Astrid Boons (Belgium, 1988) is a choreographer, artistic leader and educator. She is founder and artistic director of Khôra / Astrid Boons, a foundation for interdisciplinary creation, artistic research and international collaboration. Between 2021 and 2025 she was a resident choreographer at Korzo Theater in The Netherlands.
Boons’ pieces have been described as ‘unsettling, intimate and deeply thought-provoking’, having ‘immense power, philosophical and psychological depth.’ Boons offers a space to deeply experience the body as the site of boundaries and expansion between us and the world. She creates work with a distinctive female perspective foregrounding relational subjectivity as a form of resistance, together with the continuous search for personal agency.
Boons has been recognized with several awards and nominations for her choreographic work. Deep Time was nominated for the ‘Zwaan’ (Nederlandse Dansdagen 2026) in the category ‘most impressive dance production’. In 2022 she received the Fast Forward (Performing Arts Funds NL) subsidy to expand her artistic practice and international network. She was nominated for the Innovation Prize of the Nederlandse Dansdagen 2021 for choreography. She received the BNG Bank Dance Award 2017 and Piket Art Award 2017 for Rhizoma.
Recent artistic collaborations and research residencies include Dance Theatre Heidelberg, Impulstanz, La Briqueterie, Mercat de les Flors, Opera Ballet Flanders, Studio Contemporary Dance Zagreb, Tanzbiennale Heidelberg, Tanzfaktur, Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, and The Norwegian Ballet.
As a dancer Astrid worked with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (2017-2018), Nederlands Dans Theater 1 (2017), GöteborgsOperans Danskompani(2013-2016), Nederlands Dans Theater 2 (2009-2013), Dansgroep Amsterdam(2009) and Dansgroep Krisztina De Châtel (2008).
Astrid regularly teaches her ‘Enactive Embodiment Practice’, a movement and choreographic practice developed through her choreographic research. She has taught at international companies and educational institutions such as Nederlands Dans Theater, Dance Theater Heidelberg, Opera Ballet Flanders, Hessisches Staatsballett, The Norwegian Ballet, NOD, Codarts, ArtEZ, AHK, Royal Conservatory Antwerp, among others.
Astrid graduated from The Royal Ballet School of Antwerp (BE). She holds a BA Dance from Codarts (NL) and a BA of Arts (Honours) in Humanities (Art History and Philosophy) from the Open University (UK). Since 2021, she is a certified Vinyasa Yoga teacher.
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