SARA VANDERIECK obtained her master’s degree in theater directing at RITCS in Brussels. After a short period as an educational assistant at the Royal Flemish Opera, she worked as production and tour manager for TG Stan and les ballets C de la B. In 2009 she became an artistic assistant to Alain Platel for his creations Out of Context – for Pina and C(H)OEURS.
In 2012 she joined the artistic direction of De Grote Post (BE). From then on, she has worked as a dramaturg on various creations by a.o. Serge Aimé Coulibaly, Bára Sigfúsdóttir, Lisi Estaras, Naïf Production, Lola Bogaert, Kristien De Proost and Louise Vanneste. In 2017 she added yet another layer to her work: she initiated the multidisciplinary in situ project When I look at a a Strawberry, I think of a Tongue. – a collaboration with Lisi Estaras, Mirko Banovic, Kristien De Proost and various guest artists. Since 2018, she has been sharing her dramaturgical practice. She works within the research platform ANKATA in Bobo Dioulasso (BF). She is a member of the dramaturgical platform Cliniques Dramaturgiques (CA). She is associated dramaturge to La Bellone (BE). She coaches within PXL-Music (BE) and is a guest lecturer at the Toneelacademie Maastricht (NL). When evolutions within De Grote Post led to a scrapping of the dramaturgical practice within the institution in 2021, Vanderieck focusses further on her artistic practice as an independent dramaturg.
Photography by Kathie Danneels
Last Updated: 2021