In the past, Charleroi/Danses-Plan K has been a guest at Het Muziektheater with Moving Target (1997), Muybridge - Man walking at ordinary speed and Metapolis - Project 972 (2001). The first two productions came about in close cooperation with the New York architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio. Metapolis - Project 972 was created in cooperation with the Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. In all his projects – in his own productions and in the composition of the notable bi-annual internal dance festivals that he organises in Charleoi - choreographer and artistic leader Frédéric Flamand focuses on the fusion of dance with the other arts and media.

For this latest production, Silent Collisions, which involves the Music Theatre's Guest Programme (Gastprogrammering Het Muziektheater) as co-producer, Frédéric Flamand further develops his research into dance and architecture with the American architect Thom Mayne, founder of the Morphosis Group. Flamand was impressed by Mayne's work, which he first saw at an exhibition at the Dutch Architectural Institute in Rotterdam. For Silent Collisions Flamand and Mayne were inspired by the book The invisible cities by Italo Calvino. In the choreography eleven different types of city are referred to, each of which also arise in the book. And for each type of city there is a different configuration of the panels which form the work's décor, that itself has been constructed by Mayne with great ingenuity. The dancers navigate their way between each other and the décor in the search for a place in the city. Nonetheless, in each of the eleven kinds of city, they all remain anonymous and their contacts remain brief.

Charleroi/Dances-Plan K can be regarded as the Wallonian counterpart of a group that is much more familiar in the Netherlands - 'Flemish Wave' - and features choreographers such as Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Wim Vandekeybus. Artistic leader Frédéric Flamand founded the group Plan K in Brussels in 1973, a colourful collection of dancers, visual artists and musicians.