season 20-21

SPA / Royal Festival

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CANCELLED - MONS / Moulin Saint-Denis

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JETTE / Atelier 34zero Muzeum

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JUMET / ASBL Jumet.bio

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Exhibition /
Chronologie - David Widart

BIP2020 / BIENNALE DE L’IMAGE POSSIBLE

• expo

Wakatt

Serge Aimé Coulibaly

At a time when walls are being built between different peoples, when nationalisms thrive on the rejection of the other, Serge Aimé Coulibaly incites to resistance and openness  towards a common and generous future.

• dance
• troika

The Quest

Cédric Eeckhout

At the juncture of stand-up, the absurd and existential drama, Cédric Eeckhout obsessively singles out the similarities that unite his fate with that of the entire continent, politically and economically.

• theater

Points de rupture

Françoise Bloch

Burnout, rebellion, crisis, deep differences, Françoise Bloch questions these mutations and the oppression that precedes them or even provokes them.

• theater

Midi de la poésie /
Ne ralentis rien rien rien

Hommage à Marcel Moreau

Denis Lavant, comédien

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• midi de la poésie

Une cérémonie

Raoul collectif

Une cérémonie is seeking its rules and its forms, hesitates when picking its costumes and its protocol. One can make out the historical fantasy of a group looking for absolutes, carting around its ideals, its dreams and its musical instruments.

• theater
• musical show

Dimanche enfants admis

During Une cérémonie / Raoul Collectif

• Dimanche enfants admis

Contes et Légendes

Joël Pommerat

Joël Pommerat addresses childhood, especially that tipping point when it slides into adolescence. How to create oneself, through which collective representations? He associates this key moment in human existence with the myth of the artificial creature.

• theater
• troika

Dimanche enfants admis

During Contes et Légendes / Joël Pommerat

• Dimanche enfants admis

L’Errance de l’hippocampe

Jean-Michel D'Hoop

Jean-Michel d’Hoop and the Cie Point Zéro examine memory, one of humankind’s most fascinating endeavors. From the personal to the universal, memory helps to create human identity, following its history, its uniqueness.

• theater

La Bombe Humaine

Eline Schumacher & Vincent Hennebicq

With La Bombe Humaine, Vincent Hennebicq and Eline Schumacher put the global climatic disruption front and center. They take on the full complexity of the subject, including the inconsistencies.

• theater

Workshop /
Initiation au cinéma d’animation

Yoann Stehr & Lucie Thocaven

• workshop

Dimanche enfants admis

During L’ERRANCE DE L’HIPPOCAMPE / JEAN-MICHEL D’HOOP

• Dimanche enfants admis

Le Dîner

Jean-Michel Frère - Cie Victor B

Two brothers and their spouses get together in an upscale restaurant. Serge, a politician destined for great things, and Paul, retired history professor who is very critical of his brother’s thirst for power. What brings them together: an unmentionable act committed by their two sixteen-year-old sons.

• theater

Exhibition /
Paradise City - Sébastien Cuvelier

MUSÉE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DE CHARLEROI

• expo

Pueblo

Ascanio Celestini & David Murgia

How do we collect and tell stories? How do we describe the essence of a character? Ascanio Celestini and David Murgia continue their collaboration to lay a foundation of a new theatrical tale around this large tribe of invisible beings.

• theater

Wakatt

Serge Aimé Coulibaly

At a time when walls are being built between different peoples, when nationalisms thrive on the rejection of the other, Serge Aimé Coulibaly incites to resistance and openness  towards a common and generous future.

• dance
• troika

Atelier mouvement collectif /
Quand je danse, je parle aussi

Robbi Koudogbo & Adonis Nébié

• workshop

SKRIK

Elisabeth Woronoff

The amnesia due to trauma and the suffering it harbors challenged Elisabeth Woronoff to the point that the young woman made them the subject of her first theatrical creation.

• theater

Le Présent qui déborde

Christiane Jatahy

Christiane Jatahy shows us the travels of real contemporary Odysseus. Men and women who bear witness to exile, resonating with the emotions of Homer’s Odysseus.

• theater-cinema

Dimanche enfants admis

During LE PRÉSENT QUI DÉBORDE / CHRISTIANE JATAHY

• Dimanche enfants admis

Journal d’un lit vide

Mokhallad Rasem

Journal d’un lit vide is a poetic invitation to think about the passing of time, about distance and intimacy, about having to say goodbye and start over again.

