Performance
Prisca Tankwey
Leopoldville mourning
23/09/2022
During her performance Leopoldville mourning, Tankwey takes the participants in a funeral procession from the Monument au Travail (Rue Claessens, 1020 Brussels) to the church of Laeken, where Belgian royalty including Leopold II is buried. Pulling at arm's length a tombstone adorned with archival photographs of Léopoldville, the public follows the artist in this funeral procession to the entrance of the church to symbolically bury the colonial city.
Performance
Benjamin Muzart
Love Dynamics: Hold
10/09/2022
Love Dynamics: Hold is about the difficulty of setting boundaries in the right place when you are made vulnerable by a budding love. At those moments when the desire to please the other person and our own needs collide, how far are we willing to follow the dynamics of the loved one?
Performance
Seppe Baeyens & Ultima Vez
Birds
18/09/2022
Following the success of Tornar (2015) and INVITED (2018), dancer and choreographer Seppe Baeyens builds upon his exploration of shaping a temporary community in Birds. For this new creation, he steps outside the theatre walls and ventures into the public space with a group of performers and musicians. There the normal course of events is interrupted – sometimes invisibly and sometimes plainly.
Performance
Renato Miskolczi
Flies
26/08/2022
- 26/08, RUE ULENSSTRAAT, 15:30 - 18:30
Exploring the space between installation and performance, FLIES is an in situ piece that ‘activates’ the vertical plane. Four performers suspended by rope move through evolving cycles of jumping, falling, and running. By inhabiting (traditionally regarded) uninhabitable space, FLIES invites the audience to look at the world from a new perspective. A moment to notice, and give time to, the familiar surfaces that normally go unnoticed in our day to day activities.
CREDITS
Performance
Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Idiota
07/05/2022
08/05/2022
09/05/2022
Pandora’s myth probably first surfaced to help us answer age-old questions. Why do people get sick and die? Why do bad things happen? And while Pandora is often cast as the reviled bringer of evil, she also brought fertility, since birth and death did not exist before she released them.
Rendez-vousWorkshopPerformanceExhibition
Café Congo
Congo, Mama Na Ngai !
30/06/2022 — 01/07/2022
Café Congo, an artistic, feminist, ‘decolonial’ and queer third place, will be hosting a folk/political festival in Brussels as only this place knows how around the anniversary of the independence of the Congo. Tucked away in Anderlecht in a former factory, Café Congo welcomes and honours the creations, reflections and resistance of Afro-descendants. It is headed by Gia Abrassart, an independent Congolese journalist and activist and is aimed at achieving a truly deconstructed culture.
Performance
GUY WOUETÉ
En Quête des marges fluctuantes - Brussels Days 21
22/09/2021 — 23/09/2021
23/09/2021 — 24/09/2021
24/09/2021 — 25/09/2021
During the three Brussels Days, the Cameroon artist Guy Woueté and performers Medina Tokalic and Bela Juttner, hold up banners in the public spaces. The banners that contain thoughts and texts, some of which were written by Woueté himself, fluctuate between poetic quotations and political claims/slogans. During En quête des marges fluctuantes, the bodies of performers are put to work in public spaces for eight hours a day, thus challenging how passers-by view work and working conditions.
Performance
ULA SICKLE
Relay (Unplugged) - Brussels Days 21
24/09/2021 — 25/09/2021
A black flag floats in continuous motion. The black flag cannot be linked to one particular battle and hence defies easy interpretation. Drawing inspiration from the many recent protests taking place around the globe, a diverse group of performers relay one another in a fascinating test of endurance. Their movements pass back and forth between inertia and hope, resistance, and powerlessness.
Performance
YOUYOU GROUP
MARS - Brussels Days 21
23/09/2021
23/09/2021
On April 24th, 2021, 18 performers of the YouYou group performed MARS in Brussels, inside KANAL-Centre Pompidou’s building while the audience were outside in the street. The performance was broadcast live into the street by loudspeakers on the upper floor of the building. Centre-Pompidou welcomes the group now for an adapted version that takes place in the museum and on the adjacent square on September 23rd, 2021, during the Brussels Days.