Stanley Ollivier

Stanley Ollivier is French-Caribbean multi-disciplinary artist based in Brussels. Their artistic practice revolves around dance, performance, sound and radiophonic curation.
They studied dance and musical in the International Dance Academy Of Paris (AID). They left to continue their studies in Contemporary Dance at the CNSMDP in Paris, and in P.A.R.T.S. (BE) where they obtained their Bachelor and Master of Arts in Dance.


They have created the performances PARADE (2021), The Mirror Stand (2021), Just a Taste (2024) and Spine Of Desire: Wounds without tears, out of one skin in diamonds and shit (2025).


They have worked with various international productions and artists, such as Lasseindra Lanvin, Soa Ratsifandrihana, Calixto Neto, Tabea Martin, Iván Pérez, Nina Muñoz, Brahim Tall, and Geert Belpaeme, among others.


Stanley is a member of the Ballroom Scene, as well as radio host and DJ. They are artist resident in Oroko Radio (Accra, Ghana), Kiosk Radio (BE), and Kaaitheater (BE).


Likewise, they are co-founder of ENTWINED, a theatrical and audiovisual radiophonic collective, centring on international artistic diversity, with the aim to create larger bridges between spheres of art mediums.

Contact : dancerstanley@gmail.com
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Collaborations

  • Dear Julius

    Benjamin Mengistu Navet

    2026

    researcher

    The start of a long-term research for Benjamin Mengistu Navet into the possibilities to interweave textile on musical practices, focusing on the work of composer and musician Julius Eastman.

    This research is about trans­la­ti­on : How do we under­stand the reper­toi­re of Julius Eastman?

    This research is about echo : how are artists nowa­days re-in­ter­pre­ting his work?

    This research is about wea­ving Julius's music :

    How do we pre­ser­ve, and con­ti­nue a heri­ta­ge of mecha­ni­cal wea­ving looms by com­bi­ning them with musi­cal moda­li­ties, such as punch card systems.

  • Bruits Marrons

    Calixto Neto

    2025

    performer

    Bruits Marrons is a creation inspired by the work Evil Nigger and reflections on the life of its composer, African-American musician Julius Eastman. Drawing on the concept of a quilombo (communities of marooned slaves, free and autonomous) and bringing it into contemporary contexts, the piece will gather one musician and five dancers (in addition to a large artistic and technical support team) to create an ephemeral community questioning resistance and solidarity through music that combines rage and beauty. The premiere takes place at the Festival d'Automne 2025.

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    2024

    performer

    Four bodies defy, choose, and free themselves from the multiple layers of violence that have shaped them over time: Soa Ratsifandrihana’s new work, simultaneously a dance choreography and a musical composition, excavates the corporal, oral, and melodic tales of diasporic lives. Together with a guitarist and two performers, she embarks on a wandering journey between Madagascar and several continents, between the history of movement and its heritage. Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna (translating to “Comparison, transmission, rivalry”) is a poetic reminder that not only words but also bodies and sounds can reshape the histories we inherit.

  • Please (don’t) let me be (mis)under-stood

    Geert Belpaeme

    2023

    performer

    In Please (don’t) let me be (mis)understood three figures perform the intrinsic frenzy of being human. To do so, they revert to an old, almost extinct, tradition: clowning. Using the clown’s nonsensical language and wobbly body, with gleeful recklessness and frivolous pretence, they make their way through human history and beyond.

    Please (don’t) let me be (mis)understood is a hybrid performance that moves in between clowning, dance and theatre, a performance in which human bodies step out of their banks to play non-human relationships as well. Everything with the clown’s wink.

  • TUKULEUR

    Brahim Tall

    2022

    actor, performer

    Tukuleur gives center stage to a character of mixed ethnicities searching for their position in western society and public space. Hair, posture and skin color shift, intersect and alternate each other, creating a choreography of looks and poses based on representations throughout art-history and pop-culture. By making the character ever changing, Tukuleur attempts to expose how our gaze influences the interpretation of different bodies in different contexts. Subsequently the film shows the consequences of these gazes and their linked representations on the personal growth and struggle of the character, who’s trying to find their place between acceptance and otherness. Rocking in between conforming and rejecting, pride and ridicule, going from one end of the spectrum to the other trying to find a pose that’s made for them, slowly breaking under its weight.

