Try-out Dark Habits cancelled — replaced by Aggressively Modern Times! 19−20.06
Due to sickness, the planned try-out of Dark Habits in Beursschouwburg is cancelled. But don’t worry, Ferre Marnef and his team will show Aggressively Modern Times, which premièred last month!
More info and tickets via Beursschouwburg.
If you want to see Dark Habits, we will have our première at Theater Aan Zee from 30 July until 2 August.
SUPERHOST (MUHKA) invites APOLEMIA — Thursday 11 June
On Thursday 11 June, M HKA invites the Brussels-based collective Apolemia for a new edition of SUPERHOST.
SUPERHOST is a series of curated evenings taking place in M HKA’s top-floor spaces. Each edition is shaped by a guest artist or community, who approaches the evening from their own practice and perspective. Conceived as a programme of live and discursive events, SUPERHOST unfolds as a simultaneously festive, intimate and precise encounter within the institution. Each evening proposes a specific focus — a deep dive into the language, rhythms and concerns of the invited practice — creating space for exchange, experimentation and shared attention.
Join us for an evening of live music, ongoing performance and hanging out conceived by Apolemia. Operating at the intersection of clubbing, performance and installation, the Brussels-based collective approaches the dancefloor as a mutable space for gathering, drifting attention and shared experience.
With Pierre Bayet (aka Fake Moss), Mario Barrantes Espinoza, Lydia McGlinchey, Martín Zícari and guests Debit, Iris Therasse, Carly Rae Heathcote, waltur and Nathan Ooms.
Date: Thursday 11 June 2026
Time: 8pm – 1am
Venue: M HKA, top floor
Tickets: €13.78, including a €12 ticket price and Eventbrite reservation fees. Book your ticket here
Food: provided by Joost Pizza
Intimate setting with limited capacity. Early booking recommended.
PROGRAM
20:15 – 21:15 — Iris Therasse, Mario Barrantes Espinoza & Lydia McGlinchey
Live concert and performance
Expanded electronic guitar by Iris Therasse featuring live vocal interventions by Mario Barrantes Espinoza and Lydia McGlinchey. Two voices become material together with electric guitar for the greater composition, resonating together.
21:15 – 22:00 — Debit (aka Delia Beatriz)
Desaceleradas: Live / Rebajada A/V — live concert
A compositional homage to cumbia rebajada and its inventor Sonido Dueñez, the performance draws from the spectral textures of slowed tapes, street dance grooves, and degraded harmonies of an archive that refuses to disappear.
21:30 – 22:00 — Lydia McGlinchey & Carly Rae Heathcote
Performance for Celebration — performance
In this performance Lydia McGlinchey extends her work on textile, performance and the context of nightlife.
Both sculpture and performer are treated as one continuous material, covered in flax, rotating slowly. Flax, a Flemish heritage material, is expanded into the artist’s experimental performance vocabulary. Taking on an opulent and celebratory cascade of gestures, the performance is both formal and festive, obscure and fully at home in the party.
The costume is made in close dialogue with artist Carly Rae Heathcote, who designs, envisions and constructs it.
This performance is an excerpt from a larger work being developed for the 20th anniversary of BUDA kunstencentrum, Kortrijk, to be presented on 20 June.
22:00 – 23:30 — waltur
DJ set
Moving between textured club patterns, muddy industrial atmospheres and dystopian carnival references, waltur expands the possibilities of dance(able) music. Initially emerging as an experimental gabber DJ through the founding of a female collective, her practice has since evolved into a multi-genre approach shaped by bass-heavy psychedelic textures and eclectic global hard music.
23:00 – 00:00 — Nathan Ooms
Honey House — performance
23:30 – 01:00 — Pierre Bayet (aka Fake Moss)
dj-set
Apolemia is a Brussels-based collective founded in 2024 by Mario Barrantes Espinoza, Pierre Bayet (aka Fake Moss), Lydia McGlinchey and Martín Zícari. Working at the intersection of performance, installation, sound and nightlife, the collective develops events that explore collective creation, social encounter and the shifting boundaries between art and party.
Its name refers to a marine organism composed of specialised individuals, each autonomous yet physiologically connected. Similarly, Apolemia conceives its events as constellations of artistic voices, contexts and practices that temporarily assemble into dynamic, interdependent wholes.
Apolemia’s curatorial approach expands the possibilities of performance within nightlife, proposing the party as a site of artistic experimentation and communal experience. By bringing together diverse practices, it creates spaces where performance, sound and social exchange converge in porous, continual evolving forms.
