photo: Wannes Cré
Training/Education
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current: Feb-Jun 2022: Research and Development residency MORPHO/Studio Start Antwerpen.
2012- 2014 P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) Research Cycle.
2009-2012 BPA (Hons) Contemporary Dance at Northern School Contemporary Dance (UK).
2008-2009 Centre for Advanced Training Program at London Contemporary Dance School (The Place).
Most recent Artistic Residencies and Exchanges:
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May 2022: De Werfplaats - artist exchange organized by the festival Cement (NL)
January - June 2022: development residency at MORPHO vzw. Antwerp
Own choreographic work:
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2021: 'Gabriel' commissioned by Champdaction
2020/21'Time It Takes' solo performance
2018: 'Hands' created for an opening of NONA Cultural Center, Mechelen, (BE).
2018: 'Meanwhile' installation for moving objects. Buda, Kortrijk (BE) and Brakke Grond, Amsterdam 'NL)
2017: 'GREY', Bouge B festival, DeSingel, Antwerpen (BE).
2015: 'CONSTANT AUDIENCE’ choreography for a theatre play by Zarah Bracht, Amsterdam (NL).
2013 'Embarrassed Ode to The Sensitive Element’ co-created with Alexandra Dolgova (BE).
2013: 'Performances of a landscape', Toubab Dialaw, Senegal (SE).
Video work:
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2019: "but to emigrate (...)" John Berger
2018: 'ballroom'
2018: 'group piece'
2016: 'catching movement'
2015: ‘continuum’
Performing work/interpreter:
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2022: 'WEG' by Ayelen Parolin (Belgian and international tour)
2021: 'Time It takes' at The Image Generator 2021 (Antwerp)
2021: 'Based on true story' by Marc Vanrunxt for The Image Generator 2021 (Antwerp)
2021: 'I remember' theater performance by Playfield Collectieve. (Antwerp and Utrecht)
2019: 'WEG' by Ayelen Parolin. (International tour)
2018: 'Autoctonos II’ by Ayelen Parolin, Freiburg Theater (DE).
2018: 'Olympia’ by Rachel Monosov, Berlin, ACUD gallery (DE).
2017: 'Traces' by Rosa Omarsdottir, premiered at Beursschouwburg (BE) (tour continues).
2017: 'Space intended for rest and pleasure' with Rachel Monosov, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (BE).
2017: 'La Democrazia in America' by Romeo Castellucci, DeSingel, Antwerp (BE).
2016: 'Cosi fan Tutte' - Creation with Rosas /Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, for Opera de Paris, (FR).
2016: 'The Stranger Question' multidisciplinary performance on hospitality, Leipzig, LOFFT (DE).
2016: 'Inter – view' by Benjamin Vandewalle, Brussels (BE).
2015: 'SATURN’ by Karl Van Welden, Halden, (NO) (tour continues).
2015: ‘ZERO’ theater collaboration with Teatr Novogo Fronta, Prague, (CZ/PL/SK).
'episodes' - written work :
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2022: 'Letter from the bitter side (with an invitation for a bowl of soup)'
2021: 'An Ode To Red'
2020: '?'
2020: 'kwarantanna/dzien osmy' (PL)
2020: 'on future'
2019: 'momenty' (PL)
2018: 'project life'
2017: 'home is where you pay to stay'
2016: 'daily consumption'
2015: 'When to do a backbend and when to walk away?'
2015: 'The Episode'
Published Interviews:
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2021: Interview with Thomas Verstraeten.
2020: Interview with Michiel Vandevelvde.
2019: Interview with Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker published by The Young Ones. DeSingel (BE)
2018: Interview with BOG. theater collective published by The Young Ones. DeSingel (BE)
2018: Interview with Meg Stuart published by Damaged Goods and The Young Ones. DeSingel (BE)
2017: Interview with Tim Etchells published by The Young Ones. DeSingel (BE)
2016: Interview with Jan Martens published by The Young Ones. DeSingel (BE).
2016: Interview with Daniel Linehan published by The Young Ones. DeSingel (BE).
2015: Interview with William Kentridge written for Anna Luyten/De Standaard. (BE).
2015: Interview with Manu Riche written for Anna Luyten/Kunstenfestivaldesarts. (BE).
most recent work presentations:
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2022: 'Gabriel', Nona Kunstencentrum Mechelen, 22/4/2022 (CANCELLED)
2022: 'Time It Takes' Beyond The Black Box festivel, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam. CANCELLED.
Past work presentations
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2021: 'Time It Takes' Nona Kunstencentrum Mechelen and The Image Generator Antwerpen.
2021: 'Gabriel' Champdaction Time Canvas festival at DeSingel, Antwerpen.
2021: 'Time It Takes' Bits of dance festival, Brugge.
2020: 'catching movements' video, 'Oooh' group expo at Z33 (Hasselt, BE) and Netwerk Aalst (Aalst, BE)
2019: ‘hands’, NONA Kunstencentrum, Mechelen (BE).
2018: ‘Meanwhile’ presentation of work in progress, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
2018: ‘catching movement’ and ‘group piece’ at CfCA (contemporary art centre) Laznia, Gdansk (PL).
2017: ‘GREY’, Bouge B festival, DeSingel, Antwerpen.
2016: ‘continuum’ and ‘catching movement’, Villanova Festival, De Studio, Antwerpen (BE).
2015: ‘Constant Audience’, ATD, Amsterdam (NL).
2013: ‘Embarrassed Ode to the Sensitive Element’, P.A.R.T.S performances, Brussels (BE).
2013: ‘Performances of a landscape’, Ecole des Sables and P.A.R.T.S, Toubab Dialew, Senegal.
Teaching and production experience:
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since 2021 - Royal Conservatory Antwerp mentor and a docent for Site Specific Solos. (Be, Antwerp)
since 2017 - Summer Studios at P.A.R.T.S artistic coordinator. (BE, Brussels)
since 2019 - Summer School at P.A.R.T.S. - coordinator. (BE, Brussels)
Prices and Press
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October 2022: Laureate of de PrixFintroPrijs, Supporting Young Artists,