Welcome to the blog of wE(Wauters Erwin)/kataRakt, the project based company under the artistic direction of the Flemish choreographer / composer Erwin Wauters. On these pages you can find out more about the works, the choreographer and events of wE/kataRakt.
About the choreographer - Erwin Wauters
- Erwin Wauters
- Antwerpen, Belgium
- Choreograph, composer of electronic music, dance performer and teacher. Born in 1976 in Sint-Niklaas (Flanders – Belgium). Started his education as a dancer at the Royal Ballet Academy in Antwerp, of which he graduated in 1994. He took a radical twist by enrolling in the contemporary dance department of the Higher Dance Institute Lier, where he graduated both as performing dancer as dance teacher. He danced, after his education, for several years with Dansgroep Meekers – Rotterdam (NL). Worked with Vesna Etcha Dvôrnick, Eric Raeves, Catherine Massin, Thierry Smits, Andre Gingras, the Hans Hof Ensemble, Barbara Mavro Thalassitis, Kyung-A Ryu and many others. In 1998 his first full night work '@-.' (at - dot) was staged, followed by ‘6.4.U.2?’, ‘One Track Mind’ en ‘Sangre Hirviendo’. In 2004 the work ‘Sessions of Awkwardness’ was successfully received as the first work of his project based dance company wE kataRakt, followed by ‘Infraspectre’, ‘Vlees verkoopt’ and the co-creation of 'Pavane/Objekt II'. Erwin Wauters was the founder of DWH / Danswerkhuys as well as artistic coordinator of the MAYDaY! Dance Festival in CCBe and Monty (Antwerp) and the connected dArK RoOm residency.
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