Arduinkaai 7
1000 Brussels
Belgium
- Arts
KVS transformed in 2001 from a traditional repertory company for the Flemish minority of Brussels into an 'urban platform'. In the culturally fragmented city of Brussels, where people don't share a common past (culture, language), KVS wants to create a place of identification for all. Not by creating a 'universal' cultural institution, but by focusing on a very specific content for each production/action, and targeting a specific audience. We see the program as a broad range of activities that should give every inhabitant of Brussels once a year a good reason to come to KVS.
KVS artistic board consists of 10 people (dramaturge, director and/or actor) who decide on the entire artistic program, but are not necessarily the 'motor' of 5 to 7 new (co)productions a year that can be based on existing text, freshly commissioned text, thematic improvisation, etc. We tour some of these productions in Belgium and outside. We invite a large range of performing arts from Belgium and outside and, in order to complete the program, set up debates, lectures, exhibitions, parties etc. We have developed a trajectory of artistic exchange with Congo, and on a smaller scale, with the Occupied Palestinian Territories.