Guy Cools is a dance dramaturge. He has worked as a dance critic, curator and dramaturge with many internationally renowned choreographers – including Koen Augustijnen (BE), Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (BE), Danièle Desnoyers (CA), Lia Haraki (CY), Akram Khan (UK), Arno Schuitemaker (NL) and Stephanie Thiersch (DE). His recent book publications include “The Ethics of Art: ecological turns in the performing arts” (co-edited with Pascal Gielen /2014), “ In-between Dance Cultures: on the migratory artistic identity of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan” (2015), “Imaginative Bodies: Dialogues in Performance Practices (2016) and “Performing Mourning” (2020).

Guy Cools currently lives in Vienna. He lectures and publishes regularly and has developed a series of workshops to support artists and choreographers in their creative process. Together with the Canadian choreographer Lin Snelling, he developed the improvisational practice “Rewriting the Distance” (see also: www.rewritingdistance.com), which focuses on the integration of movement, voice and writing.