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Brussels Brecht - Eislerkoor

Mélancolie aux 5 blocs

music theatre

music

Thu 09.01 - Sat 11.01.20

A stone’s throw from the Kaaistudios, there is a row of dilapidated and unhealthy social housing blocks that will soon be demolished: these are the five blocks of the Rempart des Moines. The current residents have to make way for more affluent buyers. The Brussels Brecht-Eisler Choir is presenting a musical theatre piece that attempts to capture and evoke their confusion and uncertainty.

Matinee Kadee

#3 (0-12 years)

workshop

Sun 09.02.20

On five Sunday afternoons, we are organizing exciting workshops for children aged 4-12. The very youngest kids (0>4) can play at the crèche, while you can relax and enjoy a show.

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Gorges Ocloo

Moby Dick

music theatre

music

Fri 03.04 - Sat 04.04.20

For this adaptation of Moby Dick, Gorges Ocloo called on Ben Okri, who adapted the novel into a magic-realist story about the gulf between high and low, rich and poor. Josse De Pauw and the renowned American mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis take to the stage. Together, they perform an energized and jazzy opera about the need for rapprochement in an increasingly polarized society.

Matinee Kadee

#4 (0-12 years)

workshop

Sun 26.04.20

On five Sunday afternoons, we are organizing exciting workshops for children aged 4-12. The very youngest kids (0>4) can play at the crèche, while you can relax and enjoy a show.

#matineekadee

Encyclopédie de la parole

Suite n° 4

theatre music

theatre

Tue 19.05 - Sun 24.05.20

In the first part of Suite n° 4, recognizable and anonymous voices overlap as though they were coming from different acoustic spaces. In the second part, the voices are accompanied by eight musicians from Ictus. The Encyclopédie de la parole collective presents a performance about absence, like an opera without singers or a theatre without actors. For 150 minutes, you hear a thousand concrete situations in more than 30 languages.

Matinee Kadee

#5 (0-12 years)

workshop

Sun 07.06.20

On five Sunday afternoons, we are organizing exciting workshops for children aged 4-12. The very youngest kids (0>4) can play at the crèche, while you can relax and enjoy a show.

#matineekadee

Michiel Vandevelde

Human Landscapes I

performance

Thu 28.11 - Sat 30.11.19

In the late 1920s, Nâzım Hikmet introduced free verse to Turkish poetry, and he was thus the first modern Turkish poet. He wrote the majority of Human Landscapes, his magnum opus, while in prison. The five hundred-page epic was only published posthumously, divided into five ‘books’. Michiel Vandevelde staged Book I last year, commissioned by steierische herbst. Book II now follows.

Michiel Vandevelde

Human Landscapes II

performance

Fri 29.11 - Sat 30.11.19

In the late 1920s, Nâzım Hikmet introduced free verse to Turkish poetry, and he was thus the first modern Turkish poet. He wrote the majority of Human Landscapes, his magnum opus, while in prison. The five hundred-page epic was only published posthumously, divided into five ‘books’. Michiel Vandevelde staged Book I last year, commissioned by steierische herbst. Book II now follows.

Fatima Mernissi Leerstoel

Fatima, Rosa & Iman: literary voices from the Arab world

talk music

talk

Mon 25.11.19

Paying tribute to the Moroccan sociologist Fatima Mernissi, Iman Humaydan and Rosa Yassin Hassan will read from their own work and talk about their authorship against the background of revolution, censorship, and their shifting social positions.

Matinee Kadee

#2 (0-12 years)

workshop

Sun 17.11.19

On Sunday afternoon 17/11, we organize free workshops for children aged 4-12. The very youngest kids (0>4) can play at the crèche, while you can relax and enjoy a show.

#matineekadee

Kaaitheater & Globe Aroma

Kunstendag voor Kinderen 2019

workshop

Sun 17.11.19

We are throwing open the doors of the Kaaicafé for children aged 4 to 12! Artists from Globe Aroma (an arts centre for newcomers in the heart of Brussels) invite you to participate in two creative workshops. You can build your own musical instrument or become a professional costume developer. And after all that work… there will be a steaming stack of fresh Brussels waffles waiting for you!

Tomas Ntamashimikiro

Workshop: How to Hiphop

workshop

Sat 26.10.19

Dancer and choreographer Tomas Ntamashimikiro will teach you hip hop grooves and social dances. You will learn new insights into hip hop culture and viscerally discover what makes dance so infectious. Put on your best dancing clothes and come and groove with us! Everyone is welcome irrespective of hip hop experience.

