1 nov 2025
Welcome to Anne-Lise Brevers!
We are proud to announce Anne-Lise Brevers (BE/USA) – dancer, researcher and choreographer – as the new research group coordinator of CORPoREAL. Welcome, Anne-Lise!
Anne-Lise will take on the day-to-day running of the research group together with our current coordinator Karin De Fleyt. She is no stranger to us: Anne-Lise is pursuing her PhD at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp and the Aria Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) at the University of Antwerp, under the supervision of our co-chair Annouk Van Moorsel. More information about her project “Hyperwithin: a shy dramaturgy in shadowtimes” can be found here.
Anne-Lise trained in classical ballet with Menia Martinez and obtained a master's degree in dance from the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp. Her master's project was awarded the PlayRight Prize. She worked as a freelance dancer for various choreographers before meeting Cindy Van Acker in 2010 when she danced in Romeo Castellucci's “Parcifal” at La Monnaie. She then joined Cie Greffe in Geneva for the creation and tour of “Diffraction” until 2015. In 2016/2017, she collaborated on Damien Jalet's choreography “Suspiria” by Luca Guadagnino and coached Mia Goth and Tilda Swinton for their dance roles in the film. In 2017, she began working closely with choreographer Jan Martens as a rehearsal director and artistic assistant for “Rule of Three” and “Any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones”. In 2021, her immersive work “Shy Works” was performed at DE SINGEL in Antwerp as part of the Bouge B festival, and she choreographed Olga Neuwirth's “Bählamms Fest”, directed by Dead Centre, for the Ruhrtriennale.
Since 2021, Anne-Lise has also been teaching the Embodied Theory class to second-year Master's Dance students at the Conservatoire, and has been supervising their journey towards their final Master's project.
We wish Anne-Lise every success in her new role and look forward to a fruitful collaboration!