Book launch Alain Platel ‘Een tachtiger die zeventig wordt’

At the threshold of his seventies, Alain Platel looks back on his own career and the developments in the performing arts.

'De tachtigers’ or 'the eighties generation.' That is the name given to the Flemish artists who, from the 1980s onwards, thoroughly redrew the performing arts landscape far beyond its borders. One of the best-known members of the eighties is director Alain Platel. Now that he is turning seventy, he looks at the evolution of the landscape and reflects on his own career. How social shifts resonated in his work, how the outside world entered into the rehearsal studio and presented itself, uninvited, as a co-player in his performances. Why has he become who he is, a successful director? The man with no training as a dancer, actor or theatre maker, the man with no ambition to pursue a career? He wrote down his reflections in a book about his performances, about politics in the arts and about Gaza. But perhaps most of all about creation.

On Thursday 30 April, we will launch his book in collaboration with EPO Publishers. Journalist Anna Luyten will interview Alain Platel, following a contribution in response to the book by dancer Louis Thuriot and Barbara Raes, artistic director and artist at NTGent—relatives from two different generations in the performing arts.

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PRACTICAL

 when Thursday 30 April 2026 from18.00 - 19.30
 where 30CC/Schouwburg - Bondgenotenlaan 21 - 3000 Leuven
 langue in Dutch
 price free or support ticket (€5) - registration required via STUK