BIS PRESENTS: New Works, Emerging Bodies — final chapter Sat 20th of June
Bodies in Space is proud to present the final chapter of New Works, Emerging Bodies, A Performance Evening — a curated selection of works by emerging performers, chosen through their open call launched in November 2025, in collaboration with Kunstenwerkplaats, Caravan production and Le Bamp.
Out of 400 applications from 40 countries across five continents, we selected18 performers, residing in Belgium. We’re very proud to present this selection during 3 big performance weekends taking place in February, April and June.
This time, we will share a particularly bold series of works that push the boundaries of presence, representation, and … taming wild dogs (!).
In a new set-up, instead of spreading the program over two days, we move into a concentrated performance marathon on Saturday evening.
We will show five performances, each lasting 20 – 30 minutes, one after the other. We begin at 20:00 and finish around 23:00, with short breaks in between.
Join us for a rhythmic succession of new voices in dance and performance!
CHAPTER 3 — 20.06.2026
Doors: 19h | Show: 20h
Mustaf Ahmeti – Riddle My Skin
Camilla Strandhagen – A Blurry Thing
Bayo Hassan Bello + Ben Kaya + Selma Stocker – Not to be laughed at, adorned and unperfumed
Sirje Tolonen – Chainsaw Princess
EYIBRA – Good Boy
Tickets are available now — we recommend booking in advance.
Professionals and members of the field are warmly invited to join us each Thursday prior to the performance weekend. To attend, please email us in advance bis@miauw.be (professionals only).
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Previous chapters:
CHAPTER 1 — 19 + 20.02.2026
Samuel Valor Reyes, Suzie Babin, Nata Mandaria, Justine Richard + Maxine Violette + Mariana Blanc Moya, Gio Megrevelishvili, QoffHearts+ VTT DJ set
CHAPTER 2 — 17 + 18.04.2026
Poetic Punkers, Mathile Chaize, Amina Abouelghar, Alexandra Bierlaire + Armad Drozy, Georgy Chtchevaev, Mariana Fagundes Oliveira + Lucía Eizaguirre
Welcome to join Simon Asencio’s showing! 8.05 11:00 – 14:00
This week, Simon Asencio is working at Elsenor on a play inspired by the 1981 political and literary conference Left/Write! (San Francisco). The work follows the tradition of poets theatre: a form of reading theatre — blending prose poetry, archival material, and conversational forms — enacted by the audience.
Simon wants to test out some scènes and invites you to participate tomorrow, Friday, May 8, from 11:00 to 14:00, in Pianofabriek (Elsenor).
The format is open: we will collectively decide how to distribute the parts and roles. You are free to actively read or simply listen. The scenes vary in scale, from dialogues between two people to larger ensembles of fifteen participants.
While he hopes you can join for the entire session, you are also welcome to drop in for a shorter period (preferably at least an hour to get a good sense of the duration and the experience).
You can join whatever time suits you, there is no need to be there from the start.
The showing will be in English.
We would love to see you there!
Constellations by Samah Hijawi on display in PILAR!
On exhibition this month at PILAR is the new works by Samah Hijawi!
Constellations is a series of drawings that are based on in ancient texts on agriculture, herbal medicine and astrology that map out a cosmology around an edible plant.
The exhibition opens April 23 april until May 29.
Constellations Series are drawings that map out the cosmology around an edible plant, and are based on research in ancient texts on agriculture, herbal medicine and astrology. They play on the idea of an astrological chart, (of the placements of planets in the sky at a certain moment in time), usually cast for events, cities, countries, and of course humans. The works continue the tradition of book illustrations from the middle ages in Arabic, Latin, Greek, and Persian, specially the diagrams that visually bring together connections between heaven and earth.
The drawings are made from life to capture the ‘spirit’ of the plant or the fruit, and are made close to their the season of harvest. Sometimes the planets are represented by their mythological figures — ancient deities who inspired strength, rebirth, reverence, love, and fear. In the background is the geographical region related to the plant. The texts describe the plants’ life, the cosmological and mythological story, sometimes quoting ancient thinkers, or more contemporary anecdotes around the plant. The texts are in Arabic, and some editions include notes in English.
Complete drawings for the plants; Pomegranate, Oregano, Rice, and Dates, with new drawings for Fig and Olives, among others to come.
