(based on a true story)

I imagined brief working sessions in which encounter and exchange are central. The duration, context and form will vary greatly and depend on the encounter & exchange in question. I pictured a series of meetings with dancers with whom I wanted to collaborate to present, after a week of studio time, the result on location, outside the black box.

With Igor Shyshko, Bahar Temiz and Jan Martens I worked on a short fragment from a performance I had made with them separately, to then bring those fragments together in a new performance, stretched in time.

With Jaime Llopis, Kinga Jaczewska, Kevin Fay, Samantha Van Wissen and Robson Ledesma I entered into a new relationship, a first contact, an artistic acquaintance. The title (based on a true story) refers to the true, authentic encounters with these dancers.

For the festival The Image Generator 2022 that took place in Sofia in Bulgaria, I collaborated with Peter Savel, one of the Kunst/Werk satellites. As a culmination of years of collaboration with Peter, always in a group setting, I now want to develop a solo dance together with him. Peter will continue to work on the output of this collaboration with a Bulgarian dancer (m,v,x), so that during the festival two versions will be presented of (based on a true story) #7 and #8.

As part of the festival the image generator in September 2023, a new (based on a true story) – #9 –  saw the light: forever’s gonna start tonight with Kevin Fay at Extra City’s beautiful deconsecrated church on the Provinciestraat.

Finally, this beautiful series was concluded with (based on a true story) #10 DEADSTOCK between the old masters of KMSKA, together with Nathan Ooms, Robson Ledesma, Igor Shyshko and Kevin Fay and beautifully musically accompanied by Els Mondelaers.