Season 2022-2023

From Bristol to Sevilla, from Haiti to Marseille: the Rwandan-British artist Dorothée Munyaneza interweaves the intimate journeys of six female, Black and African(-descended) artists through choral pieces and visual elements.

De Woordenaar is an explosive theatre-concert with KVS face Bruno Vanden Broecke starring as a man on a mission. What he has to offer is nothing less than a manual for life.

Ultima Vez celebrates its 35th anniversary. Hooray!

In Unfolding an Archive, Zoë Demoustier unfolds a visual archive of 20 years of war reporting. 

Theatre creators Anoek Nuyens and Rebekka de Wit have been following the climate case closely for years. For every voice in the climate debate, they wrote a plea. In De zaak Shell [The Shell case], all these voices come together.

After the wonderful ICE, in which choreographer Bahar Temiz retraced the steps of the first polar explorers, she is now turning her gaze upwards. For her latest creation, PUNKT, she takes stories of the first balloon explorers as the starting point for her choreography. Spreading one’s wings has always inhabited humankind’s dreams, even though reaching heights was an evolutionary process. Flying initially meant leaving the ground for only a couple of meters and a couple of seconds at a time. Through technology people could reach higher and higher, to float over a growing abyss under their feet. 

Dance meets concert, that’s Into The Open’s pledge.

After the celebrated Coloured Swan trilogy, Moya Michael invites artists Camilo Mejía, Holland Andrews and Loucka Fiagan to build, shift, break, fall, sing, dance, unbuild and build again in an attempt to remember what it means to come together. 

What if the theatre were the belly of a huge whale? Or no, wait – a futuristic, completely unknown ecosystem?

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.

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”.  

Is it dance? A fashion show? A party? Is it contemporary dance? Hip-hop? Vogueing? In which category should one classify Categoreez? In this new show, dancer-choreographer Yassin Mrabtifi creates a space where (sub)cultures and codes can mix, inspired by unstoppable evolutions in society and nature. 

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.

1933-1936. A young generation dreams of a new world order. Many are drawn to the Nazi ideology and even travel to the eastern front. Were they misled? Or were they really that naïve?

What does it mean to be Black? Is it about overcoming racism and insecurity? The culture of the oppressed? What defines who we are: the life we lead today, or our origins? KVS face and director Pitcho Womba Konga immerses you in a bath of questions, together with his talented, multidisciplinary cast. Take a deep dive into the universe of Fire Will Become Ashes, But Not Now – a hybrid of music, slam, beatbox, dance and theatre – and see tomorrow through new eyes.

Nine years after the premiere of their internationally acclaimed stage hit Mission, the author David Van Reybrouck, actor and theatre-maker Bruno Vanden Broecke and director Raven Ruëll will be working together once again.