Winter Wonders will be descending on the centre of Brussels from 24/11 to 31/12. We advise you to leave enough time to get to your performance.

Samen met kunstenaars en denkers zoomt het Kaaitheater tijdens seizoen 2018-2019 in op het hedendaagse verlangen naar authenticiteit. Aan socioloog Rudi Laermans vroegen we om een tekst te schrijven die het begrip authenticiteit belicht vanuit een historisch, sociologisch en filosofisch perspectief.

Four wandering travellers penetrate further into the forest and lose their way completely. In Conversation out of place, choreographer Ivana Müller continues her exploration of new ways of dealing with time and imagination: ‘The attempt to collectively slow down time is the most political part of the piece.’ A conversation with Ivana Müller.

In this talk, Elke Van Campenhout will speak about authenticity and our constant need to be unique, original, and connected to ourselves. Meandering through spiritual pragmatism, contemporary philosophy, and artistic discourse, she will rethink the boundaries of the authentic. 

American choreographer Anna Halprin created Blank Placard Dance in 1967 as a protest against the Vietnam War. ‘What are you protesting against?’, passers-by would ask the dancers. ‘What do you want to protest against?’ they would throw the question back at them. In an age in which individualism is rife, French choreographer Anne Collod is recreating this performance with participants from Brussels. Are you one of them?

From 23 to 28 October choreographer and artist-in-residence at Kaaitheater Kate McIntosh is presenting three of her pieces in one week: Dark Matter (2009), Worktable (2011) and her latest performance In Many Hands (2016). Together the works show the evolution that has taken place in McIntosh’ practice: from being a stage animal to creating delicate dramaturgies, from silence to words to sound, but also the appearance of a lot of objects. We took advantage of the summer break to invite her for an in-depth interview.

Are you interested in science, art, politics, theatre, philosophy or ecology? Are you curious about other people’s insights and experiences? If you answered yes, why not join The Tongue-Tied Network?  

Philosopher and feminist Rosi Braidotti wrote the passionate essay Don’t Agonize, Organize! – a reference to the African American civil rights activist Florynce Rae Kennedy – in which she states shouting back angrily is not enough. Anger alone is not a project! She advocates a careful regrouping of emancipatory powers based on a positive and constructive agenda. These should not be hasty alliances based on a general and superficial humanism, but an effective collective practice rooted in a positive re-radicalization and the things that genuinely unite us.

In October 2017 – in the framework of the 40th anniversary of Kaaitheater –  the founding father of performance studies Richard Schechner and choreographer, dancer and curator Michiel Vandevelde were invited to have a conversation about art, arts centres, and the world.

Sarma is launching a digital publication about the life and work of dancer/video artist Lisa Nelson. In the company of Nelson herself, we are offering you a glimpse of the result, which also features a series of interviews.

La Piscine is a collective project that gathers different artistic practices and works addressed to a single spectator. Going from a walk with the eyes closed, to a conversation, to a bath, a single spectator and one of the artists will tune to each other to draw a singular path into Les Bains du Centre – at the heart of the Marolles.