A unique collaboration between Corpo Máquina Society & Krasis Percussion Group

Assembled for the opening of Tilburg in Motion, 3 Studies on Gesture is a dynamic meeting of music, movement, and improvisation. This special performance explores the intersection of rhythm and movement, bringing together the percussionists of Krasis Percussion Group and the physical artistry of freestyle footballer Rowdy Heinen of Corpo Máquina Society.

Driven by improvisation and framed by three concepts, the performance unfolds in three waves:

• Common Pulse
  Creates a dense, pulsating texture, with each percussionist adding their own layer of color to the space through distinct rhythmic patterns played on a selected set of instruments.

• Disintegration
  Represents the collapse of three high energy concentration points and its subsequent dissolution on the space. 

• Resonance Chaser
  Aims to create a floating sound quality, where sound seems to have no clear beginning or end. Where resonant bodies merge to form shifting timbres and colorful textures.

Throughout the performance Rowdy Heinen responds to and interacts with the live music as he weaves his freestyle football movement into the evolving soundscape.

Choreography: Guilherme Miotto / Performance: Rowdy Heinen / Percussion: Pedro Paixão, Joaquim Osório & Flavio Costa

We’ll combine powerful moves with rhythmic beats, focusing on expression, flow, and dynamic movement. Suitable for all levels, with attention to technique and, most importantly, lots of fun. Come dance and feel the Afro vibes! 

Location: Future Lab

Instinctive performance is designed to cultivate the personal characteristics and impulses of the performers. The workshop consist of assignments emerging from spontaneous and recurrent explorations into embodied cognition. Miotto works from the premise that assumptions about the world are built into the body and the brain and are largely determined by the form of the human body.

Location: Stadsbalkon

This solo dives into the quiet struggle of desiring someone or something that isn’t there. It explores the feeling of reaching out and not finding what you hoped for, while also showing how this emptiness shapes the inner thoughts.

Choreographer: Carmine Vigliotti

Performer: Carmine Vigliotti

Location: Colourful Lamps

Never is a word that should never be used.

Everyone has had at least one thing 

they promised to never do 

and then they did.

Chorographer: Katharina Markschat

Performer: Katharina Markschat

Location: KennisMakerij

I open it and the smell floats in me. 

It drowns the whole house, and its drowned by the sun. 

My mom's routine is now mine, ours.  

Wet clothes. Dry clothes. 

If I see it, if I have you, I have me. 

Choreographers: Rita Barbosa & Bea Santos

Performers: Rita Barbosa & Bea Santos

Location: Stadsbalkon

This intimate dance duet brings the psychological state of trust into tangible movement. How is trust builded and how can it be maintained? To be able to trust is something extremly valuable and essential but often gets lost in our individual society. In the end the question is, which role does trust play for you?

Choreographers: Clara Schönig & Ching Yin Wenig

Performers: Clara Schönig & Ching Yin Wenig

Location: Table on Tracks

Action. Movement imagined. Embodied, and then denied. In a system that fragments identity and restricts motion, how does my body resist? How can I reclaim my body? In Act, Interrupted, Linora explores the weight of waiting, disorientation, and resistance. She invites the audience into a space where time feels heavy, identity fractures and resilience takes form. 

Choreographer: Linora Dinga

Performer: Linora Dinga

Location: Colourful Lamps

Memory Loss Insideis a cinematic translation of the successful performance Memory Loss. It is not a registration, it sketches a new perspective on the third creation from The Memory Loss Collection, the triptych on the theme of dementia.Instead of the regular stage perspective, the film offers the viewer the opportunity to experience the piece through the eyes of the performers. With footage made by cameras on the performers, you are taken on a confusing and alarming journey through a world that falls apart into fragments. In a search for something to hold on to, elements from the original performance pass by like memories.Memory Loss Insidewon theCinedans Performance Relay & Camera Rework Competitionof 2022.

scenario, direction, choreography Ann Van den Broekcast Ann Van den Broek, Frauke Mariën, Louis Combeaud, Nik Rajsek, Marion Bosetti, Jean Gabriel Maury, Carla Guerra, Kamil Pilarski, An Hackselmans, Anthony van Gog, Aryeh Weiner, Isaiah Selleslaghscamera-and direction assistance Bernie van Velzen, Thorsten Alofsediting Bernie van Velzenmusiccomposition Nicolas Rombouts, Gregory Frateur, Ann Van den Broeklyrics Gregory Frateursound recording Dario Giustarinisound mixing and editing Nicolas Rombouts, Studio Caporalvideo and light design Bernie van Velzenset design Niek Kortekaasstyling costumes Marielle Vos, Ann Van den Broekproduction Sophie D’Hooghepremiere October 7, 2020, Nederlandse Dansdagen (NL)Memory Loss Insideis a coproduction of WArd/waRD (NL/BE) with the Dutch Dance Days (NL) and is supported by Podium Bloos (NL).Memory Lossis a WArd/waRD (NL/BE) production, supported by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès (FR) whitinthe framework of the New Settings programme and co-produced by partners Theater Rotterdam (NL) and corso(BE), as well as Theater Freiburg (THE), Podium Bloos (NL) and La Briquetterie (FR). The project has received grants from the Fonds Podiumkunsten (NL), Gemeente Rotterdam (NL), Ammodo (NL), Stichting Dioraphte (NL) and Fonds21 (NL).

