Bente Bulens
Bente Bulens is a dancer, explorer, and performer who graduated from PERA - School of Performing Arts in Cyprus. Where she focused on the technical fundamentals of contemporary dance, improvisation, and composition while exploring her individuality.
In her education, she participated in deep processes and performed in different performances by Jos Baker, Rafaela Sahyoun, Anton Lachky, Guy Nader & Maria Campos, and Sevim Akpinar. She co-created a duet with Beata Rekemova called ‘Attracted by repulsion’, performed in various European festivals in 2023. She also choreographed her solo called ' beyond after', which won the first prize in the ICC Linkage and was supported by Danspunt in Belgium in 2023/2024. Before she started her bachelor's degree at PERA, she was a member of G.A.P., Gangaray artistic program in Budapest. Here she could dive into the practices of Hámor József and Timea Mayday Kinga.
Bente has developed a strong interest in the absurdness of a movement, density, repetition, surrealism, and the search for exhaustion in certain movement qualities.
Her Project
I am opening up the next chapter in my solo. The solo I am currently working on is about the
first impression, arrival, and sad discovery of my entry into the afterlife. I would like to create
an extension, a new layer reflecting finding comfort. Where do we go next? What do we
taste, smell, feel, see …? How is the comfort after discomfort?
I’d like to think of my specific afterlife as a spiral, changing levels, floors, rooms, and
landscapes. Just as we change and move ourselves through life.
My existing part of my solo (15min) reflects the arrival, not at all what I expected.
What I will be researching from now on is whether the place we end up after our death fulfills
our expectations. Reuniting with materials, objects, smells, tastes, and people we cared for
and found comfort in?
I deeply vibrate with dreams and surrealism, and I am positive this is connected with each of
us afterlife.
I am envisioning a total shift in scenery, going from something plain, white, cold, empty,
heavy, sad to something vibrant, safe, known, happy, full, colorful, playful, warm
environment.
I would like to invest my new movement research and creation on gestures, beat, and
relating to a new way of living in the landscape created through the afterlife.
And most of all, letting go of the grief within me.