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1 CITY / 2 MONTHS / 18 VENUES / 80 DANCE PERFORMANCES & TALKS / 180 EVENTS

In Brussels, people are dancing and creating to their hearts’ content! Fourteen cultural venues that testify to the richness and diversity of contemporary dance in Brussels offer the public the opportunity to discover for themselves the creativity and vitality of our capital city.

This fifth edition of Brussels, dance! stands for 80 performances and talks, 180 performances, an open and bold selection of young and emerging talent, but also of renowned artists… Come and taste dance in all its diversity and vitality, from 3 March to 30 April!

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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas

Dark Red

dance exhibition

Rosas Performance Space

Sat 23.04 - Sun 08.05.22

What would it mean for choreography to perform as an exhibition? In 2021, De Keersmaeker was invited by Fondation Beyeler to create Dark Red—Beyeler, a ‘live installation’ where the dancing body faced the sculptural work of Auguste Rodin and Hans Arp

Vera Tussing & Quatuor MP4

Tactile Quartet(s)

dance music

Kaaitheater

Fri 29.04 - Sat 30.04.22

Vera Tussing invites the string quartet Quatuor MP4 to join four dancers onstage for a playful encounter between movement and sound. The four musicians play passages from various quartets by Franz Schubert, Anton Dvorak and Florence Price as well as contemporary works by Georg Friedrich Haas and Caroline Shaw. At the point where the orbits of dance and music intersect, you are invited to enter the kaleidoscopic score. Lend a hand, or an arm!

Daniel Linehan/Hiatus

Listen Here: This Cavern

dance

Kaaitheater

Fri 08.04 - Sat 09.04.22

Where Daniel Linehan's previous performance Listen Here: These Woods took place among the trees, Listen Here: This Cavern invites you to descend into the darkness of a cave, to sharpen your senses and to listen.

Claire Croizé / Ecce & The Goeyvaerts String Trio

Duet for Two String Trios

dance music

Kaaitheater

Thu 03.03 - Fri 04.03.22

How do you translate the intensity, complexity and physicality of a piece of music into dance? For her new creation Duet for Two String Trios, Claire Croizé teams up with the Goeyvaerts String Trio, looking for answers to these questions through two string trios by the contemporary composer Charles Wuorinen. Dancers Emmi Väisänen and Jason Respilieux offer their bodies as a counterweight to this auditory onslaught. Music and dance circle each other in a play that is as dynamic and changeable as the string trios themselves: never a piece-by-piece translation, always a dialogue.