Choreographer and Theatre Director; Director of the Institute for Historical Dance Practice in Ghent, Belgium
Lieven Baert is a professional choreographer, dancer, and director. Over his 30-year-long international career, he has worked in Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy, Sweden, the UK and Netherlands, Japan, Mexico, Russia, and the USA. He has collaborated with Philip Pickett, Barbara Sparti, the ensemble L’Eventail Paris, the Bavarian Academy for Early Music, the Royal Opera Ghent, and Warsaw Chamber Opera. He is guest teacher at the Dance Academies of Stockholm and Re Juan Carlos, Madrid. He also works on outreach and youth programmes for the Royal Ballet School of Belgium and the Royal Opera of Flanders. As a producer at historical festivals, he specializes in creative reconstructions of repertoire from the medieval and the early modern period. He regularly directs events at Germany’s largest historical festival, the Landshut Wedding.
Honours and Distinctions
| 2000 | Conseil International de la Danse, UNESCO |
Past Productions and Events
| 2010 | Stanford University, California: summer school |
| 2010 | Festival of Flanders: choreographer and teacher, Venetian Ball |
| 2009 | Landshut, Germany: choreographer at the Landshuter Hochzeit |
| 2009 | Bruges: choreographer, Hieronymus Bosch and the Seven Deadly Sins, with Camera Trajectina |
| 2009 | Festival de Namur: choreographer, Ay Amor, with la Cetra d’Orfeo |
| 2008 | Festival of Krems, Austria: choreographer, La Folia |
| 2007 | Brussels Operetta Theatre: director, Der Bettelstudent |
| 2006 | Landshut, Germany: choreographer at the Landshuter Hochzeit |
| 2005 | Mexico City: choreographer, Proclamación de Isabel la Católica, with Manuel Canseco (dir.), Teatro Nacional de Madrid, and Mexican State Ballet |
| 2004 | Madrid: choreographer, Teatro Clásico, Don Gil de las calzas verdes |
| 2000 | Royal Opera, Ghent: choreographer, Charles V |
| 2000 | Ghent: Director, 1st World Congress Historical Dance, with Unesco and University of Ghent |
| 1998 | Tokyo: director and choreographer, Danza Vosolvia, 16th-century repertoire |
| 1996 | Händel Festival Halle, Germany: dancer in Marie Sallé and Händel |
| 1993 | Warsaw Chamber Opera: director and choreographer of Monteverdi’s Ballo delle ingrate and Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda |
| 1993 | Queen Elizabeth Hall, London: dancer in Philip Pickett’s production of Monteverdi’s Tirsi e Clori |
| 1987 | Royal Library, Brussels: lectures on Burgundian court dances |