  • Geh nicht in den Wald, im Wald ist der Wald

    Tabea Martin

    2022

    performer

    Geh nicht in den Wald, im Wald ist der Wald explores the topic of exclusion. It becomes an idea about the power of prejudices as well as about the fears that are triggered by the unfamiliar or new things. At what point does one speak of exclusion? How does one fight it? What mechanisms promote it? The piece is exploring exclusion by means of dance and language. How and why do we exclude others, and how can this be embodied in the movement of dancers? Using body weight to examine opposites within the human body, through spatial experiments. How do we move both inside and outside the norm? How do we move when we feel trapped or are forced to do something?

  • La Ave

    Nina Muñoz

    2020

    performer

    La Aveis a dance theatre piece that aims to investigate how we can denaturalize our western two-dimensional gender construction. By looking at gender systems all around the world and looking at different variables the construction is linked to, La Ave re-integrates gender to a multidimensional concept.

  • The Inhabitants

    Iván Pérez

    2020

    performer

    The Inhabitants is a site specific work created by Iván Pérez and was first performed in 2016 at Operastate Festival in Bassano del Grappa, Italy. In September 2018, the Dance Theatre Heidelberg had its debut with the work.

    The piece portrays a future scenario in which twelve inhabitants have taken possession of their environment during decades of isolation. As first visitors, the audience find themselves in the role of the intruders. They can observe closely how a new culture evolved from the inhabitant's interaction with their surroundings. They adapt to the conditions, but they also change and shape their world creatively. As part of the performance, the dancers relate to the audience directly, blurring the lines between otherness and proximity.

Agenda

  • Spine Of Desire: Wounds without tears, out of one skin in diamonds and shit

    Stanley Ollivier

    STUK, Leuven (BE)

    15.01.2026

    author/choreographer

  • Spine Of Desire: Wounds without tears, out of one skin in diamonds and shit

    Stanley Ollivier

    BUDA/Schouwburg Kortrijk, Kortrijk (BE)

    16.12.2025

    author/choreographer

  • Just a Taste

    Stanley Ollivier

    Vidy-Lausanne (CH)

    13.12.2025

    author/choreographer

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    Vidy-Lausanne (CH)

    11-13.12.2025

    performer

  • Spine Of Desire: Wounds without tears, out of one skin in diamonds and shit

    Stanley Ollivier

    December Dance, Bruges (BE)

    05.12.2025

    author/choreographer

  • Bruits Marrons

    Calixto Neto

    Festival D'Automne, MC93, Paris (FR)

    19-21.11.2025

    performer

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    Moving November, Finland

    15-16.11.2025

    performer

  • Spine Of Desire: Wounds without tears, out of one skin in diamonds and shit

    Stanley Ollivier

    Arsenic, Lausanne (CH)

    06-09.11.2025

    author/choreographer

  • Bruits Marrons

    Calixto Neto

    Biennale de Charleroi Danse - Kaaitheater, Brussels (BE)

    17-18.10.2025

    performer

  • DJ Set

    STANLEY

    Materiais Diversos (PT)

    12.10.2025

  • Spine Of Desire: Wounds without tears, out of one skin in diamonds and shit

    Stanley Ollivier

    Materiais Diversos (PT)

    TBA

    author/choreographer

  • Bruits Marrons

    Calixto Neto

    Points Communs, Cergy Pontoise (FR)

    07-08.10.2025

    performer

    Premiere

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    Pavillon ADC, Genève (CH)

    30.09 - 02.10.2025

    performer

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    Wiesbaden Biennale (GER)

    20-21.09.2025

    performer

  • Just a Taste

    Stanley Ollivier

    8xsgathering - Ruigoord Palace, Amsterdam (NL)

    26.07.2025

    author/choreographer

Past Events

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    Chorège - CDCN Falaise

    22.05.2025

    performer

  • Spine Of Desire: Wounds without tears, out of one skin in diamonds and shit

    Stanley Ollivier

    Kaaitheater, Brussels (BE)

    02-03.05.2025

    author/choreographer

    Premiere

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    Chaillot, Théâtre nationale de la danse, Paris (FR)

