TOGETHER

‘Together’ highlights the individuals at the heart of our creative house and around. As a collective from various backgrounds, Les Passagées focuses on the richness of human interactions, bringing together unique perspectives.

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ALEXANDRA SWENDEN

Alexandra Swenden is a Brussels-based artistic director whose practice unfolds at the intersection of performance, gastronomy, and sensory research. For the past fifteen years, she has developed artistic and culinary experiments across the globe, collaborating with some of the most inventive voices in contemporary gastronomy. Her work is grounded in a deep commitment to embodied experience, exploring how taste, movement, and perception can collectively transform our relationship to the living world. 

Founder & Art Director

In 2024, she founded Les Passagées as a living ecosystem for creation. Her interdisciplinary and intuitive approach focuses on reactivating our ancestral connection to the body, where each creation becomes a space for transformation.

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CHARLOTTE CHARBONNEL

Charlotte Charbonnel explores the hidden energies within materials and the natural forces of our surroundings. Honored as “Woman to Watch” in 2018, her work has been displayed in renowned institutions like the Palais de Tokyo and MAC VAL, merging art and scientific inquiry to reveal the vibrations of the world.

Artist
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When she closes her eyes, words gallop like wild ponies. She handles language with a freedom that opens up unexpected worlds. Her texts are lively, colourful bridges that interweave with other artistic disciplines.

Poet

CONSTANCE CHLORE

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AURÉLIE DE BURBURE

Aurélie, like a modern-day Ulysses, has travelled through so many different worlds (fashion, art, design, hospitality, food) that she sails in all weathers. Nothing stops her. Everything interests and captivates her. We’re delighted to have her join the Les Passagées team.

PR

JULIE DE CLERQ

With a keen eye for movement, her lens transforms performance into visual poetry, where shadows and light dance together—most notably in her work on My Ström. Through her image, she reveals the unseen details and rythms, turning fleeting moments into lasting impressions.

Videographer
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VIOLAINE DELTHEIL

Musician? Sociologist? It’s nothing but sound poetry that runs through her veins. A woman committed to the struggles of the living, she raises her flame towards a world of hope.

Creative advisor
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SARA DEUX

As her name suggests, everything about Sara is double. Twice as much talent, sensitivity, love, humour and attention to the living. Her relationship with the world is a tightrope between poetry, the beauty of silence and the freedom of the body.

Creative advisor
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Marcelo di Giacomo

Argentinian by birth, pastry chef by mastery, Marcelo di Giacomo forged his path alongside the greats, notably at Mirazur*** under Mauro Colagreco. Kind and unwavering, he is a master of the oven, where strength meets subtlety. Together with Chiho Kanzaki they earned their first Michelin star in 2019.

Guest chef
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Isabelle Douillet – de Pange

An art historian as fiery as she is sharp, Isabelle Douillet has a keen eye for heritage. No Brussels facade has escaped her gaze. And soon her voice! For she tells the story of the past in the present, through sensitive and surprising sound pieces.

Art historian
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BARBARA DRAZKOV

Mixing a classical technique with an experimental sound searching, she gives new life to old pianos by making them sound like all different kinds of instruments or electronic samples. She composes and performs her own music for originally prepared grand and upright pianos.

Musician, composer

ISABELLE DUMONT

She is driven by the interplay of words, movement, and sound. With literature as her foundation and the stage as her canvas, she creates worlds that are like living resonances of curiosity and experimentation.

Creative advisor
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ARNO FERRERA

Arno carries the strength of circus with a rare tenderness to a unique artistic expression. He works with balance and risk not as performance, but as a search for trust, connection, and poetic tension between bodies.

Circus artist
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SOPHIE GAGEY

A master woman who gets straight to the point. Her approach to communication is a blend of perfectionism and wisdom, efficiency, and creativity. Driven by boundless energy, les passagées was lucky enough to come across her singular vision and her numerous ideas.

Communication advisor
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ANTOINE GOLDSCHMIDT

Antoine works with light as one might with breath — subtly, patiently, and with deep attention. As a light artist, he sculpts spaces through shadow and glow, crafting atmospheres that reveal rather than impose. His work invites us to see differently: to notice the in-between, the fleeting, the quietly luminous. 

Lighting designer
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AGNÈS GUILLAUME

Sound was in her ears. But it was through the eye that she came to creation. Video, like a belated revelation of worlds in motion. She transforms, distorts and overturns images in search of what resonates from within.

Video artist
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CAROLINE H

Her eye has many gazes. Detail is her path. The escape of things, is an art of living, that she captures with poetry, vibration and respect.

Photographer
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ANNE-CLAIRE HÉRAUD

Her lens does not capture, it accompanies. Anne-Claire’s images hold silence, tracing the invisible threads that connect us to the world. With each frame, she opens a space where intimacy and landscape echo one another : fragile, grounded, and alive.

Photographer
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CHRISTOPHE HARDIQUEST

When we speak of poetry, his skin tingles. When he cooks, it’s not just the skin, but our whole body that capsizes. The nuances of taste and their emotional charge are the pistils of our souls, to be cherished and discovered.

