Three premieres, new creations, and much more: CAMPO presents something for everyone this spring. From absurd, sharp, and feminist theater to an intense trip to the underworld. Order your tickets now through our new site!

Over the past twelve years, Lisa Vereertbrugghen has explored the political and physical dimensions of (hardcore) techno music and dance. With the CAMPO production Again Forever, she expands her research to a social dance at the other end of the speed spectrum: the slow. Again Forever approaches the slow as a potentially subversive dance, a slow sister of rave dance, taken out of its traditional context and connected to today's queer nightlife. 

Premiere on March 19, 20 & 21, De Vooruit Domzaal

Beep Street is a movement performance in which the performers dance and play to the rhythm of scanners, fitness equipment, and digital voice commands. With a cast of performers from dance, physical theater, and performance, director Jonas Baeke and performer Jef Hellemans create a poetic collision between body and system. Sound and movement intertwine like a glitching machine, in a performance that balances between liberation and oppression. 

Premiere on February 4 & 5, CAMPO nieuwpoort

In 1978, the Ghent-based Rooie Vlinder—a radical queer organization—organizes the very first Belgian Pride in Ghent. At once a celebration and a protest. Today, 46 years later, there is no Pride in Ghent. Have we then achieved all our rights? Why has the city where it all began fallen silent? Inspired by the legacy of the Rooie Vlinder, Jarne Van Loon & Freek De Craecker invite various queer artists and historians. Together, they reinterpret the queer past in Ander Strand with a contemporary perspective. 

Premiere on March 12 & 13, CAMPO nieuwpoort

Gerben Vaillant, remember that name! This interdisciplinary performance maker graduated in 2021 from the renowned Mime Opleiding in Amsterdam. Since then, he has captivated audiences with his almost cinematic universe. In on almost every page, four performers explore the distance between humans and reality. How do we find our place within a larger whole? On almost every page is a unique, visual, and physical performance. The Dutch press has already been unanimously enthusiastic. Now also in Ghent: a gem not to be missed.

Season opener on January 15, CAMPO nieuwpoort

Inspired by the films of Charlie Kaufman and Dostoevsky's absurd short story The Double, Krapp aims to evoke a tragicomic mirror world full of strange duplications and dubious doppelgängers. Mats Vandroogenbroeck, Nona Demey Gallagher & Timo Sterckx attempt with COPYRIOT to confront the 'monstrous' once again. After dealing with paranoid cyborgs, gothic ghosts, and the Devil himself in their earlier work, they now confront the biggest monster of modern times: the ego. 

February 11, 12 & 13, CAMPO nieuwpoort

Marshmallow BBQ will be a hallucinatory comic drama in horrifying English that questions what makes danger so attractive. Who and what are our monsters? And can you sympathize with them? How can staged fear divide, but also connect and unite? For the first time in their collaboration, Lobke Leirens & Maxim Storms invite three additional performers: Marjan De Schutter, Maliqa Fye, and Emma Browaeys. The lighting design by Geert Vanoorlé takes on the form of an extra performer.

April 2 & 3, CAMPO nieuwpoort

We are not done yet! This spring we will also present Embodied Curating: a week-long exchange between master's students from the fashion department of KASK and the curators in training from Curatorial Studies, culminating in a final presentation at CAMPO. Additionally, there will be the biennial Smells Like Circus festival, out of hands by Michiel Vandevelde / fABULEUS, and the performance series of Opus Apparatus (Boris Van Severen & Jonas Vermeulen / Compagnie Cecilia, LOD & CAMPO) at De Expeditie. In the second half of the spring, alongside the Mayday Mayday Festival and Graduation drama festival, we will showcase two new creations: Lulululesh (working title) by Marah Haj Hussein & Nur Garabli and Aggressively Modern Times by Ferre Marnef.