Émilie Charriot stages the poignant book of Virginie Despentes. Here, the author particularly describes in a harsh and restrained way her rape and her experience as a prostitute. 

Malevolent Landscape started with the google search: “the most played theatre play”. 

What would happen if we were to look at every living being the way we look at an enigma, something that wants to be solved? 

SHE  is a performance by the Austrian choreographer Oneka von Schrader. Her work explores the dunes between the land and sea of holy and practical, while researching movement as a means to stretch away from representation and fixed positions in a wish for swimming with the flux. Only to interrupt it. A little. Just kidding.

In AAAAEEEIOUU, Micha´s Amateur Theater Group is digging in the archive of the basketball court at the Nouveau Marche aux Grains, searching for all the vowels once expressed in anger, joy, frustration, rage, sensation of glory, happiness, loss and triumph.

The first RapChoir took place at the beginning of the year 2017. Micha Goldberg and his Choir created and performed a couple of songs, now called the ‘classics’. 

On the finite wisdom of a Korean rice cooker. 

Ogutu Muraya is a writer, storyteller and theatre maker. He presented his graduation piece Fractured Memory at Bâtard Festival last year. This year he will perform the première of Because I always feel like running at Bâtard Festival.

In the first week of November Bâtard Festival pours the work of emerging artists through the fissures and ventricles of the Beursschouwburg. 

With a mix of seriousness and absurdity, Dana Michel digs into the stereotypes that exist around 'black culture'.

An investigation into the role of women and the boundaries surrounding body cult nowadays. What does the perfect woman want? 

The Philippine Snow White: from small supporting role to cheerful leading role.

An investigation into the identity of the black body in our Western culture.

“Better a ‘Has Been’ than a ‘Never Was’.” (Tony in The Up Series, BBC)

Pitch & prijsuitreiking!

Ik denk vragen te stellen, maar de vragen stellen mij.

Jonge makers geven het startschot van hun tournee.

May, the month when the kunstenfestivaldesarts is held!

May, the month when the kunstenfestivaldesarts is held! Each year, this urban festival offers a tasty cocktail of (inter)national performances, interesting after talks and meetings, heroic after parties and cosmopolitan questions. The festival crops up in just about any cultural centre in Brussels (ranging from KVS, Les Brigittines right through to WIELS) and, of course, in Beursschouwburg! With us, you can enjoy Mithkal Alzghair. Drop by!

Mithkal Alzghair and Nedjma Hadj invite a group of women to take part in a five-day workshop based on the traditional Syrian dance.

Come and enjoy (contemporary) dance!

Inspired by a series of painting by Michaël Borremans, troubling, moving images emerge from Phasme, opening up a space without imposing a rethoric.

For her newest film and performance project, filmmaker Edurne Rubio found inspiration in an unusual family story.

In the beginning there was nothing and then that too exploded.

Pulsation perpétuelle, machine à danser, rituel futuriste, frénésie techno. Marche infernale et burn out en vue!

This piece grew out of a question that kept coming back to the choreographer: how much of who I am really comes from within myself, and how much has been carved and shaped by society's norms?