29.08: Leïla Alice invites you to Maison (12) soleil — work.in.progress
Leïla Alice invites you to join her in Zabriskie (Pianofabriek) and get a glimpse of the project she’s been working on.
maison (12) soleil — work.in.progress
18′ performance
created by leïla alice
soundscape by pippin
scenography by skincity
styling by éléonore avrilleau
pictures by sidonie ronfard
where all my words echo
where all my flaw resound
where all my sensitivity bathes
everything i’d sometimes like to hide
29 august 2023 — 4pm
zabriskie point room (-1)
pianofabriek , rue du fort 35
22.08: Jonathan Franz & Audrey showing their newest performance (work-in-progress)
22.08 — 17u
Kunstenwerkplaats, zaal Elsenor
This afternoon, Jonathan Franz en Audrey Apers organise a showcase of their newest performance TROAST.
Akt II.
(Marschmusik/Cheerleadervibes)
children who are using
their intellectual power
to mirror each others’
deconstructed selves,
jerking me off virtually,
dressing me up digitally
in sexy-sexless, unisex
or ungendered unigender
sex clothes…
children who are using
their imagination
to make communication
faster than politics
non verbal communication
non violent communication
visual vocabulary
visceral vocabulary
very oral and immoral
what’s your art?
anti-art!
children who are using
their consumer power
to change each others
reconstructed selves,
I am anti-realism
I prefer materialism
some might call me exhibitionist
but I am essentialist
essentially a feminist
children who are using
technological power…
children who are using
their sexual power…
Globe Aroma invites Samah Hijawi for two writing workshops
Globe Aroma is an artistic work and meeting place in Brussels, offering support and a network to artists, creators and art lovers from newcomer backgrounds. Kunstenwerkplaats collaborates structurally with Globe Aroma.
KWP artist, chef and astrologer Samah Hijawi was invited to give two writing workshops this month: “The kitchen as a place of resistance” and “Ode to plants.” Globe Aroma is hosting a series of writing workshops in June and July, Writing to make it happen, around different writing practices, futurologist approaches, and socio-political topics.
With her long-term project Kitchen.Table, Samah explores diverse culinary histories and cultures to better understand how they influence our current food politics. Using the basic ingredients of the Mediterranean spice mixture Za’atar as a starting point, she delves into various food cultures, including our spiritual and mythological connections to food, and relates them to contemporary food cultures in cities.
Read the review of Rachid Laachir’s new performance!
“’A crock of bull at the crack of dawn’ takes you to the beginning and end of a night, a life, shared lives, in all its absurdity, of a violent tristesse.” — pzazz
Lotte Ogiers attended the premiere of ‘A crock of bull at the crack of dawn’ by Rachid Laachir and captured his performance in a beautifully written review!
You can read the review here.
Pic by Karolina Maruszak.
Milo Slayers wraps up his residency at La Bellone with a presentation on flow!
“Flow” and “bounce” are words often used in hip-hop culture, sometimes trying to bind usage to form, but what can these vague words generate? Can they have definitions? Can they give other readings to movement?
To conclude his residency at La Bellone, Milo Slayers brings a small presentation focusing on the practice around Flow from a dramaturgical perspective.
26.05 / 11u
La Bellone
Reservations can be made here!
Image by © Camille Poitevin
Soon in premiere: A crock of bull at the crack of dawn by Rachid Laachir!
In order to control life we try to name it, in order to control death we perform it.
In A crock of bull at the crack of dawn, playwright, performer and designer Rachid Laachir explores metamorphoses. Using body, voice, costumes and other objects, he creates characters at the intersection of the natural, the human, the magical and the mystical.
Thursday 16th of June, A crock of bull at the crack of dawn has its premiere at Kunstencentrum BUDA in Kortrijk. You can find tickets here!
Kicking off Plat(e)form(e)!
Today, we launched Plat(e)form(e) 2023, a three-day programme designed for (inter)national professionals attending Kunstenfestivaldesarts. This unique opportunity allows these visitors to explore the vibrant performing arts scene in Brussels, Flanders, and Wallonia.
The programme kicked off this morning at Kunstenwerkplaats, where attendees had the pleasure of meeting Ula Sickle, who presented a bit of her new creation Holding Present. This was followed by the mesmerizing eight-minute experience of Techno Meditations, a piece by Lisa Vereertbrugghen.