Guest chef
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WILLEM HIELE

Raised between Ostend and Koksijde in a family of fishermen, Willem Hiele (*) carries the North Sea in his blood. His dishes carry the grit of the polders and the hush of deep water. Each plate is a tide-mark, each sauce a wave drawn back to its essence. 

Guest chef
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TSUBASA HORI

Born in Kyoto, she began Taiko at 11 and spent 14 years with the renowned ‘Kodo’ group as a performer, composer, and arranger. In 2008, she founded ‘Cocon,’ a female Taiko project, and has since been active in theater, dance, and fashion in Belgium. A skilled multi-instrumentalist, her solo performances blend improvisation and music for children, drawing from her deep exploration of Japanese music and dance.

Musician, taiko drummer
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HUMUS X HORTENSE

Caroline Baerten et Nicolas Decloedt of Humus & Hortense (Michelin-starred) have created much more than a restaurant: a sensory laboratory where nature speaks through every dish and every glass. Their pioneering plant-based fine dining establishment celebrates the power of life by elevating the seasons, the soil, and the natural cycles.

Guest chefs

Huguette Izobimpa

Slam poet and actress, she gained national recognition in 2018 by winning the Slam Poetry Championship in Burundi, propelling her onto stages across Africa. Now based in Belgium, she continues to perform with the Slameke collective and studies Dramatic Arts at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, while holding the prestigious Paroles Urbaines award.

Slammer
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CHIHO KANZAKI

Chiho Kanzaki laid her foundations in the kitchen with some of the great brigades, notably at Mauro Colagreco’s Mirazur*** (Menton, France). Over the years, she has sharpened her weapons, learning total respect for the product, a sense of combining flavours rather than confronting them, and the structural precision of harmonies.

Guest chef
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PASCALE KOEHL

Pascale approaches costume as a second skin — one that breathes, moves, and speaks. With her background in fashion design, she crafts garments that echo the body’s presence, revealing textures of time, memory, and transformation.

Stylist

NINO LEURQUIN

The young graphic designer turned chef brings a unique sensitivity and a boundless heart to his culinary creations. Working alongside renowned chefs, he turns flavors into an unforgettable experience with kindness and precision.

guest sous-chef
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Sergine Laloux

Capturing bodies in movement, moving with the flexibility and alignment of a Yogi and the grace of a prima ballerina -that’s the endless beauty and complexity of Sergine. She has a very special connection with this house. Maybe one day she’ll tell you all about it.

Photographer & yoga teacher

ORNELLA MEI

She has made the perfect curve her profession, her quest. When someone talks to her about organic architecture, she jumps to her feet, scribbling, tracing, plunging into thoughts that have vanished into thin air. Then she comes back, anchors herself, and draws again. Her creative process is as bewitching as the result is beautiful. 

Architect
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JORGE MENDIETA

No detail escapes him. Jorge is precision with a pulse, perhaps the finest Swiss Army knife south of the equator. Reliable, methodical, and always a step ahead, he makes complexity look easy and excellence feel effortless.

Swiss knife
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MARIE-ROSE MEYSMAN

A trained actress with a passion for the expressive power of movement, she found her calling in storytelling, captivated by the spoken word and evocative imagery. Embracing oral literature, she explores the creative interplay between words and body, collaborating with artists from diverse disciplines.

Storyteller
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UMA NADDERMIER

The harmony of shapes, colours and thoughts are Uma’s polyphonic voices, which she handles with a singularity and purity rarely equalled. She has put her stamp on Les Passagées. Like a baby Yoda, her gaze widens every day.

Art director, producer
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BENOIT NIETO

A self-taught dancer-choreographer, he delves into the natural geometry of the body, meticulously tracing its pathways with an artist’s eye. Juggling energies and dynamics, he crafts a unique choreographic language. In 2019, he founded the Manima Dance Company, challenging conventional breakdance codes.

Dancer, choreographer

VALÉRIE NOVELLO

Her artistry captivates with its emotive storytelling through paper and sculptural mediums, exploring the delicate balance between solidity and fragility of the body. Exhibited worldwide, she is represented by the esteemed gallery La Forest Divonne in Paris and Brussels.

Artist
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GILLES POLET

Gilles meets the world through the body. As a dancer, he explores presence, breath, and movement as forms of dialogue. His attention to the invisible weaves a silent connection with others, the landscape, and the rhythms that shape them.

Dancer, choreographer
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HUGO ROELLINGER

Rooted in the Breton coast, Hugo Roellinger cooks in dialogue with the tides. At Le Coquillage (***), he shapes fish, shellfish, seaweed, and vegetables into dishes that echo the rhythm of wind and tide. Each plate carries the salt, depth, and precision of the sea.

Guest chef
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OLIVIER PIRLET

No sound or sound installation can resist Olivier. Obsessive, a perfectionist and creative, you can ask him the craziest things, and he'll always find a solution with the greatest ease and care. Having him on board is a blessing for the ears.

Electro-accoustician
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RAPHAËL VENS

He expands musical boundaries by blending diverse disciplines and practices. He creates music for instruments and electronics in various fields, including installation art, theatre, cinema, and performance. Through digital lutherie and real-time interactive devices, he explores connections between music, architecture, history, and heritage.

Composer

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