More than 30 projects are part of this 12th edition of the Trouble Festival, from April 17 to 23. We are happy to invite you to this Focus pro from April 19.

Focus Pro | Trouble #12

WEDNESDAY | 19.04.2023

6 pm  | Launch of the Festival Trouble

> Studio Thor (rue Saint-Josse 49, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode)

Welcome, passes and welcome drink

 

6 > 10 pm  | 5 performances 

> Studio Thor & around

Kadukiosk | Emilio Lopez-Menchero (ES/BE), Entre les plis | Nicola Bertazzoni (IT), Totale Eclipse | Les sœurs h & Maxime Bodson (BE/CH), Paper Lane | Olga de Soto (BE), Apologize to the Future | Chris Korda (US/DE)

 

THURSDAY | 20.04.2023

>Benoît – Brasserie « Le Thé au harem d’archi Ahmed (chaussée de Louvain 54, 1210 Saint Josse-ten-Noode)

9:30 am | Welcome 

10:00 > 12:30 am | Workshop « Time For Live Art »

Led by Christiana Galanopoulou (MIRfestival, GR) & Leena Kela (New Performance Turku, FI) for the european project “Time For Live Art”.

1 > 2:30 pm | Lunch-meeting with the artists

6 > 11:30 pm | 9 events

> Studio Thor & around

Kadukiosk | Emilio Lopez-Menchero (ES/BE), Entre les plis | Nicola Bertazzoni (IT), MERCI COURAGE | Clémence Péguy (Fragile !) (BE), La Chapelle des peines pour le monde | Barbara Salomé Felgenhauer (BE), A Thin Layer of Oily Rock | Chris Korda (US/DE), Révolution anti-âge | Carole Louis (BE), Je de Société | Tatiana Bohm (BE), The Duration of Endurance | Jennie Klein (US), The Narcosexuals | Dries Verhoeven (NL).

9:30 pm | The NarcoSexuals – Dries Verhoeven (NL)

> Digue du canal 3, 1070 Anderlecht

Start from Studio Thor at 9:30 pm for the performance (10:15 pm / 50′).

In co-presentation with Studio Thor, KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Charleroi danse & les Halles de Schaerbeek.

Foodtruck « Pin Pon » available (cash only)

 

FRIDAY | 21.04.2023

A – OPTION

9:30 am > 6 pm | Chronohacking. Piratons les horloges
> la Balsamine (avenue Félix Marchal 1, 1030 Bruxelles)

  • 9:30 > 12:30 am #1 Meetings | Emma Bigé, Dénètem Touam Bona, Cy Lecerf Maulpoix
  • 12:30 > 2:30 pm #2 Lunch | Les Gastrosophes
  • 3 > 4 pm  #3 Workshop Consciencescargot | A. Livingstone & Emma Bigé
  • 4:30 > 5 pm #4 Films | Spectrographies | Dénètem Touam Bona
  • 5:30 > 6 pm #5 Performance | Dépays | Ife Day

 

B – OPTION

11 am > 5 pm | Exhibition Sub Terra | with Carole Louis & Tatiana Bohm
> Maison des Arts de Schaerbeek (Chaussée de Haecht 147, 1030 Schaerbeek)

1 > 7 pm | Exhibition “From the two page book” | Kubra Khademi 
> Galerie Eric Mouchet (avenue Van Volxem 33, 1190 Forest)

Artist associated with the last editions of the Festival.

6 > 11:30 pm | 9 performances | Festival Trouble
> Studio Thor & around

Kadukiosk | Emilio Lopez-Menchero (ES/BE), Entre les plis | Nicola Bertazzoni (IT), La Chapelle des peines pour le monde | Barbara Salomé Felgenhauer (BE), Je de Société | Tatiana Bohm (BE), Pushback | Benjamin Muzart (BE), Quoi qu’ils disent | Bénédicte Davin & Alain Wathieu (BE), Amoloth | Garance Maillot (Fragile !), Deadlines | Theano Metaxa (GR), The NarcoSexuals | Dries Verhoeven (NL).

 

SATURDAY & SUNDAY | 22 & 23.04.2023

22.04 (10 am)  > 23.04 (7 am) | 16 performances | Festival Trouble

> Studio Thor & around

  • A jeun d’amour | Hilal Aydogdu (BE)
  • Kadukiosk | Emilio Lopez-Menchero (ES/BE)
  • A Different North | Adam York Gregory & Gillian Jane Lees (UK)
  • Gilded | Monali Meher (IN)
  • Entropie | Les gens d’Uterpan (FR)
  • Portail | Carole Louis (BE)
  • Body Chain for All Types | Kimia Nasirian (Fragile !)
  • Pushback | Benjamin Muzart (BE)
  • Je de Société | Tatiana Bohm (BE)
  • Uorilsim | Alexandros Plomaritis & Virginia Mastrogiannaki (GR)
  • Entre les plis | Nicola Bertazzoni (IT)
  • La Chapelle des peines pour le monde | Barbara Salomé Felgenhauer (BE)
  • Sous mon tapis | Matilde Gazeau Frade (Fragile !)
  • Fantôme | Les gens d’Uterpan (FR)
  • The NarcoSexuals | Dries Verhoeven (NL)
  • Devotion | Cassils & SJ Norman (CA/AU)

For the bravest:

7 am  |  Performers breakfast 

> KANAL – Centre Pompidou K1 (Avenue du port 1 – 1000 Bruxelles) 

The breakfast will take place right after “Devotion”.

