This year in Tournai, the heart of Wallonia, the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles and the Maison de la culture de Tournai jointly propose, as equal partners, the season’s opening in another context.
The Collective 49 701 creates serials on stage. In three seasons of three episodes – one season per day of celebration – the collective reclaim this literary blockbuster by trying to pay tribute to the brutal and messy energy of these young men.
For this creation, OKIDOK puts forward a non-verbal work of clownish duality, oriented by a theatre of gestures with a strong aesthetic. The clowns, deformed mirrors of our fragile humanities, summon, in petto, the absurdity of our existences.
Madame Bénédicte is in a heck of a mess. Their bakery is failing. With the complicity of Lidi, their new assistant, they decide to create an MBR. But Mistress Piazza, the artisan baker, representative of a species that has become rare, will they play the game?
Fusion is a dense, graceful, urgent creation. A complicity between two women – Joëlle Sambi and Hendrickx Ntela – who transcend their “Arts”, Slam and Krump, to create a common scenic language.
Made up of fragments of reality, Stadium orchestrates an unexpected encounter and engages in a class exploration which demolishes clichés to honour the fervor of the fans.
Léonard Berthet-Rivière and Muriel Legrand revisit the art of vaudeville. They slalom between stage directions and surf on absurdity in a joyful and frenzied reading.
In love with the 50's and 70's Billy June swings between the decades, from Cry Baby to Misirlou through Billie Eilish, Chick Habit, Madonna...
Mohamed El Khatib voulait écrire un texte à partir d’entretiens réalisés avec sa mère. Le 20 février 2012, la mort interrompt tout.
From Fontainas to the Bourse, and on to Place De Brouckère, ephemeral scenes follow one another. Like so many stations on the piétonnier, they welcome dancers before the stage of the Théâtre National’s Grande Salle is offered to urban dance for the final battle of the Detours Cyphers.
Renault 12 is a cinematographic experience born from a documentary material: my mother’s death. This testimony is a collection of confidences, an intimate epic, a pathway towards death and what follows : ceremonies, the repatriation of a body and administrative constraints.
With a strange emotion, half horror and half tenderness, Eline Schumacher decides to bring together the gang of her father’s six best friends at his fictional funeral.
Weaving a thread that binds them, and connects Brussels and Marseille where they live respectively, Clément and Guillaume Papachristou make their twinship a territory to be discovered.
Alessandro and Mauro imprint the gestures and deploy their trajectories, from Marianne Faithfull to Béjart’s Boléro, the Italian leaden years to Pier Paolo Pasolini, from feathers to wigs. Not to mention the tutus.