Printed by Atelier KZG in Brussels.Previously shown:
‘Recipes for Broken Hearts’ in the 1st Biennial of Bukhara (2025), Curated by Diana Campbell, Uzbekistan
‘Foragers’ at Pilar (2026), Curated by Gosie Vervelossem, Belgium
Upcoming:
‘Arab Design Now’ (2026), Curated by Noura Al-Sayeh, Qatar
Open Call 100% Free Space
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Heb je interesse? Schrijf je dan in via de volgende link.
Jaha Koo wint een Ibsen Award!!
Jaha Koo has won the Ibsen Prize, widely regarded as the premier theater award.
Jaha Koo is a South Korean theater artist, composer, and video artist whose work spans multimedia performance and technology. In 2015, KWP took Jaha Koo under its wing and supported his solo piece Lolling and Rolling, marking the start of a four-year collaboration. During these four years, Jaha created works including Cuckoo, which KWP produced with support from Campo and Beursschouwburg.
Jaha is receiving the Ibsen Prize because, according to the Ibsen Prize committee, “in a world all too often characterized by ‘for’ and ‘against,’ Jaha emphasizes theater as the space in between.” This is evident in Cuckoo, where Jaha engages in conversation with his talking rice cookers by hacking their voice commands and notifications. This leads to bittersweet, humorous dialogues in which he journeys through the past twenty years of Korean history.
We wish Jaha the best of luck and congratulate him wholeheartedly on his well-deserved award
Lovende reacties na premières Khadija El Kharraz Alami en Lisa Vereertbruggen
Two artists who were long-time residents at KWP received rave reviews for their recent premieres.
Khadija El Kharraz Alami performed at De Single on March 13. With her show, Shrine, Khadija aims to challenge the sacred capitalist norms surrounding women. Lotte Ogiers, who attended the premiere, writes in Pzazz: “Through the polyrhythms of Moroccan music, Cheb Runner and Alami free our compromised bodies from their imposed identities. Some audience members jump right up to dance. I feel the vibration. A throbbing anger.” You can read the full review here: pzazz | Review — Woman and the Fuse.
Lisa Vereertbrugghen’s Again Forever was also a success. After the premiere on Thursday, March 19, at CAMPO, Mathieu Lonbois of VRT 3 gives three reasons why you must see the performance. “The scene feels like a morning after. That rosy moment after a good party when the last ravers take a taxi home,” he says. Curious about Mathieu’s three reasons? Read or listen more here: For everyone who never dared to slow dance: this is your moment | VRT NWS News.
You can still see both artists on their tours.
Boekrelease Egon Schoelynck — Huh, why didn’t I know this?
Huh, why didn’t I know this? Is a book written by Egon Schoelynck containing the things he would have liked to know when he started working as a performing artist in Belgium. Saturday 24⁄09 was the big book launch at the Beursschouwburg.
His book, described as a practical guide for aspiring performing artists, a subjective travelogue from the field with a touch of self-help, is now available in art spaces and cultural centers in Flanders and Brussels, including the Beurschouwburg theater and here at KWP. Egon Schoelynck’s new book is available at an affordable price or even for free!
Aftellen naar tweede editie “it takes a city” festival
Just two more days of excitement before Parvin Saljough’s Feral Reverie and Anne-Laure Vandeputte’s My Body as a Commodity are performed during It Takes a City.
It Takes a City presents the next generation of Brussels performing artists. Four Dutch-speaking and four French-speaking organizations, including KWP, are joining forces to showcase new and young talent across the boundaries of language, culture, and region.
Together with atelier 210, la Balsamine, Beursschouwburg, Charleroi danse/La Raffinerie, Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Kaaitheater, and workspacebrussels, we present:
Adeline Rosenstein, Anne-Laure Vandeputte, Arno Ferrera & Gilles Polet, Caroline Roche, Desirée 0100 & Lulu Muñoz, Haig Aivazian & Noor Abed, Ilyas Mettioui, Marianne Chargois, Mercedes Dassy, Nikima Jagudajev, Pablo Lilienfeld & Federico Vladimir, Parvin Saljoughi, Rodolphe Coster & Aldawash & State Collapse, Soa Ratsifandrihana & Bonnie Banane
2 weekends • 8 partners • 8 locations • 13 shows • 2 conversations • 1 concert • 2 parties
ROAR OF SILENCE — 29⁄11 International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
ROAR of SILENCE
raise money and unite in anger and disbelief
November 29 is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, and we will gather at GC Pianofabriek to stop the roar of silence. We will do this with a series of concerts and a panel discussion (in Dutch and French).
