PIANIST, COMPOSER · PL Mixing a classical technique with an experimental sound searching, she gives new life to old pianos by making them sound like all different kinds of instruments or electronic samples. She composes and performs her own music for originally prepared grand and upright pianos.
© Caroline Dejonghe
COMMUNICATION ADVISOR · FR A master woman who gets straight to the point. Her approach to communication is a blend of perfectionism and wisdom, efficiency, and creativity. Driven by boundless energy, les passagées was lucky enough to come across her singular vision and her numerous ideas.
VIDEO ARTIST · FR Sound was in her ears. But it was through the eye that she came to creation. Video, like a belated revelation of worlds in motion. She transforms, distorts and overturns images in search of what resonates from within.
© Caroline Dejonghe
GUEST CHEF (Between Bodies & Walls) · BE When we speak of poetry, his skin tingles. When he cooks, it’s not just the skin, but our whole body that capsizes. The nuances of taste and their emotional charge are the pistils of our souls, to be cherished and discovered.
© Anthony Florio
TAIKO DRUMMER · JP Born in Kyoto, she began Taiko at 11 and spent 14 years with the renowned ‘Kodo’ group as a performer, composer, and arranger. In 2008, she founded ‘Cocon,’ a female Taiko project, and has since been active in theater, dance, and fashion in Belgium. A skilled multi-instrumentalist, her solo performances blend improvisation and music for children, drawing from her deep exploration of Japanese music and dance.
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SLAMMER · BI slam poet and actress, she gained national recognition in 2018 by winning the Slam Poetry Championship in Burundi, propelling her onto stages across Africa. Now based in Belgium, she continues to perform with the Slameke collective and studies Dramatic Arts at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, while holding the prestigious Paroles Urbaines award.
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GUEST CHEF · JP Chiho Kanzaki laid her foundations in the kitchen with some of the great brigades, notably at Mauro Colagreco’s Mirazur*** (Menton, France). Over the years, she has sharpened her weapons, learning total respect for the product, a sense of combining flavours rather than confronting them, and the structural precision of harmonies.
© Caroline Dejonghe
PHOTOGRAPHER & YOGA TEACHER · BE Capturing bodies in movement, moving with the flexibility and alignment of a Yogi and the grace of a prima ballerina -that’s the endless beauty and complexity of Sergine. She has a very special connection with this house. Maybe one day she’ll tell you all about it.
ARCHITECT · IT She has made the perfect curve her profession, her quest. When someone talks to her about organic architecture, she jumps to her feet, scribbling, tracing, plunging into thoughts that have vanished into thin air. Then she comes back, anchors herself, and draws again. Her creative process is as bewitching as the result is beautiful.
SWISS KNIFE · ECU No detail escapes him. Jorge is precision with a pulse — perhaps the finest Swiss Army knife south of the equator. Reliable, methodical, and always a step ahead, he makes complexity look easy and excellence feel effortless.
© Caroline Dejonghe