b i o g r a p h y
CHRISTINE DE SMEDT
° 1963, Belgium
Having graduated in criminology, Christine De Smedt‘s interest moved to dance and performance, and she started studying different movement research techniques.
Her artistic work combines elements of dance/performance, choreography, artistic coordination and other artistic projects. She has been a member of the ballets C de la B dance company since 1991 and has been performing her own work since 1993. This includes a solo piece entitled la force fait l’union fait la force, a travelling project in the Balkan Escape Velocity (1998) and between 2000 and 2005, the large scale project 9x9, focussing on mass and choreography and which was performed in 15 cities across Europe and Canada.
In 1992 she worked with the interdisciplinary SKITE project (‘laboratoire de nouvelles formes chorégraphiques’) in Paris which marked Christine’s first artistic encounter with Meg Stuart. This was the start of a close collaboration with Stuart, running from 1995 to 1999, which included devising and dancing in No one is watching, a remake of Disfigured Study and the creation of Splayed mind out by Meg Stuart and Gary Hill, artistically assisted and performed by Christine De Smedt. Christine De Smedt, Meg Stuart and David Hernadez initiated and curated the multidisciplinary improvisation project Crash Landing (1996-1999).
Christine De Smedt also collaborated with Mette Edvardsen, Marten Spangberg, Christelle Fillod, Milli Bitterli and Susanne Berggren, and performed in Project and Floor Pieces by Xavier Le Roy. Between 2005 and 2008 she worked with Eszter Salamonon on nvsbl and dance#1/driftworks and the group project Transformers. In 2007, Christine worked with Myriam Van Imschoot, creating Pick Up Voices, a piece that mixes historical research, performance and shadow play.
Christine De Smedt is currently working on a solo project involving portraits of different artists, as well as being involved in a wide range of other artistic collaborations.
update: 08/2010