Admission is free, and all proceeds will go to Wings of Healing (Gaza) and BASR Hospital (Bethlehem).
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15u30 — 22u30: Music by HYM, Wodiwo, Legrain & Schmitz, Cissy, Calvin Carrier, fem, Babbel, Niz, Moon’s & Dj Benito, and UW CHAZAM. Curated by Femke Stallaert.
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15:00 — 17:00 | NL panel discussion
How to stop the roar of silence? Strengthen the boycott and build solidarity with Palestine from the bottom up.
With Rudi Kennes (independent Member of the European Parliament), Saddie Choua (Global Sumud Flotilla), Jozef Smets (former Belgian ambassador), Loes Salomez (Alderman of St. Gillis), Theo Mewis (citizens’ movement to stop the fraternization of Ixelles-Megiddo)
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17:00 — 19:00 | FR panel discussion (In hall Arenberg)
With: Navid O’Lari (Global Sumud Flotilla), Ahmed Frassini (Palestinian journalist) and Jean Bekkers (active citizens against the twinning Ixelles-Megiddo), Jean Louis Mignot (diplomat, former Belgian consul in Jerusalem), Dr. Ahmed Almoghrabi and Delphine Noels (The Wings of Healing), Eléonore Merza Bronstein, (MOC Brussels).
Keep an eye on the website of gc Pianofabriek for updates!
Extra date for My body as a Commodity in KVS!
A wildly enthusiastic Brussels audience for Anne-Laure’s performance has led to a third show being added in KVS!
Wednesday, October 22 – tickets
Thursday, October 23 – sold out
Friday, October 24 – sold out
See you at KVS!
Diego Echegoyen presents a try-out of his research project Invisible Cities! Friday 17 October 16:00
On October 17 at 16:00, Diego Echegoyen will present a try-out of his research project Invisible Cities at Kunstenwerkplaats.
In this choreographic and sound performance, Echegoyen explores the relationship between human and technical bodies, and the tension between center and periphery. Through a dialogue of movement, sound, and space, he reveals what often remains unseen — the resonance of the marginal within the heart of the stage.
The showing offers a glimpse into an ongoing artistic research that blurs the boundaries between theatre, installation, and performance.
Where?
Kunstenwerkplaats – Buenos Aires
Fortstraat 35, 1060 Sint-Gillis
When?
October 17, 16:00
Welcome!
Genesis in The Retort: Dancing & Dreaming Together — Free Dance classes @ Pianofabriek
Dreaming and dancing together can generate a productive form of unbalance, which leads to exciting experiences of individual and collective adaptability and rejuvenation. Working from the (nighttime) dreams of the participants, we will explore somatic states and deep impulses within the body which can give rise to dance/choreographic material which has a refreshing, nurturing quality.
At the same time, we will explore the geometric movements of mystic and trickster G.I. Gurdjieff, which propose a field of impersonal attention that will counterbalance the strong sensations generated from dream material. Taken together, these two approaches will take us on a collective adventure into the unknown in this historical moment in which reality refuses to stay real.
No specific training or background is required for the classes! All are welcome!
Led by Asa Horvitz (US/BE) and Keyna Nara (JP/BE)
You can register via https://www.pianofabriek.be/en…
OPEN CALL I Application for IPOP’s Queer Feedback Sessions Belgium 2025 – 2026
Deadline: Monday, 12 October 2025, 21:59
In Pursuit of Otherwise Possibilities is hosting its first the Queer Feedback Sessions (QFS) program in Belgium in collaboration with Kunsthal Gent, Buda, Kunstenwerkplaats, WpZimmer, Beursschouwburg, and Workspace Brussels under the Coalition of Care in 3 Flemish cities.
We are looking for a cohort of 7 LGBTQ+ artists* interested in participating in an artistic research project exploring theories and methodologies of queering feedback.
During the Queer Feedback Session a group of artists, researchers, and cultural organisers gather for seven days of learning how to better support queer artists and art-making through an expanded notion of feedback. Each session 2 artists will share artistic work or practice and receive feedback from the group based on a unique protocol co-designed by the artist and the facilitator. QFS has evolved around the belief that a caring community focusing on the needs and desires of artists with a spirit of experimentation will give feedback that supports the whole artist and their work.
All participants will :
- Connect with an exciting group of queer makers and researchers in Belgium.
- Learn to co-create feedback environments that suit your needs.
- Present your work and receive feedback.
- Receive mentorship from professional queer artists.
