• Premieres: Jan Decorte and Sigrid Vinks with BLOOD LTD by Bloet;
  Ahilan Ratnamohan & Globe Aroma with Le Maillot – One Size Fits All
• Belgian premieres: Gisèle Vienne with L'Étang + How to Turn to Stone by Manuela Infante (part of Proximamente/KVS&Kaaitheater)
• A Series of More-Than-Human Encounters: The Funghi Paradigm (with VUB/crosstalks)

 

Jan Decorte & Sigrid Vinks/Bloet
BLOOD LTD by Bloet – premiere

In the coming years, Jan Decorte and Sigrid Vinks - also known as Bloet - will focus on collaborating with young performers. BLOOD LTD by Bloet is a project with the density of a black hole. All themes, visions, opinions, dogmas, and manifestos are swallowed up and evolve from a meaningless zero to a meaningful chaos. Jan Decorte and Sigrid Vinks, together with Ika Schwander and Oumar Dicko, create their own theatre language: light, whispering and fleeting.

Brussels-based theatre-maker, writer and actor Jan Decorte has made many a floor tremble, and always with Sigrid Vinks by his side. Their link with Kaaitheater stage goes way back, with a long history of radical rewrites from the theatre repertoire.

This performance will premiere at Kaaitheater.

Kaaitheater | 9 & 10/11 | theatre | language no probs

 

Ahilan Ratnamohan & Globe Aroma
Le Maillot – One Size Fits All – premiere

In Le Maillot – One Size Fits All, a group of performers with diverse artistic practices – ranging from dance to photography, fashion, video and athletics and all sharing football as a common passion – come together to explore the football jersey and its infinite cultural and physical significance. 

Globe Aroma is an artistic working and meeting place where space, time and a network are offered to people with a newcomer background. In recent years, they have set up several co-creative performance projects – including in co-production with Kaaitheater – and invited a different artist each time. This time, it is theatre maker/performer/choreographer Ahilan Ratnamhoan. He and a group of performers started the rehearsal process in 2020 but soon had to stop because of corona. This Autumn, they resumed rehearsals. The thin line between process and (final) product is typical of these co-creation projects. Globe Aroma ensures that everyone can move along to the rhythm of the group and the project.

Kaaistudio's | 26 > 28/11 | dance/performance

 

Gisèle Vienne
L'Étang – Belgian premiere

Franco-Austrian theatre maker Gisèle Vienne returns to Kaaitheater with a text adaptation by the Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956). L'Etang (the pond) is a musical theatre play about a child who feels unloved by his mother. Two actresses – including film star Adèle Haenel – play the mother and the neighbour. The children and teenagers of the village are embodied by fifteen human-sized dolls, Stephen O'Malley from cult group SUN O))) once more created the music.

L'Étang premiered in Switzerland in May 2021 and has since been touring across Europe. At Kaaitheater, we are presenting the Belgian premiere.

Kaaitheater | 18 > 20/11 | theatre | in French (subtitles in Dutch and English)

 

Manuela Infante
How to Turn to Stone – Belgian première

A play that behaves like a stone: what would that look like? What form would a 'mineral' representation take? In How to Turn to Stone, stones, as 'non-living' things, are models for a different kind of resistance. Manuela Infante brings pieces of eroded stories together. The fragments become landscapes and she stacks those landscapes like geological rock layers. This creates a 'mineral' representation telling you something about what is written in stones, and what stones have written in us.

Manuela Infante is a Chilean author and theatre maker who tours worldwide and has previously performed in Brussels (KVS) with Estado Vegetal and Metamorphoses. In her work, she investigates the boundaries between the humane and the non-human, only then to dissolve them.

This Belgian premiere is co-presented by Kaaitheater and KVS, and is part of the Próximamente festival. During the festival, Manuela Infante also stages her previous work Metamorphoses at KVS.

Kaaitheater | 25, 26/11 | theatre | in Spanish, subtitled in English

 

More-Than-Human Encounters 
The Fungi Paradigm - Camille Barton, Merlin Sheldrake & Olave Nduwanje

A Series of More-Than-Human Encounters returns! This series of lectures, talks and workshops contemplates the entangled relationality in a multispecies world that has been modelled by patriarchy, capitalism, and imperialism. 

Recent technological advancements have drastically altered (and accelerated) contemporary scientific insights into fungi. During this evening in the More-Than-Human series, Camille Barton, Merlin Sheldrake and Olave Nduwanje will uncover the dizzying multitude of relationships, opportunities and implications that fungi represent for life on our planet, and for our limited/growing body of knowledge on the intricate workings of the planet and the life it harbours.

Programmed by the Kaaitheater and VUB Crosstalks, supported by ACT - Art Climate Transition network (EU).

Kaaitheater | 09/11 | talk | in English

 

How to turn to stone by Manuela Infante & the More-than-human Encounters series are co-funded by ACT & the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union