Photo by Piotr Redlinkski
In And, Aynsley Vandenbroucke uses experimental literary devices to create a series of live, three-dimensional essays. She plays with lines between fact and fiction, narrative and abstraction, legibility and complexity. She works with—and against—the role of formal structures in writing, moving, and making a life. Some words that tussle for prominence in the piece are: art, life, teaching, body, marriage, knowing, divorce, friendship, contradiction, form, home, house, community, uncertainty, gentleness, question, power, sex, dance.
“Aynsley Vandenbroucke has been exploring the relation of literary formalism to the human body in a way few writers, if any, are doing.” —Hyperallergic
“An elegant, sensitive thinker” – The New York Times
About the Artist
Aynsley Vandenbroucke has been making performance in NYC since 2000. She cofounded Mount Tremper Arts and served as its co-curator until 2014. Vandenbroucke teaches at Princeton University and is obsessed with the relationships between reading, writing, learning to live, and making dance.
Performance Program