- Receive €294 (volunteer fee of €42 per session, no BTW) for your participation and lunch will be provided at each session. There is some support available for travel and housing. Please indicate below if you will need that to participate.
Because the Feedback Sessions are intended to develop a group of artists who are engaging with each other’s practice on a deeper level, attendance is of primary importance. The gatherings will be from 10:00 – 17:30 on the following dates:
- 8 – 9 December 2025 Ghent & Kortrijk, (hosted by Kunsthal Gent and Buda)
- 6 – 7 January 2026 in Antwerp (hosted by Monty)
- 3 – 4 March 2026 in Brussels (hosted by Beurs and KWP)
- 14 April in Antwerp (hosted by wpZimmer)
*IPOP is open to anyone who understands themselves or their work as in some way “queer” or “LGBT+.” We welcome applications from a diverse range of people and do not require or expect any particular relationship to sexuality or gender.
As IPOP we would like to underline the collaborative aspect of these sessions. Our methodology and approach has been largely informed by experiences and creative dialogue with the participants of three previous cohorts.
Please Note:
15 — 24 October we will invite a selection of applicants for twenty-minute Zoom interviews.
On 27 October, we will announce who will partake in the first QFS Belgium cohort.
Please fill out this application below if you are interested in participating in IPOP’s Queer Feedback Sessions. If you prefer not to submit an application, you can record a 5 – 7 minute video instead and email it to elisteffen@gmail.com.
Please contact us at elisteffen@gmail.com if you need support with this application or have any questions.
IPOP is an artistic educational research platform initiated by Elioa Steffen and Szymon Adamczak housed at the ATD Lectorate Amsterdam. IPOP is made possible through funding from the Academy of Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam and is a project of the ATD Lectorate within the Thematic Collaboration Program of the Amsterdam University of the Arts in collaboration with the National Film Academy of the Nethlerland. This session of the Queer Feedback Sessions started as a residency for Elioa Steffen at Kunsthal Ghent and has been generously supported by Kunsthal Gent, Buda, Kunstenwerkplaats, WpZimmer and Workspace Brussels under the Coalition of Care.
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Queering Artistic Feedback, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NKX4Hgjat5i_loX_W5mgqB40CXttEtQY/view?usp=share_link., view our publication
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EUROPALIA ESPANA invites Sophía Rodríguez!
This autumn, EUROPALIA celebrates its 30th edition with a Spanish biennial. Exactly forty years after EUROPALIA was first dedicated to Spain, EUROPALIA ESPAÑA will present, from 8 October 2025 to 1 February 2026, a multidisciplinary program that brings together heritage and contemporary art forms while offering exciting perspectives on themes that connect and challenge us. The festival includes more than 100 events with 170 artists, spread across Belgium at over 80 venues, and KWP artist Sophía Rodríguez has also been invited to create a performance especially for this festival.
In this creation for EUROPALIA ESPAÑA, Sophía Rodríguez embodies the body of sacrifice: a female body torn between desire, symbolic violence, and political oppression. The performance draws on two of Francisco Goya’s most iconic and charged images: The Nude Maja, which led to his prosecution, and Saturn Devouring His Son, one of the “black paintings.” In Rodríguez’s performance, Saturn devours La Maja, the female body, which is no longer a passive surface for projection but a living presence that remembers, resists, and responds.
La Maja Desnuda. Eaten by Saturn will be performed twice at BOZAR, which simultaneously hosts the festival’s main exhibition Luz y sombra. Goya and Spanish Realism.
Performances on 8.11 and 6.12 in Bozar, Brussels
Read the brochure here.
Anne-Laure Vandeputte guest at Pompidou on Klara!
In the run-up to the opening of the TheaterFestival in Ghent, Anne-Laure Vandeputte was invited by Chantal Pattyn to Pompidou to talk about My Body as a Commodity, together with other guests Rinus Vandevelde and Christophe Vekeman.
You can listen to the episode here!The performance will be staged at the TheaterFestival in Ghent on September 3 and 4 and in Amsterdam during the Dutch Theater Festival on September 9 and 10.
Not to be missed! Or, in the words of Chantal Pattyn, “Go check it out, folks!”
Welcome to join the try-outs of our resident Eeva Juutinen! August 27 & 28
Dancer and choreographer Eeva Juutinen from Finland is spending two weeks in our studio’s working on her new creation Unknown For Talking Bodies, exploring how pleasure can be an ethical and responsible act towards the environment and all living things. On September 25th, this piece will have its international première at Weld Theater in Stockholm.
