MEDIATHEK

(°Kortrijk, Belgium 1977) started classical ballet at the age of 6. In 1991 she was admitted at the ‘Stedelijk Instituut voor Ballet’ in Antwerp where she could combine a professional dance education with high school. Afterwards she studied contemporary dance at P.A.R.T.S. from 1997 to 1998. She started her professional career with Ultima Vez in the Pasolini Project Of Heaven and Hell and Away From Sleeping Dogs with Iztock Kova. Since 1999 Lisbeth Gruwez has been working with Jan Fabre, performing in As Long As the World Needs a Warrior’s Soul, followed by Je suis sang, the production for the Cour d’Honneur in Avignon. In 2001 she starred in Pierre Coulibeuf’s film Les Guerriers de la beauté about Jan Fabre’s work. In 2002 she starred in Images of Affection for Needcompany/Jan Lauwers. A year later Lisbeth Gruwez worked with Grace Ellen Barkey in Few Things and Cry Me a River by Riina Saastamoinen. Still in 2003 she choreographed See-Sick, a Polydans production, and danced in Foi, a production by Les Ballets C. De la B./ Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. In 2004 Jan Fabre created a solo for Lisbeth Gruwez: Quando l’uomo principale è una donna. She also participated in the installation Origine (2004), along with Peter Verhelst, and in Prayer of a weeping horse (2006), a creation by Andy Denys (Galothar). In 2008 Lisbeth Gruwez danced with Melanie Lane in I!2, a creation by Arco Renz. That year she also had a leading role in Lost Persons Area, a movie by Caroline Strubbe. This motion picture was nominated for the Cannes Film Festival. Finally she created also in 2008 her new performance Birth of Prey. (Quelle: http://www.keyperformance.se) / jst