Capture my body

As a trauma patient, Fumiyo Ikeda is given inventive treatment by her therapist Frank Focketyn. Full body motion capture registers all her movements, as she repeatedly experiences and pushes away her memories and emotions. She feverishly steers her digital representation, hoping to come to an accommodation with it and thus emerge from her trauma. As always, Eric Joris and CREW play with your perceptions. In the meantime, Peter Verhelst’s text unravels trauma and the impossibility of intimacy.

In Jean Cocteau’s farewell monologue The Human Voice (1927) – in which you see and hear a woman phone her ex-lover for the last time – the telephone plays a merciless role. It is only the woman’s reactions that hint at her absent ex’s replies. Who is it on the other end of the line? Now Ramsey Nasr presents his version of events, again directed by Ivo Van Hove.

Dive deep into the night, and exchange clock time for experience time! During the dark and silent hours between 23:59 and 7:00, Schwalbe takes you on a visual trip past ancient theatrical sceneries.

This performance is cancelled. Information on ticket refund or exchange will be sent per e-mail to those who had bought tickets for the shows.

Individuals merge into one group as they dance to pumping beats. Can they transcend themselves and achieve collective abandonment? Discover the meaning of energy, of love and of 'attaching value to'!

For the first time we welcome the Spanish dramatist, writer and performer Angélica Liddell to the Kaaitheater. Her use of powerful imagery made her the revelation at the 2010 Avignon Festival. She is sometimes described as the female Rodrigio Garcia, that other big name in Spanish avant-garde theatre. Black humour and religious symbolism find a prominent place in her work.

In her new performance, Laura van Dolron strips away all the laws of theatre in order to get even closer to you. In this updated version of Wat nodig is she is accompanied by Steve Aernouts. Together you press pause, so that you can rest for a while from all those people with opinions. Spirituality does not necessarily need to be anti-intellectual; Van Dolron succeeds in making it sexy!