publications
In-between Dance Cultures:
on the migratory artistic identity of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan. Book publication by Valiz, Amsterdam, 2015
Rewriting Distance: On Improvisation as a research practice
In: Danswetenschap Nederland, Deel 8, Bianca Nieuwboer, Liesbeth Wildschut en Wanda Zoet (ed.), Vereniging voor Dansonderzoek, Amsterdam, 2015
Guest Professor,
MA Theatre Science, University of Ghent, 2014-2015
The ethics of Art. Ecological turns in the performing arts
co-editor of book publication by Arts in Society, Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts and publishing house Valiz, Amsterdam, 2014
Re-membering Zero Degrees
In: New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives, Bernadette Cochrane and Katalin Trencsenyi (eds.): Methuen, Bloomsbury London, 2014
The Body:Language Talks. The Art of Listening
In: Nowiswere, on line Contemporary Art Magazine, 2014
Who needs a dramaturg!
In: Aparté/Arts Vivants, publication of the Ecole Superieure de Theatre –UQAM, Montréal, 2014
Performance as Research, the Rewriting Distance practice
In: Proceedings of Carpa 3, Colloquium on Artistic Research in the performing arts, Theatre Academy of Helsinki, 2014
Rewriting Distance: bridging the space between dramaturg and dancer
co-authored with Stefano Muneroni. In: Canadian Theatre Review, University of Toronto Press, 2013
Body:language #1
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Sadler’s Wells, London, 2013
Body:language #2
Akram Khan, Sadler’s Wells, London, 2013
Body:language #3
Rosemary Butcher, Sadler’s Wells, London, 2013
Body:language #4
Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion, Sadler’s Wells, London, 2013
Body:language #5
Tim Etchells, Sadler’s Wells, London, 2013
Body:language #6
Dana Caspersen, Sadler’s Wells, London, 2013
Body:language #7
Alain Platel, Sadler’s Wells, London, 2013
Dance dramaturgy as a creative and somatic practice
In Danswetenschap Nederland, Deel 7, Bianca Nieuwboer, Liesbeth Wildschut en Wanda Zoet (ed.), Vereniging voor Dansonderzoek, Amsterdam, 2012
Giving a voice to Mourning
In: Receptions of Antiquity, (ed. J. Nelis), Academia Press, Gent, 2011
academic sector
Fellow at the Institute Interweaving Performance Cultures
Freie Universitat, Berlin, 2015-2016
PhD in the Arts
Rewriting Distance: Dance Dramaturgy as a somatic and creative practice. How to talk and write about the body. UGent-KASK, 2014
Guest Professor
MA Theatre Science, University of Ghent, 2014-2015
Associate Professor
Arts in Society at the Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts, Tilburg 2011-2014
Artist in Residence
at the University of Limerick, Ireland, 2012
Artist in Residence
at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, 2012
Distinguished Visitor
at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, 2010
lectures, amongst others
Keynote lecture
at the conference, Who Am I? And Exploration of How Artistic Identity is Maintained in A Nomadic Life, Organized by Dance Ireland and the Dance House, Dublin, 2015.
Lecture
on the work of Akram Khan at the Institute Interweaving Performance Cultures of the Freie Universitat Berlin, 2015.
Lecture
on The Ethics of Art, Kinosiska, Ljubljana, 2014
Lecture on the Mythic Body
at the department of psychology, Masaryk University, Brno, 2014
Lecture on the work of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
at the Institute Interweaving Performance Cultures of the Freie Universitat Berlin, 2014
New series of Body:Language Talks
with Russel Maliphant, Michael Hulls, Ruth Little and Antony Gormley, Sadler’s Wells, London, 2013
Lecture, Together: moving.