Under the title Sunken Works, Ghaliah Conroy is working on a series of works around the theme of the Human Zoo, the 'exotic' exhibitions that took place in Europe well into the 20th century, where people of colour were displayed behind a fence for public viewing. What effect does this history have on black women today? Sunken Works / Don't BITE is a cinematic exploration about looking and being looked at. How do you relate to a gaze that reduces you to a stereotype? And how do you reclaim your autonomy? Ghaliah is collaborating with audiovisual artist CJ Roxas for this research.

Director: Ghaliah Conroy

“Is it me or is it…” is a short dance film that delves into the struggle with self-doubt and inner negativity. A dancer is haunted by this energy within his hand is representing his fears, holding him back as he tries to break free. Through intense movement and release, he fights to regain control over his body and mind, during the day he gains a moment of clarity and self-acceptance but the energy is too strong as it keeps haunting him throughout the day.

Will he overcome the struggle or will he give up?

A Production by CJV Productions

Choreographed, directed, edited, and largely self-filmed by Ryan Ho, this compilation is part of a yearly tradition to reflect on the past year through movement and videography. Conceptualized as an album but with visuals instead of songs, the 8 vignettes were shaped by a feeling of constant transition; to learn to find the moments of comforting stillness within, while also boldly embracing the lack of control it brings. At the same time, the film is a celebration of being able to create with close friends again after a long time apart. 

Maker: Ryan Hoi Kit Ho

Pump and run.

Keys tight between fingers. Sharpness digging into skin. 

Almost forgetting pain. Fear rising from your feet, stuck to your neck like a heavy rock, following your every move. Salty drops of sweat running into the corners of your mouth.

Almost forgetting that the wet, hot metal between your fingers are keys - your refuge, covered in fear, sweat, anger. Security dissolves within seconds.

Alone and numb.

It's your fault. You looked back. Met his eyes. Blushed.

I'd rather say nothing and drown alone.

Sexual violence remains pervasive worldwide yet often is taboo. "Pump and run." explores how to address anger, injustice and intimacy in a performative context.

Concept, Choreography, Performance & Voice: Lili Eva Irmeli Oksanen

Music/Composition: Jenö Sándor, Dezsö Kellér "Nem tudom az életemet" / Dmitri Remesov

Mentoring: Viktor Szeri

At the heart of the work lay countless conversations about urgency, a sort of desire which keeps you fully committed and attuned to your power. In our duet intimacy arises from shared dreams and an almost overpowering lust for life that the other becomes a mirror for. 

Choreographers: Tatiana Śpiewak and Sarah Zechut 

Performers: Tatiana Śpiewak and Sarah Zechut 

Choreographer & Performer: Amber Wijnen

"Door to Nowhere" is an interdisciplinary performance about dreams, combining movement, poetry, and music. It is a journey through various dreamworlds, inspired by the dreams of the performers. In this project, we want to create dimensions other than reality or merging with reality, by using imagination and dreams as the main point of departure. By translating concrete dream narratives to abstract, otherworldly environments, we wish to create a mystical experience through movement, light, and sound, in which the audience can drift away from the mundane and enter the ethereal realm of dreams.

Choreographer: Maria Sartzetaki/Stichting LIMB

Performers: Sameepta Lamba & Anuschka Loose (performance), Piero Conte & Luca Ariello (live music) 

*All the movement material was created in collaboration with the performers. 

Door to Nowhere is made possible thanks to Voordekunst and Het Cultuurfonds Zuid-Holland. 

Roberta Maimone is an Italian choreographer, dancer, and performer based in the Netherlands, renowned for blending theatricality, humor, and physical storytelling. As the founder of Memic Project, she creates immersive performances that combine dance, mime, puppetry, and visual storytelling to explore identity, emotion, and human contradictions. Collaborating closely with composer Clara Cozzolino and illustrator Claudia Quaglia, Roberta’s work "Wonder, Love" delves into themes of love’s impossibility, solitude, and external control, reflecting the essence of her artistic vision. 

Choreographer: Roberta Maimone 

Performer: Roberta Maimone 

Music composition: Clara Cozzolino in collaboration with Brianoize  

Costumes: Roberta Maimone 

Assistant: Giacomo Raffo, Lela Di Costanzo 

The solo 'Extasy' is a dance performance about a dream that gives and takes, about emotions on the edge. It is a dream about love, and about finding the end.

