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Alain Franco & Jean Luc Ducourt
Figure de voisinages
The pianist Alain Franco and dancer and choreographer Jean Luc Ducourt are presenting an interpretation of the Goldberg Variations. This Bach cycle is built up around a single aria, which functions as the 'hardware' for the whole work.
Walter Hus / Academie voor Muziek & Woord Sint-Agatha-Berchem
De Nacht
theatre music
In 1998, together with the pupils of the Maria Boodschap primary school in Brussels, the composer Walter Hus created a children's opera about the fantasy of night and dreams. Hus is now reviving this opera with about 300 children from 6 to 13 from the Academy of Word and Music in Sint-Agatha-Berchem (Brussels), where he teaches piano.
Jan Decorte / Bloet vzw, Kaaitheater & de Roovers
Müller/Traktor
Jan Decorte was one of the first theatre-makers in Flanders to work with the whimsical, poetical, seemingly untheatrical plays of Heiner Müller. Now, 25 years later he would again like to confront the wildness and radicality of Müller's work. In the closing event of the season we shall be showing a first hint of his Müller production, which will be on the bill in the course of the 2007-8 season.
Alain Franco
Goldberg Variationen
The pianist Alain Franco presents an interpretation of the Goldberg Variations. This Bach cycle is built up around a single aria, which functions as the 'hardware' for the whole work. Bach composed thirty variations on the aria.
Project 2: Soma Sema
Sema Soma is the second project by PONI. The basis for Sema Soma comprises three key words: ritual, illusion and death. It is a powerful, energetic performance in which codes, signs and forms from theatre, art, film, music and so on are brought together: scraps of various languages which together form a new language. We shall be reviving this successful project in the Kaaitheater's main theatre.
Kris Verdonck
I/II/III/IIII (preliminary study)
Kris Verdonck presents a preliminary study of I/II/III/IIII, a theatrical installation in which he explores the topic of human cloning. Subsequently, a new short film by the Danish artist Joachim Koester will be screened as a preview. It is called Tarantism and was shot in the Kaaitheaterstudio's this March. Seven dancers give a playful interpretation of a 'dance cure' for anyone bitten by a tarantula.
Mette Ingvartsen
Why We Love Action
Mette Ingvartsen works on extreme body expressions. In her earlier work she dealt with situation like a rock concert, opera, circus or notions of pleasure and desire. Why We Love Action is intended to create a film-like sensation in the setting of a live performance, stripping the film down to pure action.
Dood Paard
SCHUUR is a new play by the Amsterdam theatre collective Dood Paard, written by the playwright Rob de Graaf together with Manja Topper and Oscar van Woensel. A black comedy about lost lives and eroded ideals.
Willem Breuker Kollektief
Willem Breuker composed new music for F.W. Murnau's 1926 film Faust, one of the great landmarks of expressionist silent film, inspired by Goethe's classic. Breuker's wide-ranging musical idiom adds an extra dimension to Murnau's masterpiece. This marvellous film-concert by Breuker and his group crowns the closing event of the 2006-7 season.
Tg Monk
DAKHEMELRUIMTE (de Titanen Trilogie)
The Dutch company Monk took its inspiration for Dakhemelruimte from two mythical masterpieces of Dutch literature, Nescio's De uitvreter and Titaantjes. But set a hundred years later. Today. An analysis of society that is both deadly serious and humorous.
Meg Stuart & Philipp Gehmacher
MAYBE FOREVER
An improvisation-based dialogue by the dancer-choreographers Philipp Gehmacher and Meg Stuart. Their movements together appear to rise from a common source: not only do they share an interest in the 'twisted body', distance, loss and absence, but a highly affective, almost erotically charged closeness arises.
Tg Stan
De Eenzame Weg
Tg Stan ploughed its way through the work of the Viennese writer Arthur Schnitzler, and will be performing a collage of three plays: Die überspannte Person (1896), Halbzwei (1897) and Der einsame Weg (1904).
