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The International Shakespeare Festival returns to Craiova (Romania) for its 15th edition, themed “WILL matters.” Ophelia-s has been selected for the official programme.

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In March 2026, the Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté will be performing in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg

25.+26.03.2026 - Escher Theater, Esch-sur-Alzette

Les nouvelles hallucinations de Lucas Cranach l'Ancien
https://theatre.esch.lu/event/les-nouvelles-hallucinations-de-lucas-cranach-lancien/

27.03.2026 - CineDans Festival, Amsterdam

BALEINES
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On 3 February 2026, before the performance of Whispers, the film Intempéries will be screened at 7.15 pm in the Salle L'Envers.

On Friday 6 February, before the performance of Histoire de l'imposture, the film Rien de réel and its Making of will be screened at 7.15 pm in the Salle L'Envers.

Admission is free for the films screened on both evenings. The meeting point is at 7 p.m. at the Les Tanneurs theatre (a group transfer to the L'Envers theatre will be organised).

Dramatic writing by material

In March and April 2026, the Mossoux-Bonté Company will welcome La Compagnie Mots de tête, guardian of Philippe Genty's educational corpus, at their studio L'Envers.

The workshop ‘Dramatic writing by material’, led by Nancy Rusek, Éric de Sarria and Marie-Julie Communaut, focuses on the development of materials in relation to their manipulation, listening to one’s own body in movement and in connection with musicality.

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Nicole Mososux and Patrick Bonté will be giving improvisation workshops and introduction courses in dance on the 24th March 2026 at Escher Theater in Luxemburg. 

From the 8th until the 13th September 2025, Nicole Mossoux and Patrick Bonté will be giving a workshop for professional performers with Vilma Pitrinaitė at the Arts Printing House in Vilnius, organized by Kosmos Theatre. 

Before The latest hallucinations of Lucas Cranach the Elder performs at Charleville-Mézières festival on 22-23rd Sept, you can catch BALEINES in Porto Alegre until 21st Sept, in Bucharest on 12th Sept, in Roma on 18th Sept 2025, in Thessaloniki on 28th Sept. 

From 4^th August to 15^th September 2025, a series of pictures from the book Danser, une histoire, published by Contredanse, will be exhibited at square De Brouckère during Brussels Dance Festival. The book and the exhibition retrace a century of contemporary dance in Belgium and the Company is part of it... + more info

BALEINES just received the best videodance award at D’Olhar – Itinerant Dance and Video Festival in Goiânia. 

From 3 to 6 June 2025, Patrick Bonté and Nicole Mossoux will be holding a four-day workshop in their studio in Brussels to explore the relationship between movement and stage presence.

This workshop is meant for performers (dance, theatre, circus, puppetry) with several years of dance or physical theatre practice. Speaking French is required. To register, please send a CV, motivation letter and video links of your work to Manon Dumonceaux by 13 April.

Price €380 (with support from Fonds 304 for people working in French-speaking Belgium; please get in contact with us for a revised fee if you cannot apply for the Fonds 304 grant). 

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From 11 to 14 February 2025, Patrick Bonté and Nicole Mossoux will be holding a four-day workshop in their studio in Brussels to explore the relationship between movement and stage presence... + more info

To register, please send a curriculum vitae, motivation letter and video links of your work to Manon Dumonceaux by 31 December. Price €380 (with support from Fonds 304 for people working in French-speaking Belgium; please get in contact with us for a revised fee if you cannot apply for the Fonds 304 grant ; speaking French is required). 

If you need a space to rehearse, our studio can be rented during certain periods. Feel free to contact us... + more info

On the 27^th November 2024, Nicole Mossoux will give a conference at the University of Lille (CEAC) as part of the research day about “Animating matter, suggesting disquieting presences. Thinking and using light in puppetry”. 

Between the 12^th and the 18^th December 2024, the Théâtre Les Tanneurs in Brussels will stage the première of the re-creation of the production first created in 1990 in Tilburg under the title De ultieme gevoelens van Lucas Cranach de Oude.

On the 14^th December, Patrick Bonté will be giving a workshop for all audiences at the Théâtre Les Tanneurs. After a moment of discussion and sharing of production secrets, he will invite you to experiment with the notion of the tableau vivant used in the Company's productions.

Nicole Mossoux will be giving a workshop on the 16^th December at L'Autre ‘lieu’ - R.A.P.A. (Action Research on Psychiatry and Alternatives), where she will be inviting participants to experiment with the choreographic vocabulary of the Company's work.

Les Arrière-Mondes received the Overall Art Award from TÁNC Nemzetközi Kortárs Fesztivál in Veszprém. It was the Company's first ever tour in Hungary on the 31^st May 2024.

The Company is about to hit the road for its first ever tour in Hungary. Les Arrière-Mondes will be performed in Vespzrém on the 31^st May 2024 at A tánc fesztiválja, before heading towards Slovenia for a performance on the 5^th June 2024 in Maribor at festival Borštnikovo srečanje. 

On the 15-17^th May 2024, the Company invited a dozen performers from the living arts scene to discover its modes of research, improvisation and composition during a workshop in its studio in Brussels. A second workshop will take place on the 3-5^th July 2024. 

On the 10^th April 2024 at 6pm Nicole Mossoux will be talking to Anna Ivanova about visual theatre and The Great He-Goat in particular. The meeting, organised by the French Institute in St Petersburg, will take place on Zoom with simultaneous translation into Russian (and broadcasted live on social networks and Youtube). For more information.

From the 14^th until the 29^th March, Nicole Mossoux will be working with Frédéric Dussenne's drama class from the Arts² Conservatoire de Mons, on an exploration of stage presence, the relationship between the living and the inanimate, between distance and embodiment, acting and movement, in the complexity and depth of being on stage.

After welcoming Léa Vinette in residency in January 2024 with her project Nos FEUX, in April 2024, the Company will host Sarah Gérodez for a week who will be working on her project Echo(s).

Two meetings will be held at the Delta in Namur prior to the performance of The Great He-Goat on 3 February. On the 31^st January at 6pm, Patrick Bonté will give a talk about entitled The stage and the visual arts: hybrid forms and new languages as part of the 'Parole donnée' series. And on the 1^st February at 2.30pm, the art historian Vincent Cartuyvels will tell us more about Goya, the sublime and horrified witness of his time. Both will be held in French.