Over the past twelve years, Lisa Vereertbrugghen has explored the political and physical dimensions of (hardcore) techno music and dance.

With Again Forever, she expands her research to a social dance at the other end of the speed spectrum: the slow dance.

Again Forever approaches the slow dance as a potentially subversive dance, a slow sister to rave dancing. The performance focuses on the radical way in which the slow dance deals with intimacy and time in an era dominated by productivity, speed, and isolation. The slow dance is taken out of its traditional context and connected to today's queer nightlife. Slow dancing becomes a collective practice and a form of resistance, a slow rave.

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Lisa Vereertbrugghen (1986°, Brussels, BE) is a choreographer, dancer and dramaturg based in Brussels. Since 2013, she has been developing an artistic research at the intersection of choreography, sound, and the affective intensity of hardcore techno culture. Within this field, she critically interrogates notions of gender and the body, bringing an analytical approach to dance and sound together with the raw, direct energy intrinsic to hardcore techno. In 2025, she initiated a new research exploring an anti-patriarchal approach to slow dancing.


Her practice unfolds across multiple formats, including dance, performance, installation, and techno meditations, and has been presented at international festivals and venues such as Festival de Marseille, Latitudes Contemporaines (Lille), Trafo (Budapest), Spider Festival (Ljubljana), Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Ghent International Festival, Santarcangelo Festival, Tanzhaus NRW (Düsseldorf), Museo CA2M (Madrid), MDT (Stockholm), Rencontres Chorégraphiques (Paris), Fierce Festival (Birmingham) and others.
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Credits

Concept & choreography: Lisa Vereertbrugghen
Dance & co-creation: Ife Day, Sophie Guisset, Cynthia Loemij &Maisie Woodford
Dramaturgy: Nathan Ooms
Light: Vera MartinsSound & Michael Langeder
Outside eye: Maria Ferreira Silva & Mads Bycroft

Production: CAMPO
Coproduction: Kunstenwerkplaats & Kaaitheater (Brussels), Concertgebouw & KAAP (Bruges), De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam), STUK (Leuven), VIERNULVIER (Gent) & Teatro Municipal do Porto

With the support of the tax shelter of the Belgian Federal Government via Ufund, BUDA (Kortrijk), de Hallen van Schaarbeek & de Vlaamse Overheid