For the C-TAKT+ project, C-TAKT is entering into a partnership with six different cultural houses in the area. C-TAKT+ supports artists who work transdisciplinary and is looking for new presentation formulas to spread this type of work more widely. Six cultural houses are committed to including several C-TAKT projects in their programme. In this way, C-TAKT+ forms a network of presentation places with the main objective of broadening the support for current performing arts. It is a tool for a diverse cultural offering and a search for a new audience.

The six cultural houses participating in this adventure are: CC MUZE (Heusden-Zolder), CC Palethe (Pelt), de Bogaard (Sint-Truiden), CC de Werft (Geel), CCHA (Hasselt) and C-mine (Genk) . The C-TAKT+ program for the autumn of 2023 can be found in this brochure. You can buy tickets on the respective website of the cultural center where the performance will take place.

Calender spring 2024

A deluded state of mind – Liesbet Hermans (workshop)
januari 20, 2024 – 10.00 – C-mine, Genk
januari 26, 2024 – 10.00 – C-mine, Genk

Limp – Ugo Dehaes
februari 10, 2024 – 20.15 – CC MUZE, Heusden-Zolder
march 8, 2024 – 20u15 – de Werft, Geel

Finding Willard – Tom Struyf
februari 29, 2024 – 20.00  – CCHA, Hasselt

The making of Berlin – Berlin/Yves Degryse
march 15, 2024 – 20u30 – CC Palethe, Pelt

TH LNG GDBY – Tuur Marinus
march 16, 2024 – 20.00 – CCHA, Hasselt

FOON – dOFt
march 10, 2024 – 14.00 – CCHA, Hasselt
march 16, 2024 – 19.00 – de Bogaard, Sint-Truiden
march 28, 2024 – 13u30 – CC MUZE, Heusden-Zolder

A deluded state of mind – Liesbet Hermans (première)
april 27, 2024 – 14.00/17.00/20.00 – C-mine
april 28, 2024 – 14.00/17.00/20.00 – C-mine

Programma

A deluded state of mind – Liesbet Hermans (workshop)

januari 20, 2024 – 10.00
C-mine, Genk

januari 26, 2024 – 10.00
C-mine, Genk

Info & tickets: c-mine.be

You know that feeling when your head is going too fast and your body is going too slow? Do you sometimes find it difficult to silence your inner critic? Do your thoughts never give you a second of peace?

Those who immediately breathed three sighs of relief may have the ideal profile for Liesbet Hermans’ research workshop in the context of a new performance. Fascinated by all the thoughts that occupy us, in ‘A deluded state of mind’ she examines the relationship between our body and our mind: which judgments, expectations and fears are hidden within us, and are they unique or similar to those of others? ?

The actual performance will premiere in Genk on April 27 & 28.

Limp – Ugo Dehaes

februari 10, 2024 – 20.15
CC MUZE, Heusden-Zolder
Info & tickets: muze.be

maart 8, 2024 – 20u15
de Werft, Geel
Info & tickets: dewerft.be

Choreographer Ugo Dehaes has been researching the role of robots in dance performances for several years. For example, in ‘Arena’ he let the audience manipulate and judge robots themselves and in ‘Simple Machines’ he trained robots to become dancers and choreographers. In ‘Limp’, the third part of this research, Ugo returns to his earlier fascination with the human body and starts from the interaction between people and technology.

“Limp” is a duet between a one-legged dancer, robot technology and specially developed artificial intelligence (AI).

At first glance it seems as if the technology helps the dancer on their feet. It provides him with (aids such as) crutches and a prosthesis and teaches him movements by demonstrating them with robots. A computer films how the dancer performs these new movements and analyzes them. He then uses this – with the help of AI – to create a choreography that the dancer can perform. As technology and AI continue to emerge, we tend to overlook its shortcomings. At the same time, we are less tolerant of physical or mental limitations in people. Although ‘Limp’ explores the fascination with technology as a support system, it also raises questions about its necessity.

Choreography: Ugo Dehaes in collaboration with artificial intelligence & David Framba // Dance: David Framba // Dramaturgy: Marie Peeters // Music: Roeland Luyten // Lighting design: Arne Lievens // Video technology: Gertjan Biasino // Computational Creativity: Prof. Wiggins (The AI Experience Center – VUB) // Preparatory research: Alexander Craens // Production: bad blood // Co-production: C-TAKT, Perpodium & STUK // Distribution: Vincent Company // With the support of the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government // With thanks to Axiles Bionics, Danserie, De Factorij, Destelheide, Het Gasthuis The AI Experience Center & 30CC // Research with the support of Participatory Partner Projects of the Flemish Community // Bad blood is structurally supported by VGC

Finding Willard – Tom Struyf

februari 29, 2024 – 20.00 
CCHA, Hasselt
Info & tickets: ccha.be

In the winter of 2018, theater maker Tom Struyf is traveling in the US and accidentally arrives in a small village near the border with Canada. Willard sits on the shores of a vast lake, in the shadow of a former mental institution. Driven by a personal issue, a chance encounter with a special landscape and a tiny church community results in a compelling trip, in which Struyf’s personal story becomes intertwined with that of Willard.

