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INTENSIVE PRO

CREATIVE LABS

MONOGRAPHIC WORKSHOPS

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9:30  –  13:00
14:30 – 18:00

Candela
Maura

9:30  –  13:00  /  14:30 – 18:00

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Program Overview

A full immersion into the artistic universe of the invited creator, exploring their overall vision of stage creation. From initial concepts to stage realisation, participants work on idea structuring, transformation processes, and dramaturgical articulation. Work takes place in small groups (30 participants), encouraging a deep and intimate creative process. The process also includes scenography, lighting, costume design, and collaboration with composers and other artists involved in the production. Participants gain deep insight into the complex and coherent artistic world that has shaped the creator’s professional journey.

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Peeping Tom

Bio

SAMUEL LEFEUVRE

Trained in dance in Caen and at CNDC Angers, Samuel Lefeuvre moved to Brussels in 2001, performing with Michèle Anne De Mey and Les Ballets C. de la B. He later joined Peeping Tom, co-founded ENTORSE with Raphaëlle Latini, created several works, and collaborated with Jérôme Bel and Boris Charmatz/TERRAIN, and participated in Avignon Festival 2014 Cour d’Honneur creation notably.

LAUREN LANGLOIS

Lauren Langlois joined Peeping Tom in 2020 for Triptych. She previously danced with Australian Dance Theatre, Sydney Dance Company, and Chunky Move, earning major award nominations. She collaborated extensively with Anouk van Dijk, winning a Green Room Award, and has worked with numerous companies. A Tanja Liedtke Fellowship recipient, she also choreographs internationally and creates works for diverse institutions worldwide.

FRANCK CHARTIER (guest online lecturer)

Franck Chartier began dancing at eleven and trained in classical ballet in Cannes. He performed with Ballet du 20ème Siècle, worked with Angelin Preljocaj, and later joined major Brussels companies including Rosas, Needcompany, and Les Ballets C de la B. Co-founding Peeping Tom in 2000, he directs internationally acclaimed dance and opera productions. He has created for Nederlands Dans Theater.

SUMMER KITCHEN

For the first time since the creation of the Kitchen series, Peeping Tom leaves its Brussels studio to take part in Vertebra Dansa 2026. Led by Samuel Lefeuvre and Lauren Langlois, with an online lecture by Franck Chartier, this summer intensive offers insight into the company’s creative process.

Over five days, participants will develop ideas from everyday life, use the environment as a source of movement, and build characters through context and space. Through a multidisciplinary approach, they will shape and structure material into a cohesive piece.

Open to performers, choreographers, and artists, the workshop provides tools for independent and collective creation.

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Wim Vandekeybus

Bio

Wim Vandekeybus is a Belgian choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, and visual artist widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in contemporary European dance. In 1986, he founded Ultima Vez, gaining international recognition for redefining contemporary performance through risk, unpredictability, and intense physical interaction. His works explore instinct, conflict, and the relationship between body and mind, often blurring boundaries between dance and theatre. Beyond choreography, he has directed films and created visual art projects, continuing to expand performance language internationally.

CREATION TOWARDS PERFORMANCE

This workshop, taught by Wim Vandekeybus with the assistance of Masha Kolegova, is divided into two complementary parts. The first focuses on the technical training of the physical language developed in the productions of Ultima Vez, working on the floor, the use of space, the legibility of movement, musicality and companionship. The second part explores theatrical staging: how an idea, story, emotion or memory can be transformed into a performance where movement and words coexist. It reflects on the impact of the chosen forms on the audience’s experience, the value of emptiness and the concept of “less is more”. More than an educational workshop, this intensive week is a space for exchange and creation, where creative skills and connection with the final stage result are worked on.

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Candela Capitan

Bio

Candela Capitán (Seville, 1996) is an interdisciplinary artist and choreographer whose work lies at the intersection of dance, performance, and digital intervention. Her practice explores the body as both medium and support, investigating how power, technology, and hypervisibility shape bodily experience and desire in contemporary society. From a feminist perspective, her work questions forms of representation and the mechanisms of power that traverse bodies and subjectivities, developing a body of work that brings together experimentation, reflection, and artistic creation.

CREATIVE PRACTICES: LIMINAL SPACES BETWEEN CHOREOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION AND PERFORMANCE

Candela Capitán explores the interstices between choreographic composition and performance. She develops her projects across these two disciplines, understanding that each work requires a specific structure determined by the project itself, avoiding preconceived criteria regarding form or content. During the workshop, a shared theme for collective work will be selected, serving as a starting point for the development of ideas, the planning of structures, the implementation of choreographic composition exercises, and the creation of a defined structure.

The laboratory combines choreographic practice, analysis, and critical reflection, addressing recurring aspects in the artist’s work, such as the effects of communication technologies on the body, the overexposure of the female body, the saturation of images in digital environments, and the dynamics of contemporary alienation.

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Maura Morales

Bio

Since 2010 the award-winning freelance dancer and choreographer Maura has been leading her own dance company, the Cooperativa Maura Morales, together with the composer Michio Woirgardt for which she has created a number of full-length pieces since then. With a touring volume of about 50 performances per year the ensemble is one of the most touring (nationally, internationally) independent dance companies in Germany touring regularly throughout Europe, Asia and South America. Maura Morales is also a sought-after guest choreographer and has created commissioned works for numerous state and municipal theatre ensembles

IT'S NOT ABOUT THE HOW, IT'S ABOUT THE WHY

From a deep concern for respecting the body as an ally and not just a tool, Maura offers a workshop in which the initial focus is on sensitive and sensory listening to the body. Through sequences, deep breathing, and warm-ups with improvisation, sensations are awakened and bodily perception is refined.

Maura combines games, energetic dynamics, improvisation, and floor work to enhance awareness of the body in motion. She uses speed as a catalyst that allows this awareness to be integrated into spontaneous, organic, and authentic responses, born of a fully present and engaged body.

Together with composer and musician Michio Woirgardt she will invite you to enter into the language, tools, way of working and creation of the Cooperativa Maura Morales. We will explore the dynamics/rhythms of mov, the valuable guide that music is when listened to attentively while creating. The importance of the why before the how.

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