The NTGent Laboratories

NTGent does more than merely create and present theatre productions and take them on tour. We also choose to innovate and experiment by setting up three laboratories. They create space for renewal, as a place where ideas flourish and the boundaries of theatre are pushed. 

Common Grounds City Lab 

In the coming season, public space will be an area in which NTGent is more active than ever before. The Common Grounds City Lab is committed to cross-sectoral collaborations and participative artistic practices situated at the crossroads of our superdiverse city and social transition. Our starting point is always a specific place, a need that is felt there, for an investigation of ways we can work with residents to offer an artistic response. In every case, with special attention to the imagination that already exists there, we go in search of common ground.

Care Cure Comfort Lab

Although traditional rituals have largely disappeared from Western culture, we see an increasing need for new, meaningful ritual practices that reinforce social cohesion. With its new Care Cure  Comfort Lab, NTGent is turning itself into the ideal place for art, rituals and care to meet, influence and strengthen each other. Through the encounter between different artistic and caring practices, a wider, valuable space for healing emerges.

Goose Bumps Tech Lab

NTGent wants to be more than a consumer of modern technologies — it aims to co-develop them too. Innovation is a core value that is deeply embedded in the organisation’s activities. Goose Bumps Tech Lab is the collaboration platform between NTGent and Winter circus. This lab brings NTGent, Wintercircus, theatre makers and developers together to research, develop and implement the future of new technologies in the performing arts.