Dan Mussett
Bio
Dan Mussett (BE/UK) is a freelance dancer, choreographer and writer based in Brussels. He trained as a dancer in Spain and Belgium, where he graduated in 2017 from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. Since then, he has worked as a dancer for various choreographers such as Ayelen Parolin and Jan Martens. On top of this, he has made several of his own choreographic works exploring the effects of digital technologies on the body, most recently Fully Automated Luxury Dancing! (2025), a dance show choreographed by a chatbot. His works have been shown at Europalia Festival, Jonge Harten Festival, STUK, and Dansand, amongst others. He also writes, both poetry and non-fiction, and has had several poems published in magazines such as The Moth and The Rialto. He recently started to write dance criticism, contributing to a recent edition of e-tcetera. He is a regular teaching staff member at the Conservatory of Antwerp.
Projects
Dan Mussett
Cheap Tricks
How can a person disappear and why would they want to? And how can magic be used as a metaphor and theatrical tool to speak about chemsex?
Margot Masquelier & Dan Mussett
Backstage Dancer
What does it mean to live and work as a freelance dancer today?
Dan Mussett
Fully Automated Luxury Dancing
Exploring the idea of a possible future in which dancers are replaced by Artificial Intelligence.