Lisbeth Gruwez

Lisbeth Gruwez was born in 1977, she studied at the Royal Ballet School of Antwerp and at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, kicking off her professional career at Ultima Vez in The Day of Heaven and Hell. From 1999 onwards she worked with Jan Fabre on performances such as As long as the world needs a warrior’s soul, Je suis sang and the famous solo Quando l’uomo principale è una donna. Apart from that, she worked with Jan Lauwers, Grace Ellen Barkey, Riina Saastamoinen, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Peter Verhelst, amongst others. She also played the leading role in Lost Persons Area, Caroline Strubbe’s film. In 2007 she founded the dance company Voetvolk together with the sound artist Maarten Van Cauwenberghe. They have already created ten productions together, including It’s going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend, AH/HA, Lisbeth Gruwez dances Bob Dylan, We’re pretty fuckin’ far from okay and The Sea Within. Lisbeth Gruwez is one of the “KVS faces”, the open ensemble of artists and thinkers associated with the Royal Flemish Theatre of Brussels.

In dialogue with the group that’s in front of her, Lisbeth Gruwez offers a variety of tools to improve your improvisation skills in order to refine your own dance material and capacities to create movement in a very personal way, beyond the limits of imagination, and in an open and enthusiastic atmosphere.

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