| ISPA Distinguished Artist Award Recipient - Cindy Van Acker |
ISPA Award Recipient Cindy Van Acker2025 Distinguished Artist Award Recipient Trained in ballet in Antwerp, Cindy Van Acker danced for the Royal Ballet of Flanders and the Grand Théâtre in Geneva, before joining in the 90s the contemporary dance scene of Geneva. Since 1994 she has created her own pieces, founding the Compagnie Greffe in 2002. Since then she has created about thirty pieces for Cie Greffe, as well as works for Ballet de Lorraine, Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, P.A.R.T.S. and choreographies for Romeo Castellucci's productions. Her artistic path has been marked by her collaboration with the choreographer Myriam Gourfink, the scenographer Victor Roy, the composer Mika Vainio (Pan Sonic), the director Romeo Castellucci and the dancers with whom she has established a long-term relationship of mutual trust. Her choreographic writing deals with a quite peculiar field in which the starting point is always the search for a form that might suggest the unutterable. Her dance, essentially formal and abstract, is composed by manipulating time, body and other matters, aiming at the idea of absence and out-of-frame, thus trying to open imaginary and emotional spaces that can overcome the form itself. Through her writing, which combines a sober aesthetics with refined movement, a meticulous composition and electronic music, Cindy Van Acker analyses through an almost scientific approach the connections between body, mind, sound and rhythm, thus creating pieces that breach the frontiers between dance, performance and plastic arts. In November 2017, she becomes associated artist of ADC in Geneva, alongside Anne Davier. Her pieces Diffraction and Speechless Voices are granted the award of Choreographic Production by OFC. She is the winner of the 2023 Swiss Grand Award for the performing arts / Hans Reinhart Ring and the Leenaards Cultural Prize 2023. |
