Name: Jesus de Vega

Born: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

Occupation: Choreographer, music composer/producer

Artistic interest: The liminal space between movement and sound creation

Characteristics: curious, eclectic, intuitive

Inspired by: Liminality, transmutation, modular synthesizers, Japanese aesthetics, electronic music, pop culture, prosody.

Bio: Jesus de Vega is a choreographer and music composer that focuses in the liminal space between movement and sound/music creation. 

His choreographic career began in 2009. His work is atmospheric, multimedia and sensorial. He intends to stimulate the viewer's senses to provoke their imagination.

With over 30 years of professional experience in the dance field, his curious, eclectic and intuitive nature has brought him to exploring physical creativity in correlation with sound.

Using his creative system BeingSonic, he creates kinetic scores. They are treated as part of the sound design/musical arrangements he creates. The body is ‘heard’ as a melodic line, a sonic texture, beats… As well, the body’s movement produces sound through the use of instruments like the Theremin. A body that is both instrument and musician.

Jesús has developed a movement creation practice/method, called BeingSonic. It is at the core of the creative process of his work. Its inspiration comes from the process in which synthesizers create/alter sound and by sound engineering techniques. In the dialogue between the body and the sound, new creative outputs will emerge.

“ I create to move people inside and outside of their skin” Jesus de Vega

Data: His work has toured across Holland, as well as internationally (Italy, Istanbul, Netherlands, Spain and in the U.K).

It has been programmed in venues like Frascati, Paradiso, Meervaart, Bellevue, Korzo, NWE Vorst, Grand Theatre, Park theatre, Riley Theatre and shown in festivals like Operaestate, ADE, Moving Futures, Mundial, Nazomer festival, Boulevard Festival or the Nederlandse Dansdagen amongst others.

As a dancer, he worked with companies and choreographers such as ICK, Galili Dance, Iceland Dance Company, Metros, Stephen Shropshire, André Gingras, Sylvain Emard and Vaclav Kunes amongst others.

As teacher, he has given workshops for Dutch Institutions like Fontys, AHK, Artez, Codarts, Lucia Marthas, Henny Juriens and ICK Amsterdam, and internationally in Norrdans (Sweden), Operaestate (Italy), Akbank Sanat (Turkey), NSCD (Leeds), CAD (Seville), and in private studios in Austria, Italy, Greece and Spain.

He has been artistic advisor for Christian Guerematchi in “Funk” and “Hissy Fit”, for Keren Rosenberg in “The void of longing/Not on this earth” and “Emotional Porn: Exhibition of the Self”, and for the performance/concert “Deep Blue” of Project Wildemann.

He has been artistic coordinator of the Academy pillar at ICK Amsterdam , for whom he conceptualized and developed the creative toolkit “Sensorium”, a way to trigger creativity through sensorial input.

The season 23/24 he has been rehearsal director/Coordinator of ICK Amsterdam.