Festival

How can we dance when our earth is turning? How do we sleep while our beds are burning? - Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning

Toneelhuis is launching a new arts festival. From 4 to 13 December, a crazy caravan of performances will pass by and across the main stage in the Bourla, with performances, music and visual arts in the pre- and post-programme.

Unpolished creations by new theatre voices that we have followed on their artistic journey in recent years. A festival with adventurous work that stems from personal inspiration and imagination and also relates to today's world.

For ten days, our doors will be wide open and the Bourla will be bathed in warm orange-red.

BURNING BURNING

THEATRE / MUSIC / ART / VIDEO / DANCE / FASHION / PERFORMANCE / PARTY

Burning Burning Festival

And she saw how the sky opened up Exhibition 12 December 2025 until 13 December 2025

And she saw how the sky opened up

Lisette Sivard

In the entrance hall of the Bourla, you will discover the work of this Estonian artist, which lies at the intersection of the personal and the political. Costumes and sculptural forms become living stories full of empathetic absurdity and melancholic humour.
EXPO

Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance Exhibition 12 December 2025 until 13 December 2025

Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance

Fleur De Roeck

Artist Fleur De Roeck paints life-size images of dancing women on the glass doors of the Bourla. Dancing through life! Or “danser pour oublier”?
EXPO

We will not be missed Theatre 12 December 2025

We will not be missed

Marijn Ottenhof

An exploration of the feeling of intense sadness about a lost future in light of the climate catastrophe, featuring electronic music, choreography and video.

Opus Apparatus Theatre 12 December 2025 until 13 December 2025

Opus Apparatus

Boris Van Severen / Jonas Vermeulen / LOD muziektheater / Compagnie Cecilia

David Byrne meets Ziggy Stardust meets Frankenstein in an energetic theatre concert. When does our philosophy of progress reach its limits? A highly topical story in times of artificial intelligence, machine learning and the drive for expansion.

Sinaas Summer Show Installation 13 December 2025

Sinaas Summer Show

Fleur De Roeck

Sinaas is the musical alter ego of visual artist Fleur De Roeck. In Sinaas Summer Show, it seems as if creatures and objects have fallen out of one of her paintings. 

Anal Special Performance 13 December 2025

Anal Special

Anal Pompidou

Anal Pompidou (Simon Van Schuylenbergh) celebrates the solidarity of artists through self-organised performance evenings. He has created an “Anal Special” especially for Toneelhuis.

Dance Party Performance 13 December 2025

Dance Party

DJ Bo Jane / DJ Straight Again

There's no better way to end the day than with a solid dance party in the entrance hall of the Bourla!