Troika

For the sixth year in a row, KVS, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles and La Monnaie are joining forces for Troika, a unique dance programme proposed by the three houses together. Discover a diverse programme with no fewer than five creations, featuring both leading names and emerging talent. Troika will again turn the spotlight on the city of dance that is Brussels in all its diversity!
By choosing three or more shows within the Troika Dance programme, in at least two different venues, you benefit from a reduction of 20%, and even 50% for those under 30.

COMBAT DES LIANES (CREATION)

ZORA SNAKE

23.9 › 4.10.2025 – THÉÂTRE NATIONAL WALLONIE-BRUXELLES
In his latest creation, Zora Snake delves into issues of immigration, discrimination, social and climate justice, borders and the power of artworks displayed in museums to the glory of (neo)colonizing forces.

SPELL (CREATION)

IGOR SHYSHKO, ELKE VAN CAMPENHOUT & ALBINA VAKHITOVA

1 & 2.10.2025 – KVS BOX
Natural talents Igor Shyshko and Albina Vakhitova exorcize their demons in a ritual choreography centred on what it means today to live, work, enter into relationships – as immigrants, cultural workers, magical beings.

MBOK’ELENGI

JOLIE NGEMI

3.10.2025 – KVS BOX
Mbok’Elengi is a choreographic thought celebrating joy and liberation. Inspired by the Congolese dances of Sebene, it expresses a longing for ecstasy and revolt in the face of injustice. It invites us to break down barriers and spread the energy of resistance and hope.

MIMI’S SHEBEEN

ALESANDRA SEUTIN

7, 8 & 9.10.2025 – KVS BOL
Alesandra Seutin takes you to a shebeen in South Africa. Inspired by Miriam Makeba, she has created a dazzling choreography to tell stories of exile, immigration and humanity.

WHITE BOX

SABINE THEUNISSEN

29 & 30.10.2025 – De Munt
A poetic combination of dance, photography, video projection and live music: Sabine Theunissen draws you into an intriguing multidisciplinary experience, inspired by the story of a failed Arctic expedition in 1897 and the negatives of photographer Strindberg, rediscovered 33 years later.

THE WEIGHT OF A WOMAN

LISETTE MA NEZA

13, 14 & 15.11.2025 – KVS BOX
Thirty years after the genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda, Lisette Ma Neza (the first city poet of Brussels) reflects on violence and what it sets in motion in one’s life and heart, in a dance-filled poem thick with questions.

CLOSED EYES

ALIDA DORS / THEATER ROTTERDAM

2 & 3.12.2025 – KVS BOL
With the epic Closed Eyes, award-winning choreographer and theatre-maker Alida Dors invites us to shut ourselves off from all daily stimuli. Open your eyes and dare to dream. With the Brussels-based Les Mybalés.

CHRONIQUES

GABRIELLO CARRIZO / PEEPING TOM

9 › 18.12.2025 – KVS BOL
In the latest Peeping Tom creation, Gabriela Carrizo creates different ‘chronicles’, about past and future, non-existent borders and the unknown. With a dynamic and international cast from, among others, the Nederlands Dans Theater.

DE TUIN DER ONRUSTEN

GRACE TJANG / NEEDCOMPANY

17 & 18.12.2025 – KVS BOX
Grace Tjang, choreographer, theatre-maker and co-founder of Needcompany, relates her tropical family stories in a poetic manner, with Indonesia’s entire colonial history lurking in each story.

BREL

ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER & SOLAL MARIOTTE / ROSAS

7 › 18.1.2026 – THÉÂTRE NATIONAL WALLONIE-BRUXELLES
In this duet created to the music of Jacques Brel, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Solal Mariotte explore the melody, narrative and atmosphere of the genre of the chanson.

HEAR THE SILENCE (CREATION)

ZOË DEMOUSTIER / LAGESTE

12 & 13.2.2026 – KVS BOL
Choreographer Zoë Demoustier’s Hear the Silence is a powerful reflection on the relationship between music and war. At the heart of this new creation is the waltz, specifically No.2 by Shostakovich.

TEMPEST

VOETVOLK / LISBETH GRUWEZ & MAARTEN VAN CAUWENBERGHE

25, 26 & 27.3.2026 – KVS BOL
In Tempest, Lisbeth Gruwez explores the two sides of anger: on the one hand, a destructive force; on the other, a catalyst for change. She draws on martial arts for a dance in the eye of the storm.

BĒTON (CREATION)

BAHAR TEMIZ

1 & 2.4.2026 – KVS BOX
In Bēton, choreographer and dancer Bahar Temiz (known from Ice and Punkt) explores the properties of concrete, the sustainability myth and its impact on nature, urbanity and society.

IL CIMENTO DELL’ARMONIA E DELL’ INVENTIONE

ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER & RADOUAN MRIZIGA / ROSAS, A7LA5 & GLI INCOGNITI

3, 4, 7, 8 & 9.4.2026 – LA MONNAIE / DE MUNT
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Radouan Mriziga drew inspiration from Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. The four dancers are accompanied by violinist Amandine Beyer and her ensemble Gli Incogniti. This production marks the return of dance to the stage of La Monnaie!

MISERERE

INGRID VON WANTOCH REKOWSKI & SERGE AIMÉ COULIBALY

14 & 15.4.2026 – KVS BOX
Using Zelenka’s Miserere as a starting point, this performance attempts to express the ultimate suffering through an actress as a universal ‘mater dolorosa’ together with a chorus of six dancers that embody the obsessive and constantly renewing vital energies.

IRRESISTIBLE REVOLUTION (CREATION)

AYELEN PAROLIN

14 › 18.4.2026 – THÉÂTRE NATIONAL WALLONIE-BRUXELLES
After SIMPLE, WEG and Zonder, Ayelen Parolin returns to the Théâtre National, still driven by the desire to advocate the complexity of the self, to help make possible the plurality of a we – a more or less fluid and porous whole of resolutely polymorphous I’s.