Lisa Vereertbrugghen (NL/BE)

Lisa Vereertbrugghen is a choreographer and performance artist based in Brussels. Before turning to dance she earned an MA in History from the University of Leuven. After a year in Berlin to study dance, she moved to Amsterdam for choreography studies at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO). Her work is situated in the zone in between choreography and visual art and  is shown in theaters, galleries and other places. Apart from creating her own pieces, she has performed in projects created by choreographers Deborah Hay and Benoît Lachambre,  and visual artists, including Min Oh and Lot Meijers. In 2013 she received the danceWEB Scholarship at ImPulsTanz festival in Vienna and in that same year her piece Eins Zwo was selected for the International Theaterschool festival IT's.

The last years she has been focussing on hardcore techno subculture and softcore choreography. She worked in the BUDA studio’s on The performance formerly known as performance and The Extraordinary Way She Moves, presented in the frame of Buda Vista #10 (feb ’17) in Budascoop.

Lisa Vereertbrugghen is one of the artists supported by the European netwerk apap. 

Lisa works in BUDA on her new performance SOFTCORE, which will première in arts centre BUDA during Almost Summer festival.

Evolving around hardcore and pornography, camouflage, speed, breaking and being broke, the per-formance questions both the hard and the core in hardcore techno and points to its text(ure) and potential. 
The performer dances, speaks, rests, feels, occupies, dances, danc-es, dances and remains in hardcore.