Multidisciplinary
Artist

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Claire de Caluwe (She/Her) is a Dutch dance artist, choreographer, performer, and model, born in Amsterdam in 1999. She began her dance training in ballet at the Dutch National Ballet before continuing her pre-professional education at Codarts Rotterdam. She later graduated with a BA in Urban Contemporary Dance from the Amsterdam University of the Arts.

In 2020, Claire joined Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, and since 2021 she has been working internationally as a freelance dance artist. In 2023, she became part of the project-based company Nagelhus Schia Productions in Norway, where she worked across new creations and repertoire with choreographers and artists including Sasha Waltz, Hege Haagenrud, and Crystal Pite. Throughout her career, she has also collaborated with choreographers such as Ed Wubbe, Dalton Jansen, Joost Vrouenraets, and other artists across dance, theatre, film, and fashion.

Alongside performing, Claire has developed her own choreographic practice. Together with Bo Jacobs, she created LIMP (2023), which premiered at the 37th International Choreography Competition Hannover and has since been presented at Platform 14 Berlin, Amsterdam Fringe Festival, Nederlandse Dansdagen, and Delft Fringe Festival.

Her practice has increasingly expanded beyond the stage into film and interdisciplinary work. In 2024, she created her first dance short film, Dermis, in collaboration with videographer Justin Bekker. During an extended period working and living in Asia in 2026, Claire continued exploring the relationship between movement, image, sound, and environment. In Shanghai, she created the short film Gelukshormoon together with composer Claire Zhang and videographer Yupai Zhang. The project became a further exploration of intuition, connection, and the physical experience of happiness, and continues to develop across film, performance, and choreographic research.

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Artistic Statement

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As a dance artist, I am interested in what can be communicated through the body before it becomes language. Movement allows me to enter a space where emotions, memories, desires, and fears can exist without needing to be explained.

My work often begins from something personal and vulnerable. I am drawn to the inner world of an individual and to the tension between what we experience internally and what we choose to reveal externally. Through movement, I search for ways to make these invisible experiences physical and allow an audience not only to observe, but to feel part of them.

Imagination and intuition play an important role in my process. I am interested in reconnecting with a sense of curiosity and freedom — qualities I associate with the inner child — and in questioning what happens to these qualities as we grow older and become increasingly shaped by expectations, control, and our surroundings.

In recent years, my practice has expanded from choreography into film and interdisciplinary creation. Working internationally, particularly during extended periods in Asia, has made me increasingly aware of how environment, culture, image, sound, and human connection influence the body. Rather than separating these disciplines, I am interested in allowing them to affect one another.

Collaboration is therefore central to my practice. I enjoy creating environments in which movement, music, film, photography, fashion, and visual art can meet without one discipline simply supporting another. Through these encounters, I search for new ways of translating lived experience into something physical, visual, and poetic.

For me, art is a way of transforming life: collecting what I see, feel, fear, desire, and imagine, and giving it another form.