    09-12.04.2025

    performer

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    Kaserne, Basel (CH)

    04-05.04.2025

    performer

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    Théâtre de Choisy, Biennale de danse du Val-De-Marne (FR)

    13.03.2025

    performer

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    Le Gymnase CDCN (FR)

    10.03.2025

    performer

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    Théâtre Sévelin 36, Lausanne (CH)

    06.03.2025

    performer

  • Just a Taste

    Stanley Ollivier

    Théâtre Sévelin, Lausanne (CH)

    05.03.2025

    author/choreographer

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    Les Hivernales, Avignons (FR)

    08.02.2025

    performer

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    La Place De La Danse - CDCN Toulouse (FR)

    04-05.02.2025

    performer

  • Just a Taste

    Stanley Ollivier

    CCN Orléans (FR)

    01.02.2025

    author/choreographer

  • Just a Taste

    Stanley Ollivier

    Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)

    31.01.2025

    author/choreographer

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    Pôle Sud - CDCN Strasbourg (FR)

    24.01.2025

    performer

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    December Dance Festival, Brugges (BE)

    14.12.2024

    performer

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    Théâtre d'Orléans (FR)

    10.12.2024

    performer

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    La Manufacture - CDCN Bordeaux (FR)

    20.11.2024

    performer

  • Just a Taste

    Stanley Ollivier

    Théâtre Jacques Franck, Brussels (BE)

    16.10.2024

    author/choroegrapher

    Premiere

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    Actoral, Ballet nationale de Marseille (FR)

    03-04.10.2024

    performer

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    Festival D'Automne 2024 , MC93 (FR)

    18-22.09.2024

    performer

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    Tanz Im August, HAU- Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin (GER)

    16-18.08.2024

    performer

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    Atelier De Paris, June Events 2024

    06.06.2024

    performer

  • Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna

    Soa Ratsifandrihana

    KunstenfestivaldesArts - Théâtre Varia, Brussels (BE)

    25-29.05.2024

    performer

    Premiere

  • Sequence III

    Stanley Ollivier

    HAUT Scene, Copenhagen (DNK)

    02.05.2024

    author/choroegrapher

  • please (don’t) let me be (mis)under-stood

    Geert Belpaeme

    CAMPO, Ghent (BE)

    20.01.2024

    performer

  • please (don’t) let me be (mis)under-stood

    Geert Belpaeme

    STUK, Leuven (BE)

    18-19.01.2024

    performer

  • Geh nicht in den Wald, im Wald ist der Wald

    Tabea Martin

    TPR, La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH)

    08-09.12.2023

    performer

    Co-programmed with ADN — Danse Neuchâtel

  • Geh nicht in den Wald, im Wald ist der Wald

    Tabea Martin

    Maillon, Stassbourg (FR)

    22-25.11.2023

    performer

  • The Mirror Stand

    Stanley Ollivier

    Théâtre Nationale De Bruxelles (BE)

    11-12.11.2023

    author/choreographer

    As part of Africa Is/In The Future festival, and Scènes Nouvelles.

  • please (don’t) let me be (mis)under-stood

    Geert Belpaeme

    29.10.2023

    performer

  • please (don’t) let me be (mis)under-stood

    Geert Belpaeme

    Theater op de Markt (Neerpelt)

    23.09.2023

    performer

  • please (don’t) let me be (mis)under-stood

    Geert Belpaeme

    De Nwe Vorst, Tilburg (NL)

    20.09.2023

    performer

  • The Mirror Stand

    Stanley Ollivier

    CCN Orléans (FR)

    16-17.09.2023

    author/choroegrapher

  • Sequence II

    Stanley Ollivier

    Dansand Festival, Ostend (BE)

    02.07.2023

    author/performer

    In Situ

  • please (don’t) let me be (mis)under-stood

    Geert Belpaeme

    Grote Post, Ostend (BE)

    27.05.2023

    performer

  • Geh nicht in den Wald, im Wald ist der Wald

    Tabea Martin

    Kaserne, Basel (CH)

    14-15.03.2023

    performer

  • please (don’t) let me be (mis)under-stood

    Geert Belpaeme

    Monty, Antwerp (BE)

