Right before the end-year holidays, the 2026WOMEN are still up and running! A few of us visited Het MAS – Museum aan de Stroom, in Antwerp, invited by the dance coach Lara Groenweg. It started with a guided tour, including the current interactive exhibition ‘Universal Tongue’, together with the women from the Red Cross shelter in Sint-Niklaas.
Focused on how dance is a shared human language, we took the chance to use the ‘Open Dansvloer‘ (Open Dancefloor) in th museum for a dance impro workshop. This space is an invitation for visitors to connect through movement and make the museum lively.
Based on a conceptual choreography developed by Maria Teresa and Céline, the group brought new movements to the floor. After two warm up exercises to connect their body-minds, the women developed an inedit choreography that will follow the song “Woman is the Flame”! This song is also a new composition in 2026WOMEN repertoire, which emerged in one of our creative writing sessions at Madam Fortuna in 2025.
This piece will be presented to the public in our upcoming performance in March 26-27, 2026, at Arenberg Theatre, during the 50th Anniversary Tribunal on Crimes Against Women (tickets here). Meanwhile, you can watch the behind-the-scenes of our last performance “Simawe | See My Way”, and listen and watch the music-video of its theme song.
Text: Maria Teresa Bizarria