• dance: Dark Red − Beyeler/RPS by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / ROSAS
• Kaaitheater hosts the festival centre of Kunstenfestivaldesarts and co-presents 4 productions:
  • t u m u l u s by François Chaignaud & Geoffroy Jourdain – belgian première
  • The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes by Back to Back Theatre
  • Delivery by Akira Takayama  – première
  • Aphasia by Jelena Jureša (at KVS)  – première

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / ROSAS
Dark Red − Beyeler/RPS

In 2021, De Keersmaeker was invited by Fondation Beyeler to create Dark Red—Beyeler, a ‘live installation’ where the dancing body faced the sculptural work of Auguste Rodin and Hans Arp. Now, with Dark Red—Beyeler/RPS, a reprise of this performance is shown in the home of Rosas. How does the choreography evolve in this space? What echoes remain of the sculptures that inspired it? How will embodied abstraction be experienced here?

Rosas performance space⎜23, 24, 29, 30/04 & 01, 06, 07, 08/05⎜dance

Kunstenfestivaldesarts

This season Kunstenfestivaldesarts installs its festival centre at Kaaitheater. Togethers with KFDA, we copresent 4 pieces including 2 premières and one Belgian première:

François Chaignaud & Geoffroy Jourdain
t u m u l u s  – première

For François Chaignaud, the starting point of his new creation is a recurring dream: imagining a community of singers and dancers who cross the boundaries between two disciplines. To achieve this, he joins forces with musical director Geoffroy Jourdain, who shares his interest in the sacred polyphonies of the Renaissance. On stage is a community of 13 individuals. They are either together or split into smaller entities, ready to contaminate each other and transport the melodic line. The idea of ​​tradition comes alive: not fixed and not belonging to any individual, it instead passes through the bodies of those who welcome it. 

t u m u l u s will premiere at Annecy in the beginning of May. It crosses the border for its Belgian premiere at Kaaitheater, and then continues its tour in France.

Kaaitheater | 7 > 9/05 | dance & music | in the framework of Kunstenfestivaldesarts

Back to Back Theatre
The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes

How do we come together to make decisions in the best interests of our society? Three activists with intellectual disabilities have organized a public meeting addressing that question. On the agenda: a frank and open discussion of the history we would prefer to ignore and a future that is rapidly getting out of hand. 

The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes premiered in 2019, in Australia et is now touring all over the world. In 2019, Back tot Back Theatre won the Green Room Award for Best Ensemble with this piece.

Kaaitheater | 26 > 28/05 | theater | in English (surtitles in Dutch, French & English) | in the framework of Kunstenfestivaldesarts

Jelena Jureša
APHASIA – première

In medical terms, APHASIA, the title of Jelena Jureša’s new creation, refers to a condition that robs you of the ability to speak or to find the words to form a complete sentence. APHASIA, the performance, reconstructs an evening in a nightclub, in a post-war region, some thirty years after the war. A woman dancing in the sweaty, partying crowd suddenly recognizes the DJ – a war criminal who was never convicted: “the man who kicks the dead”. Together with musicians Alen and Nenad Sinkauz and dancer cum actress Ivana Jozić, Jureša questions the dynamics of polarization, compliance with authority and the lure of group violence. 

The show will premiere during Kunstenfestivaldesarts, at KVS.

KVS Box | 12 > 14/05 | performance | in english (surtitles in French and Dutch) | ihkv Kunstenfestivaldesarts

Akira Takayama
Delivery – première

During the pandemic, food delivery services have seen far more demand as people, those having the possibility of quarantining, sought ways to have the outside world brought to their homes. Japanese artist Akira Takayama infiltrates the city in collaboration with the people who deliver this food. In their daily lives these modern flex-workers, many in particularly precarious circumstances, are often not considered. As some of them have a hip hop background, Takayama invited them to create rap performances. 

In 2002, Takayama formed the theater company Port B in Tokyo, and since then has been producing installations, touring performances and social projects utilizing urban spaces as a way of engaging with cities and societies across the world.

For one week the Kaaistudio’s becomes a base and rallying point where Takayama and the delivery persons work on the performance, Afterwards, the premiere of the performance will take place at the Kaaistudio's.

Kaaistudio's | 23 > 26/05 | performance | in Dutch, French and Enlgish | ihkv Kunstenfestivaldesarts