Bavo Buys / Wild Narcissus

Bavo Buys (°1998) is an actor, performer, model, and theatre maker. They combine sharp linguistic skill with dynamic performance and strong physicality. Bavo first appeared as a performer in 2018 in Paradise Now (1968-2018) by Michiel Vandevelde and fABULEUS. In 2019, after earning a secondary teaching degree in Dutch and English, they began drama studies at KASK Ghent, graduating in 2024. Bavo has performed in Up Your Ass (nominated for Best Acting Performance <35 and winner for Best Ensemble), Elektra: Unbound, Oh Deer, and The Truthful. Their graduation piece Planet Winter (with Maliqa Fye) was shown at CAMPO and KVS.

Wild Narcissus, the first part of their Dark Personality Trilogy, is a neo-mythical, manipulative, semi-personal metasolo centred on Narcissus, their new alter ego. Here, Bavo unleashes their worst sides on the audience, as both a critique and celebration of a highly narcissistic society.

Izah Hankammer

Izah Hankammer is a Filipino-German dance performer, actress, and choreographer. She graduated from Fontys School of the Arts in 2020, where she began creating short works under moOv, a makers’ duo with Lucas Devroe. She has worked as a dancer/performer with Meyer-Chaffaud, United Cowboys, and Nicole Beutler Projects, and acted in films such as Doll House (Netflix/Marla Ancheta) and Als Uw Gat Maar Lacht (Dick Verdult). Since 2021, she has been working in Belgium as a dancer/performer for Action Zoo Humain, co-creating choreography for Perzen in 2024.

Her project THE TIME IT TAKES is a dance-and-drum performance that asks: whose time holds the most value? Through movement, voice, text, live drums, and electronics, she unpacks colonial and capitalist systems that define the worth of a human lifetime, and reveals the unequal ways time is experienced and the coping mechanisms created to survive this commodification.

Gökhan Kızılbuğa

Gökhan Kızılbuğa was born in Sledderlo, Genk, as the child and grandchild of Kurdish guest worker miners from Turkey. After years of working in various manual jobs, he abandoned the notion that theatre was not a place for a migrant and pursued his dream. He graduated from the RITCS School of Arts in Brussels with a Master’s in drama directing and writing. During his studies, he travelled to Brazil, where his artistic explorations helped shape his current multidisciplinary approach. His work, combining theatre, visual art, and performance, addresses themes of migration and social inequality. Using personal stories, he challenges stereotypes and explores the tension between connection and displacement.

Es Kamen Menschen An is a solo theatre performance that challenges the Western post-colonial perspective on guest worker migration. From within a transparent gauze cube, the performance confronts the audience with systematic dehumanisation through personal experiences and archival material.

Aday Morales

Aday Morales is a multidisciplinary artist from Tenerife, currently based in Ghent. He blends hip hop, contemporary dance, and raw storytelling to explore themes of identity, resistance, and belonging. His work draws from his Canarian roots, family ties, and sharp social critique. Active in freestyle hip hop, acting, and modelling, Aday creates from struggle.

Mencey Loco is a solo dance piece that revives the last battle of the Guanches, the Indigenous people of the Canary Islands, against Spanish colonisation. Inspired by a censored album by Los Sabandeños, the performance fuses Canarian folk music with urban dance. It channels ancestral resistance and critiques today’s mass tourism and cultural loss, connecting past and present through rhythm and movement.

Hannah Jamin Zaouad

Hannah Jamin Zaouad, also known as Hahahana, enjoys worrying, musings, and their cat. These thoughts (not the cat) are expressed across poetry, film, theatre, and collages, often all at once. In their work, Hannah seeks to understand events in their surroundings through a political lens.

hoe zeg je “je kom terug”? investigates the position of the Rif diaspora in Morocco’s Rif region. Has it become a tourist? And what is the impact of “return tourism” on the Rif’s landscape, climate, and language? Searching for their own place in the region of their roots, but without speaking the language, Hannah brings together film, interviews, and poetry. The aim is not to untangle this complexity, but to make part of it visible.

Josefien Cornette & co

Josefien Cornette, Kwinten Van Heden, Mira Bryssinck, Sander Deckx, and Nirmala Coppejans are (theatre) makers, each with their own experience of disability. While they each have their own artistic practice, they collaborate on a shared piece of collective history. André Vandorpe and Luca Fazioli (Mojo & The Kitchen Brothers) are musicians.

HERT is the Decameron of hospital stories: five makers/performers share their collective history of growing up in UZ Pellenberg. Stories of fawns, corridor labs, and lost parents unfold in a space transformed into a waiting room.

Eleni Roberts & Vladimir Babinchuk

Eleni Roberts Kazouri and Vladimir Babinchuk are a Brussels-based duo working across choreography, performance, visual arts, and socio-political research. Graduates of P.A.R.T.S. (2022), they have worked with various artists in Belgium and abroad, while developing their own performative language around contemporary forms of resistance. Their work engages with visual and sonic archives, reinterpreted through choreographic practice.

dark waves (working title) explores how revolt against militarisation, nationalism, and state violence has been replaced by submission. They dance in stray steps that reject the system’s demand for choreographed loyalty.

Linora Dinga

Linora Dinga is a Russian-Congolese performing artist based in Brussels. Her multicultural background shapes her artistic expression, where the body becomes a vessel for cultural narratives, transcending borders while exploring relationships with oneself, others, and the world. As a performer and co-creator, she has contributed to numerous projects. Her solo Act, Interrupted was presented at Ithaka Festival and Tilburg in Motion Festival.

Act, Interrupted IV follows four women held in an immigration detention centre, where time moves differently and loss has no grave. Inspired by ancient mourning traditions from Egypt and Greece, the performance moves between reality and myth, unfolding through cycles of movement, absurdity, resistance, memory, and the desire not to disappear.