MILLE ENGBERG LUNDT
I am a Danish-born artist based in Brussels since 2003. I work and create at the intersection of performance, circus art, documentary, and vocal sound.
I work as an artistic consultant/director on multidisciplinary projects. I have directed and coached at the circus schools ESAC in Brussels and Codarts in Rotterdam. I currently teach and give workshops at Up Circus & Performing Arts in Brussels, and in secondary schools in Belgium, through the multidisciplinary project Atlas/Remix, supported by ITHAC.
I believe that one of the arts' ways of acting is to be able to break with the conventional and provide different angles. Art can break everyday life’s conformity and restore a new awareness of being in the world.
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Mille Lundt, born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
I studied theatre in Copenhagen from 1995 to 1998 and then switched to circus studies. I studied at circus schools in AFUK, Copenhagen, National Circus Schools in Havana (Cuba), Moscow (Russia), and Kyiv (Ukraine), and I graduated from l’Ecole Supérieure des Arts du Cirque in 2006 in Brussels (Belgium).
In 2005, I participated in HC Andersen's Galla celebration at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, directed by Lars Rudolfsson. Shortly after I co-founded the Scandinavian company, Royal Bones, with five circus artists and four musicians, we created two shows, "Fusk" and Cirkus Koncert ", which toured in Europe.
I co-created the Belgian company Off Road in 2010, The work was created respectively in urban space and in theatres with the shows "Collisions", "The Intruder" and "Hikikomori", winner of the appeal for Hablingbo Variety in Sweden.
In 2011, I collaborated with the Danish artist and director Cille Lansade on my solo "Somewhere Nowhere" presented at The National Dance Stage in Copenhagen as part of the festival K.I.T., and later we collaborated in the performance "Les Larmes Des Bristlecone" by the company Anomalie & co ...
I entered the dance scene by collaborating, between 2009 and 2017, with the French choreographer Rachid Ouramdane.
I participated in the performances "Des Temoins Ordinaires" and "Sfumato", which toured the whole world: Europe, Brazil, the U.S., Korea and Russia.
I collaborated as a choreographer with architect Michael Lynge and students from KADK, under the project "Bosætning", curated by Metropolis and The Royal Danish Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen in 2017.
I was selected for the residency program exploring new balances and interactions between the human body and “nature”. PERFORMATIVE LANDSCAPES, one of three Metropolis Residency programmes in 2020.
I collaborated with the company For Want Of A Better in the two shows "Intime-Extime" in 2019 and "Push" in 2020, co-produced by the Théâtre du Champ Exquis in France.
Today, I continue to develop my work In-Situ, for theatres and musical events, inviting different artists to collaborate in my projects, all placed in the field of multidisciplinary art and music: "Ori", "A Room" supported by The French Community, "WoManHood" Winner of the XS & UP Call for Projects! 2021|Espace Catastrophe & The National Theatre Wallonia-Brussels, and supported by The French Community and "Simply Treeming" selected by the circus organisation Circ'uit.
In 2023, I was selected with my project, "Structures," to be part of the European project Hand to Hand, a contemporary European circus exploration in public space that collectively questions the notion of social ecology. The project brings together 4 European partners: Le Palc, ROOM 100, Bússola and Helsingør Theatre.
I won the appeal of the BOURSE EXPLORATOIRE au Japon, a research and circus art exchange program between Belgium and Japan in 2023. The project was organised by UP – Circus & Performing Arts & Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI), Setouchi Circus Factory, Setagaya Public Theatre, and Circus Laboratory Coucou.
I am now collaborating on my latest project, with the working title "La Mer," which combines live music and video art for 2027.
I am a member of Aires Libres in Belgium and of the European network In-Situ.
My Projects have been granted support on several occasions by the Danish Art Foundation and the Ministry of the French Community.