Finding Willard is a travel story, a personal quest about construction and decline, care and community. It is a multimedia, cinematic performance in which Struyf connects his fascination for a place and the people who live there with a personal event and thus constructs a new story.

concept & game Tom Struyf // co-creation Fien Leysen & Willem De Maeseneer // camera & editing Geert De Vleesschauwer & Fien Leysen // music Bert Hornikx // design Ina Peeters & Jolan Moonen // technical supervision Geert De Vleesschauwer // technology Geert De Vleesschauwer & Bregt Janssens // production Tatiana Aarons vzw // co-production Het Zuidelijk Toneel, NTGent, C-TAKT, NEXT Festival, Production House TR, detheatermaker, kc deSingel, cc de Werft Geel & cc De Grote Post Oostende // © Clara Hermans / / tomstruyf.be

dOFt – Foon

march 10, 2024 – 14.00
CCHA, Hasselt
Info & tickets: ccha.be

march 16, 2024 – 19.00
de Bogaard, Sint-Truiden
Info & tickets: debogaard.be

march 28, 2024 – 13u30
CC MUZE, Heusden-Zolder
Info & tickets: muze.be

In FOON we follow three telephone operators at the switchboard: channel in and out, more, faster, without stop, never enough. The hurriedness of the phone calls creates a nervous atmosphere. The more wires they connect, the more they lose themselves. Until… they overheat. Those who always connect people are obliged to connect with each other.

FOON is a dynamic, surprising and playful dance theater performance where text, movement, music, acrobatics and installation work merge. Choreographer Piet Van Dycke & theater maker Jonas Vermeulen, together with three physical players, create a poetic and visual experience for everyone from 6 years old about the (r)evolution from I-them to we.

choreography Piet Van Dycke // text & direction Jonas Vermeulen // dance & play Jotka Bauwens, Michèle Even & Sarah Vingerhoets // dramaturgy Marie Peeters // music Jonas Vermeulen & Koen Brouwers // scenography Erki De Vries // costumes Elise Goedgezelschap // light Raf Wouters // co-production HET LAB, C-TAKT & 30CC // with thanks to de Warande, C-mine, deRUIMTE & Destelheide // doft.be

The making of Berlin – Berlin/Yves Degryse

march 15, 2024 – 20u30
CC Palethe, Pelt 
Info & tickets: palethe.be

After a performance of Zvizdal during the Berliner Festspiele, the makers of BERLIN meet a brave elderly German. They start talking and are fascinated by his unlikely path in life. A few conversations and weeks later they decide to hang the last part of their Holocene cycle, in which they make various city portraits, on him.

‘The making of Berlin’ is a portrait of a city, built around the exceptional story of a Berliner who worked as an orchestra director at the Berliner Philharmoniker. A man who would love to go back in time to complete an unfinished chapter of his life. BERLIN, with the help of the orchestra of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, radio station Klara and the German actor Martin Wuttke, is committed to helping the man realize his dream. However, they gradually find cracks in his story and the entire project is jeopardized.

TH LNG GDBY – Tuur Marinus

march 16, 2024 – 20.00
CCHA, Hasselt
Info & tickets: ccha.be

For TH LNG GDBY, Marinus departs from the legendary farewell concert The long goodbye by electro-rock band LCD Soundsystem by James Murphy in 2011 in Madison Square Garden in New York.

While nine dancers interweave their bodies into complex choreographic tapestries of movement, they use vocal sounds to create sound patterns in which abstracted versions of the songs from the original concert resonate. The result is a visual performance, simultaneously elegant and clumsy, lyrical and stuttering, precise and indeterminate.

TH LNG GDBY is both a tribute to a great moment in pop history and an intriguing reflection on past and new ways of intense togetherness.

choreography Tuur Marinus // dance & performance Machias Bosschaerts, Hernán Mancebo Martinez, Flup Marinus, Samuel Baidoo, Pierre Bastin, Júlia Godino Llorens, Margot Masquelier, Mery Thi Coopman & Marah Haj Hussein // understudy auline Thuriot // assistant choreography Samuel Baidoo / / dramaturgy Ariadna Estalella Alba // music coach Kobe Proesmans // costumes Sietske Van Aerde, Frauke Van Aerde, Samuel Baidoo & Tuur Marinus // lighting Rik Suijs // technical assistant Flup Marinus // production Opening Hours // co-production Cultuurcentrum Brugge, C- TAKT, CAPE Ostend/Bruges, STUK Leuven, WorkSpaceBrussels & Het Laatste Bedrijf // thanks to C o r s o & wpZimmer // © Liesbet Peremans // tuurflupmarinus.com

A deluded state of mind – Liesbet Hermans (première)

april 27, 2024 – 14.00/17.00/20.00
C-mine, Genk

april 28, 2024 – 14.00/17.00/20.00
C-mine, Genk

Info & tickets: cmine.be

In a deluded state of mind, an intimate performance in public space, Liesbet Hermans and her performers investigate the relationship between our body and our mind. We all have similar thought patterns, but how much impact do they have on our lives? And what would happen if we gave those thoughts the attention they crave?

Join us on an intriguing walk through the city. Through headphones you listen to the thoughts of the people you follow: you hear their ideas about themselves, about their place in the world, about the world, humanity. Silences and spontaneous associations alternate in an ongoing dialogue. By going out together, we discover our own thinking tendencies and a shared feeling of being together is created. Or are we just lonely individuals?