Dance Among the Water Lilies

Monday January 19, 2026 - 7.00pm, 8.30pm

John Scott Dance Company & Kashyl Company-Ashley Chen, Cunningham Solos
The American choreographer Merce Cunningham began his career as a modern dancer when he was 20 years old, spending six years as a soloist with the Martha Graham Dance Company. He presented his first public recital in 1944 and formed the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1953, enabling him to experiment and implement his innovative concepts. 
Over the course of his career, he choreographed more than 150 pieces and over 800 events. Dancers who trained with him before going on to found their own companies include Paul Taylor, Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, Karole Armitage... and John Scott and Ashley Chen, both of whom have been invited to give a “dance concert” with four performers.

Monday February 16, 2026 - 7.00pm, 8.30pm

Tiran Willemse, Untitled (Nostalgia, Act 3). Gallery version
Tiran Willemse has developed a performance-based practice that pays special attention to space, imagination, movement and sound. By focusing on the way in which they are connected with constructions of race, gender and memory. In Untitled (Nostalgia Act 3), he calls forth a complex legacy in which the precision of movements that have made their escape from the ballet Giselle gradually make way for the energy of urban African dances.

Monday March 16, 2026 - 7.00pm, 8.30pm

Dovydas Strimaitis – Compagnie Still Waiting, Hairy 2.0
For Dovydas Strimaitis, who made a name for himself in France as a dancer with (La) Horde at the Marseille National Ballet, as well as with Dalila Belaza, hair driven by centrifugal force has become a symbol of freedom, defying contexts of imposed values, whether political, cultural or sensual. A choreographic piece for a dancer and their hair, Hairy 2.0 is a hypnotic experience on gyration and taking flight, taking the dancer to the very limits of physical performance.

Monday April 13, 2026 - 7.00pm, 8.30pm

Emmanuel Eggermont, L’Anthracite About Love and Death (elegy for Raimund Hoghe)
This danced elegy expresses the iconographic and musical palette developed by Raimund Hoghe, a choreographer who was also Pina Bausch’s dramaturge, along with the populated kinesthesia of EmmanuelEggermont’s imagination. From the fantasy of a dreamed fauna to the syncopated ardor of a Josephine Baker, Eggermont’s evocations proliferate as he recomposes this emotional world with extraordinary finesse. A vibrant invitation to (re)discover the work of a vanished choreographer through one of its most faithful interpreters.

Monday MAy 11, 2026 - 7.00pm, 8.30pm

Armin Hokmi, Of the Heart - An etude
Following the “revelation” provided by Shiraz (2024), a group piece that summons up residual memories of works included in the Shiraz-Persepolis Arts Festival in the 1970s, Armin Hokmi, a young Iranian choreographer living in Berlin, offers us “an etude” titled Of the Heart – An etude. In search of a “dance that emerges from an impulse” and which “can be imagined as something that comes in response to an environment”, in this case, the choreographer has chosen to make use of the solo form, performed simultaneously by two dancers.

Monday June 8, 2026 - 7.00pm, 8.30pm

Pol Pi, Schönheit ist Nebensache or Beauty is Incidental
Conceived as a dialogue between Paul Hindemith’s Sonata for Solo Viola op.25 no.1, the five fundamental human affects in the German choreographer Dore Hoyer’s Afectos humanos cycle, created between 1959 and 1962, and Pol Pi himself, these five uncluttered, extraordinarily sensitive solos address the question of artistic creation and censorship under totalitarian regimes. 
Five years after he created his piece, Pol Pi has given it a new body, proving that the works of the two German artists still have much to express.