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tg STAN & de KOE

My Dinner with André

theatre

My Dinner with André
My Dinner with André
Fri 15.06 - Sat 16.06.18

In My Dinner with André Damiaan De Schrijver and Peter Van den Eede sit down for a four-course meal. While one is a sober-minded humanist, the other holds forth about his extraordinary spiritual experiences. The result is a hilarious conversation about their conflicting personal philosophies, about life, and especially about the theatre. Don’t miss the 20th anniversary of this cult production!

Matinee Kadee

[CANCELLED] Jazz Kittens (0-12 years old)

workshop

[CANCELLED] Jazz Kittens (0-12 years old)
[CANCELLED] Jazz Kittens (0-12 years old)
Sun 10.06.18

Unfortunately, we have to cancel this workshop due to an injury of one of the dancers.

Along with dancers from Rosas, 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, set to the saxophone of John Coltrane.

Salva Sanchis & Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas

[CANCELLED] A Love Supreme

dance

[CANCELLED] A Love Supreme
[CANCELLED] A Love Supreme
Wed 06.06 - Sun 10.06.18

Unfortunately, we have to cancel all shows due to an injury of one of the dancers.

In 2017, Salva Sanchis and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker adapted A Love Supreme with four young, male dancers. This exceptionally vital production was one of the highlights of the last season, and was promptly selected for the TheaterFestival. Join the dancers, and abandon yourself once again to Coltrane’s spiritual ode to divine love!

Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods & EIRA

BLESSED

dance

BLESSED
BLESSED
Fri 01.06 - Sat 02.06.18

A man moves carefully between cardboard set pieces. Everything appears peaceful in this stylized paradise, until a sudden rain shower escalates into a destructive deluge. A decade after the première of BLESSED, Francisco Camacho continues to cling to a world that has long been left in ruins.

Toshiki Okada

Five Days in March – Re-creation

theatre

Five Days in March – Re-creation
Five Days in March – Re-creation
Wed 23.05 - Sat 26.05.18

Joining the American-British invasion of Iraq in 2003 was Japan’s first military engagement since WWII. Historic peace marches took place in Tokyo, and many of the protesters were young people. In Five Days in March, a number of characters voice their deeply personal concerns. The image they sketch of their personal, everyday lives in Tokyo stands in sharp contrast to their public participation in the demonstrations. In this adaptation of his original 2007 creation, Toshiki Okada sketches a generation of young people who have lost their way.

Michiel Vandevelde & fABULEUS

Paradise Now (1968-2018)

performance dance

Paradise Now (1968-2018)
Paradise Now (1968-2018)
Sat 12.05 - Sun 13.05.18

July 1968. The legendary Paradise Now by The Living Theatre premieres at the Festival d’Avignon. The actors attempted to unleash a revolution by getting the audience into a state of readiness. Half a century later, Michiel Vandevelde is exploring the vestiges of the legacy of May ’68. Will new future perspectives open up when thirteen young people survey a half century of history in a wild choreography of iconic images?

El Conde de Torrefiel

LA PLAZA

theatre

LA PLAZA
LA PLAZA
Sat 05.05 - Wed 09.05.18

El Conde de Torrefiel is one of the recent revelations at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts. The duo creates visual performances in which hyper-realistic tableaux are juxtaposed with incisive texts – a mix of history, current affairs, and futurism. LA PLAZA treats the stage as a square: a public space in which banal, everyday activities in today’s Europe occur, but where disquieting scenes of the future also play out.

Chantal Pattyn & Claude Blondeel

Pompidou Live: Mei ’68

debate

Pompidou Live: Mei ’68
Pompidou Live: Mei ’68
Wed 02.05.18

On her fiftieth birthday, Chantal Pattyn will collaborate with Claude Blondeel to make an extended instalment of the Klara programme Pompidou, to explore the essence of May ’68. Based in a temporary radio studio in the Kaaicafé, they will analyse the artistic, social, and political consequences of this revolutions.