On August 27 and 28, Eeva cordially invites you to attend a try-out. The performance lasts about 40 minutes, and afterwards there will be an opportunity to talk with the creator, if you are open to it.
The try-outs will take place in the Elsenor studio, on the fourth floor of Pianofabriek. Accessible by elevator or stairs. (You can wait on the fourth floor.)
The performance is free of charge.
27.08 — 16:00
28.08 — 15:00
Fortstraat 35, 1060 Sint-Gillis
Drama in the Museum — Rosie & Micha @ Kunsthal Gent
What if we could experience theatre the way we walk through an exhibition? Theater makers Micha Goldberg and Rosie Sommers are in residence at Kunsthal Gent to work on their new project‘Drama in the Museum’. During the Patersholfeesten, they will explore the grey zone between black box and white cube with a continuous performance in Kunsthal Gent.
During the Patersholfeesten, Micha Goldberg & Rosie Sommers, supported by Ward Weemhoff (De Warme Winkel), open up their rehearsal room inside Kunsthal Gent. Drama in the Museum is an ongoing experiment — part performance, part installation — where scenes from classic repertoire pieces unfold in a museum context, stripped of theatrical illusion.
Instead of one fixed moment, visitors are invited to come and go. To witness fragments, repetitions, warm-ups, pauses. Everything is part of the piece. The art space (the museum) becomes a space not just for looking, but for feeling — with drama as the living object under observation.
In the spirit of 1960s happenings, Drama in the Museum brings friction and aliveness into the white cube. A burst of emotion, a touch of chaos, a moment of theatrical presence that disrupts the quiet.
Practical
Friday 15 August: ongoing, 19:00 — 22:00
Sat 16 & Sun 17 August: ongoing, 13:00 — 17:00
Entrance: Pay What You Can
WANTED (dead or) ALIVE: AUDIENCE
These weeks, Zinneke opens up their doors to the enormous gang of Spaghetti Western. In this research project, theater makers Aurelie Di Marino and Renée Goethijn explore how they can stage a western. A western that criticizes and questions contemporary violence and polarization.
On Friday, August 1, 2025, their saloon will be open to visitors to engage in dialogue with them about pressing complex social issues and the importance of resistance in (pre)totalitarian times, as part of the research.
01.08 I 16:00
Place Masuiplein 13, Schaarbeek
Notify your attendance with lore.sommereyns@pianofabriek.be
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My Body as a Commodity presented at TAZ and selected for Het TheaterFestival in Belgium and The Netherlands
Anne-Laure Vandeputte is selected for het Theater Festival in Belgiumand The Netherlands, both festivals take place in September 2025, in respectively Ghent and Amsterdam. Before that, in August, My Body as a Commodity will be presented at Theater Aan Zee in Ostend!
Here you can find all tourdates and info.
OPEN CALL: 100 % Free Space
Space for beginning artists during the summer in the Brussels community centres: open call in collaboration with the Kunstenwerkplaats
Are you a professional artist or do you have plans to move in that direction? Do you have a clear link to Brussels and are looking for space for your research or project? This summer, the Brussels community centres are once again making some rooms available to artists free of charge. All disciplines are welcome.
CONCRETELY
You will have a workspace at a community centre where you can develop your artistic project or research. You can spend up to 4 weeks there. No technical support or remuneration will be provided. But you can use the space for free. We will help you find the most suitable space (see the list). At the end of the summer, Kunstenwerkplaats will accept some of the residents for a follow-up trajectory.
APPLY
Interested? Register via the registration form (NL, FR or ENG) by Wednesday, 11 May 2025.
After 11 May, Kunstenwerkplaats, the VGC and the community centres will look at all the applications. They will make their selection and allocate the most suitable and available spaces. You will receive a proposal on 9 June 2024 at the latest. Ensure that you can be reached by phone in the week of 9 and 16 June.
We do our best to give everyone a workspace. If there are more applications than spaces available, allocation will depend on the artistic quality of the proposal and the applicant’s artistic trajectory. We give priority to beginning artists with a clear link to Brussels and work that is open to the Dutch-speaking cultural field.
Would you like more information? Please contact Steffi De Cuyper of N22 Brussels Community Centres: 0490 523 995 or steffi.decuyper@vgc.be.
These roots never blossomed in avant-première!
On April 3 & 4, These roots never blossomed has its avant-première in Beursschouwburg!
