fieldworks is an organisation located in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

, which creates, produces, distributes and promotes the artistic work of Heine Avdal and

Yukiko Shinozaki Yukiko Shinozaki is a Japanese dancer and choreographer working from Brussels, Belgium. Education Yukiko Shinozaki studied classical ballet in Tokyo, and modern dance at Portland State University (Oregon), where she also obtained a B.A. In psyc ...

History

Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki met in the second half of the 90s when they both worked as dancers at Damaged Goods, the Brussels company of the American choreographer

Meg Stuart Meg Stuart (born 1965 in New Orleans) is an American choreographer and dancer who lives and works in Brussels and Berlin. Her company, Damaged Goods, operates from Brussels since 1994. Start as a dancer and choreographer Stuart moved to New York ...

. In 2002, they founded, together with sound artist Christoph De Boeck, the organisation deepblue to realise their own projects. That organisation was active until 2012. Afterwards, Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki continued with their own organisation, fieldworks. Since the second half of 2014, the business leader is Bob Van Langendonck, who came from P.A.R.T.S.

Artistic work

Although Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki both had a dance training, they do not create 'dance' in the classical sense of the word. In their work, they seek a connection with a wide range of art disciplines and expertises, and work with various other artists. They are internationally renowned for their productions on the boundary between dance, visual arts, music and technology. Regularly, their work consists of poetic and humorous interventions in unusual, semi-public environments like offices, hotels and supermarkets.

Recognition

fieldworks has already performed in many countries. The organisation is financially supported by the Flemish government for the period 2017–2021 on the basis of the Kunstendecreet (Art Decree). Also in the period from 2013 to 2016, the organisation received a structural operating grant from the same government.Kunstendecreet 2013 – 2014-16 – Overview of decisions
/ref> Their work is often co-produced by institutions such as the Kaaitheater (Brussels), STUK (

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), Kunstencentrum BUDA (

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), Pact Zollverein (

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BIT Teatergarasjen BIT Teatergarasjen (BIT) is a producer and co-producer of international contemporary theatre and dance in Norway. It emphasises projects that stimulate international co-production and co-operations between different fields of art. BIT was establi ...

(

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), Black Box Theater (

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) and Theater House Avantgarden (

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Productions

* ''drop a line'' (2007) * ''Field Works-hotel'' (2009) * ''Field Works-office'' (2010) * ''Borrowed Landscape'' (2011) * ''nothing's for something'' (2012) * ''The seventh floor of the world'' (2013) * ''distant voices'' (2014) * ''as if nothing has been spinning around for something to remember'' (2014) * ''carry on'' (2015) * ''THE OTHEROOM'' (2016) * ''unannounced'' (2017)

References

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Sources

Kunstenpunt - Organisations – fieldworks vzw
according to Kunstenpunt
Kunstenpunt – Performing Arts in Flanders - Producers – fieldworks vzw
according to Kunstenpunt
Website of fieldworks