Urban Dance Caravan

Opening a season can be an opportunity to affirm one’s roots in the city. And what better way to do that than to open wide the theatre doors and let the city rush in. But only after we’ve first taken to the streets to dance, to brighten people’s day and to extend an invitation.

Conceived and developed in collaboration with Detours Festival, Brussels2030, the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles and scenography students at La Cambre (École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts Visuels), Urban Dance Caravan is an immense urban dance event, weaving its way all across the city and leading us to the very heart of the Théâtre National.

From Fontainas to the Bourse, and on to Place De Brouckère, ephemeral scenes follow one another. Like so many stations on the piétonnier, they welcome dancers from Belgium, Casablanca and Goma, before the stage of the Théâtre National’s Grande Salle is offered to urban dance for the final battle of the Detours Cyphers.

Whether they’re finalists of the Detours Festival in Wallonia, Dance Fusion Marocco, the Goma Dance Festival led by the dancer Faraja Batumike, or simply an inhabitant of this city, the dancers and the crowd that surrounds them will be, for one day, powerful ambassadors of this theatre open to the outside world.