More than 30 projects are part of this 13th edition of the Trouble Festival, from April 15 to 19. We are happy to invite you to this Focus pro from April 15.

Focus Pro | Trouble

Tuesday 15.04 

19:00 – 20:00
> Vitrine Thor
Ras Sankara Agboka (TG) – Viol caché, paroles libérées (Performance & Installation) 

20:15 – 21:15
> Studio Thor
Kris Verdonck (BE) – DARK (Performance) 

21:30 – 22:30
> Studio Thor
Natacha Nicora (BE) – Haïssez (-moi) (Interactive Performance) 

 

Wednesday 16.04 

10:00 – 21:00
> Vitrine Thor
Ras Sankara Agboka (TG) – Viol caché, paroles libérées (Installation) 

18:00 – 18:45
> Place François Bossuet
Romuald Dikoumé (CM) – Pongo Pete (Purification Performance) 

19:00 – 20:00
> Studio Thor
Ana Malnar & Luca Valentino – For Better or for Worse (Radical Body Performance) 

20:15 – 21:15
> Studio Thor
Kris Verdonck (BE) – DARK (Performance) 

21:30
> Musée Charlier
Kimia Nasirian (BE) – Un ballet cosmique (Body, Light and Music Performance) 

 

Thursday 17.04 

08:30 – 13:00
> Kiosque place Saint-Josse
Ras Sankara Agboka (TG) – Les Mots sous les chaînes (Market Activist Performance) 

10:00 – 18:00
> Vitrine Thor
Ras Sankara Agboka (TG) – Viol caché, paroles libérées (Installation) 

18:00 – 18:20
> Abattoirs d’Anderlecht
Romuald Dikoumé (CM) – Afro-renaissance (Street Performance) 

18:30 – 19:00
> Grande Halle du canal
Larissa Ebong (CM) – COND’ART-NE (Grief Performance) 

19:00 – 22:00
> Charleroi danse (La Raffinerie)
Karine Marenne (BE) – Apron Role (Installation) 

20:00 – 20:20
> Charleroi danse (La Raffinerie)
Alexandra Lecuiller (Fragile !) – Brussels Voice Phenomena (Voices performance) 

20:30 – 21:20
> Charleroi danse (La Raffinerie)
Zora Snake (CM) – Le Départ (Dance Performance) 

21:30 – 22:30
> Charleroi danse (La Raffinerie)
Annabel Guérédrat (FR) – Mamisargassa 5.0 (Afro-futurist Musical Performance) 

 

Friday 18.04 

09:30 – 13:30
> Amazone
Alessandra Benedicty, Brenda Bikoko, Véronique Danneels, Annabel Guérédrat, Carol Laurent, Anaël Prêtre (EU) – Vases communicants – Trouble Reflective moment : Communicating Vessels (Panel Discussion) 

10:00 – 18:00
> Vitrine Thor
Ras Sankara Agboka (TG) – Viol caché, paroles libérées (Installation) 

16:00 – 21:00
> La Balsamine ( autour | around )
Marta Bosowska (PL) – The Pocket History of Polish Traumas (Game and song performance) 

16:30 – 17:30
> parc du Cinquantenaire
Ras Sankara Agboka (TG) – Minerais de sang (Ritual Performance) 

18:00 – 21:00
> La Balsamine
Day Magee (IE) – The Fatal Obedience of the Image (I) (Durational performance) 

19:00 – 20:30
> La Balsamine
Wojtek Ziemilski (PL) – Inner Monologue (Experimental Theatre piece) 

21:00
> La Balsamine
Alban Ovanessian (BE) – X. Dates (Performance) 

 

Saturday 19.04 

10:00 – 23:00
> Vitrine Thor
Ras Sankara Agboka (TG) – Viol caché, paroles libérées (Installation) 

11:00 – 12:30
> Amazone ( place Saint-Josse )
Zora Snake (CM) – Faire Poing Commun (Public Performance) 

