Kaaitheater spreads its wings and presents a new programme at 15 locations in and around Brussels

June 2, 2022

Due to extensive renovations, Kaaitheater is temporarily leaving its building on the Sainctelettesquare. From September 2022 onwards, we will continue to present our programme at Kaaistudio’s, but we will also go on tour and land at theatres and partners in and around Brussels, with whom we will share stage and habitat.

De Kriekelaar, Atelier 210, Rosas Performance Space, Gare Maritime/Tour&Taxis, Ancienne Belgique, Bronks, KVS, CC Strombeek and Westrand/CC Dilbeek will be opening their doors and present a joint programme together with us.

The following theatres will be added from January 2023: Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, les Hallen de Schaerbeek, Théâtre Varia, Charleroi danse/La Raffinerie and CC De Factorij/Zaventem.

With Westrand, CC Strombeek en CC De Factorij, Kaaitheater presents six productions a year as part of PeriferiK.

Becoming a bird theatre

What does it mean for a theatre to not be able to use its normal residence in a city? What will it learn by sharing the working conditions of other places? No longer being a 'centre' (of art) that everyone is gravitating towards but itself having to move, what impact will this have on its programme, the artists, the audiences? Inspired by Vinciane Despret's book Habiter and Oiseau, we leave the nest as bird-theatre, to share territories and stages with other theatres.
> Read the introduction here

How to Be Many?

From September to December 2022 , we present work by well-known names and new voices:

Together with our partners for 2023, we are already announcing a first selection of performances for next year by:

How To Be Many? remains Kaaitheater’s motto. It is a question that contains many questions: How to Be Many in the City? How to Be Many on Earth? How to Love in Many Ways? How to Tell Many Stories? How to Meet in Many Languages? How to Be Many in the Future? These themes run through the Kaaitheater programme like thematic lines.
> Discover the programme with the questions

We will continue to dedicate twenty percent of our budget to other Brussels arts organisations in the coming years. We give them a place in the programme and full artistic independence. Over the past year, Citylab, For All Queens, Mophradat and Mothers& Daughters have had their premieres and festivals on the Kaaipodia. This autumn, we are continuing this series of collaborations. During the WIPCOOP festival you can visit Kaaistudio's for the performance of Lucas Katangila. In December, Fatsabbats will take up residence at Kaaistudio's for a weekend. Fatsabbats is a multi-faceted self-managed platform that aims to create 'safer spaces' with and for Brussels queer and racialised communities. At the end of September, the Brussels creative breeding ground for art and artivism Citylab returns, this time with their event There's nothing wrong with people - but you cannot self-love your way out of systemic oppression at Kaaistudio's. In the second half of the season we welcome Moussem and Mothers&Daughters.

From this season, Kaaitheater is starting a new tradition: together with Bronks we will programme annual family performance in the winter months. At the end of December, we will kick off this cooperation with The invisible man by Jetse Batelaan/Artemis.

ColdFusionGreen - Artwork by Hadassah Emmerich, Courtesy of Dordrechts Museum, Image by Rectangle/Pauwels

Pay What You Can

Last year, we experimented with a new pricing system: {PAY WHAT YOU CAN}. In line with the Kaaitheater motto How to Be Many?, we hoped to make tickets as accessible as possible for as many people as possible. And it worked! That is why we will carry on with {PAY WHAT YOU CAN}.

For each performance, there is a series of prices from which the visitors can choose. The middle one is the suggested price. Would a lower price make it more likely that they come? Then they are free to choose that price. Can they afford a higher ticket price? That way, they can make sure that others can pay less.

Over the coming year, we will continue to roll out this system. The openness and trust of each of our partners means that we can continue the Pay What You Can pricing policy allowing you to buy tickets at a price you decide for all performances in the upcoming Kaaiprogramme.

Kaaitheater in 2025

In 2025, we will return to the Sainctelettesquare. There we will start a new story, a unique site for the performing arts in Brussels and Flanders with five different types of spaces in one location: a renovated large auditorium for 700 people, a small auditorium for 200 people, two large rehearsal studios, a monumental multipurpose room that is suitable for receiving classes and other audiences, and a city balcony where open-air presentations can take place. With a café that wants to be hospitable and approachable, serving tasty and healthy food and being a meeting place in the daytime, evenings and sometimes at night.

Kaaitheater spreads its wings and presents a new programme at 15 locations in and around Brussels

Becoming a bird theatre

How to Be Many?

Pay What You Can

Kaaitheater in 2025

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