Join us every evening
Every evening during the festival, we open the doors for an event. Throughout the week, we have curated a diverse programme of performances, celebrations, a battle and a “marché pirate”. Hoping that each artist, through their own universe and artistic practice, can inspire, move, and challenge you. Discover below, evening by evening, our guest artists and their proposals, and the different events. The evening programme does not require a reservation, except for “Restes (offrande au million)” on 27.06, for which reservation details can be found below. We aim to guarantee fair remuneration for the artists while keeping the festival accessible to all. For this reason, we work with several entrance price options at the door.
Please note that the festival operates cash only. Food and drinks will be available on site.
If you have specific access needs or require any specificities during your visit, please do not hesitate to contact us by email.
Location: Studio Thor, Rue Saint-Josse 49, Brussels
opening night performancES
26.06
19h - doors open
20h - performances start
(order TBA)
23h - closing
Pay-what-you-can 6-15€
Manse Kim, Clélia Patrono & Jenn Hutt
The trio first met onstage in 2024 during the platform COUP/E Container, in Brussels. Since then, they have been developing an ongoing exchange between sound and movement.
Manse Kim, based in Lausanne, has expanded her improvisational practice through her studies at La Manufacture and her connection with TicTac Art Centre.
Clelia Patrono and Jenn Eliz Hutt are sound artists and musicians co-founder of COUP\E lab-producer of sounds, based between Brussels and Paris.
DEEP
DEEP is a 25-minute live performance where dance and concert merge. Dancer Manse Kim and musicians Clelia Patrono and Jenn Eliz Hutt create an immersive dialogue between movement, live electronics, guitar, and violin… ambient, electronic, and hypnotic.
emerson
damian
vergel
Emerson (he/him), is a colombian performer, creator, and facilitator, graduated from the Dance Program at Academia Superior de Artes de Bogotá (ASAB) and from the MA in Physical Theatre at Accademia Dimitri in Switzerland. His artistic practice engages with Theatre, clown, traditional Colombian dance, Salsa and improvisation to explore physicality as a poetic and political active territory.
70%
70% is a physical and unpredictable performance that explores the tension between control and surrender, through a shifting game between the performer’s body, objects and the audience. Oscillating between resistance, exhaustion and play, the piece raises questions around social success, the overexploitation of the body, and our relationship with memory and nature. Emerson Damian Vergel.
giulia tornarolli
Dancer, choreographer and teacher with a multidisciplinary practice, Giulia began her career after graduating from SEAD Salzburg and collaborates internationally with various personalities of the field, both on stage and on screen, including Panorama Dance Theater, Edivaldo Ernesto, Martin Kilvady, Milan Tomašik, Alexander Vanturnhout and Christof Loy among others. Through her creative work, rooted in improvisation, she explores physical storytelling, navigating themes of exposure, fragility and self-expression. She also leads movement workshops dedicated to physical awareness and stage presence.
lay next
to me
LAY NEXT TO ME unfolds as an intimate portrait of Ruth, a woman caught in the endless pursuit of doing, producing, becoming. Child of a time that glorifies speed and achievement, she accumulates gestures and experiences in the attempt to fill a void that only grows larger.
Through an essential physical language the piece traces the fragile border between action and being. A reflection on our relationship with time, regret, and memory and an invitation to
look at time not as a threat but as what it is, a perpetual stream of moments, each precious in its own right.
performancES night
27.06
19h - doors open
19h30 - Glitch Choir
20h-21h - break + dinner
21h - Restes (Offrande au million)
23h - closing
Pay-what-you-can 6-15€
deva
schubert&
chihiro araki
schubert&
chihiro araki
Deva Schubert is a Berlin-based choreographer and dancer whose work centers on the exploration of the voice. Combining dance, installation, and digital media, her pieces have been presented internationally, including at Haus der Kunst Munich, Kunsthalle Zürich, and Sophiensäle Berlin. Her award-winning work Glitch Choir (ImPulsTanz Young Choreographers’ Award 2024) continues to tour in diverse formats and variations. In 2025, she presented her first solo exhibition, Silent Spills, at Kunstraum Niederösterreich in Vienna.