Mette Ingvartsen

Lecture on The Red Pieces

conversation

Lecture on The Red Pieces
Lecture on The Red Pieces
Sat 28.04.18

Within the context of Dance Day, Mette Ingvartsen gives a lecture on the relationship between sexuality, pleasure, performance, and economy. She reflects upon the way borders between private and public space are dissolving and how this process is fueled by an increasing demand for self-performance and self-exposure.

DD Dorvillier & Sébastien Roux/human future dance corps

Only One of Many

dance

Only One of Many
Only One of Many
Fri 27.04 - Sat 28.04.18

How does your perception of a dance or music sequence change when it is combined with a different choreography or a different musical composition? What meanings, impressions and images are conjured, and what unexpected relationships to listening and looking are stirred?

Jan Fabre

Belgian Rules/Belgium Rules

theatre

Belgian Rules/Belgium Rules
Belgian Rules/Belgium Rules
Fri 20.04 - Sat 21.04.18

Just like Fellini made Roma – an ode to his city – Jan Fabre is celebrating his own complex, crazy country. He is doing so in the most appropriate language to capture the spirit of this slippery state: the language of the theatre and of images. With an international cast of performers and musicians, he goes in search of Belgian identity. Raymond van het Groenewoud has written a series of anthems, while author Johan de Boose wrote the text.

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas

Achterland

dance

Achterland
Achterland
Thu 12.04 - Sun 15.04.18

Achterland (1990) is a pivotal production in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s oeuvre. It was the first time that the choreographer created dance material specifically for men and that she gave musicians a central role on the stage. To the tones of Györgi Ligeti and Eugène Ysaÿe, the minimalism and femininity of her earlier work made room for an ambiguous no man’s land that blurred boundaries and signs. A reprisal to look forward to!

Jan Lauwers & Needcompany

War and Turpentine

theatre

War and Turpentine
War and Turpentine
Tue 27.03 - Fri 30.03.18

Just before he died, Stefan Hertmans’ grandfather gave him several full notebooks. The author read about an impoverished youth in Ghent, horrific experiences as a soldier at the front during WWI, and a great love who died young. Years of fascination for his grandfather’s life eventually led Hertmans to write War and Turpentine. Jan Lauwers is now presenting a theatre adaptation of the gripping epic.

Daniel Linehan

Un Sacre du Printemps

dance music

Un Sacre du Printemps
Un Sacre du Printemps
Fri 23.03 - Sat 24.03.18

For this ambitious group choreography, Daniel Linehan is delving into Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps. He has opted to stage the beautiful version for two pianos, which will be performed live by Jean-Luc Plouvier (from Ictus) and Alain Franco. You will be seated near the thirteen dancers and the pianists – a proximity that results in a collective shared energy.

Jone Salomonsen, Koen Van Synghel & Kristin Verellen

Mourning, Commemoration & New Rituals

debate conversation

Mourning, Commemoration & New Rituals
Mourning, Commemoration & New Rituals
Wed 21.03.18

On 21/03, spring promises a new beginning, but also the anniversary of the attacks on Brussels. On the eve of the second anniversary of the Brussels bombings, we’re bringing together three experts on mourning. After Anders Breivik’s bloodbath in Norway, Jone Salomonsen founded a research group on new rituals as a reaction to attacks. Kristin Verellen – who lost her partner in the Brussels attacks – talks about her circle gatherings that aim to foster a culture of togetherness and dialogue. And architect Koen Van Synghel discusses (temporary) mourning monuments. 

Kristin Verellen/We have the choice

Circle gathering

ritual

Circle gathering
Circle gathering
Wed 21.03.18

We create a qualitative moment in which we become silent for a moment and share a part of our experience with each other. Each in his or her way: by telling something, by listening, by a piece of music, by an image... Being present is sufficient, everyone can take the floor, but you don't have to.