Choreographer & performer: Anna Solomkina

Hidden in every goodbye is a silent welcome. Losses are a matter of life rather than death. Those

who have experienced it, told me that while it hurts at first, they eventually grow through the pain.

These small deaths give birth to new beginnings, and the presence of those absent can fill empty

lives. They fooled us. Don't cry because the sun went down and it’s almost dark; your tears won't

let you see the stars. And still you realize that there is something missing.

Created: by Alexandra Kylerioti 

Performed by: Alba F. Manzanero Francia & Naia Ordorika

Music by Bongjin Jung

SPECIAL CREDITS TO ALL THE PEOPLE who contributed to the creation and made the process more beautiful,to our coach and most importantly to the women who trusted us with their stories. This piece is for you.

Endangered seagrass species posidonia oceanica; a fictional story of a woman; Shot entirely underwater, two parallel stories are connected through cinematography, movement and sound.

Direction: Antis Iakovou & Evie Demetriou

Concept/ Director of Photography/ Filming: Antis Iakovou

Choreography/ Performance: Evie Demetriou

Editing: Emilios Avraam

Music and Sound Design: Christina Georgiou

Advisor: Chysanthi Badeka

Additional Filming (dead posidonia): MAR Lab

Production: En drasi

Sponsored by the Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture

Maker: Evie Demetriou

In the shadowed arches of Barcelona’s ancient Teatre Grec, twin sisters Alёna and Alina wage a silent war against their own reflections. “La Soberbia”—a haunting dance-film chapter of “EL MAPA”—unfolds as a visceral exploration of pride, the deadliest of sins. 

What begins as a mirror-image harmony fractures into a battle for supremacy. Every lift, every fall, every razor-sharp gesture exposes the cost of ego. Can sisterhood survive when pride demands sacrifice? 

With no dialogue, the twins’ ferocious physicality speaks a universal tongue. 

“EL MAPA” isn’t just a film—it’s a map. For those who’ve never wandered Barcelona’s cobblestones or felt the Mediterranean sun, this project tears down walls. The sisters’ bodies become bridges, their art a lens to see the world anew.  

Directed by Alёna & Alina (Teatro Movimiento Anstatuanto)  

Videography & Editing: Inlightfilm Production  

Original Soundtrack: Demian Erasmo (Tangopunk)  

Filmed At: Teatre Grec, Barcelona  Anstattuanto

“À table!” is a short dance film diving into the intimacy of a friendship.

It is a visual poem capturing a golden age, an essence, a peak of cohesion. 

It is about the reunion of friends and what brings them together, a  celebration. 

It is about the thick of ecstasy, the heart of core memories.

Friends of very different appearances, with polarized cultures and  identities, who by some (eccentric?) forces are brought together and  celebrate what they have to share, a common passion, love for one  another and a good meal.

À table!

Eden Manga-Nkoy- Direction and choreography

Kolya Tirado - Co-direction @kolyatirado

Ruben Zonneveld - DOP @RubenZonneveld

Jasen Suen - Camera operator

Tom Van Wee - Music producer 

Tien Lê- Music producer

Ida Osten

Lino Eckenstein

Dagmar Van Dijk

Anaïs Caekenberghe

Teresa Costa

Ella Clayson

Tien Lê

Abiba Sokoto

What if we could use a towel to indicate states of mind, overcome fears or adopt desired attitudes? TOWELISM is a dance film that takes the phrase "throwing in the towel" literally and further. In the style of a dance workout, the film explores communication and power relations using 50 specially designed towels as a physical language. The queen, the loser, the money-maker disturb the synchronised fitness fanaticism. A submissive cat becomes sexy, a political speech is delivered and a fox appears on the shore. Attitudes come and go, power is gained and lost, and as the towel factory churns out more and more towels, a twisted, colourful society unfolds to the beat.

Disclaimer: TOWELISM is a choreographic and audiovisual experience. The short film uses movement and towels as a language. The above narrative is never expressed in words.

Maker: Charlotta Ruth

Tune into our podcast series where creativity takes center stage, featuring engaging conversations with diverse voices from the Tilburg art scene, including artists and creatives like Jade van Hout, Nienke Rooijakkers, CJ Vinalon, and Jason Suen.

SomeBodies is a physical encounter without touch; a disarming experience for the senses that makes you rethink proximity, identity and connection.

An alienating, yet connecting experience, offered by Makershuis Tilburg & DansBrabant, part of Makers Sessions X Tilburg in Motion.

