With her ritual A Farewell to Melancholy Desires, drag queen Olympia Bukkakis wants to help you break your melancholic attachments to the Kaaitheater building as it was and is and let go of all your unfulfilled wishes. At the same time, as a participant, you are invited to transform your melancholic desires and focus on the possibilities of the new building.

Every great party deserves a proper toast. During Bye Bye Kaai, theatre maker Louis Janssens will curate The Long Toast as a way of paying tribute to the old and new Kaaitheater. Different generations of artists, politicians and partner organizations will raise their glasses and share their diverse memories.

You are welcome to help give the walls of Kaaitheater a soul and transform the space into the guardian of the best kept secrets and recipes for the future of Kaaitheater

Marianne van Kerkhoven spent thirty years as a dramaturge at Kaaitheater. has to attend the farewell party ‘Bye Bye Kaai’. We make her part of it with a conversation about the legacy of her work.Speaking are the dramaturges Esther Severi and Edith Cassiers.

In the early 20th century, there was an amusement park (luna park) where the current Kaaitheater building sits and hence the building's original name: the Lunatheater. But did you know that Kaaitheater once also housed a carpet shop? Step behind the scenes and discover corners that are normally off-limits to the public.

How do you do that, literally dance a dance language? Can a stage be like a page? Letters 2 Dance is an organised misunderstanding of a worn-out metaphor: choreography as dance writing starting with the smallest element, the alphabet

Three activists with intellectual disabilities have organized a public meeting addressing that question. On the agenda: a frank and open discussion of the history we would prefer to ignore and a future that is rapidly getting out of hand.

Tijdens de interactieve ‘Urban Showcas’e expo op 30 april stellen de jongeren van Academy for Urban Action hun eerste bevindingen en resultaten voor rond het thema ‘De Stad en ik/wij’. Op het programma: tal van workshops en nieuwe tools, met onder andere een zelfontwikkeld logo, het AUA manifest, een kaartspel over stedelijke reflectie, een ‘Urban Podcast’ wandeling en een Tindereske ‘Swipe for Brussels’ app. 

You see writhing bodies in a desolate landscape, hands and a head moving to the rhythm of an explosive drum solo, and a playful duet in which two women take control of the spectator's gaze. Meg Stuart creates an evening in which four dancers perform existing solos and duets, combined with fragments from full-length performances. All to live music. An excellent opportunity to journey through Stuart's oeuvre, which continues to grow, live and transform.

Kate McIntosh's latest performance throws the work of several writers, composers and performers into the mix. Surrender to exhilarating polyrhythmic beats and the raw energy of layered voices. To Speak Light Pours Out is an invitation to enjoy the sharp energies of positive disruption and new possibilities. A shout-out to the lust for transformation, resistance and new forms of being!

In Operette, Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz presents the history of the 20th century as a series of costume changes. As a contrast, he uses the human being who wants to withdraw from this process in order to be able to be 'naked’. Tibaldus is now staging their third Gombrowicz: a performance that philosophises lightly about the cogwheel of history, with the passion and holy stupidity of an operetta.