Radouan Mriziga
Akal - The Earth

Can choreography be used to fill in the gaps in our historical memory? With Akal, Tamazight for Earth, Radouan Mriziga once again focuses on the knowledge of the Imazighen, the indigenous people of North Africa. In this solo, written for the Rwandan dancer, singer, and choreographer Dorothée Munyaneza, he creates an intimate mix of rituals, traditional dance, architecture, storytelling, song, poetry, and rap. A fresh look at an oppressed past.

Choreographer and dancer Radouan Mriziga studied dance in Marrakech and Tunisia and continued his education at PARTS in Brussels. He has since 2014 been supported by Nomadic Arts Centre Moussem. From 2017 to 2021, he was artist-in-residence at Kaaitheater.

Akal premiered at the Singel in November. After the Brussels stop at Kaaitheater, the performance will continue its world tour, through the United States, Asia and Europe.

Kaaitheater | 20, 21/01 | dance

We Hear You(th)

The Kaaitheater programme line WE HEAR YOU(TH) is a series of projects in which artists give voice to children and young people and discuss their views of the world and of the future. These performances, intended for adults, invite us to listen to the voice of youngsters and surrender to the wisdom of the youth. > read more about it here.

Mohamed El Khatib
La Dispute

Mohammed El Khatib spent months in various primary schools, met more than one hundred 8-year-olds of various social backgrounds, and listened to what they had to say. What he realized was that many of these children’s parents were no longer together and that this divorce occupied a central place in their lives. The subject has been researched extensively, but you rarely get to hear what the children themselves think about it. That is why he asked them the following in La Dispute: "What question would you like to ask your parents today?"

Theatre maker Mohamed El Khatib often brings the everyday onto the stage in his work. Whether it is fifty-three fans of a football club (Stadion) or a group of museum attendants (Gardien Party). He gives a voice to those we do not often hear and brings those in the margins into the spotlight.

With La Dispute we invite Mohamed El Khatib for the first time at Kaaitheater. After the Brussels shows, La Dispute will continue its tour through France and Spain.

Kaaitheater | 29, 30/01 | theatre | in French with Dutch surtitles

More-Than-Human Encounters

What would history look like if seen through the eyes of more-than-human agents?  This series of lectures, talks, and workshops contemplates the entangled relationality in a multispecies world that has been modeled by patriarchy, capitalism, and imperialism.

Marialena Marouda, The Oceanographies Institute, Alexis Pauline Gumbs & others Songing With Our Ancestors: Hydrofeminisms

This last session in our Series of More-Than-Human Encounters is entirely devoted to oceanic storytelling in kinship with hydrofeminism. This form of feminism is particularly sensitive towards watery creatures and our solidarity with them. It is also inspired by music and song-making practice – songings –, believing them to be a means of interspecies community creation and resistance.

Programmed by the Kaaitheater and VUB Crosstalks, supported by ACT - Art Climate Transition network & the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

Kaaistudio's | 25/01 | talk | in English