The contemporary dance company as a science lab for social skills. At the Symposium Missing links. Uber Kooperation un Kollektivitat in der Performance, organized by Tanzwerkstatt Europa, Munchen, 2013
Talk on Dance Dramaturgy
with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui at Tanzkongress Koln, 2013
Lecture on Dance Dramaturgy
at Concordia University, Montréal, 2013
Lecture
Bridging the space between dramaturg and performer in the Rewriting Distance Performance practic, at the Carpa 3, Colloquium on Artistic Research in the performing arts, Theatre Academy of Helsinki, 2013
New series of Body: Language Talks
with Jonzi D, Sue Buckmaster and Hofesh Shechter, Sadler’s Wells, London, 2012
Contribution to the symposium Art as Research
for the 10th anniversary of the Hessische Theater Akademie, Frankfurt, 2012
Lecture on Metaphors and Mythic Images in Dance Dramaturgy
as part of the series Trames, Dramaturgies I Derives, organized by Mercat del Flors and Institut del Teatre, Barcelona, 2011
Key note lecture
We are all carriers at the Modul-Dance conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, 2011
New series of Body; Language Talks
with Tim Etchells, Dana Caspersen, Alain Platel, Sadler’s Wells, London, 2010-2011
First series of Body: Language Talks
with Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jonathan Burrows, Matteo Fargion and Rosemary Butcher, Sadler’s Wells, London, 2008
dance dramaturgy
Alex Gottfarb (SE/AT), A Matter of Belief, 2015
Arno Schuitemaker (NL), While we are striving, 2015
Stephanie Thiersch (D), Bronze by Gold, 2015
Arno Schuitemaker (NL), I is Another, 2014
Stephanie Thiersch (D), The Memory Machine, 2014
Georg Blaschke (AU), The Bosch Experience, 2014
Chiara Frigo and Emmanuel Jouth (CAN), When we were old, 2013
Christopher House, Toronto Dance Theatre (CAN), Pteros Tactics, 2010
Andrea Nann, (Toronto-CAN), Next to each other, 2010
Danièle Desnoyers (Québec-Canada), Dévorer le ciel, 2010
Lia Haraki (Cyprus), The Feast 2010
curating
Conference, Écritures de Silence
(on dance dramaturgy), Theatre Sevelin, Lausanne, 2014
Colloquium The Ethics of Art:
Arts Centre Vooruit, University of Ghent, 2014
3rd Modul Dance Conference: Ethics in Aesthetics?
For an ecology of both the environment and the body. Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts, Tilburg, 2012
International symposium on the Dance house-model
Danshuis Station Zuid, Tilburg, 2010
workshops and mentoring
Workshop on Dance Dramaturgy
for the Maison de la Danse, Toulouse, 2015
Mentor project
Anghiari Dance Hub, Italy, 2015
Workshop on Dance Dramaturgy
Theatre Sevelin, Lausanne, 2015
Curator of ChoreoLab
Ways of Seeing Rhythm, Reso-Dampfzentrale Bern, 2015
Mentoring
for MA choreography in Amsterdam, 2014-2015
Workshop The Ethics of Art
together with Mala Kline, Kinosiska, Ljubljana, 2014
Dramaturgical coach
for Loose Collective and Luke Baio/Dominik Grugel, Tanzquartier, Vienna, 2014
Masterclass
Rewriting Distance, KASK, Ghent, 2014
Mentor project Dance and Dramaturgy
Theatre Sevelin, Lausanne, 2013-2015
Workshop on Dance Dramaturgy
at Dancelab Seoul, 2013
Masterclass on Dance and Dramaturgy
at Institute of Music and Dance in co-operation with Reso, Warsaw, 2013
Workshop on Dance Dramaturgy
as a creative and somatic practice, Tanzkongress, Koln, 2013
Workshop on Dance Dramaturgy
at Regroupement de la Danse Québécois, Montréal, 2013
Atelier, Réécrire Le Corps, Incarner L’écriture
with Ginelle Chagnon et Lin Snelling, at Circuit Est, Montréal, 2013-2015
Workshop on Dance Dramaturgy
Festival Equilibrio, Fondazione Musica per Roma, 2013
Coaching
Werkstucke, Tanzquartier, Vienna, 2012
Workshop Standup PerformDance
with Lia Haraki, Danshuis Station Zuid, Tilburg and Impulstanz, Vienna, 2012
Repeating Distance and Rewriting Distance workshops with Lin Snelling
University of Limerick and Dance Centre Ireland, Dublin, 2012
Workshop on Dance Dramaturgy
and individual mentoring of choreographers for iDas, Tanzhaus NRW, Dusseldorf, 2011-2012
Mentoring Choreoroam
Operaestate-Bassano del Grappa, 2011
Facilitator
Interrarium Project, Banff, 2011
Workshop
on the creative process for La Caldera, Barcelona, 2011
Repeating Distance workshops with Lin Snelling
at Nanaimo, Vancouver-Island (organized by Crimson Coast Dance Society); London-The Place (as part of Choreodrome); Limassol-Cyprus (organized by Pelma), 2007; ImpulsTanz-Vienna; Isadora Duncan Dance Centre-Athens; International Kalamata Dance Festival-Kalamata 2008, Toronto Dance Theatre-Toronto, 2009, University of Alberta-Edmonton, Station Zuid-Tilburg, 2010, The Place, London, Dance Centre, Dublin, 2011
Mentoring Triptych
an exchange project between Operaestate-Bassano del Grappa; Circuit Est- Montreal and the Dance Center-Vancouver with Chiara Frigo, Emmanuel Jouthe and Jennifer Clarke, 2010 and with Sylvia Gribaudi, James Gnam and Jacques Poulin-Denis in 2011