Chihiro Araki (she/her) is a performance artist based in Berlin. After training at The Tokyo Ballet School and earning BA from Rambert School in London, she has danced with Carte Blanche and Johannes Wieland Company, as well as for Alban Richard, Jenny Beyer, Helena Waldmann, Meg Stuart, Lina Gómez, Sergiu Matis, Jule Flierl, Ixchel Mendoza Hernández, Deva Schubert, Chiara Bartl-Salvi, Hanako Hayakawa and musical artist Pan Daijing.
glitch choir
A “glitch” describes a disturbance in the transmission of digital information, such as a distorted image or a stuttering video. It creates a rupture in the perception of reality. Can grief also be understood as a glitch in that sense?
The performance Glitch Choir translates the moment of digital disturbance into the analog space through voice and body in order to recompose a lament. Historically, public mourning practices were long carried out by so-called “Klageweiber.” These women were commissioned to give emotional expression to the grief of others for the deceased. At the same time, the act of lamentation became a vehicle through which their voices could be heard, that otherwise had little presence in the public sphere.
The performance draws on this tradition of public lamentation. From mouth to mouth, the performance unfolds an intimate space of multiresonance. Can grief, within this temporary community, become a collective glitch? What kind of choir emerges from the dissonance of frequencies?
alphonse eklou uwantege
Sagittarius queer, born in Minsk to a Rwandan mother and a Togolese father. Alphonse (they/them) is a model, performer, and director based in Brussels.
Their practice uses the body as a tool, writing as a weapon of resurrection, and performance as a political urgency. Their method relies on the desire to subvert the norms of representation and the relationship between spectators and performers by disrupting scenic spaces.
In the first part of their triptych, reste(s). Alphonse develops their artistic research around transgenerational traumas, invisible memory, and colonial transmissions in a solo dedicated to their uncle, Alphonse Kanimba, who was killed during the Tutsi genocide in April 1994.
Alphonse is currently pursuing this exploration in the second part of the triptych, questioning migratory inheritances and the silences imposed on diasporic identities. Through traditional and contemporary movements, their family's languages, and documents as witnesses of erasures and resistances, they interrogate the fractures and reinventions linked to displacement.
this performance is a shorter version of the original one.
*the access to this performance is by registration only.
register here
*the access to this performance is by registration only.
register here
restes (offrande au million)
reste(s)
is a ritual of tribute to my uncle Alphonse Kanimba,
who died during the genocide of the Tutsis,
one day in April 1994,
reste(s)
speaks of transmissions, this mortuary legagcy
that we did not choose,
yet which imprints itself on the living.
reste(s)
of a name, of a story,
of a genocide,
of a trauma,
of a wandering soul
that cannot find its way out.
In this solo, it is about origins
and those familial ties that support us but sometimes become unvearable.
reste(s)
offers a reflection
danced, spoken, whispered
on the dialogue with those ghosts
who haunts us,
on what we choose to reclaim
or leave behind,
on the stories passed down to us
despite ourselves.
But this "us", where does it truly lie?
ALL STYLES BAtTLE
28.06
18h - doors open
18h-19h - registrations & warm up
19h - start of the battle
23h - closing
Pay-what-you-can 6-15€
This event is a platform to share every unique style and celebrate dancing together. We’ll challenge your musicality, reactivity, virtuosity, authenticity, and groove. As Top Floor, we’re adding a special twist: every tie in a one-on-one battle will be resolved through a duet composition. Instead of battling against each other again, the dancers will be invited to create with each other, transforming competition into collaboration. The finalists will also face one last challenge: joining forces to create a final duet together. The All Styles Battle is not only about showcasing individual skills, but also about listening, adapting, connecting, and discovering what can emerge when different dance languages meet.
Come and let’s put the dancefloor on fire!
Come and let’s put the dancefloor on fire!
POPPING DANYS
Popping Danys (he/him) has been a self taught Popper and Locker for the past 15 years, and has been specializing in W*acking for the past 8 years. He is the founder of Oh My Funky Groove, an international crew dedicated to highlight Funkstyles in different formats (theater, competitions, TV, teaching,...).
KENNEDY
Kennedy (he/him) is a Belgian dancer of Congolese origin. He has been dancing since 10, mainly hip-hop & traditional african dance.
He won several national and international competitions & was invited to Senegal, South Africa, Burundi, Ghana, Rwanda where he competed and participated in intensive African dance training.
NATALIA
Natalia (she/her) is an Italian dancer, performer, and creator based in Brussels. Coming from the underground hip-hop scene, she trained with Bboy Emilio and Bboy Storm and was active in the Parisian hip-hop community between 2005 and 2009. Her artistic research connects hip-hop, contemporary dance, and physical theatre, developing a powerful and emotionally charged physical language balancing “poetry and punk energy.”
