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Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Vaakstraat 81 Rue Notre-Dame-du-Sommeil
1000 Brussels
The Kaaitheater presents performances in two places. Larger productions are put on at the Kaaitheater itself (Sainctelettesquare 20, formerly known as the Lunatheater). This theatre is part of a striking modernist building from the thirties. Smaller productions are mounted in the marvellously renovated Studios (Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Vaakstraat 81), a former geuze brewery. They are also much used for rehearsals. Both buildings are in the Brussels canal zone, a stone's throw from each other and from the city centre.
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A. Ortsstraat 23 Rue A. Orts, 1000 Brussels
The Beursschouwburg is very much part of Brussels city life. It rejects monoculture in favour of constant exchange between different languages and styles, disciplines and genres, art and everyday life, fun and seriousness. The Beursschouwburg is a transit zone in which work in progress, new formats and disciplines, tomorrow's artists and thinkers are all given a stage.
The Festival
Oude Graanmarkt 5 Vieux Marché aux Grains, 1000 Brussels
The all round cultural centre! Come along and experience the exhibitions, theatre, workshops and other events that the center organise and help organise. Or would you rather participate in one of the lively debates? As a Flemish community centre in the heart of Brussels De Markten keeps his doors wide open for all the different communities that live here. Just drop in!
Koninklijke Ste-Mariastraat 22a Rue Royale Sainte-Marie, 1030 Brussels
The European cultural centre of the Communauté Wallonie/Bruxelles, the role of the Halles de Schaerbeek is to host and organize, either independently or in collaboration with others, performances and artistic events which reflect contemporary trends in all fields of the performing arts, following closely the development of new sound and image technologies.
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Sainctelettesquare 20 Square Sainctelette, 1000 Brussels
The Kaaitheater arts centre in Brussels was established in 1977. It was originally a biennial international festival. Since 1987 its work has extended over the full theatre season.
The Kaaitheater presents theatre, dance and concerts, with a special emphasis on innovative work. Much attention is devoted to setting up its own productions and coproductions with artists and companies from both home and abroad.
Lakensestraat 146 Rue de Laeken, 1000 Brussels
Since the opening of its 2006-2007 season, KVS (Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg) has taken over the brand new infrastructure in the Lakensestraat and the Arduinkaai. The three spaces Bol, Box and Top have been running at full tilt and the popular Café Congo continues to draw people by day and in the evening. A variety of new KVS productions, revivals of past successes, local and international guest performances, theatre, dance, music, film, literature, stand-up comedy, debates, parties, etc.: KVS's programme is as diverse, colourful and exciting as Brussels itself.
The KVS-Bol is the renovated auditorium of the theatre in the Lakensestraat.
Arduinkaai 7 Quai aux Pierre de Taille, 1000 Brussels
Since the opening of its 2006-2007 season, KVS (Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg) has taken over the brand new infrastructure in the Lakensestraat and the Arduinkaai. The three spaces Bol, Box and Top have been running at full tilt and the popular Café Congo continues to draw people by day and in the evening. KVS's programme is as diverse, colourful and exciting as Brussels itself.
The KVS-Box is a black box with removable seating in the new building on Arduinkaai.
Lakensestraat 146 Rue de Laeken, 1000 Brussels
Since the opening of its 2006-2007 season, KVS (Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg) has taken over the brand new infrastructure in the Lakensestraat and the Arduinkaai. The three spaces Bol, Box and Top have been running at full tilt and the popular Café Congo continues to draw people by day and in the evening.
De KVS-Top is a multipurpose space directly below the glass roof of the old theatre that can be used for various purposes such as debates, films and festivities.
Manchesterstraat 21 Rue de Manchester, 1080 Brussels
Korte Brigittinenstraat 1 Petite rue des Brigittines, 1000 Brussels
Les Brigittines are the City of Brussels Contemporary Arts Center for Mouvement and Voice. Since 1976 the Brigittines has provided choreographers, painters, stage directors and interprets the support to explore or create a unique universe and question the world of today. Both the meeting and confrontation between theater, dance, music and visual arts .... escapes the classification and give different meaning to the creation of new langauges of expression. Exploration of new creative langauges was and will always be the first preoccupation of Les Brigittines.
Eugène Plaskylaan 140 Av. Eugène Plasky, 1030 Brussels
For more than 40 years, Théâtre 140 has been an international showcase for the sensible world of today through music, variety shows, dance and a special type of theatre involving the verbal and the visual. Some of the most prestigious artists to have appeared at 140 since its creation include the Living Theatre of New York, Tadeusz Kantor, Serge Gainsbourg, Pink Floyd, Pina Bausch and Japanese stage artists.
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Huidevettersstraat 75 Rue des Tanneurs, 1000 Brussels
Our aim is both to defend relevant and innovatory artistic projects, and to engage an audience which we believe to be curious and keen on seeing materials which make one think, dream and ask questions. We offer artists a creative space by supporting them for a period of 4 years or more in their creative careers (through residencies and partnerships). We tend to favour artists who seek out new aesthetic forms but also new ways of involving the audience. One of our aims is indeed to create new bonds between artists, stage and audience, and we also wish to make the theatre accessible: to facilitate encounters and to make projects accessible through reasonably priced tickets. We also work on projects with local associations and inhabitants from the Marolles, one of the oldest and most popular neighbourhoods in Brussels. The theatre's particular charm - the recently renovated entrance hall of this old industrial building and its surrounding gallery - helps make the audience feel at home in a simple and cosy environment.
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Emile Jacqmainlaan 115 Bld Emile Jacqmain, 1000 Brussels
Théâtre National, which was opened in November 2004, is located at the heart of Brussels. Its director, Jean-Louis Colinet, wants it to be a community, national and European theatre - and a contemporary one. With its glass facade looking out over the city, it is the ideal location for theatre which boldly confronts today's world.This is a theatre which aims to go out and meet artists, the public, and other art forms and cultures, from here and from other parts of the world. It is a place where ideas are shared and jostle together in abundance. Its programme is aimed at the broadest possible public, and is meant to be intelligent and demanding, without forgetting the dimensions of entertainment and emotion. Its dream is to become a centre for all those artists - famous and unusual alike - who make up the fabric of the theatrical scene in Belgium and Europe.
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