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Spring '26

Defrost your heart

We’re serving some  'Fresh juice' a brand-new spring programme packed with zest, spirit and creative bite. 

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  • Martha Canga Antonio

    Holy
    Performance meets beats
    26.03
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    28.03

    Performance meets beats

    ‘Holy’ is the enchanting love child of an exhilarating concert and a mesmerizing performance. Martha Canga Antonio explores ‘the sacred’ in all its shapes and shades. She takes the audience on a journey where personal and collective experiences merge. Boundaries blur, certainties fade, and traditional codes between performers and audience effortlessly dissolve.

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  • Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Solal Mariotte / Rosas

    BREL
    'Next!': two generations dance to Brel
    31.03
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    02.04

    'Next!': two generations dance to Brel

    'BREL' is a collaboration between Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and dancer and upcoming choreographer Solal Mariotte. After graduating from P.A.R.T.S. in 2022, Mariotte, who also has a background in breaking, joined Rosas in 2023 for 'EXIT ABOVE'.

    The starting point for this new creation is a selection of compositions by chansonnier Jacques Brel. De Keersmaeker and Mariotte bring diverging approaches to choreography and dance to this project. Two generations apart, they also have very different histories with the singer, who was born in Brussels in 1929 and rose to international fame in the 1950s and 60s. Dense, poetic, and often political, Brel’s powerful lyrics conjure up a range of moods and emotions. We are also familiar with the image of Brel, his extraordinary stage presence and gestural expressivity. Brel projects an incredible energy, speaks to and moves his audience in a direct, personal, and almost physical manner. While arguably addressing ‘timeless’ themes, including friendship, relationships, socio-political shifts, and violence, Brel’s songs also make tangible a gap in time. They resonate very differently with the world today. What remains? What kind of tools do Brel’s modes of address and performativity offer? What to keep and how to set it in motion in a manner relevant for today? The challenge lies not only in figuring out how to ‘embody’ Brel’s music - how to bring it to life – in a way that speaks to us today, while maintaining a critical remove, but also in finding ways to really share the stage with Jacques Brel.

    In 2002, De Keersmaeker created her second dance solo, Once, to the music of Joan Baez. Playing the entire album Joan Baez in Concert, part 2, the choreographer set out to examine various possible answers – in movement, voice, and gesture – to the emotions and power embodied by Baez’ music and lyrics, which also inspired the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1960s. In 2023, EXIT ABOVE was created to songs written especially for the work and performed live on stage by singer-songwriter Meskerem Mees and dancer-musician Carlos Garbin. In BREL, De Keersmaeker and Mariotte, who will share the stage for the first time, will continue this trajectory, and further explore the challenges and potential of choreographing to songs. The artists find inspiration in the complexities and tensions inherent to Brel’s life and oeuvre. In BREL, they aim in the first place to raise questions. BREL is a search, an exploration of the shifts and gaps in time that come to the surface when revisiting Jacques Brel’s famous chansons today.

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  • Rébecca Chaillon & Aurore Déon

    Whitewashing
    Pulverise all your preconceptions.
    03.04

    Pulverise all your preconceptions.

    ‘Whitewashing’ is a playful yet confronting performance that brings clichés and fantasies surrounding Black women vividly to the stage. Rébecca Chaillon and Aurore Déon make visible what is often hidden: how colonial and sexist biases continue to shape bodies, gazes, and spaces.

    Each performance evolves, but always revolves around two opposing forces: one fragile and rooted in a floor that is never quite white enough, the other strong, challenging, and full of creative energy. Together, they weave a story exposing the historical invisibility of Black women and the burdens they have carried.

    With humor and hypnotic repetition, ‘Whitewashing’ confronts audiences with prejudices, clichés, and societal expectations around Black women, inviting reflection on care, self-preservation, and resistance. A performance that is both intense and liberating, raising profound questions about power, identity, and (in)visibility.

     

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  • Fien Leysen / BERLIN & theater arsenaal

    ALABAMA
    A documentary road trip to the past, about different stages of loss
    24.04
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    25.04

    A documentary road trip to the past, about different stages of loss

    In ALABAMA, Fien Leysen follows in the footsteps of her deceased father, reporter Kris Leysen. In 1978 he visited Birmingham, Alabama (US) to create a television documentary for the Belgian broadcast station VRT. In Alabama, he spoke to young adults about work and studies, about the American Dream, and the gap between rich and poor. On his first night in Alabama, the local sheriff pulled over the television crew and charmed by their intentions, promptly gave Leysen the position of deputy sheriff (in name only). All so that the people of Birmingham would trust the film crew. Forty five years later, Fien - now the same age as her father then - sets off to Alabama. She wants to find the students and the sheriff from 1978, revisit the city and its people. In Birmingham, she’ll ask the questions her father forgot, and hopes to find answers for herself. Together with musician Steven De bruyn, Fien will share video of then and now on stage, and the result of her search.).

