Ugo Dehaes

Biography

Ugo Dehaes, born 1977 in Leuven, started to dance at the age of

18. During a year he took ballet classes, followed by contemporary dance with

teachers like David Hernandez, Benoît Lachambre and Saburo Teshigawara and a

half-time theater education at De Kleine Academie. After that year he started

his full-time dance education at P.A.R.T.S. In 1998, Ugo Dehaes began to work

as a dancer for Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods. In 2000, he founded the structure

kwaad bloed together with Charlotte Vanden Eynde. The same year they created

“lijfstof”, a show about the body as material, that would tour internationally.

Since then Ugo Dehaes has created a full evening production every second year.

In the meanwhile he was active as a dancer for other choreographers, a.o.

Sachiyo Takahashi, Emil Hrvatin, Arco Renz, Gisèle Vienne & Etienne

Bideau-Rey, Kataline Patkaï, Nada Gambier, Heine R. Avdal, and as a performer

and actor in numerous short movies, little performances and theater plays. Ugo

Dehaes is invited to be Artist in Residence in the art center STUK for the

period 2010-2013.