Judith & Urtė found each other in a mutual interest for language and the playful but not so innocent space of erotics. Starting from a reading practice they created an artistic soil which developed into a performative and writing practice. Their master resulted in 2 works: ‘DUST' & ‘A LOVELY CONSTRUCTION SITE' from which they continue their practice.
Currently they are working on a publication in collaboration with Arno Huygens resulting from their master projects. In season '25-'26 they will re-work ‘DUST' (under Shake your Skills with BUDA & detheatermaker), and start a new research project called ‘ilOvetOyOu'.
Judith Dhondt (she/they, BE, 1998) is a performer, maker and writer. For the past years they have been active as a performer/maker in the collective: NOON. NOON is a transdisciplinary collective that nourishes interconnection, moved by environmental issues and by the question of relationality in a broad sense. Currently they are developing a new project called ‘And now the beginning is somewhere else', that will premiere in spring 2025.
In 2021 Judith graduated from the MA program, Drama, of KASK (Ghent, BE) and the MA program of P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels, BE) called STUDIOS where they developed their artistic practice with Urtė Groblytė.
Next to her own work, Judith expands their choreographic practice into film works such as ‘ALICE' (Sven Spur, 2026) and ‘It's raining, it’s pouring' (Wannes Vanspauwen & Pol de Plecker, 2023).
Urtė Groblytė (she/her, LT, 1999) is a maker and performer based in Brussels working within dance, theatre, and choreography. Her eclectic approach spans multiple mediums, resulting in works that explore collage, collisions, and layered attachments of materials, emotions, thoughts, and movement. Fiction, poetry, and storytelling — alongside a deep engagement with physicality — shape her artistic process, fostering a continuous dialogue between text and movement. Urtė finished National M.K. Čiurlionis School of Arts (LT) with classical ballet training. Between 2018−2019 she studied modern dance in Folkwang University of Arts. In 2022 she graduated from B.A. program at P.A.R.T.S. and finished a M.A. program STUDIOS there in 2024.
ilOvetOyOu (titre provisoire)
I hold it my love don’t worry I am only hovering and it’s so quiet shh it’s oh so dark in my organs and then I am gone I need you to hold me baby for me to be gone I hold it I love it I love me with it if not my bones you wouldn’t be so love me in little slices cut me open so I keep bleeding and I am a body less is endless notice me take my hand what are we? Strangers when hands estranged un-break the heart if that’s what you call it Knowing oh my beloved chainsaw if only I could melt your heart
‘ilOvetOyOu' is a project and playing research diving into love songs and love scenes from different kind of styles (from niche to popular). In awe of the big emotions they actually hold, we have the desire to bring those love scenes & songs together. We start hoarding, collecting from this seemingly infinite territory… Giving attention to each of them, we continue to surgically isolate the places where they really hit / where the meaning is hiding and try to unravel it. We push them together, in a big collage and let them pass through our bodies, and yours…
The question remains: are we butchering them, or creating hommages?
AGENDA RESIDENCES:
July — August