     

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  • Platform K

    Where is everybody?
    Two worlds, one dance language
    29.04
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    30.04

    Two worlds, one dance language

    What happens when two dance companies with distinct visions collide? With six dancers, Platform K and ZOO/Thomas Hauert shape a shared movement language and create an inclusive performance bursting with energy, spontaneity and poetry. A celebratory search for what dance becomes when we let go of conventions.


    Read Amber Maes' reflection on the creative process

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  • Nona Demey Gallagher

    A Room of His Own
    Feminist rage and decadent dreams.
    30.04

    Feminist rage and decadent dreams.

    The secret castle, the urban oasis, the multimedia fun palace - the bed.

    There she lies, a critic alone in pyjamas watching late-night television, dissecting the fantasies of sexual freedom while the world outside continues its endless pursuit of pleasure.

    'A Room Of His Own' is a perverted comedy of manners about the world of pornography, power, and sexual politics. Its protagonist is Andrea Dworkin, the radical feminist of the 1970s, famous for her tireless attacks on the porn industry. Following a sleepless Dworkin during a night of decadence, the production interrogates the post-war dream of sexual freedom - its promises, its contradictions, its lasting grip on society. A testament to a voice who questioned the sexual fantasies that we consume.

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  • Mira Bryssinck

    Iemands zus
    An intimate story about sisters and care
    08.05
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    09.05

    An intimate story about sisters and care

    In ‘Iemands zus’, Mira Bryssinck explores how disability shapes family life. Through interviews, family conversations and documentary material she traces the delicate balance between giving and receiving care. A cinematic coming-of-age story unfolds on stage, accompanied by Simon Raman's music.

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  • Meg Stuart and Doug Weiss

    All the Way Around
    A peek into the choreographic kitchen of a dance icon
    20.05
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    21.05

    A peek into the choreographic kitchen
    of a dance icon

    Choreographer and dancer Meg Stuart opens her bodily archive, alongside jazz bassist Doug Weiss, pianist Mariana Carvalho and light designer Emese Csornai. Together they strip ‘the ballad’ down to intimate gestures, weaving dance, music and light into a dialogue where memory and emotion resound. A rare glimpse into Stuart’s unique movement philosophy. 

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  • Femke Gyselinck / GRIP i.s.m. Lander Gyselinck

    Figures of Speech
    ‘Rhythm is a soul’s companion’ (Snap!)
    28.05

    ‘Rhythm is a soul’s companion’ (Snap!)

    Rhythm connects us inextricably to the world. It is everywhere – in our steps, in our language, in our emotions, in life itself. Since ancient times, when it served as a mnemonic aid for reciting poetry, rhythm has been used to bring people together: from the chanting of monks to a military cadence. 

    Ten years after their joint debut 'Flamer', brother and sister, drummer Lander (STUFF., Lander & Adriaan, BeraadGeslagen,…) and dancer Femke Gyselinck (GRIP, ex-Rosas), join forces once again. What once began as a spontaneous professional exchange has grown into a shared artistic language. This time, they are not performing as a duo, but with a group of seven dancers and four musicians on the big stage. 

    In this performance, rhythm is much more than just a component of the music. It is the foundation on which music and dance come together. The patterns of sounds and silences aid in remembering and singing, playing, or drumming in a group. And they make dancing possible.

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  • Bavo Buys

    Wild Narcissus
    Spotlight on the shadow self
    29.05
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    30.05

    Spotlight on the shadow self

    What happens when youth fades, beauty slips away and admiration dies? Bavo Buys brings their alter ego Narcissus to life in a mesmerizing solo, blending myth, pop culture and personal stories. A hypnotic portrait of desire, self-preservation and fragile perfection offering a darkly playful reflection on narcissism and the human condition.

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  • The Second Woman

    Nat Randall & Anna Breckon - met Natali Broods
    Grand finale of the season: 24 hours long, 100 x 1 scene
    13.06

    Grand finale of the season: 24 hours long,
    100 x 1 scene

    Natali Broods performs the impossible in this epic endurance work: a single scene, repeated 100 times with 100 different people who identify as male* over 24 hours. No rehearsals. No safety net. Each encounter unfolds differently, revealing fragility, power and desire. Fiction and reality blur and pull you into a hypnotic rhythm.

    A once-in-a-lifetime experience that will be raw, intimate and unforgettable.

     

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Season finale:
24 hours long, 100 x 1 scene

Actress Natali Broods achieves the impossible in “The Second Woman,”
an epic endurance performance and breathtaking theatrical tour de force.

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Curated 4

Not sure where to start? Fear not, because VIERNULVIER’s artistic team curated four journeys through dance, theatre, music, and performance — from established voices to intimate, queer, and daring work. Choose your path and explore freely.
SOLID 4
4 CORNERS OF THE HEART
404 EXPLORER
4 TENDER REBELS

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