Date range

Genre

Show more

Type

Show more

Location

Show more

Language

Show more

Season

Show more

Labels

Show more

'It will only be a good piece if we dance it together'

a conversation with Rosas dancers Cynthia Loemij & Thomas Vantuycom

'It will only be a good piece if we dance it together'
'It will only be a good piece if we dance it together'

article

Fri 19.04.19

Between the performances of the new Rosas production The Six Brandenburg Concertos, we invited Cynthia Loemij and Thomas Vantuycom to reflect with us on Rosas’ almost forty-year history. A conversation with two generations.

deufert&plischke

I dance… I undance… I redance… (5-99y)

workshop

I dance… I undance… I redance… (5-99y)
I dance… I undance… I redance… (5-99y)

workshop

Wed 17.04 - Wed 24.04.19

‘Dance is the hidden language of the soul,’ Martha Graham once said. But what does dance mean to you? Explore personal memories with the artists’ couple deufert&plischke. By the end of the workshop, you will have written your own Letter to Dance. Everyone is welcome! Free, including an invitation to the Bal Populaire.

deufert&plischke

Bal Populaire (5-99y)

dance

Bal Populaire (5-99y)
Bal Populaire (5-99y)

dance

Sat 27.04.19

deufert&plischke are coming to Brussels for three weeks to collect ‘letters to dance’. To end the project with a bang, they are inviting you to a veritable Bal Populaire. The collection of favourite dance moves is the basis for a great party with live music. While everybody dances, you will hear and see a selection of the best ‘Letters to Dance’.

Daniel Linehan / Hiatus

Body of Work

dance

Body of Work
Body of Work

dance

Thu 25.04 - Sat 27.04.19

Dance and choreography leaves traces on your body, and they are often physical and concrete: growing muscles or the trauma of injuries. But the repetition and memory of movements also leave traces. The choreographies of the past continue to dwell in the dancer’s body. In the solo Body of Work, Daniel Linehan explores these traces in his own body.

Vera Tussing, Esse Vanderbruggen & Stine Sampers

@duetthecity

talk dance

@duetthecity
@duetthecity

talk

Sat 27.04.19

In a choreography that transmits itself only by means of Stine Sampers’ photos, Vera Tussing and Esse Vanderbruggen re-situate their work in the urban landscape of Brussels, and then upload it to Instagram. On Dance Day, they invite you to Kaaitheater for a discussion on the meeting of their practices, and a physical sharing of the digital material.

The Political Party

Alternative Election Show

debate

Alternative Election Show
Alternative Election Show

debate

Tue 30.04.19

On the eve of the European, federal and regional elections, The Political Party is organizing an alternative election show to offer a stage to the opinionmakers of tomorrow. Europe, access to justice, labour and precarity, ecology, democracy, decolonization, education, public health: nine young, progressive will explore these eight themes. How will we face and tackle the challenges of today and tomorrow together?

Maatschappij Discordia

L'Amour Duras

theatre

L'Amour Duras
L'Amour Duras

theatre

Thu 02.05 - Fri 03.05.19

Following the Weiblicher Akt series Maatschappij Discordia is launching a series about Love as it is described by women. In this first part, the company is exploring the work of Marguerite Duras (1914-1996). They let fragments from Duras’ novels resonate with personal stories to create a unique sketch of what love is and can be.

Pichet Klunchun & Chen Wu-kang

Behalf

dance

Behalf
Behalf

dance

Fri 03.05 - Sat 04.05.19

Behalf is a danced dialogue between the Thai dancer Pichet Klunchun and the Taiwanese dancer Chen Wu-kang. This creation began as a series of conversations about their cultural backgrounds and the patriarchal social structures in both Thailand and Taiwan. A series of dance solos results in a mutual dialogue, which then moves on to involve a local musician and the audience.

