Maud Vanhauwaert

Maud Vanhauwaert (27) is a Belgian poetic performer.  She published a first volume of poetry titled as ‘ik ben mogelijk’ (I am possible). She makes her own theatre- performances and won several poetry slams, in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Maud tries to find a way to perform poetry on stage. On the one hand she wants to be understood by the audience. On the other hand she doesn’t want to make too many compromises. The texts she performs have to stay alive without stage. That is her ambition.

As a poet, it is very difficult to trespass language-borders. It is almost impossible for a Dutch poet to have a performance in France. Maud wants to play with the impossible. Not to overcome it, but to honour it.


© Maud Vanhauwaert

Lecture performance

Maud Vanhauwaert, Antoine Boute

For the Rencontres //03 festival Maud will make two performances.
One performance will consist of some of her own Dutch poetry intertwined with some French texts especially written for the festival.
In the other performance Maud will work together with Antoine Boute, a French-speaking Belgian who is a master in juggling with the building blocks of language, namely: sounds.


© Willy Wtterwulghe

Regards Croisés

Yaïr Barelli, RSJ Works / Human Works, Rana Hamadeh, Maud Vanhauwaert, Marjolijn Van Heemstra, Le bruit des nuages, L'Employeur, Institut des Recherches Menant à Rien - IRMAR, Alexander Schellow

The same video material is sent to each invited artist one month and a half prior to the festival.
Each can use it anyway they want to come up with a spontaneous artistic act in return: extension, disruption, diversion… of the movie clip.
The open artistic act can be a text, a video, a photograph, a collective or individual proposal on stage, etc.
Each artist or artistic team will show their act during the closing night of this third edition, on Saturday, May 28, 2011.


© Tabas

Here I am

Maud Vanhauwaert

A text by Maud Vanhauwaert will open festival Parallèle #5.
Invited in 2011 as part of Parallèle #3 at the CIPM and la Friche la Belle de Mai, the Flemish poet/performer – who will attend next year's edition in the flesh – will be with us through sound and image, with the assignment of officially launching this 5th edition!