David Weber-Krebs
The Silencing - Premiere

What attention do you pay to the sounds of your environment? What if those sounds slowly fade away? In his performances David Weber-Krebs explores the role of (human) spectators at a time when their activity has a profound impact on their physical and ecological environment. With The Silencing he enters the realm of sound and invites the audience to listen collectively to a world that is becoming increasingly silent.

The past years, David Weber-Krebs  has, together with Jeroen Peeters, organised the performative conferences On Enclosed Spaces and the Great Outdoors, of which the fourth was broadcast live from Kaaitheater. Recent works for theatres are the performances Tonight, lights out! (2011/2013), Balthazar (2011/2015) and The Guardians of Sleep (2017), all three of which could be seen at Kaaitheater. The Silencing is premiering at Kaaitheater and will be presented at the Homo Novus festival in Riga later this year. 

Kaaistudio's⎢29, 30/04⎢theatre

Kate McIntosh
To Speak Light Pours Out 

Kate McIntosh's latest performance throws the work of several writers, composers and performers into the mix. To Speak Light Pours Out immerses you in a powerful listening space: it is a world where rhythms, voices, texts and their meanings shape and channel each other. Surrender to exhilarating polyrhythmic beats and the raw energy of layered voices that unleash sonic and spoken images, both political and poetic, liberating and activating.

On Saturday, we present an XXL version of the show, completed with a video discussion, a percussion performance and party.

Kate McIntosh's work transcends the boundaries of performance, theatre, concert, video and installation.  Since its premiere at PACT Zollverein in Essen, To Speak Light Pours Out has been touring across Europe and will be presented for the first time in Brussels at Kaaitheater. 

Kaaitheater⎢01, 02/04⎢performance & music

Vera Tussing
Tactile Quartet(s)

In Tactile Quartet(s), Vera Tussing invites the string quartet Quatuor MP4 to join four dancers onstage for a playful encounter between movement and sound. What happens when we take the movements of a string quartet seriously as a choreography, and dance along? The four musicians play passages from various quartets by Franz Schubert, Anton Dvorak and Florence Price as well as contemporary works by Georg Friedrich Haas and Caroline Shaw. As they play, the musicians engage in one-on-one tactile encounters with the audience, creating physical interaction. Everything arises from touch – a bow on a string, an arm on a shoulder, an acoustic sensation on your skin. The dancers mediate the encounter between musicality and tactility, their choreography oscillating between touch, sight, and hearing. 

Choreographer Vera Tussing has focused for many years on the sensorial, such as in her works T-Dance, Mazing, The Palm of Your Hand or Duet the City. She has been an artist-in-residence at Kaaitheater from 2017 to 2021. Tactile Quartet(s) premiered at Kaaitheater in 2019 and will now be rerun due to high demand. 

Kaaitheater⎢29, 30/04⎢dance & music

Marcos Simões
How not to be understood?

The solo-performance How not to be understood?  is a love affair with art – love as an overflow into the other, an out of body experience and a creative force. With video, a piece of cloth and his body as a medium, Simões manages to take you along through a spiritual sequence of rituals. Get ready for this encounter with art as an unformed being: a process that connects the invisible to the visible, the finite to the infinite, the one to the many.

Marcos Simões lives and works as a choreographer and performer in Brussels. He has previously performed at Kaaistudio's during a workspacebrussels festival with Ai! (2012) and This place (2013), a performance that grew out of his collaboration with Sara Manente.

Kaaistudio's⎢01, 02/04⎢performance

Daniel Linehan/Hiatus
Listen Here: This Cavern

Where Daniel Linehan's previous performance Listen Here: These Woods took place among the trees, Listen Here: This Cavern invites you to descend into the darkness of a cave, to sharpen your senses and to listen. The music of American composer Pauline Oliveros - recorded in a gigantic underground cave - accompanies the dynamic movement spirals of the performers. Let your senses get used to the dark and listen to the sound vibrations and dancers circling in the darkest space of Kaaitheater. 

This Cavern is part of the double bill Listen Here, together with Listen Here: These Woods - both inspired by the work of American composer Pauline Oliveros. Listen Here: This Cavern recently premiered at deSingel and will be presented later this year at the JUNE EVENTS festival in Paris. 

Kaaitheater⎢08, 09/04⎢dance

Every year, Kaaitheater celebrates Dance Day by offering dance performances. For this edition, on the 23rd op April, we present Solo's & Duets by Meg Stuart at Kaaitheater and Dark Red – Beyeler/RPS by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker at Rosas Performance Space.

Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods
Solos and duets

Solos and duets is a compiled programme that offers a unique insight into Meg Stuart's oeuvre, which continues to grow, live and transform. Starting from old and new material, she builds an evening with existing solos and duets, in combination with fragments from full-length performances. This is the perfect opportunity to take a journey through Stuart's oeuvre, often as abstract as it is recognizable, as subdued as it is energetic.

Over the past 25 years, Meg Stuart has created more than 30 productions, the majority of which have been presented on the Kaai stage. In 2018, Meg Stuart received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale. 

Kaaitheater⎢21-23/04⎢dance & performance

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Dark Red – Beyeler/RPS

What would it mean for choreography to perform as an exhibition? In 2021, De Keersmaeker was invited by Fondation Beyeler to create Dark Red—Beyeler, a ‘live installation’ where the dancing body faced the sculptural work of Auguste Rodin and Hans Arp. Now, with Dark Red—Beyeler/RPS, a reprise of this performance is shown in the home of Rosas. How does the choreography evolve in this space? What echoes remain of the sculptures that inspired it? How will embodied abstraction be experienced here?

Rosas Performance Space | 23/04 > 8/05 | dance / exhibition

The Silencing by David Weber-Krebs, Listen here: this cavern by Daniel Linehan/HIATUS &To speak light pours out by Kate McIntosh are co-funded by ACT & the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union