Astrid Boons is a choreographer and performer. Getting known in the European dance scene for her emotionally demanding pieces and her strongly embodied states, Boons’ creations offer a space to deeply experience the body as the site of boundaries and expansion between us and the world. She creates work with a distinctive female perspective foregrounding the subjective connectivity as a form of resistance, together with the continuous search for personal agency. 

Astrid is an associate artist with Korzo Theatre in the Netherlands between 2021-2025. In 2023, she premiered Khôra, which is currently touring internationally. In 2020, she made Crash for Dance Theatre Heidelberg. Other works include Do you believe me yet? (2022), Arise (2021), Fields (2019), Decay (2018), Vestige (2017) and Rhizoma (2016), for which Astrid received the BNG Bank Dance Award 2017 and the Piket Art Award 2017.

In 2021, she was nominated for the prestigious Prize of The Netherlands Dance Days for choreography. In 2022, she received the Fast Forward subsidy (Dutch Performing Arts Fund) to expand her artistic practice and international relations. 

As a dancer Astrid worked with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (2017-2018), Nederlands Dans Theater 1 (2017), Gö teborgsOperans Danskompani (2013-2016), Nederlands Dans Theater 2 (2009-2013), Dansgroep Amsterdam (2009) and Dansgroep Krisztina De Châtel (2008). 

Alongside her work as a choreographer, Astrid is developing her movement practice which is derived from her choreographic research. She has taught in international companies and schools such as Nederlands Dans Theater, Dance Theatre Heidelberg, Opera Ballet Flanders, Hessisches Staatsballett, The Norwegian Ballet, NOD, Codarts, ArtEZ, AHK, Royal Conservatory Antwerp, among others. 

Astrid graduated from the Royal Ballet School of Antwerp. She holds a BA Dance from Codarts and a BA of Arts (Honours) in Humanities (Art History and Philosophy) from the Open University. Since 2021, she is also a certified Vinyasa Yoga teacher.

Since Plato, the term Khôra (Ancient Greek: “place, area, land, space”) has been an ephemeral one, thinkers from Aristotle to Derrida to Heidegger to Kristeva not so much nailing down a proper definition than circling it like an inscrutable object. With her group piece, Belgian choreographer Astrid Boons dares to enter this place that, at the same time, is a non-place: both a reflection of our increasingly technologised world, pushing bodies to the margin, and a rejoinder, a possible refuge. Five dancers, with nothing but their bodies and each other, keep resituating themselves in an eerily smooth wasteland, posing the equally simple as impossible question: “How do we reclaim our humanity?”