Brasart | Living Theater

living theater, by all means

Heart

Creating communities via the stage

Discover my projects

Senses

Performing arts projects

Browse my repertoire

Brain

Teaching the theater

Join the class

Soul

Theater as a therapeutic tool

Evolution

A life in the theatre

Trace my steps

The theater is a living organism. It has a beating heart that can energize whole communities. A brain that can train and thrill both spectators and makers. The stage has a soul that can soothe the players upon it, and tickle all their senses.

As American stage director Margo Jones put it, “Everything in life is theater“. And the other way around. Because every aspect of the theater can be brought to bear on life and its challenges. That is the thinking behind Brasart: to find different ways to wield the power of the theater.

Brasart is the theater project run by me, Leen Braspenning. Over the past couple of decades I have been using theater both as a way of personal artistic expression and as a vehicle for community building. I teach the performing arts and I use the stage as a place to explore mental health issues.

I believe in the power of theater to affect change. It sheds its skin only to reemerge with new power. Like a living body does.

nursery

Brasart is constantly developing new ideas
and looking for new ways to harness the power of the theater.

At the moment, Brasart is a partner in two international exchanges.
These Erasmus+ projects are organised in Ireland.

For one of these projects, Brasart is looking for (artist and youth worker) participants.

Read all about these projects here and feel free to apply for a spot.

senses

The theater is an art that can appeal to all the senses. That is an ambition all the plays and performances I directed and produced over the years had in common. Discover my artistic work here.

heart

Theater and heart are anagrams. (Well, almost). That heart of the theater is prominent in a series of performances I created that were inspired by real-life communities. These are my projects that use the theater to repair communities or build new ones.