June at Kaaitheater

June at Kaaitheater

Thursday, May 2, 2019

  • Rosas repertory evening Bartók/Beethoven/Schönberg with new cast and live music
  • Einstein on the Beach by Ictus, Collegium Vocale Gent & Suzanne Vega
  • Anne Teresa & Jolente De Keersmaeker with Somnia in Gaasbeek
  • 'To Authenticity... and Beyond!' closing talk: Bojana Cvejić on Aesthetic Individualism

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas
Bartók/Beethoven/Schönberg

This special repertory evening will present three early works by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, each of which is based on a piece of classical music. The programme features a combative choreography set to the layered rhythms and harmonies of Bartók’s Quartet n°4, a group piece that defies gravity and depicts the ingenious counterpoint in Beethoven’s Die Grosse Fuge, and a shamelessly romantic duet set to Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht. Ictus and the Brussels Philharmonic will accompany the pieces live especially for the Brussels' series.

This repertory evening starts its tour with eight shows at Kaaitheater.

Kaaitheater | 19 > 27/06 | dance/music

 

 

Anne Teresa & Jolente De Keersmaeker
Somnia - premiere
co-presentation Kaaitheater & Kunstenfestivaldesarts

Anne Teresa and Jolente De Keersmaeker will create a location-based production in a clearing in the woods. A group of 44 dancers  who are in the final year of their training at PARTS and 13 musicians engage in a dialogue with their natural surroundings: gravity, the musical sounds of nature, and the various rhythms of life outside the city.

Somnia is created in the framework of Kunstenfestivaldesarts (29/05 > 1/06). Kaaitheater presents Somnia from 5 to 9/06.

Kasteel van Gaasbeek | 29/05 > 1/06 + 5 > 9/06 | dance

 

 

Ictus, Collegium Vocale Gent & Suzanne Vega
Einstein on the beach

The legendary opera Einstein on the Beachby Phillip Glass, Robert Wilson and Lucinda Childs premièred at the Festival of Avignon in 1976. For this new concertante version, the Ictus ensemble is joining forces with the Collegium Vocale Ghent and with neo-folk legend Suzanne Vega. The musical composition and the musicality of the libretto are the central focus in a minimalist and hypnotizing soundscape that lasts 200 minutes.

The concert at Kaaitheater is part of a European tour.

Kaaitheater | 5/06 | music

 

 

To Authenticity... and Beyond!
Bojana Cvejić: Aesthetic individualism, or dancing solo in the 21st century

To round up To Authenticity… and Beyond!, we invite performance theorist Bojana Cvejić for a final talk, followed by a conversation with Prof. Rudi Laermans. Laermans wrote the essay Be(come) yourself!, which marked the beginning of this season’s through line.
Bojana Cvejić's talk will unfold the new truth games in which individuals seek their self-knowledge in embodiment and artistic-like intensity. How do aesthetic qualities of experience shape a predominantly individualized sense of the self? Alternatively, can one perform oneself transindividually, in a kind of collective individuation?

Kaaistudio’s | 17/06 | talk | in English

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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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