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GRIP produces/supports the work of Femke Gyselinck, Jan Martens, Cherish Menzo & Steven Michel

10/09/2026

"A Smile without a Cat", Steven Michel's end of the year performance in collaboration with the Bachelor Dance students at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, is returning. 

Following their triumph at DE SINGEL at the end of their academic year, the students are restaging this work especially for nona’s season opening. And they’ll be performing it twice in one evening…

𝑨 𝑺𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝑪𝒂𝒕

Steven Michel for Royal Conservatoire Antwerp 
with the support of GRIP

CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY:  
CREATED WITH AND PERFORMED BY: .ilyan .foujanet .kombe .jn .vasconcelos_dancer  
MUSIC: Anna Meredith
ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE:
LIGHTING DESIGN:
OUTSIDE EYE:
PRODUCTION:
IN COLLABORATION WITH: .artists powered by: Anneleen Hermans
THANKS TO:

Opening Seizoen: A Smile without a Cat - STEVEN MICHEL / GRIP & KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM ANTWERPEN | Nona 31/08/2026

Opening Seizoen: A Smile without a Cat - STEVEN MICHEL / GRIP & KONINKLIJK CONSERVATORIUM ANTWERPEN | Nona Nona opent haar seizoen uitbundig met een performance van Steven Michel in samenwerking met liefst 17 studenten van de opleiding Dans aan het Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen. A Smile without a Cat ontvouwt zich als een dansconcert, een Muppetshow van lichamen, een tekenfilmballet waarin choreogr...

31/08/2026
Photos from GRIP's post 07/07/2026

The Dutch press has been reflecting on the past theatre season. 
The Dutch press has been reflecting on the past theatre season.
'KID IN A CANDY SHOP'  by Jan Martens, in collaboration with NDT, was the top pick for dance performance in both De Volkskrant and NRC. At Het Parool, it ranked 5th among all theatre performances.

Jan Martens
Nederlands Dans Theater


Picture by Rahi Rezvani

07/07/2026

🪻Tips voor het nieuwe cultuurseizoen van collega Sarah, programmator dans & circus:
🎭'Heartbeats' van Nastaran Razawi Khorasani op 1 november - "Deze straffe theatermaakster maakt een intiem en indringend verhaal over leven en afscheid."
🎪'AFK' van Boegbeeld / Sofie Anny Nicea Velghe & Camille Paycha - op 13 november - "Deze twee dames wisten me eerder omver te blazen met hun vorige project 60 degrees of separation. Benieuwd wat ze nu in petto hebben!"
🥁'Figures of Speech' van Femke Gyselinck / GRIP, i.s.m. Lander Gyselinck - op 4 februari - "Broer en zus Gyselinck zijn een gouden combinatie! Een grote dansvoorstelling met een strakke live soundscape of is het even goed een dansant drumconcert?"
🎪'In Difference' van Jef Everaert & Ma**ca Marinoni op 2 april - "Een wervelend magisch circusduet en een cyr wheel."
🎭'Le Salon Revisited' van op 4 & 5 juni - "Herwerking van de gelauwerde voorstelling Le Salon: Dans, theater, beweging en zang verweven zich tot een totaalervaring die je de wereld laat zien zoals hij is: absurd, grappig, pijnlijk mooi. Belgische dans op zijn allerbest."

🎟🪻 info & tickets: https://www.leietheater.be/activiteiten

anny.nicea .artists .deinze

Photos from Nederlands Theater Festival's post 25/06/2026
12/06/2026

Two more shows to go tonight and tomorrow at DE SINGEL in Antwerp.

Full teaser about 'A Smile without a Cat' by Steven Michel and 17 dance students from the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp. 

Thank you to the dancers for sharing their experiences in the video:  .vasconcelos_dancer 

video by Steven Michel with footage by Anneleen Hermans

‘A Smile without a Cat’
CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY: 
CREATED WITH AND PERFORMED BY: .ilyan @paul_cmz   .foujanet@samhwks ashanti.kombe  .jn @theodoramanolakou @biggestoceanisthepacific @helena.vasconcelos_dancer 
MUSIC: Anna Meredith
ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE: 
OUTSIDE EYE: 
PRODUCTION: @royalconservatoireantwerp
IN COLLABORATION WITH: .artists powered by:    Anneleen Hermans   

Photos from GRIP's post 11/06/2026

First picture and a teaser on "A Smile without a Cat" by Steven Michel and 17 dance students from the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp.
Welcome tonight, tomorrow and Saturday at DE SINGEL in Antwerp.

More pictures by Marc Wellens coming soon!
video by Steven Michel with footage by Anneleen Hermans

‘A Smile without a Cat’
CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY: Steven Michel
CREATED WITH AND PERFORMED BY: Ilyan Adriaansen Gus .foujanet Sam Hawkes .kombe Amélie Jouen Θεοδώρα Μανωλάκου Marta Bernadete Puče bug gob detective kitty ~ ☆ Mirthe ☆ ~ .vasconcelos_dancer
MUSIC: Anna Meredith
ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE: Mimi Wascher
OUTSIDE EYE: Femke Gyselinck
PRODUCTION: Higher education in Music, Dance, Drama
IN COLLABORATION WITH: GRIP powered by: Nele Verreyken Sylvie Svanberg Jennifer Piasecki Anneleen Hermans Rudi Meulemans kato

09/06/2026

𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹 is creating "𝘼 𝙎𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙖 𝘾𝙖𝙩" in collaboration with the 𝟭𝟳 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱-𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp.

The project will be presented during the conservatoire’s summer performances at DE SINGEL's theaterstudio this week June 11 - 13.

'A Smile without a Cat' unfolds like a dance concert in perpetual construction: a body-muppet show, a cartoon ballet, an off-the-rails recital in which choreography appears while simultaneously falling apart.

Across a series of crescendos that continuously collapse and rebuild, seventeen performers move through formations inspired by orchestras, swarms, cartoons and collective rituals. Rhythms become architectures, and gestures accumulate into temporary melodies, visual jingles or silly symphonies.

The title borrows from the famous image in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland of the Cheshire Cat slowly disappearing until only its smile remains. Can an expression survive independently from the figure that produced it?

Like the lingering smile itself, the piece inhabits a threshold between presence and disappearance, absurdity and rigor, animation and exhaustion. What emerges is a choreography of persistence: bodies insisting on movement even as forms collapse, meanings disperse and structures continuously undo themselves.

‘A Smile without a Cat’

CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY: Steven Michel
CREATED WITH AND PERFORMED BY: Ilyan Adriaansen, Gustavo José Costa Magalhães, Paul Cretin-Maitenaz, Charlotte Dos Santos, Isolda Fossas i Mallorquí, Jeanne Foujanet, Sam Hawkes, Ashanti Kombe, Gautsheng-Yi LY, Amélie Jouen, Cèlia Llaberia Matas, Theodora Manolakou, Marta Bernadete Puce, Bug Shields, Mirthe Swinnen, Helena Vasconcelos, Aziliz Routier
MUSIC: Anna Meredith
ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE: Mimi Wascher
OUTSIDE EYE: Femke Gyselinck
PRODUCTION: Dance - Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen
IN COLLABORATION WITH: GRIP

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