GUY COOLS is a Belgian dance dramaturge, currently living in Vienna, Austria. He has worked as a dance critic and dance curator. As a production dramaturg, he has worked with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan, amongst many others. As a dramaturgical mentor, he has been mentoring the Biennale Dance College in Venice, Italy, and the Atlas program of ImPulsTanz in Vienna. He teaches at different universities and arts colleges in Europe and Canada. His most recent publications include The Ethics of Art (co-edited, 2014); In-between Dance Cultures (2015); Imaginative Bodies (2016); The Choreopolitics of Alain Platel (co-edited, 2019) and Performing Mourning - Laments in Contemporary Art (2021).
Photography by Koen Broos Eastman
Last Updated: 2021