Program

Dance

EXIT ABOVE
after the tempest

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Meskerem Mees, Jean-Marie Aerts, Carlos Garbin / Rosas

31.05 > 11.06.2023

In this new creation, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s exploration of the relationship between music and dance shifts back towards the genre of pop. Pop music invites us to dance.

Season

2023·2024
Presentation

Saison 2023·2024

06.06.2023 · 19:30

It is surrounded by the National Theatre team that Pierre Thys, General and Artistic Director, will present the complete program and the main lines of the 2 (…)

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Festival

Jours de fête

→ Bertrix

08 > 10.09.2023

This year, the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles and the Centre Culturel de Bertrix (Province of Luxembourg) are going to open the season together.
Festival

Week-end ouvert

20 > 23.09.2023
Theatre

En une nuit
Notes pour un spectacle

Ferdinand Despy
Simon Hardouin
Justine Lequette
Eva Zingaro Meyer

20 > 23.09.2023

What does Pasolini’s death represent? In this play, which is rather like a dress rehearsal, four performers draw inspiration from this tragic event to hold up a mirror to our times.

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Dance

Via Injabulo

Via Katlehong
Marco da Silva Ferreira
Amala Dianor

21 & 22.09.2023

The Via Katlehong company is the leading exponent of pantsula, a highly energetic dance that originated in the black townships of South Africa.

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Theatre

Jogging

Hanane Hajj Ali

27.09 > 07.10.2023

At once impassioned and cheerful, a lyrical and bubbling tragedienne, Hanane Hajj Ali, who has seen her country torn apart, delivers a performance mastered from start to finish in a formidable liberating gesture. An exceptional show.

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Theatre

La Décision
Les Enfants du monde à venir

Vincent Hennebicq
Marine Horbaczewski

03 > 07.10.2023

With La Décision, Vincent Hennebicq and Marine Horbaczewski literally give the stage to the future: a dozen children take us on a memorable post-apocalyptic epic.

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Documentaries, theatre, concerts, debates, exhibitions

Festival des Libertés

12 > 21.10.2023

Political and artistic, festive and subversive, the Festival des Libertés will bring together all forms of expression to bear witness to the situation of rights and freedoms, to incite resistance and promote solidarity.
Theater, dance, performance, younger audiences

Scènes nouvelles

09 > 12.11.2023

Scènes nouvelles helps to illuminate and share powerful works by French-speaking Belgian artists.
Performance

ICIRORI

Consolate

15 > 17.11.2023

Drawing on the need to delve into her own history as an illegally adopted child, Consolate takes us to the heart of her world using sounds, smells and images.

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Theatre

Nostalgica

Alexis Julémont

15 > 25.11.2023

By recording on film their daily life away from the world, a family tell their stories, document their actions and thoughts. But beneath the veneer of these fleeting moments, a drama looms.

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Dance

Skatepark

Mette Ingvartsen

23 > 26.11.2023

Together with a group of skateboarders and dancers of all generations, the choreographer explores the speed and energy of movement on wheels in a breathtaking set.

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Dance

Zonder
(Titre provisoire)

Ayelen Parolin

28.11 > 02.12.2023

In a regular to and fro between breaking and articulating, five performers tune up and exchange with one another, entwining an imperfect game with constantly redistributed rules.

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Theatre

Ces enfants-là

Virginie Jortay

29.11 > 09.12.2023

This stage adaptation of Virginie Jortay’s novel consists of thirty brief tableaux, instant sequences that follow one another in quick succession – the same way you turn the pages of an absorbing book.

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Performance

ONE SONG
Histoire(s) du théâtre IV

Miet Warlop

05 > 09.12.2023

This hyper-physical performance combines twelve performers on stage pushed to extremes. A hypnotic performance that is performed over and over at an insistent, frenetic pace. The concert hall becomes a theatre, an arena, a gymnasium.

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Theatre

Là maintenant

Transquin⁣⁣quennal

12 > 16.12.2023

In this ‘final’ play, we explore alternative paths together, starting from a positive observation: if there’s no solution, it’s because there’s no problem.

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Dance

Sukhishvili

Ballet national de Géorgie

14.12.2023 · 20:15

Sukhishvili, the famous Georgian National Ballet, is an ensemble of some fifty artists, dancers and musicians that has been preserving the customs of authentic Georgian dance for seventy-five years.

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Theatre

La Dernière génération, ou les 120 journées de Sodome

Milo Rau
Theater Stap

19 > 21.12.2023

Milo Rau exposes the contradictions of our time, highlighting the coexistence of luxury and torment, the obsession with normalization and the taste for petty bourgeois scandal.

