Season 2025-2026 | Frans Brood Productions | English

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Dear colleague,

For the 42nd time (!) we ’ re proud to present our offer. As we do every year, we ’ re telling one another it’s our best ever This year is no different.

For the '25-'26 season, we have a rich and diverse range of performances by six artists we admire, not only for their unique creations, but also as people There are no fewer than twenty-seven productions on tour, eight of which are premieres. It’s a great mix of productions for large and smaller venues, site specific, or in a circus tent.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Peeping Tom, Miet Warlop, Serge Aimé Coulibaly, Alexander Vantournhout and Circus Ronaldo.

You can download the videos and dossiers for each production with a simple click.

Of course, we’d be absolutely delighted to talk everything through in person.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Warm regards

Gie Inti Tine Flore and Zoë

© Gert Cornelis

Rosas Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

ll Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’ Inventione

Creation 2025 (Working Title)

EXIT ABOVE

Rosas danst Rosas

Peeping

Chroniques (Working Title)

Delirium After All Springville - Disasters and Amusement Parks ONE SONG - Histoire(s) du Théâtre IV

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ROSAS ROSAS

ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER & RADOUAN MRIZIGA / ROSAS, A7LA5

IL CIMENTO DELL’ARMONIA E DELL’ INVENTIONE

ROSAS ROSAS

ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER & SOLAL MARIOTTE

CREATION 2025

(Working Title)

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker creates and dances a duet together with Solal Mariotte to music by Jacques Brel.

18 June 2025

ROSAS ROSAS

ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER, MESKEREM MEES, JEAN-MARIE AERTS, CARLOS GARBIN

EXIT ABOVE

An encounter between walking as a primal motion and the blues as a musical source. after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm

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Riveting and exhausting, fascinating and relentless, brilliant and tedious, it is a mesmerizing exploration in synchronicity, patterning and rhythm. The New York Times

ROSAS ROSAS

ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER

ROSAS DANST ROSAS N E W

‘Rosas danst Rosas’ (1983) represents Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's international breakthrough. In 2026, she will recreate this iconic piece with four new dancers.

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PEEPING TOM PEEPING TOM

EXTRAPÔLE / GABRIELA CARRIZO

CHRONIQUES N

(Working Title)

Five dancers explore the perception of time in a series of 'Chronicles'.

PEEPING TOM PEEPING TOM

FRANCK CHARTIER

S 62° 58′ , W 60° 39′

Set against an Arctic landscape, the play operates as a piece within a piece. A search for truth and authentic emotions takes everyone past their limits.

© Maarten Vanden Abeele

PEEPING TOM PEEPING TOM

GABRIELA CARRIZO & FRANCK CHARTIER

DIPTYCH / TRIPTYCH

The missing door, The lost room, (The hidden floor)

In ‘Diptych/Triptych’, the characters, lost in time and space, are continually drifting apart and searching for one another.

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IRENE WOOL

DELIRIUM MIET WARLOP MIET WARLOP

After the immense success of ‘ONE SONG’, Miet Warlop now creates an ode to imagination, a wave of wonder and fun.

MIET WARLOP MIET WARLOP

AFTER ALL SPRINGVILLE DISASTERS AND AMUSEMENT PARKS

With the lightness of a cartoon, the tragic story of a failed community is told.

MIET WARLOP MIET WARLOP

IRENE

WOOL & NTGENT

ONE SONG

Histoire(s) du Théâtre IV

A mesmerizing ritual about farewell, life and death, hope and resurrection. Eliciting a massive ovation at Festival d’Avignon.

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FASO DANSE THÉÂTRE FASO DANSE THÉÂTRE

SERGE AIMÉ COULIBALY

VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ

BRUSSELS JAZZ ORCHESTRA

BACK TO KIDAL

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Version with recorded music or live music by Brussels Jazz Orchestra

A journey back to the origins of blues and jazz, and the hometown of Afro-Blues legend Ali Farka Touré. With Malian musician Vieux Farka Touré, Burkinabé actress Odile Sankara, seven dancers (and a jazz band). Premiere spring 2026

Serge Aimé is part of a generation of fascinating artists who manages to build artistic bridges between Europe and the African continent, which inspires nothing but admiration.

FASO DANSE THÉÂTRE FASO DANSE THÉÂTRE

SERGE AIMÉ COULIBALY

C LA VIE

A powerful, generous, transgressive, and redemptive work that overflows with wild energy. A tremendous breath of life.

FASO DANSE THÉÂTRE FASO DANSE THÉÂTRE

SERGE AIMÉ COULIBALY

TOLON KÉ!

A danced concert with four dancers and a live guitarist sharing their energy directly with the audience through movement and rhythm.

Site-specific and theatre version

File N E W

Trailer

FASO DANSE THÉÂTRE & FASO DANSE THÉÂTRE & ANKATA ANKATA

KOFFI-KÉGOU AFIADEGNIGBAN, AZIZ ZOUNDI, KADIDJA TIEMANTA

AFRICA SIMPLY THE BEST

The three best African dance solos of the 2023 edition, selected by a jury headed by Serge Aimé Coulibaly.

On the repertoire: Kalakuta Republik, Fitry

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If you ask the average dance critic who the most exceptional choreographer of the moment is, there's a good chance the answer will be 'Alexander Vantournhout'. De Morgen “ “

FRAMES NOT STANDING NOT STANDING

ALEXANDER VANTOURNHOUT

Four performers on a journey through microperformances, from one 'frame' to another in the public space.

Site-specific

Foreshadow is a hypnotizing show, breathtakingly perfect and controlled. The almost impossible yet human acrobatics seem to continuously surprise even the dancers themselves.

**** Le Soir

FORESHADOW NOT STANDING NOT STANDING

ALEXANDER VANTOURNHOUT

Eight acrobat-dancers explore quasi-impossible balances, challenge each other and defy gravity.

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Once again, the jury falls for the extremely authentic drive with which Danny Ronaldo and co. continually turn their circus into an existential self-portrait. Beautiful, generous and heartwarming circus of the highest order. Nomination Best Theatre Production of 2023 (BE)

© Frauke Verreyde

DA CAPO CIRCUS RONALDO CIRCUS RONALDO

‘Da Capo’ is a caravan of life that is passing by. Generations appearing and disappearing. Being born and passing away. Strength. Beauty. Loss. Love.

Tent version

File Trailer

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CIRCUS RONALDO CIRCUS RONALDO

SONO IO?

Father and son, Danny and Pepijn Ronaldo, compose a poetic duet about transmitting the pleasures of the stage. Touching and spellbinding.

Tent and theatre version

SWING CIRCUS RONALDO CIRCUS RONALDO

Circus Ronaldo opens up the stage to a new generation. Nanosh Ronaldo and five young circus performers have conjured up the circus and variety vibe of the first half of the 20th century.

Tent and theatre version

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