Anneleen Keppens BE

Born in Kortrijk, Belgium in 1986, Anneleen graduated at P.A.R.T.S./Brussels in 2010. She works as a choreographer, dancer, artistic collaborator and teacher. She is interested in the body as a powerful tool for exploring ways of being together. By combining intimacy, vulnerability and sensitivity with discipline and craftsmanship, Anneleen wishes to contribute to redefining virtuosity and cultivating plurality. Her work lives in the gap between formal and informal, transparent and mystical, soft and hard, physical and metaphysical.

As a performer, she worked for Rosas (2014-2016), Xavier le Roy (2014) and Hiatus/Daniel Linehan (2012-present).

In 2016 she started a choreographic research project called Transparency in Abstract Dance, which aimed to make the language of dance more accessible by developing compositional keys that allow an audience to unlock and ‘enter’ a dance. In 2017 this research led to her first creation The moon is the moon is the moon. This performance shares the ‘sketches’ that precede the making of a choreography, while seeking a balance between legibility and poetry. In 2019 Anneleen created the solo Movement Essays. This work consists of three ‘movement essays’; On Tempo, On Shape and Multitudes, each of which highlight a fundamental element of abstract dance. Since 2020 she is developing the practice Body Dialogues, in which she initiates conversations with and about the body with different artists. For Blue Moon Spring, her latest piece which premiered in 2023, she did extensive research on jazz improvisation and on jazz and gender. Currently, Anneleen is working on Mother/Maker; a research in which she collects stories of how motherhood has transformed the works of fellow choreographers.

Anneleen has worked with Alexander Vantournhout as a choreographic assistant and rehearsal director since 2014. She is a certified somatic movement educator and teaches improvisation and composition at PARTS, Charleroi Danse and INSAS amongst others.