Michiel Vandevelde

Paradise Now (1968-2018)

performance dance

performance

Fri 25.10.19

Michiel Vandevelde goes in search of traces of the legacy of May ’68, along with a new generation of young people. Will they open new perspectives on the future when they research half a century of history in a wild choreography of iconic images?

Matinee Kadee

Young circus performers (0-12 years old)

workshop

Sun 20.10.19

Circus Zonder Handen is the leading socially inclusive circus school in Brussels. During this acrobatic workshop, the children will learn how to juggle, spin plates, throw a diabolo, and barrel-walk.

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Globe Aroma

Landscape Orchestra

music theatre

music

Thu 10.10 - Sat 12.10.19

Landscape Orchestra seeks a musical answer to the question of how we can depict departure, travel, and arrival. The production visits the landscapes that we traverse on our way to different and better places. A series of portraits shows people for whom the world is difficult but not necessarily less poetic.

Jozef Wouters

Underneath Which Rivers Flow

performance theatre

performance

Wed 11.09 - Sat 14.09.19

For a year, Decoratelier Jozef Wouters worked with Open Arts House Globe Aroma on Underneath Which Rivers Flow. A group of women and men – builders, poets and dreamers – met weekly in the Decoratelier in Molenbeek. Together, they built stories, a secret garden full of wormholes to unsuspected worlds.

Matinee Kadee

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.

Eleanor Bauer & Chris Peck

New Joy

performance music

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.

Globe Aroma & Decoratelier Jozef Wouters

Underneath Which Rivers Flow

performance

Tue 26.03 - Sat 01.06.19

This season, Decoratelier Jozef Wouters is collaborating with Open Kunstenhuis Globe Aroma to create Underneath Which Rivers Flow. A group of women and men – builders, poets, and dreamers – meet every week at Decoratelier in Molenbeek. In this space, they build stories together, a secret garden full of wormholes to unsuspected worlds.

Mette Edvardsen & Matteo Fargion

Penelope Sleeps

performance music

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.

deufert&plischke

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.

TRIPLE BILL: Hiba Alansari + Mayer Alexane & Hoor Malas + Waël Ali & Chrystèle Kodr

performance

Fri 15.02 - Sat 16.02.19

Matinee Kadee

Swing kids (0-12 years)

workshop

Sun 20.01.19

Children can take their first tentative steps into the world of dance. Tempo, improvisation, agility, and body control are the central focus of this swinging workshop.

Rokia Traoré

Dream Mandé – Djata

music theatre

music

Fri 14.12.18

Rokia Traoré is an icon of African music. She narrates the epic of King Soundiata Keita, the King who based his power on respect and not on greed or violence, and the unifier of the great 13th-century Mandé Empire. Traoré blends classic songs by the Mandé griots into her narrative. These poets and singers were responsible for a unique form of oral history.

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Brussels Brecht - Eislerkoor

Mélancolie aux 5 blocs

music theatre

Matinee Kadee

#3 (0-12 years)

workshop

Gorges Ocloo

Moby Dick

music theatre

Matinee Kadee

#4 (0-12 years)

workshop

Encyclopédie de la parole

Suite n° 4

theatre music

Matinee Kadee

#5 (0-12 years)

workshop

Michiel Vandevelde

Human Landscapes I

performance

Michiel Vandevelde

Human Landscapes II

performance

Fatima Mernissi Leerstoel

Fatima, Rosa & Iman: literary voices from the Arab world

talk music

Matinee Kadee

#2 (0-12 years)

workshop

Kaaitheater & Globe Aroma

Kunstendag voor Kinderen 2019

workshop

Tomas Ntamashimikiro

Workshop: How to Hiphop

workshop

Michiel Vandevelde

Paradise Now (1968-2018)

performance dance

Matinee Kadee

Young circus performers (0-12 years old)

workshop

Globe Aroma

Landscape Orchestra

music theatre

Jozef Wouters

Underneath Which Rivers Flow

performance theatre

Matinee Kadee

Swing Kids (0-12 years)

workshop

Eleanor Bauer & Chris Peck

New Joy

performance music

Globe Aroma & Decoratelier Jozef Wouters

Underneath Which Rivers Flow

performance

Mette Edvardsen & Matteo Fargion

Penelope Sleeps

performance music

deufert&plischke

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

workshop

TRIPLE BILL: Hiba Alansari + Mayer Alexane & Hoor Malas + Waël Ali & Chrystèle Kodr

performance

Matinee Kadee

Swing kids (0-12 years)

workshop

Rokia Traoré

Dream Mandé – Djata

music theatre