In their performances, author and artist Romy Rüegger and electronic music performer Deena Abdelwahed reflect on ways of personal entanglement with the world and its politics, including the interpretation of history as part of the present.

Charlemagne Palestine is unleashing his strumming technique on the Bösendorfer Imperial: a piano that covers eight complete octaves. His instrument looks like a sculpted altar made of cuddly toys. He elevates these to divine creatures or shamanistic totems that are always close by.

Marc Vanrunxt creates a dance performance based on the work of the solitary Lucien Goethals, pioneer of Flemish electronic music. The result acts as a journey through time, towards what in the 1970s was still the music of the future, and which quite possibly still sounds like that now.

Dancer and choreographer Fumiyo Ikeda takes you on a journey to the heart of Morton Feldman’s Piano and String Quartet. This 80-minute composition for piano and strings exudes an aura of tranquillity, in which ‘each is just as much an echo of the other’. Ikeda shares the stage with the soloists of Ictus, as though she herself were the sixth musician.

Stef Kamil Carlens was inspired by folk art, rituals, beautiful creatures from European folklore traditions, and early twentiethcentury modern art. Enter into this wonderful world of dance, music, word, costumes, and masks!

Release your sense of rhythm on instruments from across the whole world. From bric-a-brac drums and African kalimbas to Moroccan krakebs, Brazilian pandeiros and a bike brake cable guitar.  

For his Concertos, the born performer Ivo Dimchev always invites a different musician for a voice improvisation in the form of a concert. At the Kaaitheater, he performs alongside the composer and pianist Lea Petra, who has been highly praised for her tango transcriptions for piano.

We say goodbye to the old season and hello to the new with a festive evening! Presentation of the 2014-15 season by Guy Gypens and Katleen Van Langendonck + Sketches/Notebook by Meg Stuart + 2013-14 CLOSING PARTY by Kaaitheater & Workspace Brussels. At the decks: DJ Jasper and DJ just in. 

Fifth atmospheric ‘lounge concert’ by Ictus. The main guest is the marvellous composer Eva Reiter along with her Viennese colleagues Thomas List (recorder) and Theresa Dlouhy (soprano). New works are alternated with sophisticated 14th-century polyphonic music (so-called Ars Subtilior). No need for ear plugs!

Ictus commissioned five composers to write a new work: a piece for the instruments typical of pop music and with the length of a pop song, but which is most definitely not a pop song. Michaël Levinas, Georges Aperghis, Eva Reiter, Jean-Luc Fafchamps and Kaaitheater artist in residence Eleanor Bauer, together with her musical sparring partner Chris Peck, have taken on the challenge.

Drumming (1998) is undoubtedly one of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s most fascinating choreographic works: a dazzling dance set to a powerful score for percussion by Steve Reich, performed. The Ictus Ensemble bring this compelling score to life with breath-taking precision. Drumming is a stunning journey, a wave of pure dance and pure sound, a vortex of life energy.