Nick Coutsier
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Nick Coutsier started his dance training at the age of 12, getting in touch with urban dance styles such as hip-hop and house dance. Over the next 5 years, he trained with small Belgian hip-hop companies who led him to work as a commercial dancer for music videos and tv-shows in Belgium and France.
In 2012, he entered the Artesis Plantijn Royal Conservatory in Antwerp for a bachelor training in contemporary dance. After his graduation from the conservatory in 2015, he started working with Lali Ayguadé, performing in the company production Kokoro. In 2017, Nick started working with the choreographer and set designer Theo Clinkard in the production This Bright Field, and joined the cast of Monument 0.4 Lores & Praxes, an installation work by Eszter Salomon for the summer tour 2017. In Autumn 2017, Nick premiered in Lali Aguadé Company’s new production iU an Mi. In 2018, Nick started working with American Netherlands-based artist Connor Schumacher in 2018, and performed in the spring of the same year in A mon corps défendant by Marine Mane.