Kaaitheater is looking for a part-time Staff Administration Officer (4/5th)

When we spoke to Bashar Murkus about his latest play, The Museum, he was taking a few days off. It was the perfect moment for an interview, he said. In The Museum, he stages a dangerous power game: “Violence is not something that belongs to one person, it is part of all human beings.”

Under the title Hyperpresent, five contemporary thinkers will give a talk on a new idea that they introduced themselves. Laurent De Sutter introduces them on video.

Lukas Alberg worked as a safety coordinator for Blipco from 2005 to 2019. Following a series of momentous events, Lukas was placed onto a different track. He has since had a profound influence on policymakers regarding mobility, climate justice and migration issues, and has amassed a widespread following. Read an interview with Lukas Alberg, the frontman of a movement that you will present in Kaaitheater. (27 & 28/09 at Kaaistudio's)

Three years ago, when he began his residency at Kaaitheater, we sat down with Benjamin Vandewalle. At the time, he was toying with the idea of organizing an artists’ fair and wanted to become a self-declared city choreographer. In 2019, that artists’ fair has taken shape under the title Studio Cité.

The Board of Directors announced today that Agnes Quackels and Barbara Van Lindt will become the general and artistic coordinators of Kaaitheater. The pair will be employed by the Brussels-based arts centre on a part-time basis and will take up their new positions at the end of October.

For two centuries, the path of progress, innovation, growth, development, boundless possibility, self-realization and profit has led us away from the church tower and towards the whole world. The affect of this path, the unconscious framework that shapes our emotions, has been incredibly effective. It has led our imagination to run wild even though we knew that there were risks involved and that there would inevitably be victims.

In de voorstelling Simple as ABC #3: The Wild Hunt, zet theatermaker Thomas Bellinck een meerstemming portret neer van wat hij vandaag één van de meest acute vormen van mensenjacht noemt. 

For their project Letters to dance, deufert&plischke invited Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker to write her own letter to dance.

In onze huidige, complexe wereld zien we de maatschappij steeds meer als een ‘buiten-wereld’, meent de Nederlandse filosoof Thijs Lijster. Tegenover het idee dat geschiedenis iets is dat ons overkomt, breekt hij een lans voor het collectieve vermogen om geschiedenis te maken. Herbekijk dit gesprek.

It is over. After 11 festival days it is time to catch our breath and look back at the huge variety of moments and impressions.