TROPICAL
DJIPSIES
Tropical DJipsies is a cosmic DJ collective ready to ignite the battle dancefloor! From deep Bass to ancestral vocals, they turn every set into a ritual of freedom and heat; a sonic celebration of diversity and movement.
auncle
bolingo
Founder of Queer Auncles, a Brussels-based initiative bringing together queer Black and POC communities. A multidisciplinary artist, they began as a DJ and music producer, later became a Ballroom MC, and now work as a cultural curator.
Their identity is unapologetically Black and queer. “Bolingo,” meaning “love” in their mother tongue, reflects the energy they bring to the stage through feel-good music, bold raps, freestyles, and community-driven events.
sopa sound sistema
marché pirate
performance
29.06
18h - doors open
ongoing - Sopa Sound Sistema & Marché Pirate
21h - Hein?
23h - closing
Free entrance
TROPICO INTENSO
Provocadores - Trópico Intenso (Nelson, Daniela, and Aunt Ruth).
Open to everyone to dance, cook, and eat together.
SOPA SOUND SISTEMA
Born under the scorching sun of the intense tropics; it is a declaration of intentions.
It presents itself as a sound and social provocation that challenges the conventions of the traditional party through a bold and deliberately eclectic fusion.
An unusual *tropi-set* (music set): the nostalgic and sincere curation of playlists from the "aunties," guardians of cumbia, meneito, salsa, merengue, and classic dance tunes that never go out of style, alongside the mixed music brought by new or dynamic generations.
With this encounter, we create a bridge where the popular meets the underground.
But the experience isn't limited to the ear. The ritual is completed with the preparation of a **meal in a communal pot*, together with member of Trópico Intenso, a shared brew that symbolizes the group’s unity. As the music flows between the old and the new, the attendees participate in the creation and consumption of this delicacy, transforming the act of eating into a gesture of collectivity. In "Sopa son sistema" (Soup is a System), the organized chaos of the tropics becomes its own system, where family music and the electronic scene drink from the same pot.
We will dance while we cook with nostalgia, with the rebellious and the new, among different cultures. Bringing what the southern hemisphere brought to the dance studio, because we learned to dance—while being around Family, and we were around Family while being around food.
neptune & hélEne guilguet
Neptune is a dancer. She graduated in June 2023 from the Master of dance and choreographic practices of Charleroi danse/Lacambre/INSAS in Bruxelles. Since then, she collaborates with different artists as a dancer or choreographer. She works with SUPERSUEURS, a french dance company that carries a project called K.O - sport for public spaces. She also works with the contemporary circus company Habeas Corpus based in Brussels, in the last creation « Chwallow ». She also carries a project for kids called « En balbutiant ». It made few years that she dances in folk balls and this project for kids invite them to recreate the dances and the codes that constitute this events. She also explores the practice of clown, and finished her clown formation in CNAC (Châlons-en-Champagne, France).
Hélène Guilguet is a dancer and choreographer, working between Paris, Brussels, and Toulouse. After studying social sciences and urban planning, she joined the Extensions training program at CDCN-La Place de la Danse in Toulouse, where she discovered the work of various choreographers (Aina Alegre, Lorenzo de Angelis, Volmir Cordeiro). As a performer, she collaborates with Nana Movement (Angelica Ardiot) on the quartet Jamais la fin, and with the company La Canine (Emilie Labédan) on Fictive, written for natural spaces and Mr Splitfoot. In parallel, she collaborates with artists such as the musician Hinsberger or the painter and sculptor Clara Tournay for in situ performances.
hein?
A character enters into space, and then another one. On one single diagonal, walking backwards, they seem to be living in a parallel, rather absurd universe, where everything seems in order, even if nothing is.
Sounds and gestures are their way of communicating : footsteps create the rhythm, rainjackets create the music. They try to be together somehow, according to their own rules.
Travelling through many landscapes, under a changing and erratic weather, the characters invite the public to come along their journey. The piece offers an overall listening space, full of the sounds that the characters produce themselves or that they react to. Mixing fiction and reality, absurd and poetry, sharp choreographic vocabulary and space for improvisation, this duet opens up a door for an unusual stroll … under the pouring rain ?
performancES night
30.06
19h - doors open
20h - performances
(order TBA)
23h - closing
Pay-what-you-can 6-15€
elise ludinard
Élise is a choreographer and dancer based in Brussels. Her practice navigates between choreographic research, performance, transmission, and collective curation. Her work explores confessional poetry, performing gender, pleasure, and strategies of resistance and repair. She graduates in 2019 from SEAD (Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance).
