Museum Night Fever x Train World - The Rolling Stars
Get to know all aspects of wheelchair dancing thanks to the Rolling Stars. It doesn't matter whether you're standing on your feet or rolling through life, everyone can dance.
Get to know all aspects of wheelchair dancing thanks to the Rolling Stars. It doesn't matter whether you're standing on your feet or rolling through life, everyone can dance. During the performances, both young and old are featured in numerous choreographies, from ballroom dancing to contemporary music. You will see solo dancers at work, as well as duos and group dances. A diverse ensemble that will continually surprise you in different ways. The audience is also invited to take part through short wheelchair dance workshops.
Train World
Schaerbeek
Show
Museum Night Fever x Train World - The Rolling Stars
Museum Night Fever 2026: Midnight Cabaret
The Museum of the National Bank of Belgium is delighted to announce its exceptional opening on the night of 17–18 October 2026 as part of Museum Night Fever.
Organised by Brussels Museums, this event, taking place from 19:00 to 01:00, offers you the chance to discover the collections of 28 Brussels museums in a unique nighttime setting, while also taking part in a variety of activities organised by these institutions, all in a festive atmosphere. Once your museum visits are over, the more adventurous among you can head to the afterparties at C12 or Botanique to keep the festivities going!
Join us for the cabaret at the National Bank of Belgium. We have put together an artistic and festive programme in our atrium. A special opportunity to discover our collections in a completely different setting. The programme features a menu exhibition, circus performances, a drag parade, participatory dance and a drag show.
The museum team has prepared a programme worthy of the occasion. To whet your appetite, the evening begins with an exhibition of gastronomic menus from the 19th to the 21st century, “Bill of Fare – the Price of a Good Meal”, in collaboration with Luzie Kurth, who will present her archives. This is a unique opportunity to discover the eating habits of our ancestors and trace how prices have evolved over time. Le Collectif: Fièvre de la Nuit will then take over with a series of dance-based circus performances, featuring a trapeze, an aerial rope and even a Chinese pole. Meanwhile, the Jordi L. Vidal Company has set itself the goal of getting everyone dancing in order to invoke good fortune. Finally, Zarra Nova, Mallow and Gallo Galante will take to the stage for a drag queen and drag king show, bringing the evening to a festive close.
Museum of the National Bank of Belgium
Brussels
Show
Museum Night Fever 2026: Midnight Cabaret
Joyaux Lourdement Sous-estimés | Bast Hippocrate
Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Schaerbeek
Show
Joyaux Lourdement Sous-estimés | Bast Hippocrate
Ballroom
Maison communale de Watermael-Boitsfort
Watermael-Boitsfort
Show
Ballroom
Moya
Wolubilis
Woluwe-Saint-Lambert
Show
Moya
In Petto - Duo clownesque
Archipel 19
Berchem-Sainte-Agathe
Show
In Petto - Duo clownesque
Fabulation
Breathtaking? No doubt about it! An imposing structure rises, its forms like buildings to be climbed. Helmets firmly strapped to their heads, two female motorbikers climb them, before disappearing behind these mountains made of fabric.
In Fabulation, Gianna Sutterlet and Constance Bugnon combine their talents as aerialists and acrobats in a hybrid performance where circus arts blend with physical stunt work, and vice versa. The motorcycle becomes their central apparatus: sometimes a support for balance, sometimes a vehicle to provoke falls or flights. The live feats performed on stage leave you breathless and in awe. Yet every movement is calculated: as in the movies, special effects help erase the boundary between illusion and reality.
Fabulation subverts the traditionally masculine world of stunt work and seeks to create an acrobatic playground that is as liberating as it is joyful.
Five solidarity tickets at €5 will be set aside for each performance of performing arts projects (with some exceptions). Please email reservation@halles.be
Breathtaking? No doubt about it! An imposing structure rises, its forms like buildings to be climbed. Helmets firmly strapped to their heads, two female motorbikers climb them, before disappearing behind these mountains made of fabric.
