There is no creative idea that would not fit in Les Halles: its unique dimensions make it the perfect space to reinvent performance and find unique ways to break the fourth wall.
Les Halles is a space open to everyone: we are all about participation and outreach. Sometimes egoist, sometimes collective, just like the world we live in. We are open to the hopes and changes faced the people who make Les Halles : from our neighbours to those coming from far away land. We are showing the best work coming from all over Europe, looking for answers to the big questions of our times. We explore new passions, adventures, and freedom.
Dance, circus, cross-art forms… Explore, experience and have fun!
We also host other types of activities: between 3 days and 3 weeks long, these special events gather professionals, students and amateurs. We combine academic thinking and emerging practices: reflexion and direct application. These events are unlike anything you would have seen before: Foire-Attraction, CIA Fair, the Astronautics & Leisure Fair, Assemblée d’Avril or Bruxelles-Africapitales.
Last but not least, Les Halles work with emerging Belgian and European artists to support their development. We are executive producers for some of the best companies from Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles and also co-producing with other partners the best of tomorrow’s performances from Belgium and Europe.
Example of Les Halles program:
Futuro Antico
Cosmic Neman & Martin Palisse
Futuro Antico is a circus performance but also a visual and musical ode.
The premises are simple : one the floor and ceiling, nine white and blue squares, a stick, a white balloon, a few balls, a juggler who pushes the limit of his skills and an obsessively calm musician. It is ageless like an antique temple and futuristic like a Mars landing. Is he a cosmonaut ? Is he a Greek priest about to perform a sacrifice ? Whether he is wearing a ritual mask or spatial helmet, Martin Palisse has a mysterious and ethereal aura around him. He is juggling without panache, yet he is simply beautiful. As the piece progresses, his craft become more precise : with an extreme and organic precision, Palisse keeps on juggling. Every time the balls falls into a new crack, a new joint. Halory Goerger’s writing, that accompanies the piece, becomes a psalm, the ephemeral soundscapes become oceans. We are playing cosmic hopscotch; we play with the infinitely big and the infinitely small. Atoms, stars and their secret pas-de-deux. They give us the whole universe in nine square meters. How did they even do it ?
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Juventud
Nicanor de Elia
Through the unique use of ‘juggling-dance’, Juventud is an ode to physical freedom.
The performers are inhabited by a spirit of freedom, of utopia. In Juventud, beauty doesn’t come from a perfectly executed movement, but from the off-the-wall complexity of the figures drawn by a group in constant movement and acceleration. Juventud celebrates speed and changes through constant mutation. Objects fly between artists in an endless race where one can make mistakes at every turn : ball drops, end games, immobility, timeouts. This piece needs performer to master the most masterful skills : a miraculous instinct, a genius perception of what’s to come. The artists have let go of their relationship with ‘their’ jugging clubs, they share them with the other performers, opening new alleyways and take responsibility for their own destiny : the end of the game or its indefinite renewal. A formidable cure for eternal youth !
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New Magic that will make you forget time and space.
Are you ready to cross the threshold of reality? The missing “K” in the clock of the title indicates that time and space as we know them do not matter anymore. In the hands of Jérôme Helfenstein and Maxime Delforges, two of the most respected magicians of this world, the mundane warps and evaporates, turning into a parallel reality, which is absurd, comical and poetic. Due to their exceptional skill to create illusions, visual effects and prestidigitation, an unstable universe materialises before the eyes of the audience. The manipulators are manipulated as well, and the impossible becomes possible.
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