11.05
Elias Sanbar
Poetry reading
Elias Sanbar & Mayya Sanbar
poetry / talks
Maison poème
11 — 13.05
Mamela Nyamza Johannesburg
HATCHED ENSEMBLE
dance
KVS BOL
Movements transition from timid ballet to frantic, joyful release in this hypnotic choreography.
11 — 15.05
Carolina Bianchi, Carolina Mendonça São Paulo-Amsterdam-Brussels
We do not comfortably contemplate the sexuality of our mothers
performance
Movy Club
An investigation on women artists of previous generations and on an expanded form of motherhood, presented in an abandoned cinema.
11 — 13.05, 18 — 20.05, 25 — 27.05
Samah Hijawi
Memories Around the Kitchen Table
free school — premiere
KVS BOL
Six workshops will explore recipes linked to significant moments in life – from celebrating a new year to the loss of a loved one.
11.05, 12.05, 14 — 17.05, 22 — 26.05, 28 — 31.05
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Radouan Mriziga, / Rosas, / A7LA5 Brussels-Marrakech
Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione
dance — premiere
Rosas Performance Space
To the rhythm of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, De Keersmaeker and Mriziga explore patterns and structures from our natural environment.
10 — 13.05
Back to Back Theatre Geelong
MULTIPLE BAD THINGS
theatre — premiere
Théâtre National
The Australian theatre company, awarded with a prestigious Golden Lion, explores themes of inclusion and identity through a chaotic team-building exercise.
10 — 13.05
Nacera Belaza Paris
La Nuée
dance — premiere
La Raffinerie
Amid the audience, dancers reconcile conflicting choreographic principles in an incantatory, circular ritual.
10 — 12.05, 14.05, 15.05
cancelled
Jaha Koo Ghent
Haribo Kimchi
theatre — premiere
Le Rideau
In a South Korean snack bar, the structure of a society is exposed. Haribo Kimchi promises to change our perception of food forever.
10.05, 11.05, 17.05, 18.05, 24.05, 25.05, 31.05, 01.06
Nightlife
10 — 12.05, 16 — 19.05, 23 — 26.05, 30.05 — 01.06
Hsu Che‑Yu Taipei-Amsterdam
Three Episodes of Mourning Exercises
visual arts / film
argos centre for audiovisual arts
With 3D scanning techniques three video works are shaped, each telling a story of mourning and loss.
14.05
Conversation with Zuleikha Chaudhari
talks
KVS BOL
13 — 16.05
cancelled
Zuleikha Chaudhari New Delhi
The Muslim Vanishes
theatre — premiere
Kaaistudios
What if one day the entire Muslim population of India disappeared? A satire of the world's largest democracy and nationalist agendas elsewhere.
12 — 16.05
Eduardo Fukushima, Beatriz Sano, Tomie Ohtake São Paulo
horizon
dance / visual arts
WIELS
Dance steps hypnotise us like gentle waves moving the space and sculptures seem to dance. An ode to instability.
13 — 18.05
Gurshad Shaheman, Dany Boudreault Limoges-Montreal
Sur tes traces
theatre — premiere
Théâtre Les Tanneurs
In an original double portrait, two writer-performers simultaneously tell each other’s life story based on fragments from their personal archives.
14.05, 16 — 20.05, 23 — 26.05, 30.05 — 01.06
Danh Vo Mexico City-Güldenhof
visual arts / mobile installation — premiere
Public space / Ieperlaan 20 Bd d'Ypres / KVS BOL / Monument voor de Oorlogsduif/au Pigeon-Soldat
A hearse transformed into a mobile flower shop by Brussels auto mechanic students spreads beauty in the public space.
18 — 21.05
Anna Rispoli, Territorio Doméstico, Ligue des travailleuses domestiques sans papiers Brussels-Madrid
A life worth living: a workshop on struggle, care and joy
free school — premiere
KVS BOL
This four-day school is an opportunity to share political tools, artistic methodologies and advice on care for care workers.
22.05
Sara Ahmed Weston Colville
Setting the Table: Reflections on How Tables Matter
free school / lecture
KVS BOL
In this lecture, Sarah Ahmed, author of Queer Phenomenology, will explore how tables matter – from writing tables to kitchen tables to conference tables.
28.05, 29.05
Mirra Markhaëva, Globe Aroma, ruangrupa/GudSkul
The School of Conviviality: Dumpling Tales
free school — premiere
KVS BOL
Preparing and eating dumplings together sets the stage for an encounter around the kitchen table where conversations, storytelling, music and karaoke come together.
16.05, 23.05, 30.05
Kitchen Talks
free school / talks
KVS BOL
A weekly exchange between artists or collectives makes us reflect on the role the kitchen plays in our imagination and in our daily lives.
15 — 19.05
Gaia Saitta Brussels
Les jours de mon abandon
theatre — premiere
Théâtre National
In this adaptation from the book by Elena Ferrante, we witness and participate in the transformation Olga goes through after her husband has left her.
16.05, 17.05, 21 — 23.05
Kwame Boafo Accra
Threshold
dance — premiere
Arts et Métiers - Institut Marguerite Massart
Inside the building of Arts et Métiers, movements relating to car fragments unfold a poetic dialogue between choreography and transnational trade.
