The 2024 “No distance” educational programme is part of the project „Life Long Burning – Future Lost and Found (LLB 3) and it is realized with the financial support of the “Creative Europe” Programme of the European Union and the National Culture Fund under the programme “Targeted Support “Creative Europe” in partnership with Goethe-Institut Bulgaria.
Through improvisational and instant compositional tools and phrase material participants will explore how to — look, smell, taste, touch, hear. The senses become the starting point for a nuanced (re)search and create links with what surrounds. To look, to touch, to converse, to hear, to imagine. It is a search for singularity within the collective. It aims to encourage the moving body to accept habits, flaws, occurences and to (re)discover the senses through learning, observing and interacting with others and its immediate or imaginary environment.
Born in Brussels, bilingual, he begins his training in dance at the age of 12 and join the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and “Codarts” – school for the arts in Rotterdam. In 2014 Respilieux completes his studies, graduating from P.A.R.T.S., the dance school founded in Brussels by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Since then, he has pursued a career as a dancer/performer amongst multiple choreographers: Salva Sanchis, Ted Stoffer, Claire Croizé, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Louise Vanneste, Anneleen Keppens. In parallel, a teaching career also allows him to develop singular body practices and choreographic writing tools. In 2022, Respilieux co-founds the organization “ArTerre” with the aim of supporting and promoting ecofeminist approaches and the development of agroecology in Tarn (France). His combined expertise as a dancer and a teacher opens up the perspectives of a varied choreographic research that is an equal reflection of his diverse parcours.