Arts Center Berkenrijs in Antwerp proudly presents its very first Butoh Open Stage.
For the first time, our space becomes a meeting ground for Butoh artists and audiences.
This inaugural edition invites performers to explore the raw and poetic language of the body.
Emerging and experienced dancers will share short works in an intimate setting.
The open stage offers a platform for experimentation, risk, and artistic dialogue.
Butoh, with its depth and transformative power, takes center stage for one special evening.
We aim to create a supportive environment for bold and authentic expression.
This event marks the beginning of what we hope will become a recurring tradition.
Join us in celebrating movement, presence, and the unseen stories within the body.
Be part of this first step into a new chapter at Arts Center Berkenrijs.
Our program
20h Evelien Alexiou – Echoes
A moment where the echoes of past experiences get a place in the body.
Matteo La Porta – RELITTI
The title means wreckage. What’s left of a body once you take away the
costume, the name, the social role.
Tessy Bauer – Para-doxa
Para-doxa is an improvised solo that adapts to the space it inhabits,
created without a predefined dramaturgy. It explores an inner space
where contradictions and ambiguities coexist and are carried into the
dance as a hidden force. The body becomes a shifting landscape,
moving between fragile slowness and raw, sometimes grotesque surges.
The piece unfolds in the present, in dialogue with the environment and
audience, as the body turns into a porous surface for projections and
tensions.
Camille Rasera – White
From nothing to something – just for an instant or a life.
Passing through forms, accompanied by schift in the color of the atmosphere.
21h00 break
21h30 CieMess – Resonant Bodies
with Célia Tort Pujol(Hobo&performance), Elles Grzybek
(sound&performance), Michael Lazic(sound&performance)
All three performers produce sound and perform distinct movements
inspired by the sculptural works of Anthony Gormley. Their bodies
become living extensions of these forms, exploring space, weight, and
stillness through sound and motion
Maruska Ronchi – IMPERFECTA
There are ancient presences that live within us like embers beneath
the skin, unseen yet watchful.
Their fire teaches us to remember what time has tried to extinguish.
An untamed knowledge, once condemned, still flows warm through
our veins.
Every gesture becomes a rite, every breath a spark that calls them
back.
Date: 23 APR
Hour: 20h
Location: Arts center Berkenrijs
Lodewijk Mortelmansstraat 13
2610 Wilrijk
If you want to watch the performances please register.
Entrance: free gift

Butoh Open Stage
Whispers from the Inner Landscap

