An international symposium about alternative ways of documenting and (an)archiving dance by STUK, Life Long Burning and Counterpoint KU Leuven.

Re:wind - Expanding Documentation invites artists, scholars, dancers, archivists, heritage workers and activists to chart, critically reflect on and expand the idea of dance documentation. Highlighting the essential role of documentation in the transmission of dance, the symposium investigates how dance is translated, mediated, disseminated, and transformed into material and immaterial forms and how these forms actively shape the afterlives, meanings, and historiographies of dance.

The Choreographic Convention #3 is taking place from 26–30 April in Leuven, Belgium, hosted by STUK, co-hosted by Agora, Cité internationale de la Danse. 

Archive stories or Dancing Neurons, Laughing Cells! / Denise Luccioni: Since the mid-1970s, Denise Luccioni has worked as an assistant, tour or production manager, curator, and translator, and been both a firsthand witness and a close collaborator of some of the key figures in an evolving performing arts scene on both sides of the Atlantic.

Marc Vanrunxt and his first-year Drama students at KASK bring their open class to STUK.

The festive opening of Body of Work 2026 - Re:pertoire.

On the opening night, you’ll fully experience what the festival stands for: how dance continues to reinvent itself in diverse and dynamic ways. After months of rehearsals, five non-professional dance groups from Dansstroom take the stage with their favorite pieces of dance repertoire. The girls from the dance performance GIRLS by fABULEUS return to the dance floor after 13 years, this time as adult women. That same evening, you can be the first to explore the exhibition in STUK Studio featuring audience memories, a video series, and podcast corners with stories from dancers.

Collective archive of the audience: STUK was looking for dance memories.

The Body of Work podcast explores the questions that arise when working with repertoire through interviews with dancers. During the festival, listening corners will be set up in the STUK Studio and the Vitrine where you can discover the podcast. 

Out of Context - for Pina by Alain Platel / laGeste: This iconic performance takes a deep dive into the depths of human existence.

In Lausanne, the festival Le Priontemps de Sévelin is taking place from 5 to 22 March. Apart from a vivid performance programme being offered, Arsenic invited to a Life Long Burning meeting, which includes a three days watch-and-talk programme for our Creative Crossroads artists, led by Max Léo Hauri.

Fani Pozidi teaches a workshop from 10–13 February at Tala Ple(j)s in Zagreb. She is nominated by STUK Leuven for an Artistic Exchange Residency at Antisezona. On 21 February she presents a showing.

Héctor Espuela Pablo is part of Tour Through Tanztage! In the frame of Capacity Grid, STUK Leuven nominated her for this peer to peer event which takes place during Tanztage Berlin. Further participants Lydia Touliatou, emeka ene, Black Pearl de Almeida Lima and Thiago Rosa.

On Thursday, 3 April 2025 Anna Karenina Lambrechts – Creative Crossroads artist of cycle two – premieres her first solo From Gravity to Grace at STUK Leuven! 

Enkidu Kaled & Mara Nedelcu are at STUK Leuven in the frame of an Artistic Exchange Residency with 4Culture. Storytelling through generations is a rresearch process focused on trauma perpetuation and artistic tools of healing. 

Blue Moon Spring by Anneleen Keppens is shown again! This time in Deinze, Belgium. This production was made with the support of our programme Creative Crossroads.

Enkidu Kaled & Mara Nedelcu are at STUK Leuven in the frame of an Artistic Exchange Residency with 4Culture. Storytelling through generations is a rresearch process focused on trauma perpetuation and artistic tools of healing. 

During ChoreoCon 2024 we introduced the artist of the second cycle – her's a sneak peek, more details will follow next year.

Hold yr ache 2 my ache by Zeynab Kirikou Gueye and Lau Lukkarila premieres on 22 November at Tanzquartier Wien! The piece was (also) developed during the Creative Crossroads residencies at STUK Leuven and Workshop Foundation.

Mean Time Between Failures, the Helsinki-based experimental dance and performance art collective of Dash Che and Suvi Tuominen. During their Artistic Exchange Residency at STUK, MTBF will work with sound designer Oula Rytkönen, who is a long-term collaborator of the collective. They will focus on dramaturgical and choreographic development of a new dance piece called DOWN BEAT.

Dan Mussett is in residence at 4Culture in Bucharest. He is working on a new performance called Fully Automated Luxury Dancing! in which he invites local freelance dancers to each show to re-enact situations from a freelance dancer's life: auditions, classes, rehearsals. In doing so, it attempts to expose and pick apart the micro-politics of the art world, and to question the power dynamics inside it.

Hold yr ache 2 my ache by Zeynab Kirikou Gueye and Lau Lukkarila premieres in October in Helsinki! The piece was (also) developed during the Creative Crossroads residencies at STUK Leuven and Workshop Foundation.

Belgian dance producer from STUK Leuven – Fien Aerts – joins ImPulsTanz in the course of our programme Outsetters Abroad. Welkom!

Our Finnish network partner Moving in November is currently looking for artists who are eager to visit STUK Leuven in November for an Artistic Exchange Residency. 

Applications are open until 28 June!

Lau Lukkarila, Zeynab Kirkou Gueye and Marika Peura are currently in residence in Belgium, working on their upcoming project Hold yr ache 2 my ache at STUK Leuven.

This weekend Festival Programme Commun is kicking off in Lausanne! Apart from a vivid performance programme Arsenic invited to a Life Long Burning meeting, which includes a three days watch-and-talk programme for our Creative Crossroads artists, led by Ysaline Rochat.

Blue Moon Spring by Anneleen Keppens is invited to Brussels and is shown at the In Movement Festival in March.

Anneleen Keppens' piece Blue Moon Spring is invited to !BRAND! Jazz festival.

Anneleen Keppens' piece Blue Moon Spring is shown at CC Spil at Roeselare.

Anneleen Keppens' piece Blue Moon Spring is shown the frame of Jazz Brugge 2023.

Our Croatian partner Divert is co-funding Anneleen Keppens new production Blue Moon Spring. 

Creative Crossroad artist Anneleen Keppens is premiering her piece Blue Moon Spring at STUK Leuven!