Pieter Ampe BE

Pieter Ampe (b. 1982, Burundi) is a dancer, choreographer, and performer, known for his energetic playful work on vulnerable personal questions. After studying at P.A.R.T.S. (2004–2008), he collaborated with Gui Garrido on Still Difficult Duet and later joined ROSAS in The Song. As an artist-in-residence at CAMPO in Ghent, he created several internationally toured performances, including Still Standing You (2010), So You Can Feel (2014), and We Don’t Speak to Be Understood (2015). He began choreographing for others in 2016 with It’s In The Small Things (KVS) and later works like Get Lost (Carte Blanche, 2018) and What Shall We Sing About (Icelandic Dance Company, 2019). He has collaborated with Meg Stuart (Cascade, 2020) and Lisaboa Houbrechts (Vakepoes, 2023), among others. In 2022–23, Pieter received a Flemish Community grant to explore breath as a source of movement and stillness in performance.