With your back in the sand and the sun on your face. Your beautiful best friend helps you to rub sunscreen on your body. Her hands move up and down. She smiles. You’re dying to tell her how wonderful she looks today. And how much you love her. But you’re afraid of ruining your friendship.’ // ‘Are people becoming more and more prudish about sex? Is there more polarization? Are things different in other countries? Here, gay sex is forbidden because we believe it’s against nature.’ // ‘No towel, no swimwear – can't be bothered. If you’re as confident as I am, you always have to be able to improvise. You always have to be ready to land a punch and take a hit. I’m with the bruzz, hunting for the huzz.’ // ‘That it’s not just something mysterious. Dialogue sex. Ruleless sex. Crazy sex. Wild sex.’ // ‘I want to find love without having to make love.’// ‘Until my unattainable, huge, octopoid desire disappears into the depths of the dark ocean, looking for its next victim.’// ....

What subject that is not currently covered would you like to learn about at school? During my work on bodies of knowledge, I asked dozens of young people in Brussels this question. The answers were overwhelmingly unanimous: 90% were related to intimacy and sexuality.

Hence we made the beach: an imaginative, physical and visual performance, by and with people between 15 and 20 years old. Ten young writers worked on the script for six months, and eleven other young people portray the text on stage. With them, you are invited to enter a beachy bedroom: a softly inviting space that is flooded by waves full of secret fantasies and thoughts. the beach is a collage of the inner worlds of a diverse group of young people today. Underexposed feelings, experiences, questions and doubts raise to the ocean’s surface, becoming fiction.