MAKERSDAG
During this Makers' Day, a generation of emerging creators takes over KVS. Visitors will get to experience surprising works in progress that are young and still developing, but eager to present themselves to an audience. The presentations will take place from the afternoon until the evening, allowing you to see all the works in sequence. Immerse yourself in a generation of rising talent and discover what the future of performing arts has in store!
PROGRAM
Dreaming in Blue – Mimi Wascher
14:00 – 14:30
In Dreaming in Blue, Mimi creates a shape-shifting world where various entities (human and non-human) seek companionship, attempt to merge, and are stripped of their identities. With humor and abstraction, and inspired by the poetic and feminist ideas in Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, Mimi explores how the color blue can become a space for escaping coded identities and simplifications, instead making room for the complexity of our needs and desires. “But what goes on in you when you talk about colour as if it were a cure, when you have not yet stated your disease.” (M. Nelson – Bluets)
Mimi Wascher is a performing artist (primarily dance) and creator, working at the intersection of visual and performing arts. Through a feminist philosophy, she seeks to create space for the complexity of meanings that a body and its actions can hold.
Porous – Pierre Bastin
15:00 – 15:00
Porous draws inspiration from various aspects of ecological movements, from exploring ideas in Baptiste Morizot’s Manière d’être vivant to drawing from experiences in acts of civil disobedience. This duet examines how we can connect in a world that has lost its sensitivity. By investigating ways to reconnect with ourselves and others, it explores existing approaches to rediscover sensitivity and knowledge. Porous incorporates written text and movement in an attempt to find meaning in an unreadable future.
Pierre Bastin (he/him) is a Belgian artist and activist, crafting new perspectives and sensitivities surrounding climate change and social justice.
LIEF (VIERLUIK 2) – Arthur Decock
17:00 – 17:50
There is no act more human than entering a romantic relationship. Nothing is more beautiful, intense, or inherently terrifying than opening oneself to another in the hope of finding "wholeness" through unity. One plus one makes two, and two is complete. What does it fundamentally mean to form a relationship? Why do we spend our lives yearning for this union with another person? And what does it signify when we achieve it? In LIEF (the second part of a four-part monologue series on fundamental human emotions), love is rendered in language, capturing its chaotic, raw, messy, sticky, and warm totality.
Arthur Decock (he/him) seeks to articulate the darker, messier layers of humanity in his performances, writings, and audio works.
WHACK NOT?! (working title) – Carla Parcianello
18:30 – 19:00
Let your intrusive thoughts flow. Why not? Whack not? This piece presents a physically exhausting journey of rediscovery through the club dance style Whacking. Two dancers navigate the depths of space in an effort to find their identity and inscribe the biography of their friendship.
Carla Parcianello (she/her) is a dancer whose movement research deconstructs her urban dance background into an abstract language, which she applies in theater and performance art.
Cozy vibes guaranteed
Come meet these creators of tomorrow and stick around. We’ll provide a small bite: soup with bread for €5 and a slice of cake for €3.
Want to discover even more new work?
In 2025, Platform In De Maak, in collaboration with STUK and OPEK, will organize a festival in Leuven where the final works of seventeen creators will be showcased. Stay informed through their website.