Mette Edvardsen & Matteo Fargion

Penelope Sleeps

performance music

Penelope Sleeps
Penelope Sleeps

performance

Fri 10.05 - Tue 14.05.19

In her new creation, Mette Edvardsen explores interfaces with opera, flanked by composer and performer Matteo Fargion. Together, they deconstruct the mythological figure of Penelope, the woman who spent years waiting for her husband Odysseus. But her apparent passivity conceals tremendous power. Be whisked away to this intimate, minimalist dream world, where new relationships are forged between women, the world, and the other.

Kris Verdonck/A two dogs company & ICK

SOMETHING (out of nothing)

theatre

SOMETHING (out of nothing)
SOMETHING (out of nothing)

theatre

Wed 22.05 - Thu 23.05.19

The unrelenting logic of profit and technological development have reduced human beings to disposable objects. The next step is making our environment completely uninhabitable. The new production by Kris Verdonk explores our physical and psychological state of being in light of an imminent extinction. The dancers are often not more than shadows in a landscape of blow-up sculptures, cello-noise, and a robotic drum.

Thomas Bellinck / ROBIN

Simple as ABC #3: The Wild Hunt

theatre

Simple as ABC #3: The Wild Hunt
Simple as ABC #3: The Wild Hunt

theatre

Tue 21.05 - Mon 27.05.19

In the growing series Simple as ABC, Thomas Bellinck focuses on the Western migration management machine. This third instalment takes you to an imagined museum where there are only voices. You hear scraps of Arabic, English, Farsi, French, and Greek, gathered around the Mediterranean Sea. The absent narrators share their stories and thus sketch a many-voiced portrait of the contemporary hunt for humans.

Eleanor Bauer & Chris Peck

New Joy

performance music

New Joy
New Joy

performance

Thu 30.05 - Sat 01.06.19

Eleanor Bauer loves playing with the codes and concepts of contemporary dance. In New Joy, she confronts the post-truth age: this dataistic cyber-musical knocks straight through the boundaries of various registers. From body language and spoken language to computer language and back again, from emotional to artificial intelligence, from movement to sound. Along with composer Chris Peck, Bauer engages all of your senses in her search for meaning and hidden implications.

Anne Teresa & Jolente De Keersmaeker/PARTS

SOMNIA

dance

SOMNIA
SOMNIA

dance

Wed 29.05 - Sat 01.06.19

Anne Teresa and Jolente De Keersmaeker and 44 young dancers take you into the woods. Put on your walking boots for this durational performance that navigates around fragments of Midsummer Night's Dream and Johannes Kepler’s astronomical novella Somnium (1608). Turn your back on the black box and let the wood and the night sky define the stage.

Rimini Protokoll & Thomas Melle

Uncanny Valley

Uncanny Valley
Uncanny Valley

production

Thu 30.05 - Sat 01.06.19

Rimini Protokoll had a humanoid robot created that looks exactly like playwright Thomas Melle. This lifelike mechanical doppelganger takes the place of the human original onstage. But what happens to the original when the copy takes everything over? Are the copy and the original doomed to compete with one another or will they collaborate? And do we as viewers feel as much empathy for a human as for a machine?

Ictus & Suzanne Vega

Einstein on the Beach

music

Einstein on the Beach
Einstein on the Beach

music

Wed 05.06.19

The legendary opera Einstein on the Beach by Phillip Glass, Robert Wilson and Lucinda Childs premièred at the Festival of Avignon in 1976. For this new concertante version, the Ictus ensemble is joining forces with the Collegium Vocale Ghent and with neo-folk legend Suzanne Vega. The musical composition and the musicality of the libretto are the central focus in a minimalist and hypnotizing soundscape that lasts 200 minutes.

Guy Cassiers & ARSENAAL

Bagaar

theatre

Bagaar
Bagaar

theatre

Fri 07.06 - Sat 08.06.19

Pour cette adaptation du film Coup de Torchon (1981) de Bertrand Tavernier, Guy Cassiers s’allie au collectif de théâtre LAZARUS – attendez-vous alors à une confrontation entre précision scénographique et ludisme brutal. Les créateurs du spectacle nous présentent une fable inconfortable sur la faillite morale d’une société qui ressemble étrangement fort à la nôtre. Un univers de personnages grotesques au bord du précipice.

