As a collective we are in constant development.
With laboratoire we continuously research improvisation and composition techniques.

Rehearsing in (un)usual spaces and challenging ourselves to (re)design and rethink
dance in public space, dance as a site-specific-performance
and the impact/ influence of the space itself on the process.
It’s an ongoing investigation that fuels our collaboration.

We offer workshops in various settings:

connected to the festival that invited us to perform <
outside a festival setting for schools, businesses, universities,… <

Suitable for professional, amateurs and those who have no experience at all.

In these workshops you learn to collaborate, make decisions, trust,
follow instinct, build awareness and to keep an open mind.

Maybe you would like to collaborate?
Are you interested in workshops?
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deladanse is a movement of which the first seeds were planted twenty-five years ago.
During her years as a student, dancer and choreographer Femke Luyckx felt the need
to counteract the assumption that dance is an art form with a high threshold.
In her eyes it is the very opposite: dance is universally accessible for any audience.

The first experiments took place in Tilburg and Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Starting from the straightforward idea of intervening the daily routine of people passing by with dance.
The goal: taking away the imaginary high threshold and share dance with everyone.

The reactions were surprisingly divergent. The expectation was that people would either stay or leave.
It was much more nuanced than that. An encounter with deladanse triggered curiosity.
The casual passerby stopped in its tracks, some sat down, others looked on with a smile,
one stopped at a distance to watch from that safe place.
There were people who kept changing places: nearby, far away, walking around us.
Others grumbling loudly, a few made inappropriate remarks out loud.
One individual participated jokingly, witnesses tried to correct that behavior.

Afterwards, there were always some audience members that approached us
to share what our presence and our movement triggered in them.
Spanning from very positive words to sceptic comments like 'is this even allowed?!’
In short: the intervention deladanse sparked a form of curiosity in every passerby.
No matter how open or closed that casual audience was, the goal of making contact
and thus making dance available without thresholds succeeded and had an impact.

deladanse as a movement has continued to develop into an ever ongoing project
that constantly reinvents itself. The dancers, choreographic methods and location are elements
that are always configured differently, depending on the inspiration of the location and the audience.

The creative team and performers for this production are

choreographer & concept Femke Luyckx
dancers & co-creators Anastasia Kostner, Maaike van de Westeringh,
Roos van Berkel, Caroline Bon, Suzana Gomes, Sarah Vingerhoets,
Lisa Kasman, Mirte Courtens, Sophy Ribrault.