Karolien Wauters
Karolien was born in Belgium in 1998 and graduated in Urban Contemporary at Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts in 2020. Since then and during an internship, she has worked with several choreographers such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Ester Ambrosino, Blenard Azizaj, Kristina Alleyne, Tony Adigun, Sarah Wiktorowicz, …
Karolien Wauters has been working as a freelance dancer and artist based in Tilburg, Netherlands, since 2020. Although she works on various projects in several countries, she has found a base in Tilburg from which she can easily travel.
In October 2020, Karolien Wauters received two awards for her graduation solo entitled ‘Sweet and Source’ at the international festival Contact.energy 2020 in Germany: the audience award and 2nd place. Her choreography will continue to be shown in various ways in the upcoming years.
Karolien is currently a dancer in the Motus Mori Museum project by choreographer Katja Heitmann. She started working with Heitmann when she was still at school and has been working with her ever since.
Since the beginning of 2022, Karolien has been working with the Jordi Vidal Company. In this context, she creates and explores various elements in the project ‘Temporality’.
In June 2021, Karolien founded the ANUTKA collective together with her friend Anneleen Nickmans, a collobration for all kinds of projects that they carry out together, starting with the performance ‘Purple Phase’, which premiered in November 2021 and is continuously being developed. This creation was made possible by the support of Passerelle VZW, a platform for young artists based in Belgium.
In April 2022, Wauters began working with Kato Mergan. A young Belgian choreographer with whom she has continued working to expand and explore the performance ‘No brain, no glory, no body, same story’.
Karolien has been working with Junges Ensemble Stuttgart as a dancer for the new production ‘Leichte Turbulenzen’ since November 2022. In general, Wauters focuses on different projects with different themes, styles, research and choreographers and is constantly looking for new impulses.