Jim De Block is a Belgian-Swedish visual and performance artist. His practice moves through dance, choreography, dramaturgy and image making, not as separate disciplines but as different ways of asking the same questions about the body, space, and time.
He has performed with companies across Europe, including Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, the Norwegian National Ballet, and Göteborgs Danskompani. He has originated roles in new creations by thirty-two choreographers, among them Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Saburo Teshigawara, Alan Lucien Øyen, Christian Spuck, and Fernando Magadan. Years spent working inside performance have shaped how he sees and how he shoots. The camera work and the choreographic work come from the same place. A long practice inside performance sharpens attention to how the body conveys meaning, to how composition in time and space carries it. That knowledge sits underneath everything he makes.
He also works inside other people's creative processes, as assistant choreographer and rehearsal director. That practice draws on the same attention: close, patient, precise about how the body speaks into meaning. As Assistant Choreographer on Láhppon/Lost for the Norwegian National Ballet, a work by Elle Sofe Sara and Hlín Hjálmarsdóttir rooted in the Kautokeino rebellion and Sámi history, he was part of how that production found its form. He has served as rehearsal director and assistant for three creations at Regionteater Väst, Sweden's largest dance house for young audiences.
His photographic work spans press and production photography for dance companies, poster commissions, and fine art series. He has had three solo exhibitions: Neither Here Nor There at Leth Gori in Copenhagen as part of the Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Neither Here Nor There at Rivercity Gallery, and Vestiges at NK Gallery. His work has been published in several magazines. He is co-founder of the Odd in a Knot collective and a guest lecturer at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg.
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