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Interview Burning City

Joyful resistance. Playful anarchy. Laughter as a source of energy and community as the raw material for artistic creation. BURNING CITY, a production by hetpaleis, KVS & Theater Arsenaal/Junior Mthom…
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In search of the truth

City poet Lisette Ma Neza and dramaturge Gerardo Salinas on their quest for the truth Memory, truth, justice. Three terms that are on the minds of poet Lisette Ma Neza and dramaturge Gerardo Salinas. …
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Hatred is an extreme form of love

Theatre creator and performer Carolina Bianchi is currently working on her trilogy Cadela Força, which translates to ‘Bitch Strength’. In the first part, The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella, she to…
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The Battle Against Neglect

We reflect on the sharp edges and soft contours of care in our society. And the battle against neglect. We, theatre creators Lisaboa Houbrechts, Barbara T’Jonck and Martha Balthazar, KVS dramaturge Di…
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Pitcho Womba Konga on Horizon

Op 11 oktober gaat in KVS BOL de nieuwste creatie van Chileense maakster en regisseur Manuela Infante in première. Eén van de spelers op scène is KVS-gezicht Pitcho Womba Konga, zelf ook maker, regiss…
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Interview with Alesandra Seutin

Rokia Bamba talks to Alesandra Seutin about her new dance theatre piece Mimi's Shebeen. Multi-talented Rokia Bamba is a DJ, radio presenter, sound explorer & artiviste. She is an enthusiastic positive…
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Interview met Sachli Gholamalizad

KVS commissioned writer and video artist Maryam K. Hedayat to conduct an interview with theatre creator Sachli Gholamalizad. Both artists share a number of passions, longings, and a love for Iranian a…
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Relaas van een Brusselse verhalenverteller

Pitcho Womba Konga is known for many creative endeavours, but above all he’s an urban artist. That moniker brings him from Malcolm X to Lumumba, from slam poetry to contemporary classical music. Throu…
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A conversation with Daina Ashbee

Dance Magazine called Daina Ashbee an international talent to watch, and in recent years she has been a welcome regular at KVS. Following Pour and Laborious Song, she now presents her latest piece J'a…
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Een archief van ver en dichtbij

A conversation with Zoë Demoustier and sound designer Willem Lenaerts about the interplay between movement and sound in the documentary performance Unfolding an Archive.  By: Elowise Vandenbroeck 
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Power to the people

From his fascination with human relations and the complex emotions they bring about, Mesut Arslan started working on one of the most frequently performed classics of the twentieth century, Who’s afrai…
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Together, it's possible

In July last, the director and sociologist Frédérique Lecomte took a group of theatre students and Belgian actors with her to Goma. There, they met child soldiers and they got acquainted with her powe…
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A day in the life of Mrs Dalloway

For the production Mrs Dalloway, Michael De Cock collaborates with Carme Portaceli of Teatro Español. Why Mrs Dalloway? And why Teatro Español? In this interview, De Cock reveals all about this partic…
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Emotion at the very forefront

Bruno Vanden Broecke and Valentijn Dhaenens are creating Jonathan, a play about the wonders of technology and the future awaiting all of us. We asked Bruno Vanden Broecke all about the new production.
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Being Vlaemsch

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Hans Op de Beeck take a deep dive into Flemish identity and investigate how it relates to past and future. What does ‘being Flemish’ even mean? Who can give an answer to that?…
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Sachli Gholamalizad about The Light That Never Goes Out

During The Light That Never Goes Out, KVS will let ten visitors at a time take a seat in its empty auditorium. Every twenty minutes another artist takes to the stage to present their performance by th…
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Pitcho Womba Konga about The Light That Never Goes Out

During The Light That Never Goes Out, KVS will let ten visitors at a time take a seat in its empty auditorium. Every twenty minutes another artist takes to the stage to present their performance by th…
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From book to play

A copy of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in a Brussels book shop became the starting point for an artistic collaboration between theatre creator Manuela Infante and artistic director of KVS Michael De Cock. Cit…
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