Performance

at Kaaitheater

Performing Art - Noé Soulier

22/03/2019 — 23/03/2019

Now that the body has increasingly entered museums, choreographer and philosopher Noé Soulier has chosen to explore the reverse movement: what if it was the artworks that adapted themselves to a new space instead of the body? In Performing Art, spectators observe 20 works of art from the collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Pompidou. Not by strolling through a museum, but from the comfort of their theatre seat. The actors are the technicians of the museum who unpack the artworks onstage according to a well-defined protocol.

Performance

GAETAN RUSQUET

MEANWHILE

15/09/2018 — 16/09/2018

Three performers patiently erect a construction. Their gestures are methodical and the scene, architectural model or installation, takes shape like a city. Playing on the principles of stability and scale, the performers must face the destruction of their undertaking. Sound masses become more intense, ultimately making the space vibrate. The structure crumbles and the bodies become powerless. The threat of collapse becomes more concrete.

Live Performance

Christian Bakalov

PURE

02/07/2018 — 26/08/2018

PURE is a performative and immersive installation by Christian Bakalov. It is the second part of the ETERNIA trilogy, developed from Spinoza's concept of "Eternity", which is closely linked to birth and death. Oscillating between visual arts and performance, PURE generates interactions between bodies and objects creating situations in which the public, performers and installations have an equal function, united in the same work of art.

ScreeningPerformance

FESTIVAL KANAL

21/06/2019 — 30/06/2019

For the closing week of KANAL Brut, before the first phase of the conversion work starts in early July, KANAL will open its doors uninterruptedly from 21 to 30 June with a quality programme that involves performing arts, music, debates and above all an exceptional “ambient night” that will give the public the opportunity to sleep at KANAL, as well as the "Fabrik KANAL" an entire night devoted to artistic creation.

OLA MACIEJEWSKA

LOIE FULLER : Research

16/06/2018 — 17/06/2018

In Loie Fuller: Research, Ola Maciejewska continues to research the historic figure of dance.

She explores the famous costume specific to the serpentine dances of Loïe Fuller, the power of non-human objects in contact with bodies. With such a postiion, she proposes to step outside anthropocentrism, where like a sculptor with her Pygmalion, she lets herself be bowled over by the object, or rather by what emerges from this bilateral relation.

Kunstenfestivaldesarts

El Conde de Torrefiel

05/05/2018

Spanish theatre. A succession of tableaux vivants for a visual and textual experience by the young company of Pablo Gisbert and Tanya Beyeler.

JEANNE COLIN & KILLIAN MADELEINE - Reception

Day of the dance

27/04/2019 — 28/04/2019

In every sculpture and every monument there is an attempt to capture our convictions for eternity. And yet even stone erodes. What does a truth need to remain valid? In their sensitive duet Jeanne Colin and Killian Madeleine go in search of an anchorage – in themselves and in each other. Their stability is constantly put to the test by the soft clay floor on which they move. An ode to the fragility and strength of the body.

DAN MUSSETT & LAURENT DELOM dddddddddduettttttttttttttttttttttttt

Day of the dance

27/04/2019

In their very first performance together, dancers Dan Mussett and Laurent Delom go in search of the perfect symbiosis. What happens when two individuals give up their individuality for a unity that transcends them? In a playful exploration of what it means to become a person’s teacher, shadow, friend, rival, mirror, brother or colleague, all boundaries are slowly fading away.

Festival & SuperSchool

MAGMA RECLAIM THE CLIMAX !

15/05/2019 — 26/05/2019

This project is organised as a big meeting-point between various Masters programs, where the ecological, social, political and poetical questions of our time can converge in relation to the field of contemporary artistic creation.

Performance

Kunstenfestivaldesarts

I...Cognitive maps - Chapter 1 - Ely Daou

29/05/2019 — 31/05/2019

What do you remember about a room? Or about an apartment or space you lived in, but which no longer exists or where you never went back to. In I... Cognitive Maps - Chapter 1 artist Ely Daou, born in Beirut in 1986, travels through his memory – and history – attempting to sketch the different apartments and living spaces he occupied during and just after the Lebanese Civil War. The architectural details – as they are remembered or perhaps transformed by the artist’s memory – become the starting points for re-entering both the spaces and the past. I...

Karl Van Welden

IMAGES FOR MARS II

17/08/2018 — 31/08/2018

For the video work IMAGES FOR MARS II (life-sized projection) Karl Van Welden investigates the effect of a disaster on the human body. We see people in a state of carelessness, until a dark ash rain falls upon them, turning their idyll into a catastrophy. Or how a blissful picnic in the park becomes a scene of charred bodies on a patch of scorched earth. During the action the falling ash rain transforms the image slowly but steadily. The performers fight their personal battle while their vitality is under threat. As the physical body changes state, the image becomes a monochrome.

CHARLOTTE VANDEN EYNDE & NICOLAS ROMBOUTS - Hyphen

Day of the dance

27/04/2019

In their improvisation, choreographer Charlotte Vanden Eynde and double bass player Nicolas Rombouts explore the power and vulnerability of creating in the here and now. For Rombouts playing music is instant composition, for Vanden Eynde dancing is thinking. In Hyphen they become two parts of the same brain and explore the tension between intuition and mental control, between spontaneity and repetition.

Nazanin Fakoor

RAINBOW

09/07/2018 — 13/07/2018

Rainbow is a performance that questions identity and its multiple facets. In a solo on stage several characters appear in dialogue with each other – like a rainbow they are formed by reflection, refraction and dispersion of sunlight on raindrops. Nazanin Fakoor affirms that we all are the result of an infinity of reflections or refractions of the encounters that we make during our life, and this from the beginning, with our first meeting – that with our family. Our identity is plural.

Kunstenfestivaldesarts

A Invenção da Maldade - Marcelo Evelin

10/05/2019 — 11/05/2019

Brazilian choreographer, researcher and performer Marcelo Evelin is a prominent name in the field of contemporary dance. His latest creation came into being in a former warehouse in his hometown, Teresina, which he uses as his artistic workplace. Raw and unpolished, the space reflects the city and the surrounding country, where everyday lives run up against powerful political tensions and a growing intolerance towards minorities and artists.

(Recreation by Ruth Childs of pieces from the 1970s by Lucinda Childs)

Particular Reel, Calico Mingling, Reclining Rondo and Katema

17/06/2018 — 18/06/2018

In 2015 choreographer Lucinda Childs passed on three of her emblematic solos of the 1960s to Ruth Childs. This first artistic encounter led to the recreation of Pastime (1963), Carnation (1964) and Museum Piece (1965).

Performance

Kunstenfestivaldesarts

Dancer of the Year - Trajal Harrell

05/10/2018 — 10/10/2018

For his first appearance at the festival, Trajal Harrell presents his latest creation, Dancer of the Year. In recent years the American dancer and choreographer has toured the world with a series of shows in which he brings together the modern dance of the white, artistic middle class with the voguing dance style practised by the African American and Latino LGBTQ communities. For the festival he ventures into a full-length solo project for the first time in a while.

Performance

Alessandro Sciarroni - Don’t be frightened of turning the page

Day of the dance

27/04/2019 — 28/04/2019

During the experience of the project “Migrant Bodies”, between 2014 and 2015, the artist develops an idea for a new performative practice that is deeply germinal. Starting from the observation of the migration flows of some animals that at the end of their life return to spawn and die in their natal territory, the artist began working on the concept of “turning”.