Are you interested in joining this day filled with performances and stimulating exchanges? You’re more than welcome to be part of this exciting event!
Programme 16.05 — Kunstenwerkplaats
10:00 Check In
Morning Coffee
Café Alcantara
10:30 Welcome
Introduction to the programma of Plat(e)form(e) 2023 followed by a presentation of the venue Kunstenwerkplaats by artistic director Karlien Vanhoonacker.
11:00 Warm Up
Techno Meditation with Lisa Vereertbrugghen.
Elsenor
11:30 Exchange
Who is visiting/presenting?
What is your working/artistic context?
Hopes & expectations on Plat(e)form(e) 2023?
Casablanca 3rd Floor
12:45 Input & discussion
Keynote on funding opportunities for international
programmers by Femke Hintjens (Flanders Art Institute)
followed by a thematic group discussion (needs, problems,
tips etc.)
Casablanca 3rd Floor
13:30 Lunch
Zabriskie
14:30 Sharings
Presentations by 5 selected artists:
14:30 Sanah Ghobbeh: The Ferris wheel turns when the wind blows
Elsenor 4th Floor
15:00 Arno Ferrera & Gilles Polet: Armour
Arenberg 1st Floor
15:30 Joshua Serafin: Pearls
Elsenor 4th Floor
16:00 Coffee Break
Café Alcantara
16:30 Jorre Vandenbusshe: Vitus — The Disease dances me
Arenberg 1st Floor
17:00 Oxana Sankova: The poem without a hero
Elsenor 4th Floor
17:30 Fade out
Apéro/exchange with the artists & the programmers
Café Alcantara
20:30 Evening show
Blind Runner — Amir Reza Koohestani / Mehr Theatre Group
Location: Théâtre Les Tanneurs
Rue des Tanneurs / Huidevettersstraat 75, 1000 Brussels
Visitors program Plat(e)form(e) during Kunstenfestivaldesarts
16.05 — 18.05
At multiple locations
16.05 at KWP
International programmers discover the unique performing arts scene of Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels. An initiative of Kunstenpunt/Flanders Arts Institute, Wallonie-Bruxelles Théâtre Danse (WBTD) and Kunstenfestivaldesarts, in collaboration with several partners from the Brussels performing arts scene.
Plat(e)form(e) was born from a desire to support and highlight the local performing arts scene. By drawing on the presence of international professionals we hope to promote new networks and lasting exchanges.
Plat(e)form(e) presents performances, works in progress and pitches by artists. Through discussions and feedback sessions, we want to open a temporary space for mutual learning and reflection on what it means to create and present (inter)nationally today.
On 16.05 Plat(e)form(e) will take place here at KWP (Pianofabriek), showing five performances for an audience of professionals. Take a look at the website of Kunstenpunt for more info on the program.
OPEN CALL: 100% FREE SPACE
Space for beginning artists during the summer in the Brussels community centres: open call in collaboration with Kunstenwerkplaats (artistic workspace)
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.
Interested? Click here for more information on the space and application.
Read Etcetera’s review of DEMONstratio here!
“The performance offers a sequence of fascinating movements, trying to show different dimensions of their battle within this square.”
Last Friday, “DEMONstratio” by Milø Slayers premiered at Charleroi Danse’s Legs Festival, and it did not escape Etcetera’s notice either. Rojda Karakuş wrote a nice review of the performance, which you can read here!
Kate McIntosh is looking for a TEST AUDIENCE, young & old are welcome!
Kate McIntosh is making a new performance called Lake Life… and she needs your help!
This call is for mixed age audiences — both adults and young people aged 10+ years.
Lake Life is an interactive landscape – no performers, just the audience trying out games, encounters and tasks together. To develop these games, we need to experiment them with curious test audiences, young and old. Find out more about Lake life.
We invite you to join in the studio for a couple of hours – we’ll play out some ideas together, and ask what you think about it. It will be fun… and it’s free…
Please join! Pass the invitation to friends!
Adults — come alone, or if you know people aged 10+ then come together as a team. Young people also welcome alone.
It will happen here:
Kunstenwerkplaats KWP
Rue du Fortstraat 35, 1060 St Gillis/Gilles, Brussels.
