October: Kaaitheater presents

• Premières : Lucas Katangila brings La veste du président; Tristero invites you to Fluisterbehang / Visite guidée
• Performance : Göksu Kunak with AN(A)KARA; MOLD by Sara Manente; Arkadi Zaides with NECROPOLIS
• Debate : Ecopolis 2022 – Multiple (hi)stories, Multiple futures; The Wonders of Multilingualism #3

Lucas Katangila
​La veste du président - première

With his political solo The President's Jacket, Congolese dancer, choreographer and activist Lucas Katangila addresses the abuses in eastern Congo. His choreography balances between smooth, flowing movements and a very calculated, even sometimes restrained dance. Until the tension can no longer be held, the piece erupts and spits out all the violence that this wounded region has to endure.

Lucas Katangila explicitly uses his work as a weapon to combat violence in Congo and to create attention for it in Europe. With influences from hip-hop, contemporary dance and traditional African dance, his choreographies build a bridge between Europe and Africa. In 2020, he won the Roel Verniers Prize at Theaterfestival. During the WIPCOOP festival 2021, he presented a work-in-progress of his solo at Kaaistudio's.

Kaaistudio's⎢27, 28/10⎢dance⎢in French

Tristero
​Fluisterbehang / Visite guidée – première

“The walls have ears” people sometimes say. But what if they could also speak? For Fluisterbehang, Tristero uncovers the hidden stories stored in the walls of the Schaerbeek residence at 80 Gallaitstraat. Who slept in the attic room during the Second World War? But also what is a house? What do we want to keep within its walls at all times?

Together with GC De Kriekelaar, Kaaitheater presents the première.

De Kriekelaar⎢4>23/10⎢theatre | in Dutch & French

Göksu Kunak
​AN(A)KARA 

AN(A)KARA is a sci-fi TV variety show hosted by Göksu Kunak focusing on the late modernism of Turkey in relation to the city of Ankara. The performance investigates the collapse and decay of an imaginary society with references to real-life absurdities.  

Using queer methodologies and hybrid texts, Kunak’s work points out the problematics of hetero-patriarchal structures, while exploring Orientalism, self-Orientalization, as well as Eastern masculinities and their intertwinement with state governmentality. AN(A)KARA premiered in Berlin and went to Antwerp afterwards. In October, we welcome Kunak for the first time on the Kaaitheater programme, at De Kriekelaar.

De Kriekelaar | 21/10 | performance | in English

Arkadi Zaides
​NECROPOLIS

Arkadi Zaides and his team are building an archive of dead people who were only admitted to Europe as bodies. The performance is an invitation to participate in the sensory discovery of a ghostly virtual territory, to question your sense of accountability and your role as a citizen. 

Zaides focuses on the ways in which political and social contexts affect the movements and gestures of bodies. NECROPOLIS premiered during the Atlas of Transitions Biennale in Bologna. After a European tour, Kaaitheater presents the piece at De Kriekelaar.

De Kriekelaar ⎢ 28, 29/10 ⎢ performance/dance

Sara Manente
​MOLD

MOLD isn’t just a performance, it’s also a farm: an environment where all elements interact as living cultures. Drawing on mycology, fashion, fermentation, dance and sculpture – Sara Manente approaches the theatre machine as a multiplicity of bodies. 

Performance, film, text, event, sculpture or telepathic collaboration, her work presumes that all relationships are founded upon noise, as chaotic multiplicity, parasite or background. MOLD premiered during the Almost Summer Festival 2022 at Kunstencentrum BUDA (Kortrijk) and will feature in France and Portugal, before coming to Brussels.

Bronks | 22, 23/10 | dance / performance

Ecopolis 2022
​Multiple (hi)stories, Multiple futures

Social, ecological and economic crises force us to think about a radically different way of living. "The world is not about to end; we are already living with a different world," writes philosopher Bayo Akomolafe, speaker at the eighth edition of Ecopolis where artists, thinkers and doers break open our frames. This year, Ecopolis brings stories that depict an inclusive and sustainable future for this new world.

Ecopolis is the annual rendezvous for those committed to a sustainable future. Ecopolis is diverse, international and interactive. On this editions programme, there are walks in the afternoon and conversations in the evening. These are the first names on the programme: Omar Fassi Fehri, Chiara Tomalino, Dalilla Hermans, Bayo Akomolafe, Jumana Emil Abboud, Mihnea Tănăsescu, Olave Nduwanje, Eric Corijn, Apolline Vrancken, Jérémy Désir-Weber, Jill Peeters, Enkidu Khaled and Joachim Robbrecht.

Ancienne Belgique | 15/10 | debate/walk | in Dutch, French & English

The Wonders of Multilingualism #3

For some time now, Passa Porta and Kaaitheater have been meeting up to discuss multilingualism in all its wonderful and complex facets. The theme has not yet been decided, but the structure is already known: the focus is on mutual discussion, supplemented by short artistic interventions around the theme.

Kaaistudio's | 11/10 | debate/conversation | multilingual

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