    27-28.01.2023

    performer

  • please (don’t) let me be (mis)under-stood

    Geert Belpaeme

    CC Strombeek (BE)

    26.01.2023

    performer

  • SEQUENCE I

    Stanley Ollivier

    SMAK Museum (BE)

    2022

    author/choroegrapher

  • please (don’t) let me be (mis)under-stood

    Geert Belpaeme

    NONA, Mechelen (BE)

    14.01.2023

    performer

    Premiere

  • Geh nicht in den Wald, im Wald ist der ald

    Tabea Martin

    FIT Festival Lugano (CH)

    05.10.2022

    performer

  • Geh nicht in den Wald, im Wald ist der Wald

    Tabea Martin

    Dampfzentrale Bern (CH)

    21-22.09.2022

    performer

  • The Mirror Stand

    Stanley Ollivier

    STUK, Leuven

    18.10.2022

    author/choreographer

  • The Mirror Stand

    Stanley Olliiver

    Schouwburg Kortrijk (BE)

    17.09.2022

    author/choreographer

  • Geh nicht in den Wald, im Wald ist der Wald

    Tabea Martin

    Think Big Festival München (GER)

    12-13.07.2022

    performer

  • Geh nicht in den Wald, im Wald ist der Wald

    Tabea Martin

    Tanzhaus Zürich (CH)

    10-13.06.2022

    performer

  • The Mirror Stand

    Stanley Ollivier

    Les Brigittines, Brussels (BE)

    23.04.2022

    author/choreographer

  • Geh nicht in den Wald, im Wald ist der Wald

    Tabea Martin

    Dschungel Wien (A)

    25-26.03.2022

    performer

  • Geh nicht in den Wald, im Wald ist der Wald

    Tabea Martin

    Théâtre du Jura Delémont (CH)

    12.03.2022

    performer

  • Geh nicht in den Wald, im Wald ist der Wald

    Tabea Martin

    Jungspund Festival St. Gallen (CH)

    19-21.02.2022

    performer

  • Geh nicht in den Wald, im Wald ist der Wald

    Tabea Martin

    TanzHaus NRW (GER)

    12-14.02.2022

    performer

  • Geh nicht in den Wald, im Wald ist der Wald

    Tabea Martin

    Kaserne Basel

    29-30.01.2022

    performer

    Premiere

  • The Mirror Stand

    Stanley Ollivier

    Le BAMP, Brussels (BE)

    10.2021

    author/choreographer

  • The Mirror Stand

    Stanley Ollivier

    Design Museum Brussels (BE)

    09.2021

    author/choreographer

  • The Mirror Stand

    Stanley Ollivier

    beursschouwburg

    17-18.09.2021

    author/choreographer

    Premiere

  • PARADE

    Stanley Ollivier

    Théâtre Mercelis (BE)

    2021

    author/choreographer

  • PARADE

    Stanley Ollivier

    Rosas Performance Space (BE)

    2021

    author/choreographer

  • The Mirror Stand

    Stanley Ollivier

    Tic Tac Art Centre, Crude Saturdays, Brussels (BE)

    2020

    author/choreographer

Just a Taste

2024

hybrid performance

Just a Taste is a small mixtape, a compilation of choreographical and performative scene accompanied by electronic music. The textural dance solo is a rough but pleasant state of exaltation, a puzzle of emotions leading to its own excess, oscillating into rage to find a lively enthusiasm.

Credit: Matias Rocha Moura

Duration: 1h or 2h, with 20mn live dance performance

CREDIT:

Concept, Hybrid Set, Performance : Stanley Ollivier
Costume Design : Godwin Agossah
Studio Reception : Théâtre Jacques Franck, La Bellone
Photos, DA : Matias Rocha Moura

TOUR DATES:

2024
16.10.2024 - Théâtre Jacques Franck (BE)


2025
30.01.2025 - Breakfast Club- Gouvernement (BE) x Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (NL)
01.02.2025 - CCN Orléans (FR)
05.03.2025 - Théâtre Sevelin, Lausanne (CH)
26.07.2025 - 8xsgathering, Ruigoord Palace, Amsterdam (NL)
13.12.2025 - Vidy-Lausanne (CH)