THE BRUSSELS CITY THEATRE

Onbezongen gives you a portrait of the homo politicus. Not the gauche politician from Yes, Minister, the idealised machine from The West Wing, the lonely ...

And the secret to keep an entire city at bay. Not a ghost town because life animates this mysterious city. However silence envelops not just ...

Ouder Kind is the tenth joint creation by Bruno Vanden Broecke and Raven Ruëll. To shake things up at this milestone, they’ve taken a different ...

Five bodies encounter one another in a place without a name, perhaps in the middle of the night. According to the rhythm of the circumstances, ...

In the Cameroonian James Carlès, the South-African choreographer Robyn Orlin found the perfect ally for this humorous and combative two-parter on coupé-décalé, the hip, rhythmical ...

When Moya Michael saw Faustin Linyekula’s solo Le Cargo in Kinshasa, she asked him to work with her. Their encounter resulted in The Dialogue Series: ...

In Talk to the Demon, Wim Vandekeybus works with a team of six performers and two children. ‘We all create demons within ourselves, in order ...

In her performances, choreographer Ula Sickle traces the individual histories of dancers and the way their movements are culturally and politically coloured. For the past ...

A marvellous script by Thomas Gunzig about the key moments in a human life, about the little stories that lie hidden inside the big ones. ...

A troupe of refugee performers from the conflict-ridden eastern Congo has found a stash ofMacbeth material in the jungle: sheet music by Verdi, old gramophone ...

Since 2006 the choreographer Faustin Linyekula has been a regular guest at the KVS. We are now for the fifth time making a new creation ...

As children they got to know each other at the dance academy in the Slovakian town of Banska Bystrica. They later moved to Brussels and ...

The author Peter Verhelst wrote the monologueAfrica with and for the actor Oscar Van Rompay. Not about the real Africa, but about ‘Africa’, the continent ...

Over the last few years the South-African Moya Michael and the White Russian Igor Shyshko have worked with such companies as Rosas and Akram Khan. ...

The Canadian-Brussels choreographer Ula Sickle created two solos for and with young dancers from Kinshasa, whom she met in the course of the KVS’ Congo ...

Nine Finger, a joint production by performer Benjamin Verdonck, Rosas dancer Fumiyo Ikeda and choreographer Alain Platel, is undoubtedly one of the most gripping theatrical ...

De Onkreukelbare is an accumulation of visual and verbal time bombs which together highlight one of the most significant turning points in Western history: the ...

‘My best work’ is how Hugo Claus described De verwondering, the novel he wrote at the start of his career in 1962. For the stage ...

Mind a Gap is the result of intense collaboration between the choreographer Anton Lachky (formerly at P.A.R.T.S., a dancer with Akram Khan, Les SlovaKs) and ...

With It’s my life and I do what I want, a new joint venture by the KVS and Théâtre Les Tanneurs, Pierre Sartenaer and Guy ...

Martin Zimmermann and Dimitri de Perrot are two inventive Swiss directors who over the last ten years have created a series of dance theatre productions ...

SMATCH is a three-part project by the Liège theatre-maker Dominique Roodthooft in response to today’s prophets of doom. She invites us to take a playful ...

The staggering 1987 debut by Wim Vandekeybus and Ultima Vez struck the dance world dumb. In New York Vandekeybus and the composers Thierry De Mey ...

Author Hanoch Levin is a living monument in Israeli theatre. In 2004 KVS was the first Dutch-language theatre to perform his work. Schitz belongs to ...

In the seventies and eighties, Clive Barker, the English horror and fantasy author, director and painter, wrote dozens of plays for his Liverpool theatre company. ...

A modern Flemish family gathers round the dining table for the annual Christmas dinner. There are thirteen of them, including the mother?/?hostess, the priest?/?family friend, ...

Kiss & Cry is the first collaboration between film director Jaco Van Dormael and his partner Michèle Anne De Mey. He made his name with ...

A Map of the World is a clever comedy by the successful British playwright David Hare, the scenarist of The Hours, The Reader and other ...

Lemi Ponifasio and his New Zealand-based company MAU construct sublimely forceful works that resonate with vivid images and the dynamic interplay of darkness and light. ...