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I am a performance maker, dramaturg, and certified somatic practitioner, holding graduate degrees in literary and performance studies from KU Leuven and Utrecht University.
Since 2018, I have been developping choreographic performances and research projects that center embodied perception and meaning-making to reclaim our bodies and attention from the pressures of late capitalism. I created two site-specific performances, Creatures at rest (2021) and Slow Visit (2024). Both invite performers as well as visitors to attune to layers of reality that usually escape us.
Creatures at rest has been presented internationally at Dansand! Festival, Playground Festival, The Museum as Performance Festival, and the Brussels Biennale of Women in Art: A Show of Resistance, among others.
My essay “Space as Atmosphere: Floating in a Molecular Bath” was published in Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection (Ed. Carolyn F. Strauss, Valiz, Amsterdam, 2021).
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My artistic practice builds upon embodied as well as academic research. In my thesis Aesthetic Boredom: Investigating the Experience of Slow Dance in a Society of Haste, I introduce the concepts of ‘deep perception’—after Pauline Oliveros’ deep listening—and ‘aesthetic boredom’ to articulate how engaging with slow choreography and performance can foster more resonant experiences of relation to time, our bodies & senses, others, and our direct environment—experiences that are valuable counterpoints to the alienating effects of neoliberal culture.
My study of slowness takes shape in my solo performance Slow Visit (2024) and Creatures at rest (2021): a durational choreographic trio, presented in contexts at the intersection of visual arts and performance, including Dansand! Festival, Playground Festival, The Museum as Performance Festival Art, and the Brussels Biennale of Women in Art.
At the invitation of the multidisciplinary research and curatorial platform Slow Research Lab, I contributed to the publication Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection with a chapter entitled "Space as Atmosphere: Floating in a Molecular Bath." It was published in June 2021 by Valiz, Amsterdam.
With a grant from Flanders State of The Art and in collaboration with space-oriented artist Rita Hoofwijk, I conduced Slow Experiments (2022) in which I explore how to evoke embodied slowness through writing and voice recording.
With another grant from Flanders State of The Art and LE18 MARRAKECH, I initiated It’s Good to Talk With You, Mother: a participatory research project on slowness, textile crafting, and birth in collaboration with textile artists Berenike Corcuera and Janneke Raaphorst, researcher Malika Eloualy, art embroiderer Soumaya Simari, and the Gifted Mothers of Dar Bellarj. Emanating from this project, the participatory audio-installation Hi, Mom was presented at the Biennale for Women in Art: A Show of Resistance (Brussels, 2024).
I have toured with several dance productions for the public space by Benjamin Vandewalle, and performed in works by Evelien Cammaert, Benjamin Vandewalle, Stav Yeini, and Les gens d’Uterpan.
As a dramaturge, I support creative processes in contemporary dance, performance and circus since 2018.
I occasionally teach dramaturgy at École Supérieure des Arts du Cirque (ESAC) in Brussels.
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