Supported by the German independent scene she created her own work Cold Lips and Backbone (2023). She then created Souvenirs de Chair (2024) in Brussels, a solo piece.
Selected for the ATLAS program at ImPulsTanz (2025), she began the performative research Throwing like a girl. In parallel she is a member of the HOEK collective for six years, and co-directs the dance festival TOP FLOOR.
She collaborates as a performer with several international artists, including Habib Ben Tanfous, Martin Kilvady, Milla Koistinen, Eva Borrmann, Lisi Estaras, and others. She has performed at the Venice Biennale in Jan St. Werner's sound performance and at the Palais de Tokyo in 2025 with Habib Ben Tanfous.
throwing like a girl
Throw like a girl, climb like a girl, hit like a girl, run like a girl... It’s going to be all about throwing and projecting the injunctions that weigh upon our female bodies. The performance takes as a starting point, the philosophical essay of Iris Marion Young and becomes a practice that shapes the body through dance, sculpting it with the encounter of a harsh asphalte environment.
Throwing words against the walls, projecting movements that will scatter, be transformed, and sometimes echo.
Our bodies will become territories of pleasure, a playground where we manipulate these injunctions.
“...The ground of modernity is one that has been colonised, levelled, bulldozed – a space where the fantasy of infinite, self-sufficient mobility unfolds...”
– Lepecki, Intro to Exhausting Dance.
ilaria orlandini,
andrés navarro garcia & lorena izquierdo
Ilaria is a dancer and shiatsu practitioner living in Brussels. She focuses on improvisation and instant composition, exploring the relationship between sound, movement and space. Her research is inspired by principles of simplicity, ease and concreteness. She creates her own works and collaborates with multidisciplinary artists. She also teaches instant composition to people of all ages, integrates dance into social and community projects, and is part of the WEi collective.
Lorena is an experimental performance artist, vocalist, and poet whose work explores the body as both empiric and conceptual in a feminist intermedia practice, investigating the decodification of the automatisms of behaviors through new connections with objects, space, and time in what she calls action poetry. Based in Berlin, she collaborates with international musicians and artists in experimental art and contemporary music projects.
Andrés's work explores percussion in the context of experimental music and improvisation. His approach starts with sound rather than music, focusing on physical vibration rather than theoretical concepts. His career includes collaborations with visual artists, performers, and musicians, as well as the creation of pieces for theatre, dance, and ensembles.
from breathing
to space
voice as breath,
breath as movement,
movement as space,
space as language*
Dance, experimental music, sound poetry, and performance art. These elements create a world suspended between certainty and uncertainty, where intimate stories, born in the uniqueness of the moment, become universal. Abstract figures and grotesque, earthly presences emerge; an embodied folklore invites us to smile. Everyday gestures bring simplicity, and a drum calls out to the present.
*from Saba, Youmna "La plus belle voix au monde" "Spectres IV: Mille Voix"
Supported by the Spanish Embassy in Brussels.
closing night’s performance
and celebration
1.07
19h - doors open
20h - performances start
(order TBA)
22h - DJ set
00h - closing
Pay-what-you-can 6-15€
blanca lo verde & lucile ducron
Blanca explores dance, performance and voice expressions. She studied in SEAD and then worked with cie 111-Aurélien Bory in INVISIBILI, Jan Lauwers and Paul Blackman in Salzburg Festspiele and Natiscalzi DT.
In 2024, Blanca developed her solo work Per-sona in Anghiari Dance Hub, performed in Italy and Brussels. In 2025 she attended the program on voice techniques in Malagola centre directed by Ermanna Montanari and Enrico Pitozzi.
Nowadays she shares her practice Voicing Motion and collaborates with Lucile Ducron, Irene Occhiato, Carla Piris, Laura Castellucci and Adele Cammarata.
Lucile is a performer trained in physical theatre and fine arts. Her work draws from tools such as Butoh, clowning and music, creating raw and unstable stage universes balancing punk chaos with fragile poetry.
She worked in Italy with Atto Due company, Ilaria Cristini and Er Gao, and is currently developing her solo Pauline the Flower Pot, performed in Brussels and Germany. Closely inspired by the work of Brut Movement, she also performs with the punk band Wiepsie Tits and collaborates with musician Joos Vandueren, and dancer Blanca Lo Verde.
lois 0
Between hiding and revealing, two bodies traverse the experience of being two, of
shared solitudes and sparkling exchanges.
