During her residency at BUDA, Mirte Bogaert is collaborating with Ive Stevenheydens on As you like it. In As you like it, her own body is a living question mark, inviting the audience to reflect on how we view the (female) (naked) body.

The solo is inspired by her research trip to Japan, where she investigated how Western ideals about the body and sexuality have influenced the Japanese perspective, and where encounters with comic strip theatres provided rich material for reflection.

Mirte Bogaert (BE/NO)

Mirte Bogaert is an artist with a background in dance and choreography, trained in Norway and Belgium. She creates and collaborates on interdisciplinary performances that bring together movement, sound, light and objects. Her work starts from everyday gestures and subtle movements and rhythms, exploring presence and immersion beyond traditional dance virtuosity.

Ive Stevenheydens (BE)

With over twenty years of experience as a curator and writer, Ive Stevenheydens makes contemporary art practices accessible to a wide audience, having organised countless exhibitions and events with artists from various disciplines. For the collaboration with Mirte Bogaert in As you like it, he is responsible for the music and sound.

Avni Sethi (IN)

Avni Sethi is an interdisciplinary artist and performance maker whose work moves through the body, memory, and cultures of violence. Trained in diverse dance idioms, her performances draw from syncretic faith traditions and contested sites, seeking intimacy as a form of knowing. She conceived the Conflictorium—Museum of Conflict in Ahmedabad and Raipur—and Mehnat Manzil, Museum of Work in Ahmedabad, as spaces to engage with difficult histories. She now nurtures Ordo Performance Collaboratory, a studio for performance-based experiments. She lives and works in Ahmedabad, India.