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 welcomes everyone to the dance floor where a true kaleidoscope of music, movements, styles, beings, and appearances intertwine. Beyond a simple party, Bal Amical.e is a creative space where everyone is invited to participate. Mini-performances, demos, and collective propositions will punctuate the evening. Why not you? The space is open to all your ideas and desires to share your movements.

Throughout the week leading up to Bal Amical.e, you'll also have the opportunity to join a marathon of dance workshops: Waacking, Dabkè, Tango, Couple Dance, Spoken Words, Pole Dancing. During the open studio, you’ll be able to reinvent all these dance adventures to create a space conducive to meeting, mixing, and sharing.

We’ll reinvent our dances so you can invite your grandmother, your children, your exes, regardless of your dance experience, disability, financial situation, or socializing style. At Bal Amical.e, you can invite them!

Zero alcohol. Plenty of juice and tea. Free entry. Accessible ramps. Pole dance bars. Plenty of room in the toilets. These adapted spaces will allow you to dance freely in the space of La Raffinerie, specially designed for dance. Moreover, we will physically and collectively mobilize ourselves so that you don't lose a minute on the dance floor, to move as you already know how or not yet.

What makes this ball different is that you'll encounter people on the dance floor who each have a different idea of how to dance and what can be done on a dance floor. Choreographer Andrew Graham of L'Autre Maison in Marseille guides the entire process, with the entire laGeste team.

Together, you'll prepare the ball where all these unique encounters and the resulting creations come to life, in the form of demonstrations and small improvised dances, while a DJ continues to make everyone else present and simply there to dance move.