Lucie Pestiaux

Date of birth: May 20, 1998

Nationality: Belgian

Languages: French, English, Spanish, Italian, Flemish

Lucie's first steps into the performing arts world occurred at a young age, when she studied expressive arts as part of her general curriculum. Performing arts were initially a way for her to express herself and develop a sensitivity to her inner world and the surrounding environment. Fascinated by the connections between living things, she began studying Ecological and Environmental Sciences and Management at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). Her thesis explored the phenomenon of symbiosis, explored lichens, and created the Lichen Walks in Brussels and Edinburgh to explore the city through the eyes of another being.

The ecology of human beings and their relationships was of great interest to her. Interested in "living together," she lived in a cooperative, developing skills in facilitation, democratic ways of life, and governance systems. After her studies and through her work as a project coordinator and facilitator for an NGO supporting territorial environmental transition in Belgium, she realized the importance of narratives and sensitivity to the environment around us to bring about fundamental changes in our actions. She realized she lacked ways to cultivate and express the sensibilities necessary to perceive the world acutely and in all its complexity. Movement practices came naturally to her as a way to communicate and fight, both physically and politically, for the wonder of the living world.

At the Dimitri Academy, she explores bodily practices that allow us to connect to other imaginaries and to bodily consciousness and which, in her opinion, have the power to awaken new narratives and thus transform our relationships with our surroundings.

Throughout her life, she has trained in dance, acrobatics, physical theater, theater of the oppressed, and clowning. Through the expression of movement and play, she seeks to be part of the collective and political struggles for socio-environmental justice.