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Theatre

Péplum médiéval

Valérian Guillaume
Olivier Martin-Salvan

10 > 14.01.2024

At a time when social ties are coming undone, Péplum médiéval is a healthy break that mixes genres, bringing a sensitive community together in the process.

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Musical theater

Sans tambour

Samuel Achache

30.01 > 02.02.2024

Tackling a theme as old as love (breaking up and the ensuing collapse), the virtuoso band of performers goes through a flood of imbalances.

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Theatre

Détester tout le monde

Adeline Rosenstein
Thibaut Wenger

06 > 09.02.2024

This screwball yet erudite whirlwind takes us, in three short episodes, through a sequence of dramatic events within a family of winners that escapes its curse.

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Theatre

Daddy

Marion Siéfert

07 > 10.02.2024

Marion Siéfert looks for theatre where you least expect it. To portray our increasingly virtual lives, she creates a vertiginous world where it is difficult to separate fiction from reality.

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Theatre

Le Signal du promeneur

Raoul Collectif

13 > 17.02.2024

Raoul Collectif’s first opus attempts to shed light on what the lives of people engaged in a radical struggle against their respective environments – and sometimes with society as a whole – might mean.

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Theatre

Rumeur et petits jours

Raoul Collectif

20 > 24.02.2024

A group of radio commentators gather around a common objective: the pursuit of beauty. The Raoul Collectif presents a playful and liberating show.

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Theatre

Nous ne sommes plus…

Tatiana Frolova

20 > 24.02.2024

Tatiana Frolova and her troupe left their country, Russia, the day after Russia invaded Ukraine. The company is trying to pick up the pieces of this shattered existence.

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Theatre

Une cérémonie

Raoul Collectif

01 & 02.03.2024

A group of people gets together to celebrate something. Little by little, things take an irrational turn and the thing invents itself at the same time as it searches for itself. As it gets under way, the ceremony gets out of control.
Theatre

Tom na Fazenda
Tom à la ferme

Michel Marc Bouchard
Rodrigo Portella

12 > 16.03.2024

Tom, devastated, travels to the funeral of his lover deep in the countryside. There he meets his lover’s mother, who was completely unaware of her late son’s sexual orientation. A theatre of mud and blood that dirties and glorifies the body.

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Dance

Canine Jaunâtre 3

Marlene Monteiro
Freitas Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon

14 > 16.03.2024

A dance that summons up our memories of carnival rituals, disturbing the apparent order of things and our overly comfortable habits of perception.

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Theatre

Plutôt vomir que faillir

Rébecca Chaillon

19 > 23.03.2024

Rébecca Chaillon continues her investigation into the representation of bodies, of sexuality, desire, appetite and disgust.

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Dance

Blind

Hendrickx Ntela

21 > 23.03.2024

Hendrickx Ntela denounces the blindness of citizens, fed by a system that generates unattainable desires. Five dancers face the same story in different places around the world.

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Musical theater

Alma

Fabrice Murgia
Peggy Lee Cooper

26 > 30.03.2024

The curtain opens on the finale of a show in which the contestant, Faust, on the verge of losing, calls on the devil to get her back in the race. The pact she signs will help her to rise to the top.

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Theatre – Stand-up

Pour un temps sois peu

Laurène Marx
Fanny Sintès

26.03 > 06.04.2024

In this unique one-woman show, Laurène Marx tells her story as a trans woman. She presents the questions that society raises about the experience of people who are trying to escape a binary model.

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Performance – Slam

Maison chaos

Joëlle Sambi

03 > 13.04.2024

A show woven from committed poetry that tells of the paths we take to escape violence. The violence that pushes us to dwell, to take to the road, to listen to the wrinkles of our tormented bodies.

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Musical theater

Carmen.

François Gremaud
Rosemary Standley

09 > 13.04.2024

A ‘reduction’ of Bizet’s work, tailor-made for a single performer: Rosemary Standley. Despite the tragic outcome of the story, there will be joy and wonder.

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Festival

À la scène comme à la ville

18 > 20.04.2024

To show and hear true or imagined stories that all have something to say about our world.
Theatre

Le Présent qui déborde

Christiane Jatahy

25 > 27.04.2024

From Palestine to Lebanon, the film-maker and director Christiane Jatahy recorded the accounts of refugees through the prism of Homer and his Odyssey.

