BAL AMICAL.E

Ballrooms is on tour.
In September, Andrew Graham and the team from laGeste will head to Molenbeek to bring a new edition of Ballrooms within the festival MolenFest: BAL AMICAL.E

MolenFest is a festival from 12 to 22 September that gives a sneak peek of what that other, up-and-coming and creative side of the canal has to offer to Brussels and Europe. Molenbeek for Brussels 2030.

BAL AMICAL.E invites everyone to the dancefloor for a bona fide thé dansant, where tunes are mixed and people are mingled.
This inclusive dance fest builds on the idea of mixability. Able-bodiedness is a temporary notion at best. Sooner or later, our fragile bodies will show the inevitable wear and tear: missing a leg, barely mobile, half-blind and brain-fogged. This dance creates a safe space for all these bodies, because we (have got to) move − if we don’t, we’re dead!

What sets this ball apart is that it will be attended by certain people who are in the know, people who have prepared a little something the week before, put together novel dance routines, worked on some cool moves. Don’t call it cheating but rather a series of interventions or transformations.

You can be part of this too. Come to La Raffinerie between 16 and 20 September, between 14.00 to 22.00 and share your own dance idiom with others. Each afternoon there will be space to experiment and share your own
movement language in encounter with others.
Every evening from 18.00 to 20.00 you can join a workshop with a waacking / tango / dabke / pole dancing expert, followed by a free jam session that ends at 22.00.
Choreographer Andrew Graham from l'Autre Maison in Marseille and the team from laGeste will be there to guide you through the steps.

Together you have a ball, and create a unique dance party that converts chance encounters and co-creations into a series of little improvisations and demonstrations, while a DJ keeps everybody on their toes.