In Fabulation, Gianna Sutterlet and Constance Bugnon combine their talents as aerialists and acrobats in a hybrid performance where circus arts blend with physical stunt work, and vice versa. The motorcycle becomes their central apparatus: sometimes a support for balance, sometimes a vehicle to provoke falls or flights. The live feats performed on stage leave you breathless and in awe. Yet every movement is calculated: as in the movies, special effects help erase the boundary between illusion and reality.
Fabulation subverts the traditionally masculine world of stunt work and seeks to create an acrobatic playground that is as liberating as it is joyful.
Five solidarity tickets at €5 will be set aside for each performance of performing arts projects (with some exceptions). Please email reservation@halles.be
11 € / 14 € / 16 € / 18 € / 20 € / 22 €
Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Schaerbeek
Show
Fabulation
Une tentative presque comme une autre
Clément and Guillaume Papachristou are twins. Dressed identically, they appear on a bare stage. The two twin bodies, one able-bodied, the other with cerebral palsy, begin a dance of embraces and separations. They embrace, cling to each other, and tussle. From a starting point of their intimate history and striking physical resemblance they explore the notions of the double, similarity and difference, and otherness.
In a shared experience both sensitive and humorous, they explore their feelings, their doubts, their individual realities and shared constraints. Between the physical resemblance of twinship and the physical difference caused by disability, the show highlights the search for an unexpected mutual support that is constantly (re)discovered. An intimate and deeply moving piece.
Five solidarity tickets at €5 will be set aside for each performance of performing arts projects (with some exceptions). Please email reservation@halles.be
* A ‘relax’ performance is an invitation to share culture in an inclusive environment that respects everyone’s needs.
Offering a caring, peaceful and relaxed atmosphere based on acceptance of everyone, the show itself remains the same.
The performance guidelines are simply relaxed slightly so that everyone can experience it in their own way (sound and light effects have been toned down slightly). The audience is free to move around or stay put, and to express their reactions spontaneously.
Clément and Guillaume Papachristou are twins. Dressed identically, they appear on a bare stage. The two twin bodies, one able-bodied, the other with cerebral palsy, begin a dance of embraces and separations. They embrace, cling to each other, and tussle. From a starting point of their intimate history and striking physical resemblance they explore the notions of the double, similarity and difference, and otherness.
In a shared experience both sensitive and humorous, they explore their feelings, their doubts, their individual realities and shared constraints. Between the physical resemblance of twinship and the physical difference caused by disability, the show highlights the search for an unexpected mutual support that is constantly (re)discovered. An intimate and deeply moving piece.
Five solidarity tickets at €5 will be set aside for each performance of performing arts projects (with some exceptions). Please email reservation@halles.be
* A ‘relax’ performance is an invitation to share culture in an inclusive environment that respects everyone’s needs.
Offering a caring, peaceful and relaxed atmosphere based on acceptance of everyone, the show itself remains the same.
The performance guidelines are simply relaxed slightly so that everyone can experience it in their own way (sound and light effects have been toned down slightly). The audience is free to move around or stay put, and to express their reactions spontaneously.
11 € / 16 € / 18 € / 20 € / 22 € / 24 €
Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Schaerbeek
Show
Une tentative presque comme une autre
STONE
“Everyone’s a lesbian.” Garance Maillot grabs hold of this joyfully direct statement with both hands and takes it as the starting point of a choreographic narrative about legacies. She draws on mourning, specifically of her grandfather, to explore the potential meanings of identifying as a lesbian today.
Chairs arranged around her personify presences. They call to mind figures long rendered invisible: Loïe Fuller, Jill Johnston, Lucinda Childs and Valeska Gert – all artists who have left their mark on dance and lesbian thought. Alongside these artists, Garance Maillot seeks answers with the audience: what does the word “lesbian” encompass? Can a lesbian or queer work be viewed simply as a work of art?
