t a s t b a a r
collective
Caroline D'Haese is the initiator of tastbaar and forms the artistic core together with Joey and Sara. She takes to the floor from her background as a dance artist.
In addition, she takes care of the business side together with Katrien Reist. The languages from which she approaches tangibly are dance and movement, more specifically improvisation and touch. Touch as a tangible choreography on the skin. Without words, she sometimes gets things said better.
tangbaar emerged from a farewell duet with a dying dancer and friend. With hands on skin, her (dance) body came home again for a while. And what still needed to be said could be said
Joey Brocken is a musician/maker and part of the core team at tastbaa r. He is a songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He will write, adapt and improvise with music. Hearing music can create a link with certain memories. Joey is almost constantly busy with music and he likes to share that passion. He is very curious where this musical journey will take him within tastbaa r. Joey is also responsible for audiovisual techniques and production.
The core team of T astbaar is supplemented with strong artists
Thomas Noël, Seraphine Stragier, Tuur Marinus, Goele Van Dijck
Thomas Noël is a composer, pianist/multi-instrumentalist, producer and photographer. After studying piano at the Antwerp Conservatory and jazz and composition in Ghent, he travels the world with his guitar. From New York to the Solomon Islands and Israel/Palestine, he sniffs the sounds of jazz, world music and improvisation. With his mentor Emmanuel T. Santos (Melbourne), he learns the tricks of photography and finds his artistic voice, in which music, photography, travel and engagement are key words. For T astbaar he draws on years of experience with improvisatory music and social-artistic projects.
Seraphine Stragier is a performing musician and multi-instrumentalist on cello, celtic harp and nyckelharpa.
After her classical training at the Brussels Conservatory for cello,
Seraphine played on many stages with many different projects,
(Laïs, SunSunSun, Stef Bos, Roosbeef, Sioen, music theatre at I Solisti / Spectra, ...)
With her solo project "Rêveries" she plays recumbent concerts
as a warm sound bath with dreamy arrangements of her favorite music with loopstation; she also plays music for babies with Klankennest,
at the hospital bedside via Mus-IC and in residential care centres via Music Elixir.
Music pure and close as a gift for everyone where she also uses her voice,
that is what Seraphine wants to make tangible.
This is Tuur Marinus. He is on the floor at tangtbaar as a 'raker'. Tuur studied Visual Arts and Contemporary Dance. He has been working in the arts sector for over 15 years, and likes to take on different roles: choreographer, performer, painter, researcher...
Tuur likes dancing forms of interaction with 'leadership'. The fact that the 'affected' of the Tastbaar rituals is also to a large extent the 'leader' appeals to him very much.
He also considers it a privilege to create a warm - or exciting and surprising - custom ritual together with the live musicians.
Goele van Dijck (1969) is a choreographer, dancer and coaches new makers with an interest in a young audience. As a dance teacher she worked at various educational institutions such as the Dance department of the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp in Antwerp and at Codarts in Rotterdam. She is the driving force behind Nat Gras, a company with special attention for a toddler audience ( www.natgras.be ). Her performances are characterized by a great playfulness and a strong sensuality. As a logical evolution in her trajectory she wants to involve nature more in her projects from now on. In the project Tastbaar she continues her search for the proximity of and interaction with the audience.