Bojana Cvejić

Aesthetic individualism, or dancing solo in the 21st century

talk

Aesthetic individualism, or dancing solo in the 21st century
Aesthetic individualism, or dancing solo in the 21st century

talk

Mon 17.06.19

To round up TO AUTHENTICITY… AND BEYOND!, we invite performance theorist Bojana Cvejić for a final talk, followed by a conversation with Prof. Rudi Laermans. Laermans wrote the essay Be(come) yourself!, which marked the beginning of this season’s series on authenticity.

Matinee Kadee

Swing Kids (0-12 years)

workshop

Swing Kids (0-12 years)
Swing Kids (0-12 years)

workshop

Sun 23.06.19

How would you like to come with us to a country that doesn’t exist? We create our own fantasy world with shapes, sounds and colours.

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas

Bartók/Beethoven/Schönberg

dance music

Bartók/Beethoven/Schönberg
Bartók/Beethoven/Schönberg

dance

Wed 19.06 - Thu 27.06.19

This special repertory evening will present three early works by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, each of which is based on a piece of classical music. The programme features a combative choreography set to the layered rhythms and harmonies of Bartók’s Quartet n°4, a group piece that defies gravity and depicts the ingenious counterpoint in Beethoven’s Die Grosse Fuge, and a shamelessly romantic duet set to Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht. Ictus and the Brussels Philharmonic will accompany the pieces live especially for the Brussels series.

workspacebrussels

Working Title Festival

performance installation video

Working Title Festival
Working Title Festival

performance

Fri 28.06 - Sat 29.06.19

The biannual Working Title Festival presents an exciting mix of projects in different phases of the creative process: research, creations, and conversations at the inter- section of dance, performance, conversation, video art, and installation.

Pieter De Buysser

The Tip of the Tongue

theatre

The Tip of the Tongue
The Tip of the Tongue

theatre

Tue 11.09 - Thu 11.07.19

Pieter De Buysser premiered his performance and fulldome film The Tip of the Tongue at Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2017. He reprised the magic-realist tale for an entire season at the Planetarium in Brussels on every 11th of the month at eleven minutes past eight. See the very last shows to sustain this astronomical production!

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jean-Guihen Queyras/Rosas

Mitten wir im Leben sind / Bach 6 Cellosuiten

dance

Mitten wir im Leben sind / Bach 6 Cellosuiten
Mitten wir im Leben sind / Bach 6 Cellosuiten

dance

Wed 10.07 - Thu 11.07.19

Five dancers – including Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker herself – adapt, question and dance Bach’s six Cello Suites, performed by the world-renowned cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras. Their ingenious architecture, rhythmic vitality and timeless beauty continue to fascinate people today.

FC Bergman

JR

theatre

JR
JR

theatre

Wed 18.03 - Sun 22.03.20

William Gaddis is one of the most influential authors in American postmodern literature. His 1975 magnum opus JR is a complex and hilarious satire on capitalism. FC Bergman has opted for an ambitious adaptation that unmasks contemporary humanity. The company is building a sky-high set in the halls of Paleis12 at the Heizel, around which an extensive ensemble of actors will reconstruct the kaleidoscopic world of JR.

BL!NDMAN

MINIMAL-MAXIMAL & WATER & FIRE / Handel Revisited

music

MINIMAL-MAXIMAL & WATER & FIRE / Handel Revisited
MINIMAL-MAXIMAL & WATER & FIRE / Handel Revisited

music

Sat 06.04.19

BL!NDMAN is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary and since 1991 it has been a regular guest at Kaaitheater. To celebrate, we are organizing a festive programme! MINIMAL-MAXIMAL – part 1 of the evening – is returning to their minimalistic roots, in the line of Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Afterwards, the complete collective ([sax], [drums] and [strings]) along with a DECAP organ will play Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks by G.F. Handel.