13:00 – 17:00
> Maison des Arts
Gustaf Broms (SE) – ourOboros part 1 (Durational Performance) 

13:30 – 15:00 – 16:30
> Maison des Arts
Romain Clary (Fragile !) – We Are All Mad Here (Performance) 

14:00 – 18:00
> Studio Thor
Annabel Guérédrat (BE) – Let’s go back to the river (Ritual performance) 

14:00 – 19:00
> En ville | in town: parc Josaphat
Mejdi Dridi (BE) – Roue libre (Interactive Performance) 

15:00 – 16:00
> Botanique
Karine Marenne (BE) – Invisible  (Installation performance) 

15:00 – 17:30
> Maison des Arts
Olivia Hernaïz (BE) – L’Art et ma carrière (Board Game & Discussion) 

15:30 – 16:00
> Botanique
Angel Vergara (BE) – Straatman : écoute-voir ! (Collective Performance) 

16:00 – 16:30
> Botanique
Lieven De Boeck (BE) – Parade, What’s Going On ? (Performance) 

16:00 – 19:30
> KANAL – Centre Pompidou (K1)
Aimé.es Rossi (BE/FR) – Défilé Vidé (Performance) 

16:30 – 17:00
> Botanique
Romuald Dikoume (CM) – Edube* (Performance) 

19:00 – 19:15
> Studio Thor
Mejdi Dridi (BE) – Roue libre Final (Interactive Performance) 

19:30 – 20:30
> KANAL – Centre Pompidou (K1)
Larissa Ebong (CM) – Milong (Performance) 

19:30 – 20:15
> Studio Thor
Yuna Choi (Fragile!) – Sikgu (Experimental Dinner Performance) 

20:30 – 21:30
> Studio Thor
Maël Keppenne (Fragile !) – Corps calibré, corps désiré (Performance) 

21:30 – 22:30
> Studio Thor
Rocío Boliver – La Congelada de Uva (MX) – Resonance (Body and Sound Performance) 

23:00 –
> V.I.P.
Baxter M. Halter (BE), DJ Sônge (FR) – Trouble Party (Closing Event) 

DATE CONTENU
PRACTICAL INFO

We are happy to offer you a festival pass which will allow you to watch the whole program.

Thanks to the support of Wallonie-Bruxelles International, 50% of your hotel and breakfast costs (3 nights maximum) can be covered – within the limit of the available budget.

Due to limited gauges, please complete this registration form by 08.04 at the latest.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Fabien Defendini, Public Relations, by email at relation@thor.be.

We look forward to welcoming you,

Antoine Pickels, curator
& the whole team of the Trouble Festival / Compagnie Thor

Program

Aimé.es Rossi (BE), Alban Ovanessian (BE), Alessandra Benedicty (NL), Alexandra Lécuiller (FR), Ana Malnar (SI), Anaëlle Prêtre (BE), Angel Vergara (BE), Annabel Guérédrat (FR), Baxter M. Halter (BE), Brenda Bikoko (BE), Carol Laurent (BE), Day Magee (IE), Gustaf Broms (SE), Jinro (KU), Karine Marenne (BE), Kimia Nasirian (BE), Kris Verdonck (BE), Larissa Ebong (CM), Lieven De Boeck / Studio LDB+ (BE), Luca Valentino (BE), Maël Keppenne (BE), Marta Bosowska (PL), Mejdi Dridi (BE), Natacha Nicora (BE), Olivia Hernaïz (BE), Ras Sankara Agboka (TG), Rocío Boliver (MX), Romain Clary (BE), Romuald Dikoume (CM), Véronique Louise Danneels (ES), Wojtek Ziemilski (PL), Yuna Choi (KR), Zora Snake (CM)

Invocations / Evocations 

The Trouble performance festival turns twenty and expands its partnerships across the city for its thirteenth edition. Since the festival’s creation at Les Halles de Schaerbeek in 2005, much has changed in the world of performance—once marginalized, it is now well-established in Brussels. Trouble 2025 aims to broaden its scope, particularly by breaking free from Western aesthetics and embracing peripheral perspectives from artists in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and Mexico. As a central theme: invocations, evocations, magical or even shamanic gestures, political actions in public spaces, and dialogues with the invisible. Performance as clairvoyance? 

