Christine de Smedt

Online lecture, video conference via APP ZOOM*
20 April 2020, at 18:30 | Approximate duration: 2 hours

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Christine de Smedt (1963). Her artistic work ranges from dance/performance to choreography, coordination, organisation and curation of artistic projects.
She was a member of the company Les Ballets C. de la B. (Ghent, Belgium) from 1991 to 2012; he has created his own work since 1993: the solo ‘La force fait l’union, fait la force’; ‘Escape Velocity’ an itinerant project in the Balkans (1998), ‘9×9’ a large-format, large-scale choreography (2000-2005); and ‘Four Choreographic Portraits’ (2012) a series of performance portraits of different artists, entitled ‘I would leave a signature’, ‘The son of a priest’, ‘A woman with a diamond’ and ‘Self-reliance’.
She collaborated for several years with Meg Stuart – Damaged Goods (1995-1999) and with Mårten Spångberg, Mette Edvardsen, Philipp Gehmacher, Vladimir Miller, Jan Ritsema, Myriam Van Imschoot, Xavier Le Roy, among others.
Since 2003 she has collaborated and performed in Xavier Le Roy’s ‘Low Pieces’ and ‘Temporary Title, 2015’ projects, and in Mette Ingvartsen’s ‘Artificial Nature Project’ choreography (2013-2014). In 2014 she presented ‘spatial confessions’ with Bojana Cvejic at the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern (London, UK). Since 2005 she has realised projects with Eszter Salamon, such as ‘Nvsbl’, ‘dance#1/driftworks’, the group project ‘Transformers’ and ‘Dance#2’. In 2018 she collaborated with Myriam Van Imschoot on the participatory performance ‘Splash!’ in the swimming pool presented at Mimosa (Kortrijk, Belgium).
She curated a Summer Intensive artist residency project in 2010 and 2011. She was the Pedagogical Coordinator of the Performing Arts Training Studios – P.A.R.T.S. (2013-2016), where she continues to be involved as a mentor and member of the teaching staff. Since 2016 she has also been teaching at KASK (Ghent, Belgium).
She currently collaborates with Xavier Le Roy, does artistic assistance for Mette Ingvartsen in ‘Moving In Concert’, and for Eszter Salamon in ‘Heterochrony, Manifestations’, and is developing a project on violence, based on interviews and performative reflections from different areas of society.

Photo: © Chris Van Der Burght

Acknowledgements: João dos Santos Martins.
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