Debate and launch Etcetera #179

Michiel Vandevelde is a choreographer, curator and writer trained at P.A.R.T.S.. He is performing arts programmer at DE SINGEL and his artistic work is presented throughout Europe. Recently, he created an experimental opera with Eva Reiter and ICTUS. Soon his new performance out of hands will premiere at fABULEUS. He is currently a trajectory maker at Dans in Brugge.

Originally from Detroit (United States of America), Briana Ashley Stuart is a performing artist, dancer, choreographer and dance entrepreneur based in Brussels. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a BFA in dance and a BA in sociology. She has worked internationally as an independent artist and with a number of companies and artists, including StepAfrika!, SJEwing & Dancers, ZIKIT, 4Hoog kindertheater, Lila Magnin, Alexis Blake, Gorges Ocloo. She presented her latest work Moving Meditations, a multidisciplinary work about healing at KVS Brussels, which was the first step in her research into percussive dance and movement and sound in space. In her artistic work, she is interested in audience interaction, philosophy and the potential of the human body as an instrument of rhythm and expression. More about her artistic interests and works can be seen in her introspective dance lecture Stepping: Freedom in Form produced by BOZAR in Brussels, and more recently her dance lecture How to Unveil the Secret Power of Movement and Sound to Create at TEDxBrussels in 2023.