Surprising and illuminating, this one-woman show traces out a new lineage that unleashes transformative forces.
Five solidarity tickets at €5 will be set aside for each performance of performing arts projects (with some exceptions). Please email reservation@halles.be
“Everyone’s a lesbian.” Garance Maillot grabs hold of this joyfully direct statement with both hands and takes it as the starting point of a choreographic narrative about legacies. She draws on mourning, specifically of her grandfather, to explore the potential meanings of identifying as a lesbian today.
Chairs arranged around her personify presences. They call to mind figures long rendered invisible: Loïe Fuller, Jill Johnston, Lucinda Childs and Valeska Gert – all artists who have left their mark on dance and lesbian thought. Alongside these artists, Garance Maillot seeks answers with the audience: what does the word “lesbian” encompass? Can a lesbian or queer work be viewed simply as a work of art?
Surprising and illuminating, this one-woman show traces out a new lineage that unleashes transformative forces.
Five solidarity tickets at €5 will be set aside for each performance of performing arts projects (with some exceptions). Please email reservation@halles.be
9€ / 12 € / 14 € / 16 € / 18 € / 20 €
Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Schaerbeek
Show
STONE
PEOPLE
A master of materials, Claudio Stellato has already delighted us by juggling stacks of wood in La Cosa and playing eccentric handymen in Work. In People, he continues his exploration of unstable worlds through objects. Very quickly, the stage fills with a jumble of finds generously splattered with black paint, manipulated by characters caught in an emotional storm, overcome with screams, laughter and tears. Gradually, silhouettes and objects merge into a kind of large living sculpture that blends improvised celebration with frenzied ritual.
Drawing inspiration from people living on the streets and from obsessive accumulation, People reveals the unexpected poetry that emerges amidst the chaos. When the precarious balance of bodies and disorder reveals the beauty of human vulnerability.
Five solidarity tickets at €5 will be set aside for each performance of performing arts projects (with some exceptions). Please email reservation@halles.be
A master of materials, Claudio Stellato has already delighted us by juggling stacks of wood in La Cosa and playing eccentric handymen in Work. In People, he continues his exploration of unstable worlds through objects. Very quickly, the stage fills with a jumble of finds generously splattered with black paint, manipulated by characters caught in an emotional storm, overcome with screams, laughter and tears. Gradually, silhouettes and objects merge into a kind of large living sculpture that blends improvised celebration with frenzied ritual.
Drawing inspiration from people living on the streets and from obsessive accumulation, People reveals the unexpected poetry that emerges amidst the chaos. When the precarious balance of bodies and disorder reveals the beauty of human vulnerability.
Five solidarity tickets at €5 will be set aside for each performance of performing arts projects (with some exceptions). Please email reservation@halles.be
11 € / 14 € / 16 € / 18 € / 20 € / 22 €
Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Schaerbeek
Show
PEOPLE
NEZ NOIR
Sitting at the end of a tightrope stretched between two anchor points, Estelle Samira Borel knits, dressed in a sheep costume. Her fingers work the wool as bleating sounds resonate. A scene that might seem charmingly rustic.
But behind this image, the tightrope walker offers an intimate and decolonial journey through Valais, the Swiss canton where she grew up. A territory whose racist legacy remains largely unacknowledged. For the woolly animal that accompanies her on stage is not just a simple pastoral costume: it is inspired by the Nez Noir, meaning “black nose”, those iconic two-toned sheep of the region, an allusion to the enduringly violent comparison between Black people and animals.
Estelle Samira Borel uses her acrobatic performance to grab hold of this comparison, turning the stigma around to create a powerful figure of resistance.
Five solidarity tickets at €5 will be set aside for each performance of performing arts projects (with some exceptions). Please email reservation@halles.be
Sitting at the end of a tightrope stretched between two anchor points, Estelle Samira Borel knits, dressed in a sheep costume. Her fingers work the wool as bleating sounds resonate. A scene that might seem charmingly rustic.
