Belgian choreographer Jean Luc Ducourt, born French in 1958, living in Antwerp, was as a dancer mainly trained in contemporary dance with a great deal of training in Carlolyn Carlson en Peter Goss techniques, along with a technical ballet education. Before joining Rosas in 1987 – at first as a dancer, then as a choreographer and light designer, where with Anne Teresa De keersmaeker he achieved celebrated works like Ottone Ottone, Achterland, Erts and Mozart Concert Arias – he danced in Paris for different choreographers, among others Suzan Buirge, Régine Chopinot, Jacques Patarozzi, Bouvier/Obadia. From 1996 he acted as freelance artistc creating his own theatrical and choreographic works and further in 2001 began developing choreographic propositions based on an abstract use of classical dance steps in compositions such as Ballett Labor with Bayerische Statt Ballet dancers (Munich), Exponant Material (Buda Kortrijk), Works by 3/1 (Szene Salzburg, ImPulsTanz Vienna, Kaaitheater Brussels, Charleroi-Danse), Chorus Temptation (HID dancers, Antwerp) and Vénus Remix Solo (Charleroi-Danse).
After a long period off, he reworked VéNus ReMix #2, a solo for a female ballet dancer on pointe shoes in March 2024 within a production by Charleroi-Danse (Brussels).
07.06.2024