You can join on these dates:
Friday 14 April, 14:00 – 16:00 (English & Dutch)
Wednesday 19 April, 14:00 – 16:00 (English & Dutch)
Saturday 22 April, 14:00 – 16:00 (English & Dutch)
Please let us know when you are coming by signing up here: https://form.jotform.com/23053…
If you have questions (or need to cancel) please contact us at: lakelife.testaudience123@gmail.com
Lake Life begins from the story of the Changelings — an alien species who can wilfully transform into any animal, plant or mineral. Changelings have a name for species that don’t shapeshift : Solids. Probably they believe we are Solids… but are we?
Premiere of DEMONstratio!
Tomorrow the 31st of March, Milø Slayers’ highly anticipated performance premieres at the Legs Festival at La Raffinerie, presented by Charleroi danse and Kaaitheater.
For his performance, Milø was inspired by the recently discovered racist inscription on Kasimir Malevich’s famous painting Black Square (1915). Milø addresses the tension that even the most abstract art can never be free of politics. Within the clean lines of a perfectly lit square, he and his three performers seek an incantatory counterweight in the subconscious power of voice and movement. Light and dark, reason and feeling, certainty and uncertainty: sharp binary opposites are there to transcend them.
Right after the show, we will danse into the night at the Crazy Legs party, where Milø has been given carte blanche for an experimental and whimsical evening…
Friday March 10th: 2X KWP at bits of dance!
Leading up to its premiere on 31 March, Milø Slayers will perform a work-in-progress showing of DEMONstratio next Friday at 17:00 at the bits of dance festival in Bruges, presented by Dans in Brugge.
Later that evening, at 20:00 Lisa Vereertbrugghen is going to perform Disquiet — sensational aesthetics of a technokin.
Both performances can be perfectly combined. Don’t miss out on them!
More info on the festival and tickets via Dans in Brugge.
Onassis AiR Open Call 2023⁄24
Like any living organism, Onassis AiR constantly evolves in order to support the needs of its artistic community. Onassis AiR, invites artists, curators, designers, dancers, chefs, gardeners, activists, writers, educators, legal advocates, performers, economists, architects, filmmakers and other practitioners from any medium of expression or discipline, from anywhere in the world, to apply for a Tailor-made Residency running between September 2023 and July 2024 in Athens, Greece.
Submission deadline: 20.03.23
For more information about the application:
visit Onassis AiR
Accompany Class (morning training)
Accompany Class is a morning training offered for the freelance dance community in Brussels, between
30th of Jan until 3rd of March 2023. This round of training is a pilot proposal of this system.
We are a group of freelance dance artists coming together to do this thing called ‘morning class’. We are not quite sure what this is anymore… We no longer work through companies and we no longer have a clear idea of what to train. From this place of not knowing, we have come together and organized a rotational-system in which we will all facilitate ‘class/training’ for and with each other.
As the space was donated to us for this pilot proposal, attendance is free of charge. Registration is recommended and appreciated but not necessary. Help us to keep track of the amount of participants by sending an email to accompanyclass@gmail.com
When: 20.02.2023 — 24.02.2023 from 10am ‑12am
Where: Gemeenschapscentrum Pianofabriek vzw
Fortstraat 35
1060 Sint-Gillis
Tonight February 10th try-out Ezra Weill & Marie De Broeck — Boombox
Friday February 10th Ezra Weill and Marie De Broeck are showing “Boombox”, an homage to cassette tapes and the way that they changed the world, through their endearing, indestructible outer shells to their delicate spools of polyester plastic film. Everybody is welcome at 17h at De Pianofabriek!
Open studio presentation: The Ferris wheel turns when the wind blows — Sana Ghobbeh 17 & 18 November
Work in progress: The Ferris wheel turns when the wind blows — Sana Ghobbeh
Sana Ghobbeh is an Iranian-born artist and art researcher based in Brussels. Her work focuses on the relationships between urban infrastructure and the sociopolitical history they carry within them. She draws from archives, old photos of the city, blue prints, maps, local testimonies, etc. to then allow this data to be transformed by the ongoing flow passing through the infrastructure’s space in everyday life. The result is a story-telling performance that transmits the discoveries of small poetic counter-actions that nevertheless can shake the stability of architectural elements favouring oppression.
