top of page

2024/2026: Research Project danse/somatic movement/modified states of consciousness with Gemma Higginbotham, supported by Charleroi Danse and Somatic Movement Enquire U.K.

2023/24: DanceDanceDance,choregraphic interventions in nursing care homes (coordination LaboLobo-Bxl)

2022/23: Cognitive Self-Induced Transe course, with Corine Sombrun (Trance Science Institut,Paris/Giga Consciousness,Liege)

June 2022, assistent at Ballet am Rhein Dusseldorf for the re-writing of Balanchine piece 4 Temperaments, by Michéle Anne De Mey

from 2017 and ongoing: Cold Blood/Collective Kiss and Cry (directed by Jaco Vandormael and Michele-Anne De Mey). International Touring.

2020: choreography and coaching for the opera Antigone in the dark,music Stéphane Orlando, text Lorenzo Carola, direction Matthieu Collard.Théâtre Royal de Namur,march 2020

Since 2019: MOTUM/MOUVEMENT CONSCIENT

Artistic/pedagogic consulting for performing arts, intergenerational workshops, sensitive conscious mouvement for groups and individual sessions,

2019 movement coaching for Percussions de Strasbourg, projet Timelessness- Arte France.

2019 : EVERYTHING BUT ARCHITECTURE/ La Cambre (MA architecture).Workshop on site specific and dance 'Movement But Architecture' in collaboration with composer/film director Thierry De Mey for the first and second year students.(Expo-performance at Flagey,October 2019)

LaboLobo Bruxelles: Intergenerational project 2020/2022 (Jette -, Bruxelles).

2012/2017:regularly working within the Centre Chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie – Bruxelles Charleroi Danses, on several dance and visual arts projects:

Artistic assistant on Taxinomie, research process on gesture, followed by the creation of Simplexity (Thierry De Mey, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Charleroi Danses),for 6 dancers.Première at KunstenFestival des Arts 2017 – festival Manifeste à Paris 2018.

Festival Idill (online dance-film festival), 3 éditions en biennale: member of the pre-selections jury.

«Lamento» (choreography Michèle Anne De Mey), rehearsals assistant.

2014: coaching musicians for TRACELESS (Thierry De Mey), Ensemble Intercontemporain Paris / Koln, project music/choreography

2012: validation of useful experience as a contemporary dance teacher (reconnaissance experience utile fonction professeur de danse contemporaine Ministere de la Communauté Française).

2010/2011, research project: « drop the unnecessary »production Ennesima vzw,with the support of Flemish Dance Commission.Visual/dance installation with Jan Van Gijsel, music Jean Geoffroy.

2010, assistant and performer for the video installation Rémanences from Thierry De Mey, created in Mons (festival Via) integrated to the exposition Dancing Machines (Créteil,Lille)

2009/2010 collaboration with Jean Geoffroy (percussionist, internationally renowned professor,artistic director) for the creation of the duet: Just a walk onJ.S. Bach music (Theatre Thrianon, Paris).

2007 : Specchi : two variations Concept/choreography M.RastaldiWith Julie La porte, Constance Neuenschwander, MikikoSagawa, Silvana Suarez

Ligths design : Jan Van Gijsel Sound Design : Mathilde Billaud production : Margarita, Ennesima, Théâtre Nationnal de Bretagne, BUDA (Kortrijk) ,Charleroi Danses, Kaaitheater, Stuck (Leuven)

2007 choreographer and performer for «Les rues de Gibellina» video installation ‘From Inside’Thierry De Mey, biennale Charleroi-Danses 2007 (palais des Beaux-Arts deBruxelles).

2006, rehearsals assistant for FTS (Folkwang Tanz Studio Essen,Germany), for“13 reasons” de M.A.De Mey.

2004/2005 : Layers Concept /choreography: M.Rastaldi With Julie La Porte, Constance Neuenschwander, Manuela Rastaldi, Katrien Vandergrooten Lights: Jan Van Gijsel, M.Rastaldi; Sound : Thierry De Mey Video: M.Rastaldi Co-production Dans in Kortrijk With the support of the Flemish Ministry of Culture

2003/2004 : Soffici Immagini,video installation for 32 womenconcept/directing/editing: Manuela Rastaldi with the support of the Flemish Dance Commission

2001/2002 : Stanze # Performances in site-specifics venues, festival Ourhouse Genk-Belgium September 2000, TackToren-Festival Dans in Kortrijk/2001,at Espacio Alfama during Festival Dances na Cidade-Lisbonne.

Stanze # 4 solo performance music Bernard Fort video Thierry De Mey, M.Rastaldi Co-production Ennesima asbl, Dans in Kortrijk

2001/2002 : LOOM concept-chorégraphie M.Rastaldi With:Julie La Porte,Gemma Higginbotham, Manuela Rastaldi, Uiko Watanabe Music: Charo Calvo, Thierry De Mey Lights/set design Jan Maertens, Manuela Rastaldi Co-production: Dans in Kortrijk, Szene Salzburg, Halles de Schaarbeek Bruxelles With the support of the Flemish Ministry of Culture

Studies for Loom,performance/installation at Festival Szene Salzburg, July 2001

2001: Deep in the Woods performing for the video installation of Thierry De Mey (ARTE - Biennale de Venice 2002).

2000: TRA trio, choreography M.Rastal di With Anna Chambon, Riina Saastamoinen, M.Rastaldi Original music:Thierry De Mey Coproduction APAP                 ( Advancing Program Performing Arts), Szene Salzburg Avec le support de: Cie.M.A.De Mey, Dans in Kortrijk1999: dancer for 21 études à Danser film de Thierry De Mey

1998: solo work Ennesima choreography - danse: Manuela Rastaldi Original Music :Thierry De Mey Production Astragale-Cie.M.A.De Mey

1997:dancer for KATAMENIA choreography de M-A De Mey

1995: moving to Brussels with a scholarship for PARTS school opening year,followed by a periodof work as a free-lance dancer with several young choreographers from the Belgian scene.1992: graduated at the "Schweizeriche Ballett Berufschule" in Zurich,followed by a scholarshipfor the High School of Dance at Washington U.S.A.

bottom of page