How to develop better ways of working in the performing arts sector today – and in the future? As part of How to Live and Work Now?, we are inviting six artists, collectives and researchers to set up self-organized collective working groups.
Engagement Education will design a 24h course to tackle the many forms of discrimination and harassment in higher art education.

Ben je tussen de 15 en 20 jaar oud? Vind je ook dat deze wereld niet normaal is? Anna Rispoli, BRONKS en Kaaitheater zijn op zoek naar jongeren die zich willen uitspreken!

How will we live together? And who is we? Debra Solomon is an artist, PhD candidate at the Univhuersity of Amsterdam in the departments of Urban Planning and Designing Urban Experience, and co-contributor to the Dutch pavilion of the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennial. Her talk Multispecies Urbanism is the first in a Series of More-Than-Human Encounters, which runs this Kaaitheater season in collaboration with Crosstalks.

Along with Passa Porta, we invited Négar Djavadi for an author conversation with David Courier. Her second book Arène is an urban novel told from multiple perspectives. Djavadi, who is also a screenwriter, reflects on the rhythm and the storylines of TV series, which determine our perspective on fiction and dominate our imaginations.

On 9 and 10 oktober, Khadija El Kharraz Alami presents at Kaaitheater the performative research performance Re-claiming Space – a preliminary study for a new project about Virginia Woolf’s The Waves. Alami: ‘I just want to show what I define as beautiful, powerful, and vulnerable.’

In her series Dying Together, Lotte van den Berg focuses on the moment of collective death not only of people, but also of animals, plants or ideas. Dying Together/Futures is a work-in-progress that is based on current events: the corona crisis. Lotte van den Berg: ‘Reflecting on something when you are in the midst of it is very complicated but also necessary.’

1. How to start (again) and look forward?

3. How to reserve space for the unexpected?

You probably already know that you will not see any more performances on our stages this season. Kaaitheater and the Kaaistudios will remain empty in May and June, and we have no programme to announce. And yet coordinators Agnes Quackels & Barbara Van Lindt decided to write you this letter.

Normally we would have presented the Kaaitheater programme of the coming weeks. But then everything changed. So there is no programme this time. Instead, we are proud to present a collection of contributions by artists whose productions have been cancelled, as well as by two artists-in-residence. They each answered a simple question: ‘What would you like to say to the Kaaitheater audience now?

Normally we would have presented the Kaaitheater programme of the coming weeks. But then everything changed. So there is no programme this time. Instead, we are proud to present a collection of contributions by artists whose productions have been cancelled, as well as by two artists-in-residence. They each answered a simple question: ‘What would you like to say to the Kaaitheater audience now?