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Theatre – Kunstenfestivaldesarts

Multiple Bad Things

Back to Back Theatre

10 > 12.05.2024

A small group of people find themselves alone in a vast, unknown void. Struggling to live together in difficult conditions, the characters are exposed to questions of inclusion, identity and intersectionality.

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Theatre – Kunstenfestivaldesarts

Les Jours de mon abandon

Elena Ferrante
Gaia Saitta

15 > 19.05.2024

Italy, the late 1990s. Olga, a 40-year-old woman with two children, is a devoted mother and wife. One day, her husband leaves her. Everything has to be rebuilt, starting with language.

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Theatre – Performance – Kunstenfestivaldesarts

Respublika

Łukasz Twarkowski
Théâtre national d’art dramatique de Lituanie

23 > 25.05.2024

Techno, film, theatre, literature and visual arts are brought together to create a distinct world. Here, the audience comes and goes as it pleases.

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Theatre – Kunstenfestivaldesarts

La Vie secrète des vieux

Mohamed El Khatib

28.05 > 01.06.2024

How do you experience love in a worn-out body that alters its vitality day after day? An advocate of documentary art, director Mohamed El Khatib continues to bring intimate stories to the stage.

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EXIT ABOVE after the tempest

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Meskerem Mees, Jean-Marie Aerts, Carlos Garbin / Rosas

Season

2023·2024

Presentation

Saison 2023·2024

Jours de fête

→ Bertrix

Week-end ouvert

En une nuit Notes pour un spectacle

Ferdinand Despy Simon Hardouin Justine Lequette Eva Zingaro Meyer

Via Injabulo

Via Katlehong Marco da Silva Ferreira Amala Dianor

Jogging

Hanane Hajj Ali

La Décision Les Enfants du monde à venir

Vincent Hennebicq Marine Horbaczewski

Festival des Libertés

Scènes nouvelles

ICIRORI

Consolate

Nostalgica

Alexis Julémont

Skatepark

Mette Ingvartsen

Zonder (Titre provisoire)

Ayelen Parolin

Ces enfants-là

Virginie Jortay

ONE SONG Histoire(s) du théâtre IV

Miet Warlop

Là maintenant

Transquin⁣⁣​quennal

Sukhishvili

Ballet national de Géorgie

La Dernière génération, ou les 120 journées de Sodome

Milo Rau Theater Stap

Péplum médiéval

Valérian Guillaume Olivier Martin-Salvan

Sans tambour

Samuel Achache

Détester tout le monde

Adeline Rosenstein Thibaut Wenger

Daddy

Marion Siéfert

Le Signal du promeneur

Raoul Collectif

Rumeur et petits jours

Raoul Collectif

Nous ne sommes plus…

Tatiana Frolova

Une cérémonie

Raoul Collectif

Tom na Fazenda Tom à la ferme

Michel Marc Bouchard Rodrigo Portella

Canine Jaunâtre 3

Marlene Monteiro Freitas Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon

Plutôt vomir que faillir

Rébecca Chaillon

Blind

Hendrickx Ntela

Alma

Fabrice Murgia Peggy Lee Cooper

Pour un temps sois peu

Laurène Marx Fanny Sintès

Maison chaos

Joëlle Sambi

Carmen.

François Gremaud Rosemary Standley

À la scène comme à la ville

Le Présent qui déborde

Christiane Jatahy

Multiple Bad Things

Back to Back Theatre

Les Jours de mon abandon

Elena Ferrante Gaia Saitta

Respublika

Łukasz Twarkowski Théâtre national d’art dramatique de Lituanie

La Vie secrète des vieux

Mohamed El Khatib

EXIT ABOVE
after the tempest

En une nuit
Notes pour un spectacle

Ferdinand Despy
Simon Hardouin
Justine Lequette
Eva Zingaro Meyer

Via Katlehong
Marco da Silva Ferreira
Amala Dianor

La Décision
Les Enfants du monde à venir

Vincent Hennebicq
Marine Horbaczewski

Zonder
(Titre provisoire)

ONE SONG
Histoire(s) du théâtre IV

Transquin⁣⁣quennal

Milo Rau
Theater Stap

Valérian Guillaume
Olivier Martin-Salvan

Adeline Rosenstein
Thibaut Wenger

Tom na Fazenda
Tom à la ferme

Michel Marc Bouchard
Rodrigo Portella

Marlene Monteiro
Freitas Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon

Fabrice Murgia
Peggy Lee Cooper

Laurène Marx
Fanny Sintès

François Gremaud
Rosemary Standley

Elena Ferrante
Gaia Saitta

Łukasz Twarkowski
Théâtre national d’art dramatique de Lituanie