Season 2022-2023

Mimi’s Shebeen is a new poetic dance theatre production by KVS face and artist Alesandra Seutin. Through dance, poetry, singing and music, Seutin takes the audience into the depths of a deconstructed shebeen* and on a journey full of life: of struggle, perseverance and determination.

THUG’s out there! Who’s the greatest? Who’s the baddest? Who’s Tupac? Bring on your A-game for this talent show in search of the next Makaveli! Four candidates, one MC and for two hours “all eyez on you”.  

ICE is a choreography for a body and a bunch of ropes. Charismatic performer-choreographer Bahar Temiz develops a dance of discovery, overwhelm, endurance, survival and surrender. A physical tour de force full of wonderful imagery that invites viewers to navigate through time, space, and themselves.

Moving Meditations is a multidisciplinary creation about healing, an independent and collective process of alchemy that arises from experiences. Through disciplines including contemporary dance, stepping and singing, choreographer Briana Ashley Stuart examines the importance of movement and sound as fundamental elements of human expression.

What happens to us, if everything that makes our lives bearable turns out to be a lie?
What if we no longer know where we belong?
What if it feels like we are slowly disappearing into mist? Like ghosts …

Welcome to Mount Average. In this performative tour, Julian Hetzel takes us on a factory visit that confronts us with our own ideologies. The theatre creator grinds statues of rulers, dictators and tyrants into pulp in order to give them a new, meaningful purpose. 

His ID card did not say ‘Belgian’ or ‘South African’, it said VADERLANDLOOS (STATELESS), in capital letters. So as a child he created his own country, where he went to live with all his demons.

In our times, there are few horrors unheard of and unimaginable. The crimes ISIS committed against the Yazidi women in North Iraq are among them. Certain demons, you have to slaughter from within. In Licht, director Tea Tupajić invites the Yazidi women to descend into themselves to try just that.

What happens when you transfer Wuthering Heights to the lowlands around Barcelona?

In search of radical insanity, the creators of Werktoneel hurtle through the oeuvre of the Dutch author Willem Frederik Hermans.

What does the world need? What does a human need? And what do you need? Simple questions.