CONCEPT, DIRECTION and TEXT Anna Zurkirchen, Celine Werkhoven

SCENOGRAPHY in collaboration with Jurriaan de Vos

LIGHT DESIGN in collaboration with Heintz&Kop

SOUNDDESIGN Celine Werkhoven

PRODUCTION PARTNERS BestKeptSecret, Dansbrabant, a.o.

Duration: 30 minutes including aftertalk

Two visitors per round.

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Hear us out…. 4 dimensions. Two idiots. One rave….. A tale as old as time itself.  

A sci-fi-espionage-meets-rave-culture performance that catapults the audience through the fourth dimension — a place where time, space, and memory collapse into a surreal, neon-lit fever dream. Lost in the mechanical rhythm of Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday (and Thursday), THE HORROR of waking up late over and over again, trapped in an endless loop of routine. Suddenly, it’s Saturday… again.

Sun salutations at the rave?— Tbh, not that good... but also, kinda epic.

Choreographers: AGENTS & JUICE

Performers: AGENTS & JUICE

Location: Before the Balcony

Choreographer: Aaliyah C. Liboit, Anne J.M. Sandee

Performers: Aaliyah C. Liboit, Anne J.M. Sandee

Location: Stadsbalkon

In Beholder's Eye Karlijn Hu Chuan Roest shares her personal journey of being adopted and explores the coexistence of contrasting experiences. She invites the audience into a world of constant shifts. Shifting perspectives and interpretations. How do you cope with the feeling that your internal truth doesn't align with the external perceptions? 

Choreographer: Karlijn Hu Chuan Roest

Performer: Karlijn Hu Chuan Roest

Location: Table on Tracks

„The Purple Suit 2.0” depicts the ongoing journey of self discovery through ones favourite garment. Accompanied by the musicians the performer is being guided to a different version of themselves found through the connection to the suit. Breaking the elegance she once resonated with the performer now finds herself in a space of daring and letting go, arriving at a certain ease.

Choreographer: Anna Tafel

Performers: Charlotte Schmidt, Abel Ton, Bongjin Jung

Location: Colourful Lamps

Step into the innocent fantasy world in Bauer’s Universe, a performance about immersing oneself in another reality. In this dance theatre piece, you will be following along a humoristic and enchanting story, with a lot of space for your own imagination. You’ll leave, with a hopeful feeling and a smile. 

Choreographer: Klara Mandahl

Performers: Alba F. Manzanero Francia, Laura López Ferrer

Location: KennisMakerij

A call and response between dance, percussion, and Sofia’s paintings—each medium pushing against silence, searching for a way to speak. This piece listens to fear and resilience, to the emotional weight of the political conflict. There is an urge to scream—but when words fail, we ask: how do we witness—and respond?

Choreohgraphers: Anastasia Russkikh, André Neto, Sofia Shilova

Performers: Anastasia Russkikh, André Neto, Sofia Shilova

Location: Colourful Lamps

In this solo version of When Drama Knocks the Door, Helena Araújo explores the boundaries between grief and humour. To do so, she interweaves cabaret style with her own work. The result is an undisguised explosion of emotions in all their chaotic, theatrical glory. From an imaginary emotional crisis centre, When Drama Knocks the Door oscillates between heartbreak and hilarity, embracing the absurdity of grief, joy and everything in between.

In HA, Jana Jacuka explores how to let the voice become an extension of the body. She grunts, screams, speaks while breathing in. Like a ventriloquist, she disconnects her body from her voice and lets the body become the main means of communication. She comes empty-handed. It's just space, her and you, and suddenly HA.

In two different sessions, Levi van der Ceelen aka Kajoinboi teams up with Tilburg-based musician Patrick Sluis for a live experiment. With no set goal and all expectations left out, they reveal the unknown through relentless tweaking of movement and sound. What remains is the space, the instruments, the performers and the audience.

This dance film by choreographer/dancer Tegest Pecht-Guido and composer/videomaker Merijn Bisschops is about feeling conflicting emotions simultaneously. Ecstasy and sadness, loneliness and connection, shame and recognition: how are these ambiguous feelings expressed in our bodies and in music? Intimate, personal and raw, Zwiespalt leaves the viewer in constant tension searching for the expressions of a subcutaneous emotional struggle.

A patchwork of borrowed hands and fingers and your face above the body of another. As you suddenly discover the eye of a stranger under your own eyebrow, the line between “you” and “me” blurs. SomeBodies is an interactive total experience in which Anna Zurkirchen and Celine Werkhoven question and blur the boundaries of the physical body. Within the four walls of a mobile installation, they create an intimate, surreal meeting space in which themes of identity, proximity and perception are made tangible. Can the space between “the self” and “the other” be bridged or perhaps even lifted altogether for a moment?

This sesión is about going back to the basics, rooted in the wisdom of African rhythms, where Groove is the bridge and the Vibe is what brings us together. Let´s enjoy in a space where everyone can show up as they are.

Location: Table on Tracks