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 16.04 at the latest.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Emilie Wacker, Deputy Director Thor, by email at administration@thor.be.

We look forward to welcoming you,

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

Program

Hilal Aydoğdu (BE), Nicola Bertazzoni (IT), Emma Bigé (FR), Tatiana Bohm (BE), Cassils (CA) & SJ Norman (AU), Bénédicte Davin (BE), Ife Day (FR), Olga de Soto (BE), Barbara Salomé Felgenhauer (BE), Chris Korda (US), Cy Lecerf Maulpoix (FR), Gillian Jane Lees & Adam York Gregory (UK), Jennie Klein (US), Les gens d’Uterpan (FR), Les sœurs h & Maxime Bodson (BE), A. Livingstone (CA/DE), Emilio Lopez-Menchero (BE), Carole Louis (BE), Monali Meher (IN), Theano Metaxa (GR), Virginia Mastrogiannaki & Alexandros Plomaritis (GR), Benjamin Muzart (BE), Dénètem Touam Bona (FR), Dries Verhoeven (NL) + Fragile ! (Matilde Gazeau Frade, Garance Maillot, Kimia Nasirian, Clémence Péguy)

Trouble #12 « It’s about time » 

Trouble #12, « It’s about time » : it’s the question of time (and especially the time we allow for ourselves, that we give to relationships and to works so that they can resonate) that will be at the heart of the Brussels biennial of performance. To survey notions of historical time, stolen time, out-of-time, time loops, generational differences, protracted periods … or on the contrary, very brief moments. Are you losing your bearings? It is high time that Trouble comes back to trouble you!

 

Full programme

Partners

In partnership with KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Charleroi danse, La Balsamine, Maison des Arts, ENSAV – La Cambre, Halles de Schaerbeek, GC Ten Noey, Ateliers Mommen, Fondations 312, ESA Le 75, W-B T/D, Calame, Femma, Wiegwijs, Radio Panik, Institut européen de la culture arabe and Infini théâtre.

With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles (Service de la danse, Service des arts plastiques and Promotion de Bruxelles), Creative Europe programme of the European Union (project « Time For Live Art »), Commission communautaire française, Région de Bruxelles-capitale (Image de Bruxelles), City of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Embassy of Canada, Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands, Performing Arts Fund NL, Pro Helvetia, ENSAV – La Cambre.

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.

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!

 

TROUBLE #11 | 2021
TROUBLE #10 | 2019

(Pas si) Fragile! 2024
(Pas si) Fragile! 2022
(Pas si) Fragile! 2020
 

Box Office

PAY WHAT YOU WANT

  • 4-day pass: 30 > 60€ (full price: 40€)
  • 1-day pass: 8 > 21€ (full price: 12€)
  • 1 performance: 5 > 10€ (full price: 8€)
  • 1 performance – free price: 0 > 15€ (full price: 8€)

 

Booking & tickets

 

Access

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

Vélo: merci d’attacher vos vélos place Saint-Josse.

Le Studio Thor est le centre du festival Trouble.

 

Contacts

info@thor.be

+32 (0)2 223 26 00

Places

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

GC Ten Noey – rue de la Commune 25, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Institut Européen de la Culture Arabe – rue de l’alliance 2, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Ateliers Mommen – rue de la Charité 37, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Fondations 312 – rue Royale 312, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Place Saint-Josse, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

Chapelle de l’Abondance – rue de l’Abondance 25-31, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode

La Balsamine – avenue Félix Marchal 1, 1030 Schaerbeek

La Maison des Arts – chaussée de Haecht 147, 1030 Schaerbeek

KANAL (K1) – avenue du Port 1, 1000 Bruxelles

Square Marie-Louise, 1000 Bruxelles

Digue du Canal, 3 – crossroads with Dante street, 1070 Anderlecht

 

Full programme

Paper Lane, Olga de Soto © Colin Delfosse
Totale Eclipse, les soeurs h & Maxime Bodson © Colin Delfosse
Entropie, les gens d'Uterpan © Colin Delfosse
Pushback, Benjamin Muzart © Colin Delfosse
La Chapelle des peines pour le monde, Barbara Salomé Felgenhauer © Colin Delfosse
Uolrisim, Alexandros Plomaritis & Virginia Mastrogiannaki