Guy Cools is a Belgian dance dramaturg, currently living in Vienna. He has worked as a dance critic and dance curator. From 1990 until 2002, he curated the dance programme of Arts Centre Vooruit in Ghent, Belgium as well as festivals and conferences in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Montréal, Tilburg and Venice. As a dramaturg, he worked with a. o. Koen Augustijnen (BE), Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (BE), Danièle Desnoyers (CAN), Alexander Gottfarb (AT), Lia Haraki (CYP), Akram Khan (UK) and Arno Schuitemaker (NL).
He has been mentoring the Biennale Dance College in Venice and the Atlas program of ImPulsTanz Vienna. He taught at the University of Ottawa, the University of Ghent and the Fontys School of Fine And Performing Arts in Tilburg. He is currently full-time professor at the dance department of UQAM in Montréal.
His most recent publications include In-between Dance Cultures: on the migratory artistic identity of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan (2015); Imaginative Bodies, dialogues in performance practices (2016); and Performing Mourning. Laments in Contemporary Art (2021).
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