• theater

Triptych : The missing door, The lost room and The hidden floor

Peeping Tom

Between theatre and choreographic creation, the performances of Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier start from an ordinary situation to evolve into something strange. Unsettled, the characters struggle in a hyperrealist and disturbing world where temporal markers are scrambled. Memories or premonition?

• dance
• troika

Atelier d’écriture /
Nous sommes ceux qui passent

Laurence Vielle

• workshop

Paying for it

La Brute

The La Brute collective is examining a taboo:  prostitution. Via documentary theatre, it raises questions about the sexual service marketplace and further, the place sex holds in society.

• Documented theatre

« Normal »

Isabelle Darras - CIE AFTER PARTY//CIE

At the junction of object theatre and puppetry, Isabelle Darras’ creation tells the story of three downgraded women, reduced to the status of found objects in the lost and found they now inhabit.

• Object-Theatre
• theater

Si j'étais moi

Mathias Simons

Being both actors and narrators, three characters fill this grating comedy with visions and archetypes: the powerful, the foot soldier and the witch.

• theater

Désobéir

Julie Berès

Four determined young women have at a black wall to urgently inscribe this word as a rallying cry: “Disobey”. One after the other and then together, with a powerful voice, they describe their daily lives.

• theater

Midi de la poésie /
Comment s’inventer soi-même ?

Carte blanche à l’équipe artistique de Désobéir

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• midi de la poésie

Exhibition & Performance /
Fstn

• expo

Africa simply the best

Zora Snake, Agathe Djokam, Charlemagne Kevin Kabore

The three winners of the competition Africa Simply The Best started by Serge Aimé Coulibaly received professional training before leaving on their tour to present their work: Le Départ, À qui le tour ? and Corps en mutation.

• dance
• troika

A concert called landscape

Josse De Pauw & Kris Defoort

LOD muziektheater

Josse De Pauw gives a voice and a music to our personal cartography. Our childhood attic, a soothing room or the calm of a forest give our world a peaceful familiarity.

• theater
• music

Please, continue (Hamlet)

Yan Duyvendak, Roger Bernat

Immersed in the dramaturgy of the crime and the authenticity of the proceedings, the spectator is a direct witness to the complex workings of justice. Involved in the proceedingshe or she is invited to “consider the charges” and to remember that “the accused is presumed innocent and that he is owed the benefit of the doubt.”

• theater

TCHAÏKA

Natacha Belova, Tita Iacobelli

On a stage lit in chiaroscuro, an actress and a human sized puppet wander together in the universe of Chekov’s The Seagull.

• theater
• marionetten

Puppet making workshop /
¡CABEZAS!

Natacha Belova & Loïc Nebreda

• workshop

Dimanche enfants admis

During TCHAÏKA / NATACHA BELOVA & TITA IACOBELLI

• Dimanche enfants admis

Nassim

Nassim Soleimanpour

Every evening, a different actor gets up on stage with the Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour and discovers for the first time a script placed in a sealed box.

Midi de la poésie /
N'ayez pas pitié de moi

Geneviève Brisac, écrivaine et éditrice française & Aminata Abdoulaye, comédienne

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• midi de la poésie

EXTREME / MALECANE

Paola Pisciottano

Paola Pisciottano, investigates this accession of European youth to certain ideals. For three years she has conducted research in four countries questioning the feeling of emptiness that these political movements try to respond to.

• theater

Le Dernier salut

Nicolas Buysse

Three actors refuse to hang up their acting boots and take their audience on an urban and poetic cavalcade, beyond the theatre walls.

• theater op straat
• theater

The Quest

Cédric Eeckhout

At the juncture of stand-up, the absurd and existential drama, Cédric Eeckhout obsessively singles out the similarities that unite his fate with that of the entire continent, politically and economically.

• theater

Dimanche enfants admis

During THE QUEST / CÉDRIC EECKHOUT

• Dimanche enfants admis

Home

Morceaux de nature en ruine

Magrit Coulon

How to put 90 years of existence into a 15 square meter room? What does one see of the world from such a location? At the juncture of fiction and documentary, Magrit Coulon is inspired by scenes observed during a number of months in a nursing home in Brussels.

• theater