Jan Martens

Born in Belgium in 1984, Jan Martens studied at the Fontys Dance Academy in Tilburg, Netherlands, and graduated in 2006 from the dance department of the Artesis Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp. In 2010, he started creating his own choreographic work. Over the years, his pieces have been performed with increasing regularity in front of an international audience.

He believes that each body can communicate and has something to say. Direct communication expresses itself in transparent forms. His work is a sanctuary in which the notion of time becomes tangible and in which observation, emotion as well as reflection can coexist. To achieve this, he shapes and reuses existing idioms in different contexts that allow new ideas to emerge. In all his works, he tries to redefine the relationship between the public and the performer.