16.05, 17.05
Maria Hassabi Athens
On Stage
dance
Théâtre des Martyrs
Hassabi takes the entire stage of Théâtre des Martyrs with one of her most personal and radical works.
17 — 19.05
Idio Chichava Maputo
Vagabundus
dance
Le 140
This dazzling performance celebrates life, community and our true selves, carried entirely by the explosive impact of dance and song.
18 — 20.05
Toshiki Okada / chelfitsch Kumamoto-Tokyo
The Window of Spaceship ‘In-Between’
theatre
KVS BOL
Confined in a spaceship, four humans, an android and an alien have conversations about origins, language, and nostalgia for Earth.
18 — 21.05
Faye Driscoll New York-Los Angeles
Weathering
dance / performance
Bozar
In the imposing Horta Hall, the bodies of ten performers form a breathing sculpture in constant motion, a multi-sensory experience.
18 — 21.05
Begüm Erciyas Brussels-Berlin, Moe Satt Yangon-Amsterdam
Hands Made + Nothing But Fingers
performance / dance — premiere
De Kriekelaar
A double bill asking us to rethink the relationship with our hands and to reflect on their role in the past, present and future.
19 — 22.05
Nelson Makengo Kinshasa
Tongo Saa (Rising up at night)
expanded cinema — premiere
Les Brigittines
A film travelling between the screen and the space. An ode to Kinshasa’s nights and a nuanced portrait of a population between hope, disappointment and faith.
19 — 22.05
Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige Beirut-Paris
La vertigineuse histoire d’Orthosia
visual arts / performance — premiere
Beursschouwburg
The dizzying tale of a Palestinian refugee camp and its hidden underground world.
22 — 26.05
Chagaldak Zamirbekov/Theater 705 Bishkek
Уя (Nest)
theatre
Continental
An intimate performance that looks inside a small flat in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and reflects on how we can truly live together.
22 — 25.05
Clara Furey Montreal (Tio’tia:ke)
UNARMOURED
dance — premiere
La Raffinerie
For her first appearance at the festival, Furey brings the immensity of an inner sea to the stage, with queer dancers claiming the right to eroticism on their own terms.
23 — 25.05
Łukasz Twarkowski Wrocław
Respublika
theatre
Les Halles de Schaerbeek
During this six-hour theatre performance, we circulate between bars, a restaurant and sauna, culminating in a giant rave.
23 — 26.05
Marcus Lindeen, Marianne Ségol Stockholm-Paris
Memory of Mankind
theatre — premiere
KVS BOX
Following their previous success, an ingenious new performance that intertwines cases of memory dysfunction and an attempt to back up human civilisation.
24 — 28.05
Jeremy Nedd & Impilo Mapantsula Basel-Johannesburg
blue nile to the galaxy around olodumare
dance — premiere
Le Jacques Franck
Pantsula’s virtuosic dance vocabulary engages in a surprising dialogue with the cosmic and spiritual jazz of Alice Coltrane and Bheki Mseleku.
25 — 29.05
Soa Ratsifandrihana Brussels
Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna
dance — premiere
Théâtre Varia
Blending radio, musical and choreographic storytelling, Ratsifandrihana reminds us that our bodies – just like our words – are bearers of stories.
27 — 31.05
Ali Asghar Dashti, Nasim Ahmadpour Tehran
We Came to Dance
theatre — premiere
Beursschouwburg
What does it mean to be a dancer when dancing is forbidden? An existential question answered in poignant stories and a choreography of words.
27.05 — 01.06
Bouchra Khalili Vienna
The Circle & The Public Storyteller
visual arts / film — premiere
KVS BOL
This video installation reconstructs a unique action that took place during France’s 1974 presidential elections. What does this action tell us fifty years later?
28.05 — 01.06
Mohamed El Khatib Orléans
La vie secrète des vieux
theatre — premiere
Théâtre National
Through the stories of people aged between 75 and 102, we discover how they experience and make love. A portrait of romantic love in old age.
29.05 — 01.06
Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Israel Galván Lisbon-Seville
RI TE
dance
Zinnema
A breathtaking encounter between two incomparable artists who share their passion for rhythm, precision, freedom and fiery expressiveness.
29.05 — 01.06
Sammy Baloji Lubumbashi-Brussels
Missa Utica
performance / music — premiere
Mercerie
Baloji reconnects Africa’s colonised past with current political and economic reality through the Missa Luba, a Latin mass using traditional Congolese songs.
29.05 — 01.06
MEXA São Paulo
The Last Supper
theatre / performance — premiere
La Balsamine
In a dramaturgy of dishes and narration, the lives of MEXA members intertwine with religious references in an explosive moment of connection.
30.05 — 01.06
Katerina Andreou Athens-Lyon
Bless This Mess
dance — premiere
KVS BOX
Andreou's choreography embraces noise and unveils the chaotic resistance of punk to a world that wants to be increasingly transparent.
31.05
On the limits of free speech in the arts scene
debate
KVS BOL
01.06
Lia Rodrigues Rio de Janeiro
Andantes
dance — premiere
Public space / Zinneke Parade
With a delegation of dancers and citizens, Rodrigues choreographs a project in the Zinneke Parade to demonstrate how joy can also be a political strategy.