Marieke Dermul

(She/Her) is a Ghent-based theatre-maker, digital storyteller, and queer artist. She graduated from the Amsterdam theatre school in 2014. She performed for HetPaleis, Maas Theater & Dans, fABULEUS and Frascati. With her show European Citizen Popsong she toured internationally and was nominated for the Filipa Braganca Award at the Edinburgh Frinke Festival in 2018. In her own multidisciplinary work, Marieke plays with the border between documentary and fiction, always adding a necessary dose of pop music. In 2020 she made the documentary ‘Pride is Protest’, which has been screened internationally ever since.

Gytha Parmentier

(She/Her) finished her Master’s degree in Drama in 2014 at the School of Arts in Ghent. Since then she's been performing mainly in theatre and dance performances. With 'Us/Them' by BRONKS she travelled around the world and won a couple of prizes at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh. Apart from BRONKS she performed with Ontroerend Goed, fAbuleus, Julien Neirynck, Het Kip, Nevski Prospekt, Laika, Tom Ternest and Luxemburg. She featured in several short films, a couple of series and the movie 'De Maagd Van Gent'. Both on and off stage Gytha dances a lot. She started a Twerking collective called 'Tw*rkshop'. For cabaret, she joined 't Schoon Vertier and with Les Ballets C de la B she participated in ‘Passchendaele' and 'Encounter'.

Roman Van Houtven

Roman Van Houtven (he/him) is a dancer, actor, choreographer, theatre-maker, and queer artist, living in Antwerp. From 2010 until 2014 he studied at P.A.R.T.S., the contemporary dance school directed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in Brussels. After graduating in July ’14, Roman was active as a dancer in Un Sacre du Printemps (Hiatus, Daniel Linehan), as a dance teacher and dance- educational worker (Rosas Education and Kunsthumaniora Brussel) and choreographer (It’s Frankenstein, stupid! by Bronks and La Monnaie). Since 2016 he was part of the BRONKS-show ‘Us/Them’ (Wij/Zij or Nous/Eux) which became a huge success after a sold-out series at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and toured internationally until 2020. In 2019 he played the theatre monologue ‘Razen’ (Theater A tot Z) and he was active as a choreographer for Dance X Performance (Rosas Education). In 2020, he created the show Club Toulouse for Kopergietery (Ghent) in collaboration with Marieke Dermul. Club Toulouse premiered in the fall of 2021 and will be performed again next season. In the past Roman was featured as an artist to watch for Knack and the BILL-Award, and his writing has been published in de Standaard. In the near future, Roman will commit to the start-up and research of several new queer-related projects, and he will work as a freelance dance teacher for PARTS (Brussels).