Kevin Fay - jugular

Grappling with the past and disturbing the present, jugular probes political bloodlines as it penetrates intimate, personal places.

Welcoming the public onstage, jugular creates a space where different materials speak : Words are swallowed and embodied; sounds vanish and swell, and movement builds up from underground. As media subtly dissolve and transform, the logic of law and storytelling crumbles, and a supple, seductive soundscape transforms bodies in space.

As movement, text and sound fragment logic, induce trance, and seduce bodies with future fabulations, storytelling disappears and a practice of 'jugular gardening' carries the public through heavy breathing, guttural sighing, cold, hard facts, faraway truths, and soft, sweeping songs - all to excavate carnal, fiery feeling and incite movement from heaving, pulsing places.

In the end, to break with what is broken, jugular calls for the kind of wild place that continually produces its own unregulated wildness. After all, orders of other kinds thrive underground, and keeping something out of mind or out of sight never means it isn't there. Instead, what's pushed away builds and gathers power - unsettling the dominant order as it invites eruption and transgression.

Kevin Fay trained at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL, U.S.A., B.A. Dance & Communication), the Hubbard Street Dance Center, and the Ruth Page Foundation School of Dance.

After working professionally in classical and contemporary dance companies and projects, he moved to Brussels, BE. Based in Brussels since 2016, he has collaborated as a dancer with Veli Lehtovaara, Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, Eleanor Bauer & Chris Peck, Marc Vanrunxt – Kunst/Werk, Fabrice Samyn, Manon Santkin, Adrian Kurth, Olga de Soto, Marco Berrettini, and La Monnaie/De Munt. Since 2017, he has been studying voice with Fabienne Seveillac and developing his work as a writer, editor and transcriber.

Finally, with support from The Flemish Authorities (research scholarship, 2020 - 2021), he's organized and facilitated 'conversing with masculinity' workshops in RoSa vzw, wpZimmer, BUDA, KASK, Liminal, Charleroi Danse - La Raffinerie and Tanzquartier Wien (2020 - present). In August 2025, alongside Anna Leon, Andrew Champlin and Elizabeth Ward, he facilitated 'bad ballet', a weeklong research project at Impulstanz.

Kevin will be joined by Guillaume Soula (sound), Simon Baetens (dramaturgy), Miguel Peñaranda Olmeda (costumes/scenography) and Marc Vanrunxt and Veli Lehtovaara (outside eyes) while in residencies at STUK.