Kaïros Danse

National Network
Belgium
Address

13, rue Ernest de Bavière
4000 Liège
Belgium

Telephone
32.4.341.39.94. (04/341.39.94. en Belgique)
Telephone (other)
32.4.227.58.53.(04/227.58.53. en Belgique)
Fax
04/250.56.75. (en Belgique)
E-Mail
mc.wavreille@skynet.be
E-Mail (2)
letimon@skynet.be
Mobile Phone
0473/879.405. (en Belgique)
Mobile Phone (other)
0475/567.005. (en Belgique)
Organisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation
Year of Establishment
1994
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Youth and education
General Information
1. The asbl Kaïros Danse was autonimously founded in 1994, in Liege, in an autonomous way. A Board of directors of three people manages the administration of the asbl. The asbl was created starting from a group of artists, pedagogues in dance, in theatre, music, song. 2. The annual financial resources come from the payments of the participant(e)s to the courses and training courses. That represents an annual average of 12.000 EUR. 3. The asbl Kaïros Danse falls under a dimension teaching, on the principle of the dance for all, accessible to all, being addressed mainly to the young adults as from 18 years.
Mission and Objectives

The asbl Kaïros Danse has the role of seeking, exploring, working out and promoting the technical body means and the modes of expression calling upon the creativity of the gesture, of the movement; it is based, on the occasion, on the music, the visual art, the theatrical text, the writing; it proposes its workshops with any person who wishes to be formed with the techniques suggested, without there being necessarily a professional project in the intention of the participant(e)s. Marie-Christine Wavreille animates many training courses in addition abroad: formations for psychomotricians in Milan, workshops in France, in Portugal (School Theatre and Dance of Lisbon), in Greece, in Holland.

Main Projects / Activities

Kaïros Danse asbl is requested to control the next international meeting of the "Voyage of the gesture", in which it has taken part for several years.
It plans to install it 15 days in July 2008, in Chiny, in Belgium (Province of Luxembourg); the partners of the network are: Coraï association of Palermo in Italy, Maria Joào Serrao of Portugal, Lebanon, Palestine, France. Some already accepted the call. Since 2000, Kaïros Danse participle with the network "Travels of the gesture", initiated by the association TRISUNIC/Subito Presto (France), which aims at the meeting of the artists of Europe and country of the Close relation, Moyen the East and the Maghreb.
In these various interventions former within the "Voyage of the gesture", the contribution of Kaïros Danse was directed towards the research and the training of young people participant(e)s according to its own teaching and methodological principles.

Contact (1) Full Name
Marie-Christine Wavreille
Head of the organisation
Marie-Christine Wavreille
Contact (2) Full Name
Roland Denis