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.
WorkshopPerformance
Seppe Baeyens, Al Qasy Saif Quasi, Stef Heeren
Atelier Léon
13/07/2021 — 15/07/2021
Welcome to Atelier Leon – an accessible neighbourhood dance workshop that gets everybody involved! Join choreographer Seppe Baeyens and musicians Stef Heeren and Al Qasy Saif Quasy as they challenge you to express yourself through dance and movement, and break away from existing gender roles and expectations. Slowly but surely, new relationships and dynamics will develop. Dance experience not required. Just come along and enjoy yourself.
We kindly request all participants bring their own chair.
Performance
Thiago Antunes & Gaëtan Rusquet
Atravès, de travers
10/07/2021 — 11/07/2021
The space of KANAL, charged with its industrial history, becomes the place to ritualise the love relationship, the renovation of the place becomes an opportunity for transformation, to integrate the past and the possibilities that arise.
PerformanceConcert
Myriam Van Imschoot & Youyou Group
MARS
24/04/2021 — 25/04/2021
KANAL-Centre Pompidou welcomes artist Myriam Van Imschoot and the YouYou group with a new vocal creation, MARS, around the art of the youyou or Zaghareet in Arabic, a loud ululation used as an expression of joy and festivity.
Performance
Calixto Neto
OH! RAGE
24/10/2020 — 25/10/2020
Calixto Neto’s Oh! Rage works on making minority bodies visible, and on remodelling their imaginaries. Based on a research into “peripheral” dances, in other words those that have been developed on the margins of institutional frameworks, his first solo focuses on the representation of black bodies, grasped at the crossroads between several emancipation discourses. He brings in the movements of Afropunk and Afrofuturisme, post-colonial research, especially covering Brazil, black studies and contemporary art.
Performance
Olga de Soto
Paper Lane
17/10/2020 — 18/10/2020
Paper Lane represents an act of resistance in the face of the digital revolution, the profusion of overabundance and high-speed and high-tech life, that destroy the silence necessary for meditation, introspection and reflection. This act is based on the observation of the need for a radical deceleration and is inspired by the book Alienation and Acceleration: Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality by the German sociologist and philosopher Hartmut Rosa.
Performance
Performed by Bryana Fritz
Lecture on Nothing, John Cage
15/10/2020 — 16/10/2020
Non-conformist as he was, John Cage chose to turn a lecture about his music into a work that is not even a lecture (at the most, it keeps up appearances) and is not even about his music. "Nothing" is literally the most important subject, in a text in which Cage collects anecdotes, makes references to Zen Buddhism (which he was deeply involved in at the time) and above all plays an amusing game with the audience's expectations.
MusicPerformance
Performed by Adva Zakai & Michael Schmid
MOSTLY SILENT MUSIC (extended remix)
15/10/2020 — 16/10/2020
A Fluxconcert with works by John M Armleder, Yoko Ono, George Brecht, Man Ray, La Monte Young, Takehisa Kosugi, Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins, Ben Vautier, John Cage, Christian Morgenstern, Kurt Schwitters and with bits and bites by Kate Tempest, Tierra Whack, Astra Taylor, Stromae, and Beethoven.