Whoiswho

A “Who is Who” item profiles key individuals and organizations in contemporary dance and performance. These entries provide insights into their roles, contributions, and significance within the field.

Damaged Goods

Meg Stuart, born in New Orleans, is a choreographer, director and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. With her company Damaged Goods, founded in 1994, she has created over thirty productions, moving freely between the genres of dance, theater and visual arts. Her work is driven by a sense for experiment and […]

Damien Jalet

Damien Jalet in an independent French Belgian choreographer and dancer, whose work has been presented internationally.

Eastman

Eastman was founded in January 2010 to produce and tour the work of artistic director/choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. His artistic approach is based on non-hierarchical thinking about movement, body language and culture. Under the wings of Eastman, Cherkaoui has created Babel(words), Play, Rein, TeZukA, Puz/zle, 4D and Fractus V, among others. Moreover, Eastman is the […]

ECCE

ECCE is the organization of Claire Croizé and Etienne Guilloteau. Both work as individual choreographers with their own artistic language, but they share their philosophy and expertise. Their work is at the intersection of dance and music, with a prominent role for live music.

Faye Driscroll

Faye Driscoll is a Doris Duke Award-winning performance maker who has been hailed as a “startlingly original talent” by The New York Times and “a post-millenium postmodern wild woman” by The Village Voice. She was the 2021-2022 Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a […]

Grip – Jan Martens

GRIP is a dance organization from Antwerp with shared artistic leadership Jan Martens studied at the Fontys Dance Academy in Tilburg and graduated in 2006 from the dance department of the Artesis Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp. Since 2010 he has been making his own choreographic work which, over the years, has been performed with increasing […]

Alex Baczyński‑Jenkins

Alex Baczyński-Jenkins was born in 1987 in London. He lives and works in Berlin. Alex Baczyński-Jenkins is an artist and choreographer engaging with queer affect, embodiment and relationality. Through gesture, collectivity, touch and sensuality, his practice unfolds structures and politics of desire.

Kunst/Werk

Kunst/Werk (K/W) is an organization for dance. It embodies a professional, social and human space in which different dance practices can develop. Marc Vanrunxt’s oeuvre serves as a focal point for this.

laGeste

laGeste focuses on body, dance and inclusion in the form of creations, residencies and workshops.

L-E-V

L-E-V is a dance company founded by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar

Mette Edvarsen

The work of Mette Edvardsen is situated within the performing arts field as a choreographer and performer. Although some of her works explore other media or other formats, such as video, books and writing, her interest is always in their relationship to the performing arts as a practice and a situation.

Mette Ingvartsen

Mette Ingvartsen is a Danish choreographer and dancer. From 1999 she studied in Amsterdam and Brussels where she in 2004 graduated from the performing arts school P.A.R.T.S. Her first performance Manual Focus (2003) was made while she was still studying. Her early pieces comprise among others of 50/50 (2004), to come (2005), It’s in The Air (2008) and GIANT CITY (2009) – performances questioning affect, perception […]