Welcome to RE:RITE of passage, an arrival ritual

ritual

Welcome to RE:RITE of passage, an arrival ritual
Welcome to RE:RITE of passage, an arrival ritual
Wed 21.03.18

Kaaitheater and Atheneum Brussels cordially invite you to an arrival ritual, which is the latest stage of the RE:RITE of passage programme. Are you curious to see how the students are throwing the doors of Brussels wide open? Come along for a bowl of warm soup and an equally warm welcome. 

Brussels Studies Institute

Night of Knowledge on Brussels 2018

conversation debate

Night of Knowledge on Brussels 2018
Night of Knowledge on Brussels 2018
Fri 16.03.18

Is Brussels complex? Absolutely. Administratively, culturally, socially, economically, and demographically Brussels is anything but easy. But this complexity does not mean that you cannot understand or learn to understand Brussels. The sixth Night of Knowledge on Brussels will again explore this urban district and all its varied dimensions.

GrauSchumacher Piano Duo

Mantra

music

Mantra
Mantra
Tue 13.03.18

Mantra by Karlheinz Stockhausen is one of the most renowned cult works of 20th-century classical music. The work is an expanding sound universe, a cosmic dance to a primordial melody. Andreas Grau and Götz Schumacher are perfectly placed to interpret Mantra. The musical soulmates have had over 20 years’ practice of this hypnotic masterpiece.

Mette Ingvartsen

21 Pornographies

dance performance

21 Pornographies
21 Pornographies
Fri 09.03 - Sat 10.03.18

Mette Ingvartsen aims to explore and expose the fact that pornography has rooted itself deep within our society. In the fourth instalment of her Red Pieces cycle, she mixes physical actions with narrative passages, presenting you with a veritable mental choreography. She again holds up her magnifying glass to sexuality – resulting in an extraordinarily intense production.

Joanna Macy

Active Hope: how to confront the chaos without going mad

conversation workshop

Active Hope: how to confront the chaos without going mad
Active Hope: how to confront the chaos without going mad
Thu 08.03.18

The world-renowned 89-year-old ecofeminist Joanna Macy wants more than passive hope. Why do we wait for impulses from outside to effect genuine change? In her latest book Active Hope, she offers concrete instruments for you to play an active role in the ‘Great Revolution’, geared towards a feasible and sustainable future for the environment, humanity, and society.

Gloria Wekker

White Innocence

conversation

White Innocence
White Innocence
Wed 07.03.18

Emeritus Professor Gloria Wekker is coming to talk about the profound paradox of places like the Netherlands, Belgium, and other countries with a colonial past: the emotion and aggression that race incites among the white population, while at the same time, race and racism seem to be denied. She explains concepts like white innocence, cultural archive, and intersectional feminism with reference to telling current examples.

Are sexist jokes innocent?

Heleen Debruyne, Rebekka de Wit, Anousha Nzume, Joost Vandecasteele, Martijn Veerman & Simon(e) van Saarloos (mod.)

debate

Heleen Debruyne, Rebekka de Wit, Anousha Nzume, Joost Vandecasteele, Martijn Veerman & Simon(e) van Saarloos (mod.)
Heleen Debruyne, Rebekka de Wit, Anousha Nzume, Joost Vandecasteele, Martijn Veerman & Simon(e) van Saarloos (mod.)
Tue 06.03.18

To what extent are sexist jokes a reflection of power relationships in our society? Is sexist humour innocent or not? Are you a sexist if it makes you laugh or bitter if it doesn’t? An impressive group of specialists will explore these questions in a programme with lectures, a debate and especially… lots of humour.

#WeToo & ENGAGEMENT

conversation debate

#WeToo & ENGAGEMENT
#WeToo & ENGAGEMENT
Mon 05.03.18

In the wake of #MeToo, Ilse Ghekiere published the article #Wetoo: What Dancers Talk About When They Talk About Sexism. Her research into sexism in the Belgian dance sector developed into the anti-sexism campaign ENGAGEMENT. This evening will feature several artist-activists who are coming to talk about the steps that have been taken and the artistic strategies to tackle the abuse of power, discrimination, and inappropriate behaviour.