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.