JUNE AT THE KAAITHEATER

JUNE AT THE KAAITHEATER

with Guy Cassiers, FC Bergman, RITCS, PARTS and workspacebrussels

FC Bergman - Het Land Nod

For their latest production, FC Bergman drew inspiration from the majestic Rubens’ Gallery at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. With Het land Nod (performance without words) they tell a gripping story about this museum gallery, its works, and above all the people who seek solace and shelter in the museum.

The young Antwerp based theatre group FC Bergman joined Toneelhuis in 2014. Their work is adventurous and on a grand scale. In impressive, majestic stage settings, they tell us something about the vulnerability of man. Kaaitheater previously presented Terminator Trilogy (on the waste land of Tour & Taxis) and Van den vos.

Het land Nod premiered in Antwerp. After a tour through Belgium and the Netherlands, the performance is now coming to Brussels. The shows will take place on loaction at Les Halles in Schaerbeek. Afterwards, Het land Nod will travel on abroad, and will be staged at the Avignon Festival, a.o.  > more info and trailer.

 

Guy Cassiers / Toneelhuis & Toneelgroep Amsterdam - De welwillenden

Guy Cassiers tackles Jonathan Littell’s almost one-thousand-page novel The Kindly Ones. In De welwillenden, (performed in Dutch, surtitled in French) he confronts the darkest side of human behaviour: the Nazi ideology and the destruction of the Jews. What happened in order to make this catastrophe in the heart of Europe possible? What political, ideological, psychological and social transformations brought about this violence and let it take its course? Europe’s current shaky political foundations and the rise of far-right, xenophobic and anti-European parties give this project a special urgency.

For this production, the Toneelhuis ensemble is joined by five actors from Toneelgroep Amsterdam. De welwillenden premiered in Antwerp early March, and is now on tour in Belgium and abroad. Check the tour dates and the trailer.

 


workspacebrussels - Working Title Situation #4

Workspacebrussels is a workspace for live arts and installation art in their most hybrid forms. WSB supports young and emerging artists through an intensive residency program, co-productions and coaching of creations and research projects. Rehearsal spaces in the Kaaitheater and the Kaaistudio’s are part of the offer. During Working Title Situation #4 artists will show their work in an old metal facoty at Ixelles, in ParckFarm near Tour & Taxis and in the city centre. Check our website or www.workspacebrussels.be for the complete programme.

 

New generation of theatre makers at RITCS

Get to know a new generation of theatre-makers and technicians graduating in Brussels. In June, the theatre students at the RITCS will be presenting their graduation productions as the final part of their courses in Directing and Stage Technique. You can see the exam pieces for the Bachelor course in Directing by Felix Banholzer, Pascal Buyse, Joana Cotrim and Marie Pien at the Kaaistudios. The detailed programme will be available on our website soon.

 

PARTS Graduation Tour

Once every three years students can enter the renewed PARTS Training Cycle. The first group started in 2013, and 35 of them are graduating this June. They are closing their cycle with a creation of their own as well as new pieces, with a limited rehearsal time of six weeks, directed by the experienced choreographers Daniel Linehan, Fabrice Mazliah, Eszter Salamon, Vera Mantero and Marc Vanrunxt. From 30/5 on, the entire programma will be available the website of PARTS.

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About Kaaitheater

Stage

Kaaitheater is a stage for dance, theatre, performance, music and debate in Brussels. Founded in 1977 as a pioneer of innovative performing arts, this house has grown into a platform for both work by artists of the Flemish Wave and new generations of performing artists. From Brussels to international, from small to large venues, and just as well in the squares and the streets, where urban and global themes are tangible.

Motto

Under the motto How to Be Many?, the Kaaitheater team makes room for a broad spectrum of stories, perspectives, artists and audiences, so we can learn to better reflect the city's many voices. That we do in cooperation with many partners.

Places

Currently, Kaaitheater’s building on the Sainctelettesquare will be under renovation. We will move into our new building in 2025 and that will give us an additional auditorium as well as a city balcony and spaces for artists and audiences, all of which will give the new urban arts centre on the canal its identity. In the meantime, we will continue to perform in Kaaistudio's, and we will be on the move through the city and briefly make use of at 14 many theatres and partners in and around Brussels, with whom we will present a multifaceted programme.

(In) practice

Looking towards the future, Kaaitheater will continue to develop new lines of participation and mediation so that we can introduce new generations of audiences to contemporary performing arts. We invite organisations and groups that still are underrepresented on the Brussels stages to create their own artistic programmes. This allows us to open the way for co-ownership of artists and audiences.

Kaaitheater moves with the times, stimulates social and artistic debates and embraces the pluriform performing arts of today and tomorrow.

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