But behind this image, the tightrope walker offers an intimate and decolonial journey through Valais, the Swiss canton where she grew up. A territory whose racist legacy remains largely unacknowledged. For the woolly animal that accompanies her on stage is not just a simple pastoral costume: it is inspired by the Nez Noir, meaning “black nose”, those iconic two-toned sheep of the region, an allusion to the enduringly violent comparison between Black people and animals.
Estelle Samira Borel uses her acrobatic performance to grab hold of this comparison, turning the stigma around to create a powerful figure of resistance.
Five solidarity tickets at €5 will be set aside for each performance of performing arts projects (with some exceptions). Please email reservation@halles.be
9€ / 12 € / 14 € / 16 € / 18 € / 20 €
Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Schaerbeek
Show
NEZ NOIR
Complicités Créatives / Creatieve Samenwerkingen – Carte Blanche
GC Ten Weyngaert
Forest
Show
Complicités Créatives / Creatieve Samenwerkingen – Carte Blanche
Nocturne Parade
Who rides there so late through the night dark and drear?
The father it is, with his infant so dear;
He holdeth the boy tightly clasp'd in his arm,
He holdeth him safely, he keepeth him warm.
Based on Goethe’s poem The Erl-King, Phia Ménard presents Nocturne (Parade), a magnificent fable about the power of childhood.
A child, clinging to his father on the back of a horse, senses an imminent deadly danger that the adult does not see, or refuses to see. It is a parable of our time, an era marked by profound neglect and abandonment.
In a circle of light, the wind blows, and shapes come to life. Inflated and moved by gusts of air, these makeshift puppets bring to life the sumptuous and poignant ballet of a world going off the rails.
Conceived as a journey through a dark tunnel, this piece immerses the audience in a dreamlike world where you perceive before seeing. By staging this sensory journey, the show invites the audience to take a stand against a threatening night. In this way, Phia Ménard magnificently challenges the ill winds and freedom-crushing forces of obscurantism.
Five solidarity tickets at €5 will be set aside for each performance of performing arts projects (with some exceptions). Please email reservation@halles.be
Who rides there so late through the night dark and drear?
The father it is, with his infant so dear;
He holdeth the boy tightly clasp'd in his arm,
He holdeth him safely, he keepeth him warm.
Based on Goethe’s poem The Erl-King, Phia Ménard presents Nocturne (Parade), a magnificent fable about the power of childhood.
A child, clinging to his father on the back of a horse, senses an imminent deadly danger that the adult does not see, or refuses to see. It is a parable of our time, an era marked by profound neglect and abandonment.
In a circle of light, the wind blows, and shapes come to life. Inflated and moved by gusts of air, these makeshift puppets bring to life the sumptuous and poignant ballet of a world going off the rails.
Conceived as a journey through a dark tunnel, this piece immerses the audience in a dreamlike world where you perceive before seeing. By staging this sensory journey, the show invites the audience to take a stand against a threatening night. In this way, Phia Ménard magnificently challenges the ill winds and freedom-crushing forces of obscurantism.
Five solidarity tickets at €5 will be set aside for each performance of performing arts projects (with some exceptions). Please email reservation@halles.be
11 € / 16 € / 18 € / 20 € / 22 € / 24 €
Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Schaerbeek
Show
Nocturne Parade
MOLE
A woman in her room. She’s decided to end it all. Her Opinel kitchen knife isn’t sharp enough, the Ikea mirror refuses to break, and the suicide hotline won’t answer. Death isn’t playing along that night.
Around this starting point of gross failure, Carla Margarita Manrique builds a show that completely defies classification, simultaneously a lecture and a horror movie, a buffoonish personal testimony and an endoscopic journey. The subject of suicide is broached as a contentious issue that has been theorised on since antiquity, and presented through a deliberately unstable dramaturgy. Reflecting the constant oscillation between life and death experienced by those who contemplate it.
