Open Studios 2023
During this new edition of the Open Studios, we welcome you to various locations in the city, with the Kaaistudio’s as the heart of the festival. Central to the program is the question of how we can create space for new forms of togetherness, reflection and resistance in times of crisis.
This edition pays tribute to a group of artists who are completing an artistic development trajectory at workspacebrussels. In her work, dancer caterina daniela mora jara questions the dominance of western dance traditions. During the Open Studios she organises a program with six solos by Brussels artists from the diaspora. The collective Dancing at the Crossroads (As We Walk) reflects on colonial power structures at work in the contemporary dance world. You will get an insight into their research practice in the form of lectures, performances and conversations. Get to know Cecilia Lisa Eliceche, Moya Michael, Fabian Barba, Atabey Mamasita, Sujata Goel and Jolie Ngemi.
You can also sample a wide range of artistic practices. In a powerful physical and auditory ritual, Amparo Gonzalez Sola has three women work on a block of concrete. Mira Bryssinck reads from a text about melancholy and Elien Ronse gives insight into her research into the meaning of friendship. During a durational performance in WIELS, Nikima Jagudajev creates temporary communities between performers and viewers. We round off the three days with a vegetal performance by Azahara Ubera and an intimate dance duet by Carolina Mendonça.
Finally, be surprised by artists Filip Vest, Kai Merke and Emile Pineault, who create unexpected interventions in the corridors and intermediate spaces of the Kaaistudio’s.
All festival shows
![VACANCY](/files/Projects/Archive/2023/_660x495_crop_center-center_82_line/Vacancy-4-3.jpeg)
Kai Merke, Filip Vest, Emile Pineault
VACANCY
![Workshop: Dance for Plants](/files/Festivals/Archive/2023/_660x495_crop_center-center_82_line/Azahara-Ubera-Biedma-Workshop-4-3.jpeg)
Azahara Ubera Biedma
Workshop: Dance for Plants
![Dances in little format: Pre-talk with caterina daniela mora jara & guests](/files/Trajectories/caterina-mora/_660x495_crop_center-center_82_line/caterina-daniela-mora-jara-Dances-in-little-format-4-3.jpeg)
caterina daniela mora jara
Dances in little format: Pre-talk with caterina daniela mora jara & guests
![The traumatised body: a practice of listening, processing and remembrance](/files/Trajectories/Dancing-at-the-Crossroads/_660x495_crop_center-center_82_line/Dancing-at-the-Crossroads-4-3.jpeg)
Dancing at the Crossroads (As We Walk)
The traumatised body: a practice of listening, processing and remembrance
![© Karolien Chromiak](/files/Festivals/Archive/2023/_660x495_crop_center-center_82_line/Jimena-Pérez-Salerno-©-Karolien-Chromiak-4-3.jpg)
caterina daniela mora jara
Dances in little format - double bill 2: Jimena Pérez Salerno & Mugeni
![Fabián Barba: Modernity’s imagination](/files/Trajectories/Dancing-at-the-Crossroads/_660x495_crop_center-center_82_line/Dancing-at-the-Crossroads-4-3.jpeg)
Dancing at the Crossroads (As We Walk)
Fabián Barba: Modernity’s imagination
![Cecilia Lisa Eliceche: Notes on spiritual extractivism in the Flemish dance scene](/files/Trajectories/Dancing-at-the-Crossroads/_660x495_crop_center-center_82_line/Dancing-at-the-Crossroads-4-3.jpeg)
Dancing at the Crossroads (As We Walk)
Cecilia Lisa Eliceche: Notes on spiritual extractivism in the Flemish dance scene
![Sujata Goel: In Search of Context, In Search of Home](/files/Trajectories/Dancing-at-the-Crossroads/_660x495_crop_center-center_82_line/Dancing-at-the-Crossroads-4-3.jpeg)
Dancing at the Crossroads (As We Walk)
Sujata Goel: In Search of Context, In Search of Home
![© Steven Jouwersma](/files/Festivals/Archive/2023/_660x495_crop_center-center_82_line/caterina-daniela-mora-jara-another-bastard-cheap-lecture-4-3.jpeg)
caterina daniela mora jara
Dances in little format - double bill 1: caterina daniela mora jara & Loucka Fiagan
![© Susana Valadas](/files/Festivals/Archive/2023/_660x495_crop_center-center_82_line/Tulio-Rosa-Symetries-4-3-©-Susana-Valadas.jpg)
caterina daniela mora jara
Dances in little format - double bill 3: Larissa Ballarotti & Túlio Rosa
![De aangegrepenen](/files/Festivals/Archive/2023/_660x495_crop_center-center_82_line/Mira-Bryssinck-De-aangegrepenen-4-3.jpeg)
Mira Bryssinck
De aangegrepenen
![© Carolina Mendonça](/files/Projects/Archive/2022/_660x495_crop_center-center_82_line/Zones-of-Resplendence-4-3-©-Carolina-Mendonça.png)
Carolina Mendonça
Zones of Resplendence
![De staminee in Sint Alexius in 28 hoofdstukken](/files/Festivals/Archive/2023/_660x495_crop_center-center_82_line/Elien-Ronse-De-staminee-4-3.jpeg)
Elien Ronse
De staminee in Sint Alexius in 28 hoofdstukken
![© Laila Kaletta, Performance view at Shedhalle as part of Protozone6: Are you coming?](/files/Festivals/Archive/2023/_660x495_crop_center-center_82_line/Nikima-Jagudajev-Basically-4-3.jpeg)
Nikima Jagudajev
Basically
![In fact, we are a team!? Yeah, yeah!](/files/Festivals/Archive/2023/_660x495_crop_center-center_82_line/Elien-Ronse-In-fact-we-are-a-team-4-3.jpeg)
Elien Ronse
In fact, we are a team!? Yeah, yeah!
![Tender Frictions](/files/Festivals/Archive/2023/_660x495_crop_center-center_82_line/Azahara-Ubera-Tender-Frictions-4-3.jpg)
Azahara Ubera Biedma
Tender Frictions
![© Sebastian Arpesella](/files/Projects/Archive/2023/_660x495_crop_center-center_82_line/La-Conspiracion-de-las-Formas-4-3.jpeg)
Amparo González Sola
La conspiración de las formas
Partners
![Kaaitheater](/files/General/Logos/_150x150_fit_center-center_100_none/Logo_Kaai_SQ.png)