A voice that becomes one and divides, that climbs to light and descends to the abyss.
Disguising oneself to enjoy the transformation and asking: what kind of body do we
inhabit today? How does metamorphosis bring life and sharing open to beauty?
natalia vallebona
Natalia Vallebona’s artistic path bridges the raw energy of underground dance cultures with the European contemporary scene. Her research merges the intensity of hip-hop, contemporary dance, and theatrical exploration, developing a powerful, virtuosic, and emotionally charged physical language—at the crossroads of poetry and punk.
As a performer, she has collaborated with numerous international companies and artists, including Balletto Civile, La Fura dels Baus, C&C /
Carlo Massari, Trance en danse, Gabriella Maiorino, Dame de Pic / Cie Karine Ponties, Quan Bui Ngoc, Nicolas Vadijslav, Koen Augustijnen, Hedi and Alí Thabet, Ben Fury, Fritz Company among others.
Since 2014, she has been regularly invited to teach at several major European institutions.
In 2016, she co-founded the company Poetic Punkers with Faustino Blanchut. In 2021, she created the LOBO Festival, followed by LOBO Zena in 2025, and in the same year inaugurated Congelo – Workspace in Brussels, a permanent space dedicated to the performing arts and the company’s residency venue. Poetic Punkers has presented its creations across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
burning paradise
A woman? A road pirate?
Or a rabbit frozen in the headlights of the car about to hit it?
BURN OUT PARADISE explores the parallel between automotive burnout and burnout syndrome as voluntary and involuntary accumulations of energy. Through the physical hybridization of urban and contemporary movement languages, in dialogue with live sound material, the project addresses solitude as a decisive, individual moment - suspended between the choice to surrender and the choice to fight and move forward. The work adopts a nonconformist approach that expresses resilience, hope, and renewal.
JULIa FaRBER
Julia Farber (she/her) is a performer, choreographer, researcher, and anthropologist born in Mexico and based in Brussels. Active across both the European and Latin American artistic scenes, she continuously builds bridges between cultures, practices, and ways of thinking. Deeply rooted in her Mexican heritage, Julia believes in the transformative power of exchange and in the magic that arises when borders are crossed and different perspectives meet.
She co-organizes Top Floor Festival since its beginning.
Alongside her role at Top Floor, she develops her own artistic and anthropological research through performances and choreographic works in Europe and Mexico, and is the creator of MalaCostumbre a creative research laboratory.
“The devil is everything that is not God, everything that stirs the body: the blues, llanero singing, rock, jazz, yaraví, bomba, cumbia, reggaeton, salsa—everything that is unleashed, the black and the Indian, the cholo, that which awakens the subterranean melody, that is to say, what is seditious within, what rises up. And we must hear this insurrection […] it is there that we find the new listening that will liberate our body from the empire of beauty, that is to say, what will offer us a new way of thinking and a new sensibility.”
Mónica Ojeda - Chamanes eléctricos de la fiesta del sol
SOBRAN
Driven by the devilish rhythms of Cumbia, Sobran is a ritual of reparation that blends mourning and joy in a single gesture.
The five dancers lean into the void left by those who have disappeared, to rekindle memories within their bodies and to shake the weight of injustice.
In conjure with the mothers/ seekers of Latin America, they defy oblivion through vibrant collective dances; thunderous cries and songs of joy; an invitation to uprising and an end to resignation.
Unsubmissive, they shatter the boundaries between themselves to serve a collective need; a profound beat that resists impunity, a surge of pleasure in the face of violence. Everywhere, all the time.
Sobran is a raging breath of fresh air for the right to know and to enjoy.
performers: Florencia Martina, Florencia Papaleo, Paz Moreno, Lola Vera, Valeria Polorena, Julia Farber.
LeIny
Colombian DJ and producer who has brought her project to clubs and festivals across Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, and various European countries. Her sets fuse popular and traditional Latinamerica sonic roots with the intensity of hard bounce and techno, creating an energetic and erotic experience on the dancefloor that invites free and uninhibited movement.
In 2022, she founded Obsession, her party series and label based in Argentina. In 2025, she was a resident at Function Radio Brasil.
In 2022, she founded Obsession, her party series and label based in Argentina. In 2025, she was a resident at Function Radio Brasil.