In ‘The Ferris wheel turns when the wind blows’ Sana introduces us to the private property of a historical figure. This particular plot of land is located in the Evin neighborhood that stretches from the northwest of Tehran to the foot of the Alborz mountains.
Thursday 17 November at 14h
Friday 18 November at 17h30
@KWP Kunstenwerkplaats in GC De Pianofabriek, Fortstraat 35, 1060 Brussel
Workshop: “conversing with masculinity” by Kevin Fay
With images and poetry from previous ‘conversing with masculinity’ circles, this workshop opens a safe space for experimentation. Together, we will practice pranayama, and we will explore scores for improvised partner dancing. In these, we’ll sustain intimate forms of contact while moving with specific qualities and breath coordinations (e.g. ‘persistent pressing’, ‘precarious pushing’, ‘softly sinking’, ‘staying power’). Also, we will extend a practice called ‘Questions Dance’ while reflecting on notions of physical comfort and care.
Workshop description:
To acknowledge, examine, and deconstruct heterocolonial, Europatriarchal filters in words, the performative reading circle, ‘conversing with masculinity’, proposes an open sharing of techniques and strategies to look at how language* feels.
In the circle, we will read, listen, create, and move in collective attempts to loosen up and imagine sensuous language(s).
We will listen to excerpts of texts** by others, and we’ll frame our experience by writing down specific words or sounds ourselves. With personal language lexicons, we will then explore how individual, intuitive notions are organized in poems and images. To move, we will practice pranayama and improvise partnered dancing.
The circle strives to provide safe time and space. We will prioritize and address questions, ideas, and concerns together as they arise.
*The working language is English, but translators are available. Please reach out if you know that you would like this support.
**Source materials are available upon request. Please feel free to suggest texts.
The workshop will take place from Monday 21 November to Friday 25 November at studio Magnolia in GC Elzenhof, Kroonlaan 12, 1050 Ixelles.
Those who would like more info or want to participate may send an email to: kevin.m.fay@gmail.com
Donderdag 8 september publiek toonmoment van Mirte Bogaert — REtransLATE
Donderdag 8 september toont Mirte Bogaert enkele scenes uit haar voorstelling REtransLATE. Het toonmoment start om 11u in studio Elsenor in De Pianofabriek. Wees welkom!
‘Mannahatta’ spiegelt ons een knotsgekke, maar angstaanjagende wereld voor ★★★★☆ (De Morgen)
Vorig weekend stond de voorstelling MANNAHATTA van Renée Goethijn die keer op Theater aan Zee in Oostende. Lees hier de mooie recensie van Evelyne Coussens voor De Morgen.
KWP residenten op Night Shift in Oostende
Tijdens Night Shift op TAZ#2022 is Lisa Vereertbrugghen te zien met haar Techno meditations en kan je een eerste try-out van German Staat Theater zien.
Gedurende drie dagen, 26, 27 en 28 juli, presenteren kunstenaars hun werk in en rond het jeugdcentrum OHK. Voorafgaand aan de publieke momenten, zullen intensieve onderzoeksperiodes op locatie de kunstenaars toelaten om zich te verbinden met elkaar en hun omgeving. Ieder brengt hun eigen praktijk, interesses, vragen en visies mee. Buiten de comfortzone van het reguliere seizoen en de gebruikelijke infrastructuren, zullen de kunstenaars op zoek gaan naar andere manieren van werken en delen. Als onderdeel van een steeds veranderend gedeeld platform, zullen kunstenaars vele ruimtes in en rond OHK activeren.
Vier de Vlaamse feestdag in Brussel met ‘Collaborative Contaminations’
Op Maandag 11 juli staat Rosa Omarsdottir met haar interactieve installatie/performance ‘Collaborative Contaminations’ in het Huis van de Raad. De installatie staat er doorheen de hele dag, de performance start om 14u30.
Waar: Huis van de Raad, Lombardstraat 61 – 67, 1000 Brussel
Wanneer: maandag 11 juli 2022 om 14u30
Meer info over de rest van het programma op Brussel danst.
Lees hier de recensie over Water, l’atterrée des eaux vives — Castélie Yalombo
Lees hier de recensie.