Join me and three monsters that I had the chance to work with over the last two weeks – Irene, Kaša and Matilda – for a three-hour Open Studio Movement Workshop at the end of my two-week research residency at P.A.R.T.S., part of my project It’s the Way You Work It.

Date & Time 15.08.2025/ 16:30 - 19:30
Location P.A.R.T.S. Studios, Brussels - Studio ROSAS 4
No fee / Come as you are and bring your cyborgian costume to dance in.

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This project began with one simple but unsettling question:
What if the fashion runway no longer displayed clothes, but walks?

In this cyborgian future, movement has replaced fashion as the dominant commodity. People – hybrid beings of human flesh and technology – purchase professionally choreographed walks as emotional and physical states they can wear: seduction, vulnerability, surprise, sensitive soldier, peacock, snake-shed, cleaning-the-air, poisoned heart, fleshy lullaby, and many many more. The runway has become a marketplace of embodied affect, where states are not only performed but packaged, optimised, and sold.

During the residency, we have been developing two main performance bodies – not fixed characters, but volatile systems in relation:

The Cyborgian Body
A hybrid of human sensibility and technological precision, engineered for flawless execution of curated states. Always ready for the next upgrade, next collection, new new walk to produce.

The Creep Body (a.k.a. Archetypal Body)
A primordial force that inhabits and disrupts bodies. A living archive of creativity, sexuality, darkness, and playfulness, moving with the inevitability of a storm.

About the workshop
I will share the tools we have been working with in this research, along with compositional strategies, dramaturgical frames, and embodied tasks. We will move between practice and witnessing, alternating between individual and group work, to investigate the frictions, entanglements, and moments of rupture between the cyborgian and archetypal bodies.

Because this workshop builds towards an embodied arc and shared dramaturgy, participants are asked to join for the full duration. This ensures that everyone experiences the complete unfolding of the work and its speculative world.

This is an invitation for dancers, movers, and physical performers with curiosity for speculative performance, posthuman physicalities, and politically charged embodiment. While the research is conceptually and physically rich, the tasks are improvisational, allowing each body to engage at its own capacity and adapt the material to its own ways of moving.