Sandie Brischler is a French-born artist who lived and worked in Germany and Morocco before moving to Brussels in 2018. After studying scenography, literature and psychology (where she investigated the relationship between art, writing and the unconscious), she began a career in Paris in 2002, first in photography, then in visual arts. Her work focuses on writing and the sign, in relation to the body.
After an international career in the visual arts, she turned more specifically to transdisciplinary research and performance. From 2010 to 2014 in Berlin, she created the âBody-Writingâ performance series, which was programmed at several international art events and contemporary art fairs, including the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in 2014. This series of performances questions the link between the body, writing, space and the graphic sign, and integrates several dimensions (body, drawing, writing, traces, spatial dimension, sound spaces, movement, dance and video projections).
In parallel with her work as a visual artist and performer, since 2008 she has also been exploring the fields of movement, dance and, more specifically, improvisation, using various approaches, techniques and teachings (notably with Sten Rudstrom and Action-Theater in Berlin). She has worked extensively around spontaneous and authentic movement and instantaneous composition, also exploring the notion of âscoresâ for improvisation (according to the approaches of Lisa Nelson and Nancy Stark). Sandie has accumulated a lot of experience over the years, notably with teachers such as Andrew Morrish, Katie Duck, Maya Caroll and Julyen Hamilton.
In the circus field too, she developed her interest in aerial practices (dance and acrobatics), and became interested in anti-gravity and aerial approaches to movement, notably with Abel Navarro and Compagnie Luftdanza in Berlin in 2010. She went on to conduct a number of personal and performative projects involving the body and gravity.
She will also deepen her connection with contemporary dance and improvisation techniques through a number of projects and experiments.: In 2012, she trained in integrative dance techniques with Alito Alessi (USA), and went on to collaborate for two years with the inclusive dance company Dancing with diffĂ©rences (Portugal), coordinating a European partnership project. In 2015, she took part in the âAction-Danseâ festival in Casablanca, as well as âL’Oriental en mouvementâ, where she took part in a dance-pedagogy mission in isolated regions of Morocco. The same year, she joined the Casablanca-based company Col’Jam, founded by Ahlam El Morsli, and underwent intensive contemporary dance training with Tunisian choreographer Wajdi Gagui. She took part in the first âRencontres chorĂ©graphiques de Casablancaâ festival and performed in Wajdi Gagui’s choreographic creation âSkettâ at Casablanca’s French Institute in October 2015.
Sandie is currently developing and enriching her artistic research at the crossroads, pursuing her reflections on the performative act and the transversality of arts and means of expression. She is also very active in the field of transmission and since 2021 has created the VorteX, a laboratory of expressions, center of creativity and courses between art and therapy, located in the heart of Brussels.