Exploring the historic industrial ties between Belgium and Iran in the sugar industry, Sana shines a light on the old ruïne of the sugarfactory in Kahrizak (Iran). A seed sown in a once fertile landscape of lush lawns, brimming with promise and nurturing dreams of progress and the bloom of industrialization, now stands as a profound symbol of what was lost and sacrificed as ambition reshaped the landscape
Tickets en info via Beursschouwburg.
Picture by Navid Fayaz
Dark Habits in Kunstenwerkplaats I 18.10
These past two weeks, Simon Van Schuylenbergh worked on his research called Dark Habits and ends this residency period with a public showing at Kunstenwerkplaats!
18.10 — 20:30
Kunstenwerkplaats in Pianofabriek
Pay what you want — BRING CASH!
no reservations needed
Dark habits is an artistic pilgrimage which brings into light the understated beliefs of an artistic practice and its community.
As a starting point we will observe the actions of the ‘sisters of perpetual indulgence’, a group of queer activists who held meetings dressed up in self-made nun-costumes. They held ceremonies during the AIDS crisis in which they declared infected bodies as saints. The faith of these nuns centered on the society’s notion of the “dirty,” infected body, as opposed to the ‘pure’ body, described within Catholicism.
Dark Habits puts a spotlight on the beliefs and rationals which protect and generate both our society and artistic field through staging them in the context of different spiritual spaces: the church, the new age cult, satanic cults and the faith of the faithless.
By staging them we try to expose their possible inner-contradictions, examining their sanctity, and humorously playing with their demise.
Dark Habits will be built with artists from the network connected through Ne mosquito pas. Instead of solo’s we will make a series of group-acts. Each night you will see 5 different acts made by 5 different artists, performed together in group.
see you!
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Black Hole by Sara Dziri during AMOK Festival canceled!
Last week, sound artist and dj Sara Dziri had an amazing premiere of Black Hole, her first dance production! Normally, the next stop would’ve been in at AMOK Festival (KAAP, Brugge) the 5th of October. Sadly, this show has been canceled. For those who don’t want to miss out on this piece: Black Hole is playing on October 12 in deSingel (Antwerp) during BLISS!
Find all info:
https://desingel.be/nl/program…
Vulcanize Me by Audrey Apers is programmed by FRINGE festival in Amsterdam!
This week, Vulcanize Me by Audrey Apers is playing at Fringe Festival in Amsterdam.
Vulcanize me is an absurd quest of two women trying to break free from a seemingly stuck situation. They search for a system where there is room to explode. A space where bodies rebel, where untamable women, mother goddesses and biker babes rule. Their words can sometimes be incoherent and erratic. They refuse to surrender to a prevailing morality, which delights in going under or being swept away. Like little craters, they open up new possibilities….
An explosive theatrical performance in which rasping vocals and expressive physicality clash.
12, 13, 14 and 15 September in De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
tickets: https://amsterdamfringefestiva…
In 2023, Audrey graduated the master in Theater direction (RITCS) with Vulcanize Me. Currently, she’s working on Under Your Spell, produced by Kunstenwerkplaats. More on that soon, so stay tuned!
The Actors’ Guild nominates GERMAN STAATSTHEATER for ‘Most Appreciated Ensemble Performance’!
GERMAN STAATHEATER has been nominated for the Actors’ Awards in the category of ‘Most Appreciated Ensemble Performance.’
In this theater production, Rosie Sommers and Micha Goldberg explore what solidarity can still mean in our increasingly individualistic society. The performance, an energetic and captivating journey, is the result of a collective effort by a team of no less than 18 people! The nomination in this category is a wonderful recognition of the teamwork and dedication of this talented group.
Congratulations to Rosie, Micha, Simon V.S., Milka, Loucka, Ariadna, Giulia, Natacha, Simon B., Dahlia, Lydia, Anna Franziska, Nathan, Max, Milan, Vic, Veronika, Johannes, and Freek.
In the same category, ‘Up Your Ass’ by Nona Demey-Gallagher and Lieselot Siddiki, featuring KWP artist Sophia Bauer, has also been nominated!
Actress Loïs Lumonga Brochez has received a nomination for her role in Khadija’s ENSEMBLE PIECE, in the category ‘Most Appreciated Acting Performance (M/F/X) Up to 35 Years Old!’
The shortlist was determined by the jury of the TheaterFestival and will be awarded on Thursday, September 5th, at the festival’s opening, following The State of the Union.
