Casper Dillen

About

Choreographer, writer, and sculptor,  Casper Dillen (b. 1999, Belgium) makes performances and narrative objects resulting from embodied affective situation-specific collaboration and research: rehearsals. Creating situations that straddle humour and sharpness. Interested in behaviour. Using a mélange of sports and dance references, philosophical and political. 

Casper studied at Central Saint Martins where they received the Deans Award for Adem (2021) a performance telling the story of Adam and Eve in reverse. They completed a post-graduate degree with distinction in philosophy at Birkbeck. Their research at the Royal College of Art focuses on sculpting mythological narratives. Casper was shortlisted for New Contemporaries 2024.

Their first major performance exhibition in the UK came in 2019 at The Bomb Factory Art Foundation (London) with Siegfried Beyers and curated by Pallas Citroen. Casper was invited three times by David Zambrano and Matt Voorter, to perform at Tictac Art Centre (Brussels). They co-founded dance theatre company Small Sample Size Theatre. Work includes Orfeo (2022), a retelling of the Orpheus myth at The Place (London), Long Tennis (2023), a dance duet devised in a kitchen at the Center for Performance Research (New York), a performative intervention on the staircase of the Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge), and Cycle (2023) a choreographic sound sculpture at WIELS (Brussels).

They have collaborated across various domains e.g.  As a choreographer with theatre company  ‘imitating the dog’ on Frankenstein (2024),  Brandon Prizzon for Vogue Italia,  contemporary post-punk band HMLTD, Micheal Spencer at the 2019 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, and with fashion designer Izzy McCormac. Group exhibitions include e.g. Future Archaeologies (2024) at Camden Art Centre (London), and Xhibit (2019) at Koppel Projects Gallery (London). They have co-curated exhibitions and performance events including ‘Play Ground’: a series of performances in London playgrounds, and the group show ‘All fish are dead fish‘. Their films have been screened as part of mixed programs at Tate Modern and the Southbank Centre (London).