Living on my instinct - Dance and Movement
Tanja Marín Friðjónsdóttir - Paris - 2015
Maria Kolegova - Songs inspired by James Ensor - Oostende 2020
Taka Shamoto - The show of Life - Ostend - 2012
Johanna Willig Rosenstein - thx to Isabella Soupart - Brussels - 2019
Nobu Shomura - Tokio - 2016
Guilhem Chatir - Les 2 Caps France -2019
Guilhem Chatir - Les 2 Caps France -2019
Nobu Shomura - Tokio - 2016
Tanja Marín Friðjónsdóttir - Paris - 2015
My Homeless Lover - De Panne - 2020
Nobu Shomura - Tokio - 2016
My Homeless Lover - Jessica Eirado Enes - Charleroi - 2018
Guilhem Chatir - Les 2 Caps France -2019
Guilhem Chatir - Deux Acre - 2016
My Homeless Lover - Eddie Bruno Oroyan & Jessica Eirado Enes - Charleroi - 2018
Tanja Marín Friðjónsdóttir - Paris - 2015
Karin Vyncke - Laerbeek - 2014
My Homeless Lover - De Panne - 2020
Luke Jessop - Laerbeekbos - 2013
Shantala Pèpe - Steve Reich Project - Isabella Soupart - Brussels - 2015
My Homeless Lover - Eddie Bruno Oroyan - Charleroi - 2018
Lucius Romeo Fromme - Cité Modèle Laeken - 2015
Guilhem Chatir - Deux Acre - 2016
My Homeless Lover - Eddie Bruno Oroyan & Jessica Eirado Enes - Charleroi - 2018
Tanja Marín Friðjónsdóttir - Paris - 2015
Nobu Shomura - Tokio - 2016
Guilhem Chatir - Deux Acre - 2016
Gala Moody & Jerry Killick - De Haan - 2014
Karin Vyncke - Laerbeek - 2014
Anonymous - Kinshasa - 2014
Luke Jessop - Laerbeekbos - 2013
Gala Moody & Jerry Killick - De Haan - 2014
Shantala Pèpe - Steve Reich Project - Isabella Soupart - Brussels - 2015
Anna Matsakova - Brussels - 2016
Luke Jessop - Brussels - 2013
Gala Moody - Paris - 2014
Asimi - Tokio - 2016
Guilhem Chatir - Les 2 Caps France -2019
Maria Kolegova - Songs inspired by James Ensor - Oostende 2020
In the mid-1980s, I was asked to photograph What the Body Does Not Remember, the debut of choreographer Wim Vandekeybus. It marked the beginning of a lifelong friendship and collaboration. I became the visual chronicler of Ultima Vez, Vandekeybus’s company.
The stage became a laboratory: a place where I could capture movement, tension, and emotion in a single still image. My photographs are not registrations, but interpretations, fragments of physicality and vulnerability, seized in the moment.
However, theatre offered me limited freedom of movement, shaped by artificial sets and technical constraints such as lighting and perspective. This inspired me to photograph dance in open spaces, where I discovered new possibilities and could play with natural light conditions, architectural or natural elements, and spontaneous interactions between dancers and their environment.
I invited dancer friends and performers to explore the boundaries of dance together, free from narrative structures and academic movement patterns. In this open environment, dancers could fully surrender to improvisation and experimentation. I chose unique locations such as the Paris metro, urban Tokyo, abandoned post-industrial sites, quarries, and more. These diverse settings gave dance a new context and dynamic.
This collaboration resulted in a series of powerful, unique images that not only capture movement, but also emphasize the interconnectedness between human beings, dance, and environment.
My work shows how dance gains a new dimension outside the theatre, where freedom of space and expression becomes central.