Join us on Saturday 31st of August for the first edition of Apolemia / Performance by Lydia McGlinchey & Mario Barrantes Espinoza
[Apolemia] holds together nightlife and performance creating a fuller nightlife experience. For the very first edition @lydiamcglinchey and @marbares_ , two familiar faces of the Belgian performance scene, will bring a messy, chaotic 4‑hour show embedded to the night’s music, on a built-in decor filling the dance floor.
Rolling through liquids, soil, trash, fur, gym equipment, or cakes two performers inhabit the party making it their space to flourish as degenerates.
Saturday 31 of August, from 23:00 until 06:00, [Apolemia] brings you 4 DJ’s and a performance, located in an incredible warehouse that once hosted industrial design and architecture projects. With striking red beams, a glass ceiling (yes!), towering roofs, and a central dancefloor, this space will be the star of the night.
[Apolemia] is co-hosted by Pierre Bayet, Lydia McGlinchey, Mario Barrantes Espinoza and Martín Zícari.
Address: 161 Avenue Van Volxem, 1190 Forest
Tickets here!
Sign up for COSMOGRAM DRAWING SESSIONS by Sébastien Hendrickx!
23+24 August
At MANCHESTER Space
Cosmograms are objects that represent cosmologies or worldviews. They exist in iconographic, narrative, performative and architectural forms, and are produced within scientific, spiritual and and artistic contexts. They have been around for millennia. Think, for instance, of city plans of the Mayans, which reflected their idea of the cosmos, the spatial arrangement of the afterlife in Dante’s Divine Comedy or the contemporary speculative cartographies of Alexandra Arènes.
In two 150min work sessions we will make cosmogram drawings on circular pieces of paper, inspired by diagramming techniques and other infographics. Artists and non-artists from all disciplinary backgrounds are welcome! You don’t need to be able to draw.
Practicalities
- doors open at 16h, work session from 16h30-19h
- for free
- minimum 5, maximum 15 participants priority is given to those who can participate in the two sessions
- take your own drawing material if you want (not an obligation)
- for registrations mail to sebahendrickx@hotmail.com
Oscar Murillo’s‘The flooded garden’ accompanied by Lydia McGlinchey
As part of his Tate Modern presentation, The flooded garden, Oscar Murillo will be organizing a program of performances, which depart from the exhibition and flood the city of London with echoes of the exhibit. The performances will consist of concerts by the Mar, Río y Cordillera, a group invited from Colombia, as well as several performances developed by Lydia McGlinchey, performed by close colleagues and collaborators from Brussels. The performances will be publicly announced 48 hours before their happening making for lively and spontaneous encounters.
Lydia McGlinchey will be developing a choreographic score in dialogue with the formal and conceptual framework of Murillo’s flight drawings and Surge series as an impulse for embodiment. This work will build on their last encounter during Murillo’s exhibition‘Masses’ at Wiels in the performance series‘Echoing Spirits’.
“Surge, having the connotation for both natural and social movement, made me think of dealing with the body in two registers: the body as a material and the body as a social entity. This idea could equally depart from the way in which the exhibit superimposes plastic chairs (which represent informal social assembly) with the Surge paintings (whose mesmerizing visual effects connotes itself with water/energetic movement).
The performance will fluctuate, moving into peaks then subsidence, evolving through different modes of inhabiting/composing the space.
“Inspired by the way that a mass of marks and gestures works to create a larger affect in Murillo’s paintings, I think of the performance like an evolving atmosphere. One where an assemblage of bodies, gestures, text, and voices works to form greater feeling in the space. I would like to incorporate the idea of collective choreographies which hold tension through being formally mesmerizing, yet contain a subtle tone of brutality.”
In the spirit of Murillo’s interest in spontaneous live encounters, the choreography will be receptive and lively in nature.
“The performance I create together with the performers will remain reactive to possible unexpected encounters with one another and audience, allowing the space, public, and present to merge into the work, whilst staying connected to a choreographic impulse which links us. Our performance enables the work accumulating in the Tate to resonate in public space.”
The performance will transform through a series of three shows starting at the Tate south tanks on the 1st of August at 3pm, flooding to Regents park on the 9th of August at 4pm, and then on to Bethnal Green Gardens on the 17th of August.
These performences were commissioned by London based artist Oscar Murillo and Lydia will be collaborating with international performance artists Stefa Govaert, Nabil Ennassouh, Castélie Yalombo Lilonge, Mate Jonjic, Estefanía Álvarez Ramírez, Alphonse Eklou, Ching Shu Huang and Nathan Feliot.
Picture: performance during the expo‘Echoing Spirits’ by Oscar Murillo in Wiels, Brussels (2024)