Partners

Production: Thor

With the support of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Dance Service, Promotion of Brussels, Transversal Support Service), French Community Commission, Brussels-Capital Region (Image of Brussels), Municipality of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Wallonia-Brussels International (WBI), French Embassy in Belgium, Polish Ministry of Culture, Culture Ireland, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Polish Institute – Brussels, ENSAV – La Cambre.

In partnership with Charleroi danse, Le Botanique, La Balsamine, KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Halles de Schaerbeek, Amazone, Maison des Arts, Wallonia-Brussels Théâtre Danse (WBTD), Charlier Museum, Cultureghem, Créahm, Wiegwijs, Abattoir, and l’Infini théâtre.

About

The Performance Event in Brussels is back !

Launched in 2005, TROUBLE has ever since been the international performance event in Brussels. As of 2019, Studio Thor has been organising and producing the Festival, with its studio and environs in the heart of the city’s popular commune of Saint-Josse serving as its nerve centre. TROUBLE is held every two years, in the odd years.

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Trouble: philosophy

TROUBLE has retained the ingredients that ensured its previous successes. With its dense and wide-ranging program, the five-day long event focuses on numerous artistic proposals that are both out-of-the-ordinary and differ from routine formats. Performances involving the human body, yet created by artists whose roots are in the visual arts, contemporary dance, experimental theatre, oral poetry, music or the night scene… for a vibrant mix of artistic families and audiences. Instead of spectacle/s meant for mere consumption, real-life experiences are on offer: self-involvement, risk-taking, vulnerability, interactivity, finely balanced between local personalities and artists from elsewhere – and often discoveries.

To ensure a more diverse vision of art, our program gives pride of place to women, queers, racialized and minority groups. We also offer a platform to young artists, thanks to the collaboration with the performance course at Brussels’s renowned visual arts school La Cambre (ENSAV). While the Festival incorporates a demanding reflective aspect, it by no means excludes an engaging playful dimension!

 

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Box Office

PAY WHAT YOU CAN

You choose how much you pay within the suggested range.

Festival Pass: €40 – €60 (Standard price: €50)

Day Pass (1 day): €8 – €20 (Standard price: €12)

Single Performance: €5 – €10 (Standard price: €8)

Performance Free Access (Pay What You Want): €0 – €10 (Standard price: €8)

Free Access : €0 

Lunch Amazone: €15 (Fixed price)

The standard price is a reference, but you can pay more or less according to your means!

Booking & tickets

 

Studio Thor

49, rue Saint-Josse, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

STIB: métro 2/6 (Madou), bus 29/63/59 (Saint-Josse), bus 57 (Gutenberg)

Villo: station Place Saint-Josse

Venues

Abattoirs d’Anderlecht, rue Ropsy-Chaudron 24/48, 1070 Anderlecht

Amazone, rue du Méridien 10, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Botanique, rue royale 236, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Charleroi danse (La Raffinerie), Rue de Manchester 21, 1080 Molenbeek

Grande Halle du canal, Quai de l’industrie 79, 1080 Molenbeek

KANAL – Centre Pompidou (K1), avenue du port 1, 1000 Bruxelles

La Balsamine, avenue Félix Marchal 1, 1030 Schaerbeek

Maison des Arts, chaussée de Haecht 147, 1030 Schaerbeek

Musée Charlier, avenue des Arts 16, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Parc du Cinquantenaire, 1000 Bruxelles

Place François Bossuet, 1210 Saint-Josse

Studio Thor, rue Saint-Josse 49, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

V.I.P, place Saint-Josse 20, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Contacts

info@thor.be

+32 (0)2 223 26 00

For questions related to ticket reservations, please send an email directly to tickets@thor.be