A trained Circassian dancer, Carla Margarita Manrique suspends her body from fake intestines, re-enacting the absurd with precision. Her tool: humour. Not to evade, but to heal. “If I don't turn it into a joke, it will destroy me.” A way to stand proud and poised on a razor-thin line.
Five solidarity tickets at €5 will be set aside for each performance of performing arts projects (with some exceptions). Please email reservation@halles.be
A woman in her room. She’s decided to end it all. Her Opinel kitchen knife isn’t sharp enough, the Ikea mirror refuses to break, and the suicide hotline won’t answer. Death isn’t playing along that night.
Around this starting point of gross failure, Carla Margarita Manrique builds a show that completely defies classification, simultaneously a lecture and a horror movie, a buffoonish personal testimony and an endoscopic journey. The subject of suicide is broached as a contentious issue that has been theorised on since antiquity, and presented through a deliberately unstable dramaturgy. Reflecting the constant oscillation between life and death experienced by those who contemplate it.
A trained Circassian dancer, Carla Margarita Manrique suspends her body from fake intestines, re-enacting the absurd with precision. Her tool: humour. Not to evade, but to heal. “If I don't turn it into a joke, it will destroy me.” A way to stand proud and poised on a razor-thin line.
Five solidarity tickets at €5 will be set aside for each performance of performing arts projects (with some exceptions). Please email reservation@halles.be
9€ / 12 € / 14 € / 16 € / 18 € / 20 €
Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Schaerbeek
Show
MOLE
Corps tendres • Lucie Yerlès
How do we perceive the world through our skin? Lucie Yerlès and her team present a rich sensory experience that blends circus, theatre and dance.
How do we perceive the world through our skin? Lucie Yerlès and her team present a rich sensory experience that blends circus, theatre and dance.
As a circus artist, Lucie Yerlès became aware of a disconnect between her own experience of touch – daily, technical – and that which prevails in our Western societies, where physical contact remains largely confined to the private sphere. What does it mean to touch or be touched? Whether on a circus ring or a stage, it is above all a necessity: acrobatic lifts, hand-to-hand feats and parades require keen listening skills and a sense of physical responsibility. This physical connection is as much a tool as it is a risk.
Corps tendres draws on this contrast: four circus artists and a musician present an immersive performance
set in a gentle, adaptable landscape. The project emerged from preliminary research conducted with amateurs during workshops. It is therefore not merely a matter of admiring the artists’ virtuosity, but of shifting our perspective on physical closeness to reveal its unsettling complexity.
Coproduction Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Brussels
Show
Corps tendres • Lucie Yerlès
GREEN/ORANGE/RED
For this creation with the graduating class of Brussels’ Superior School of Circus Arts (ESAC), Side-Show brings to the stage an iconic figure of the street: the circus at the red light. An urban activity that is somewhat punk, ephemeral and wild, what does it become once invited onto the theatre stage?
Under the watchful gaze of Aline Breucker and Quintijn Ketels, the stage transforms into a life-sized crossroads. Here, the spectacular lies not only in the act but in the waiting: the raw beauty of a group standing motionless at a pedestrian crossing, the urgency of a 60-second act – the duration of a red light – and the poetry of everyday life when it departs from the ordinary.
True to the “relaxed” approach cultivated by Side-Show, the show questions our perceptions of performance. Between the act-shaping power of speed and the delicacy of the collective, where does the spectacular lie?
Five solidarity tickets at €5 will be set aside for each performance of performing arts projects (with some exceptions). Please email reservation@halles.be
For this creation with the graduating class of Brussels’ Superior School of Circus Arts (ESAC), Side-Show brings to the stage an iconic figure of the street: the circus at the red light. An urban activity that is somewhat punk, ephemeral and wild, what does it become once invited onto the theatre stage?
