Is the party political? Absolutely, and it’s pagan too.

Baxter M. Halter (BE) + Surprise Act

Baxter M. Halter is a performance artist with many faces. Well known under the makeup of King Baxter, both king and regicidal jester, he will be present for the closing of the Trouble Festival with new experiments blending DJ sets and performance.

What you see may no longer have the same form three months later, nor the same name. Dark Baxter opens a door to Mad Dog and promises to mix tracks produced by our Trans, GenderBender, and SexWorkerz idols (and their best allies) while incorporating live elements with his new productions, aiming to contribute to a collective psyche.

The album also features Ash Kidd, Twinsmatic, Sofiane Pamart, The Magician, Eazy Dew, Phazz, KillASon, Pauli The PSM, and Fhin. In 2019, she discovered DJing and embarked on the adventure with her crew, playing at LGBTQIA+ parties in the capital. The alchemy works between high-energy baile funk, adventurous hyperpop, and jersey club, radiating her infectious joy from 130 to 160 bpm.

Infos

DATE	CONTENU
2025/04/192300	19.04.2025 23:00 V.I.P., Saint-Josse-ten-Noode Réservations

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), 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)

Editorial #13. 2025

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.

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 #12 «it’s about time»
TROUBLE #11 | 2021
TROUBLE #10 | 2019

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

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