Kaaitheater spreads out

Due to extensive renovations, Kaaitheater is temporarily leaving its building on the Sainctelettesquare at the beginning of July. From September 2022 onwards, we will be taking our programming on tour: Kaaitheater will explore new territories and lands in theatres in and around Brussels. These are the partners we will cooperate with in the coming years: KVS, Charleroi danse/La Raffinerie, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, Rosas Performance Space, Ancienne Belgique, Bronks, Atelier 210, de Hallen van Schaarbeek, Théâtre Varia, CC Westrand/Dilbeek, CC Strombeek and CC De Factorij/Zaventem. With the latter three, Kaaitheater presents six productions a year as part of PeriferiK.

Kaaitheater continues to present its programme in Kaaistudio's and has also found a temporary stage at the Kriekelaar. Our offices will be located in the adjacent buildings of the Kriekelaar.

Kaaitheater sees this period as a time of sowing, of slow growth, of new audiences, experiments and pilot projects, of strengthening networks and trying out ways of working that can later be translated into the new building.

On the 2nd of June, we will announce the programme for September to December 2022 along with a number of performances for the spring of 2023

‘Bye Bye Kaai' - farewell to the current Kaaitheater building

We will bid farewell to the current building on 18 June with a bang! Bye Bye Kaai will be a day full of memories and wishes for the future. The programme includes Adieu & Merci by Latifa Laâbissi, a long moment of toasting curated by Louis Janssens, a conversation between dramaturges Esther Severi and Edith Cassiers about the work of Marianne van Kerkhoven an adaptation of a text by the late Jan Ritsema by Jonathan Burrows and Bojana Cvejić, a redemptive performance of Olympia Bukkakis, a farewell ritual by Barbara Raes/Beyond the Spoken, workshops by Toestand vzw, a real party parti.e, and more! Discover the full programme here.

Until the end of June, you can visit an exhibition in the foyer of Kaaitheater showing the plans for the renovated building. On 8 July we will move out of the Kaaitheater building. The start of the works is planned after the summer holidays ​

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.

Once we have moved into our new infrastructure in 2025, the presentation function will move from Kaaistudio's to the new building, while the residence function at Kaaistudio's will be expanded.