Castélie Yalombo

Castélie Yalombo Lilonge is a Spanish/Belgian/Congolese artist, born and living in Brussels.Graduated from ULB as well as a Master from the Higher Institute of Choreographic Arts of ARBA-ESA in 2020. She collaborates as a dancer-performer, external gaze, co-creator. Her artisticpractice is at the intersection of choreography (in its broader meaning), installation and poeticspeech.

She questions the status of identity, otherness and relationship, as well as the subject/objectstatus of the body. A questioning that she anchors in research on the capacity for kinaesthetic empathy at play in the gaze-gazed relationship.

In 2019, she interned with Congolese artist Faustin Linyekula for the play Histoire(s) du Théâtre II, a co-production by NTGent, which premiered at the Avignon festival. A play that helps to raise awareness of de colonial questioning, and more particularly of the need for a re-articulation of the narratives of our identities in the great network of Forgotten, Confiscated, Hidden and DominantHistories.

In 2021, she started collaborating with the artist-choreographer Louise Vanneste for the creationEarths presented in October 2021 at Charleroi-Danse and in November 2021 at the Halles de Schaerbeek. Earths deploys a choreographic writing of listening and attention to the imagination, to the co-presence of the dancers and their environment.

A practice of movement that is well anchored in the personal research on presence and empathy, pursued by the artist.

She participates from August 2020 in the project Ne Mosquito Pas managed by Simon Van Schuylenbergh & co. She creates two solos there and accompanies the transmissions of the practice of “the art of failure”. A performative practice aimed at criticising the standards of the success of our society by questioning what constitutes our standards of good and bad tastes.

In 2020 and 2021, the Ne Mosquito Pas Summer Tour took place in Brussels and Flanders,(Artist Commons, DecorAtelier, Cureghem, Buda Kortijk, deSingel, ...).

Between 2018 and 2021, she works in parallel to the creation of several performances, most often solo or in duo. Close your eyes in 2018 (later used under the name of cleaners of the shade:water, including a duo version presented during the Congolisation festival at KVS in January2020) and This is my body delivered for you in 2019.

In 2021, she receives support from Charleroi-Danse and the KunstenFestivaldesArts for the creation of a longer version of the Water project, the premiere of which will take place in May 2022.