory experience’.

Adventurous dance from Germany, Belgium and Canada in Tilburg

A new power surge by the German company CocoonDance, accompanied by a Canadian duet by Mandoline Hybride and an ode to man by the Flemish Karel Tuytschaever.

Museum of the endangered movement

In 2019 and 2020 Katja Heitmann and her team are working together with arts-festivals and museums, creating a series of choreographic sculptures.

Tour 2020

We’ll already give you a look at the provisional tour agenda for 2020, maybe your favourite theatre will be among them as well.

Dance&Dare SummerSchool

‘All those eyes on her body. All those different eyes, with different thoughts, with different perceptions of looking, of seeing.’

To practice togetherness in public

‘I realise, small moments of togetherness have always moved me, especially when they happen between strangers. The way we form temporary units or collectives is very appealing to me.’

How I would explain the landscape opera to my grandfather


‘First I saw only one woman. She was wearing a green fisherman’s suit and green rubber boots. Her neck and arms were bare. The music changed to organ music.’

New performance by The100Hands

In Show Me three female dance performers use their bodies, language and physical interaction to explore the do’s and don’ts around ‘looking, showing and being watched’ with an audience.

Freedom, independence & sovereignty

From this Spring onwards Jija Sohn expands the notion of performativity and performative space in a series of labs and residencies.

Masterclass Karel Tuytschaever

The masterclass starts with watching Karels new work STRANGER and is organised within the framework of Love at first Sight #4 festival, Antwerp. Registrations will close on 28 June 2019.

Essay on Performing Gender Night

I was at the theatre and found myself in a modern-day paradise. The most beautiful trees in the world were not there, neither were the brightly coloured parrots sitting in those trees. No river graced by elegant swans and no schools of fish swimming in that river. No romping tigers and no curious horses. No […]

Looking for a studio space? DansBrabant has two studios that we rent out for rehearsals, presentations, workshops and shoots. Read here more information per studio.

Dance & Dare essay

‘A walk through an ordinary neighbourhood, on an ordinary, but sunny day.’ An essay that was written and spoken out loud by Saskia de Haas at the closing day of the week on dance in public space.

9th International Choreographers Week

See you next time at ICW 2020, March 7 – 11 in Tilburg!