GRADUATION FESTIVAL MA STUDIOS, Brussels 23 May — 15 June 2024

In June 2024, 12 stu­dents from the 2‑year Master’s pro­gram STUDIOS will gra­du­a­te.

STUDIOS tar­gets young cho­re­o­grap­hers and per­for­man­ce makers and puts a two-year focus on devel­o­ping an inde­pen­dent artis­tic prac­ti­ce. During two years, they have fol­lo­wed a mutu­al path in which they have devel­o­ped their own research and cre­a­ti­on through a col­lec­ti­ve pro­gram of move­ment research, mas­ter­clas­ses in cho­re­o­grap­hy, self-direc­ted research, cross-cul­tu­ral exchan­ge in Ecole des Sables (Toubab Dialaw, Senegal) and the­o­re­ti­cal seminars.

The gra­du­a­ti­on works that con­clu­de this two-year tra­jec­to­ry will be pre­sen­ted at the Graduation Festival with Brussels part­ners Kaaistudios, Kunstenwerk­plaats vzw (in Pianofabriek) and WIELS, bet­ween May 23rd and June 15th, 2024.

The STUDIOS par­ti­ci­pants are:
Adem Ouhaibia, Ching Shu Huang, Géraldine Haas, Im Kanokporn Vorapharuek, Jair Jetzehu Montes Rangel, Judith Dhondt, Marikki Nyfors, Marlla Araújo, Mira Maria Studer, Osamu Shikichi, Rania Barhoumi, Urtė Groblytė.

Kunstenwerk­plaats invi­tes the gra­du­a­ti­on works of Géraldine Haas, Im Kanokporn Vorapharuek, Jair Jetzehu Montes Rangel, Marikki Nyfors and Ching Shu Huang. 

Visual by Joram De Cocker.