artistic & business director
dancer, choreographer, director
Bram graduated from university in Leuven(Belgium) as Master in Movement Science. He than went to study at the jazz and musical dance department of the “Amsterdamse hogeschool voor de kunsten” in the Netherlands.
He danced with several dance companies such as Bruce Taylor’s “Choreonyx” in Paris, “Ballet actuel” in Toulouse and “Landestheater Linz” in Austria. He danced in many opera’s such as “Spuren Der Verirrten” (Linz), “Les Troyens”, “Platée”, “Yevegeni Onegin” (DNO, Amsterdam), “Peter Grimes” (English National Opera, Vlaamse Opera, Opera de Oviedo, Deutsche Oper Berlin), “Akhnaten” (Vlaamse opera), Aïda(De Munt/La Monnaie), “Ballo in Mascera” (opera Zuid) “Die Ungarische Hochzeit”, “Die Lustige Witwe”, “Saison in Salzburg”(Lehar Festival, Austria). As a musical performer he was in the Roman Polanski musical “Tanz der Vampire”(Antwerp, Belgium) , “Hello Dolly”(Bad Ischl, Austria) and “My fair lady”(Bad Ischl Austria). In the more commercial circuit Bram was touring with the fastest illusionist in the world: Hans Klok in his production “Circus Hurricane”. He was in “Showballet Imperio”(as dancer and later as dance captain) on board of the cruise ships MS Deutschland and MS Europa. Apart from his work in big productions he is also very active as dancer in various smaller productions, videoclips (Ded’s it, BBC,..), operetta’s, …
Bram also works as choreographer and director. For “Vlaams muziek theater” he choreographed: “Der Graf von Luxemburg”, “Im Weissen Rössl”, “Die Lustige Witwe”, “Op de purp’ren hei“, “Viktoria und Ihr Husar”, “Der Fidele Bauer”, “Der Vogelhändler” and “Eine Nacht in Venedig”. For “Viktoria und Ihr Husar” and “Eine Nacht in Venedig” he was also director. For “Circus Boxtalino” he choreographed the dinnershow “Boxtalino Follies”, the Christmas circus “Follow the star” and the gypsy horse show “Cavallo Gitano”.
Bram is responsible for the choreographies at Vilja and is artistic and business director.