La Didone
Sat 19.05 - Thu 24.05.07
The Wooster Group goes opera. Elizabeth LeCompte directs La Didone (1641) by Cavalli and Busenello, about the tragic love of the Trojan prince Aeneas and the Carthaginian queen Dido. The New Yorkers create an unexpected synergy between courtly romance and science fiction.
Toshiki Okada / Chelfitsch
Five Days in March
Wed 16.05 - Sun 20.05.07
Somewhere between the natural and the made-up, Toshiki Okada's singular theatre grippingly sketches out traits of a disoriented generation through stereotypes of isolated young people.
Capriccio Stravagante & Collegium Vocale
La Pellegrina
For the wedding celebrations of Ferdinando I de Medicis and Christine de Lorraine, in Florence in 1589, six composers wrote interludes for Girolamo Bargagli's play La Pellegrina. The Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra and the Collegium Vocale bring this music back to life in the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels.
Hiroaki Umeda / S20
Accumulated Layout / While going to a condition
In just a few years Hiroaki Umeda has become one of Japan's most promising young dancer-choreographers. Borrowing both from hip-hop and butoh.
René Pollesch - Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
L'affaire Martin ! Occupe-toi de Sophie, Par la fenêtre, Caroline ! Le mariage de Spengler. Christine est en avance
L'affaire Martin! etc. by René Pollesch squares up to the so-called authentic images shown in film, on TV and in the theatre, denounces the controversial film The Lives of Others and flirts with the popular vaudeville theatre of Feydeau.
Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods & Eira
Fri 20.04 - Thu 26.04.07
The American dancer Meg Stuart met the Portuguese dancer Francisco Camacho in New York in the 80s. He followed her to Belgium to dance in her debut work Disfigure Study. After this collaboration each went their own way. In 2007 they will be working together once more after a break of seven years. Meg Stuart has choreographed a new piece with Camacho in a sound setting by Hahn Rowe.
Muziektheater Transparant, BL!NDMAN & Toneelgroep Amsterdam
Intra-Muros [IM Pasolini]
The Italian poet, film-maker and novelist Pier Paolo Pasolini holds a monologue in which he considers politics, violence, power, Utopia, sex, life and death. His mother listens to him and we hear the angelic voice of Pasolini's young brother who died at a tender age. In Intra-Muros Pasolini directs his last film. Or is it the direction of his own death?
Brussels Jazz Orchestra & Tutu Puoane
Writing Billie
Six authors from Belgium and abroad spend an evening looking at the life and work of Billie Holiday (1915-1959). The Brussels Jazz Orchestra, Bert Joris and the South African singer Tutu Puoane give an enthusiastic performance of the familiar songs of the jazz legend.
Zulu Nation
Battle of the Year Benelux
The Zulu Nation is again invited to the Kaaitheater for the annual B-Boy Battle, the big international hiphop and breakdance contest. 8 crews from Belgium, 4 from the Netherlands and 1 from Luxemburg will be taking part. The battle of the year will take place at 8.30 pm on 14/4/2007.
Bill Shannon
Wed 04.04 - Fri 06.04.07
Bill Shannon has a rare form of gout in his hip and dances with the help of crutches and a skateboard. Break-dance, skateboarding, techno, drum 'n' bass and hip-hop are a breeding ground for his performances, in which music (often live DJs) and the interactive use of video play an essential role. In Sketchy Shannon joins forces with five other dancers.
The collective Abattoir Fermé has developed a theatrical idiom very much its own, sort of an existential horror theatre. In Testament, death is thrown on the dissecting table. From graveyard to public dissection, from autopsy to mourning: you will see death in all its guises. For the visual idiom used in Testament, the author and director Stef Lernous drew his inspiration from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground.
Marc Vanrunxt / Susanne Linke
Deutsche Angst / Im Bade wannen / Flut
A tribute to expressionistic dance, with choreographer Marc Vanrunxt's Deutsche Angst, danced by Etienne Guilloteau, and two works by Susanne Linke, one of the pioneers of German dance theatre and therefore an heir to the expressionist language of movement. She performs Im Bade wannen, her most famous work. Linke's student Urs Dietrich dances the solo Flut.