Under the watchful gaze of Aline Breucker and Quintijn Ketels, the stage transforms into a life-sized crossroads. Here, the spectacular lies not only in the act but in the waiting: the raw beauty of a group standing motionless at a pedestrian crossing, the urgency of a 60-second act – the duration of a red light – and the poetry of everyday life when it departs from the ordinary.
True to the “relaxed” approach cultivated by Side-Show, the show questions our perceptions of performance. Between the act-shaping power of speed and the delicacy of the collective, where does the spectacular lie?
Five solidarity tickets at €5 will be set aside for each performance of performing arts projects (with some exceptions). Please email reservation@halles.be
Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Schaerbeek
Show
GREEN/ORANGE/RED
Grand Brussels Christmas Circus
Welcome to the 15th edition of the Grand Brussels Christmas Circus at the Flagey Square in Ixelles, featuring a brand-new show created by Alexandre Bouglione!
For this anniversary edition, no effort or expense has been spared to deliver an even more spectacular and unforgettable experience.
Join us for this annual celebration of circus magic in Brussels, with a completely new show specially designed for the holiday season. Be amazed by outstanding international performers, including a ventriloquist appearing in Brussels for the very first time, an award-winning clown from the International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo, as well as world-class illusionists, trapeze artists, and balancing acts.
Set in a magical Christmas atmosphere and a truly enchanting circus world, enjoy 1 hour and 45 minutes of pure wonder, brought to life by the unique artistic vision of Alexandre Bouglione.
Celebrate the holiday season with us and create unforgettable memories with family and friends!
Circus Alexandre Bouglione
Ixelles
Show
Grand Brussels Christmas Circus
Heka
Centre Culturel d'Uccle
Uccle
Show
Heka
Newroz
La Vénerie, Espace Delvaux – Centre Culturel de Watermael-Boitsfort
Watermael-Boitsfort
Show
Newroz
Douce révolution
Maison Haute
Watermael-Boitsfort
Show
Douce révolution
Gimme a break !!! | Baptiste Cazaux
La Balsamine
Schaerbeek
Show
Gimme a break !!! | Baptiste Cazaux
Talk Show • Gaël Santisteva
The body, the circus, the feats, life moving forward – and leaving its mark along the way. Talk Show reveals the moving life stories of circus performers.
The body, the circus, the feats, life moving forward – and leaving its mark along the way. Talk Show reveals the moving life stories of circus performers.
Appearing regularly in our programmes, Gaël Santisteva, in one of his ‘classics’, imagines a space where circus performers can reveal themselves – somewhere between a TV quiz show and a discussion group where they can come and tell their stories anyway they want. Instead of putting on dazzling acts, they share confidences that reveal what they have gone through in the course of their often unusual careers: physical performances, behind-the-scenes stories, limitations, shortcomings — very real dramas as well as some more unlikely and frankly absurd episodes. The performers discuss their lives shaped by practice and risk while questioning the brutal notion of the body’s ‘best-by date’. A lucid and impertinent partner, Gaël Santisteva takes on the role of moderator, asking questions that the performers answer either by telling their story or performing on stage. Each performance – unique in its own right – is inevitably moving: beyond personal stories, we perceive the universal significance of these shared tales – and the rare and almost radical gift of their exposed vulnerability.
The performance on 24 March will be presented in a Relax format.
Gaël Santisteva is an associate artist at the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles
Brussels
Show
Talk Show • Gaël Santisteva
EXIT
Condense a three-year marathon into eight minutes : that’s the specification given to every student for the creation of the show with which they will launch themselves out of our school !
Five solidarity tickets at €5 will be set aside for each performance of performing arts projects (with some exceptions). Please email reservation@halles.be
Condense a three-year marathon into eight minutes : that’s the specification given to every student for the creation of the show with which they will launch themselves out of our school !
Five solidarity tickets at €5 will be set aside for each performance of performing arts projects (with some exceptions). Please email reservation@halles.be
11 € / 16 € / 18 € / 20 € / 22 € / 24 €
Les Halles de Schaerbeek
Schaerbeek
Show
EXIT
