Anouk Llaurens (FR/BE) is a dancer, researcher, choreographer, teacher, and shiatsu practitioner inspired by Eastern philosophies (Zen; Taoism) and Fernand Schirren's Rhythm. Engaged in mindfulness practices since encountering Lisa Nelson's work, Tuning Scores, in 1998, she shares her wonder through sensory and intellectual practices in various creative and academic contexts in dance and visual arts in Europe. Anouk cultivates and transmits her taste for contemplation through cross-disciplinary research on the ‘Poetic Documentation of Lived Experience’ (2013 – ...). Her questioning focuses on the link between poetic experience, memory and forgetting. She investigates heritage as a process of reinvention in the service of life through the creation of performative live documents The breathing archive (2016), The wave (2019), Tremor and online publication on Oral site Replays where she proposes thirty ways of inheriting from Lisa Nelson Tuning Scores. Anouk also sustains an inspiring artistic and human collaboration with choreographer and visual artist Julien Bruneau (phréatiques, 2010–present). She is the co-creator and member of embrace, a Brussels based network of professionals engaged with the soma - the experiencing body. During her residency at Overtoon she will be accompanied by Sonia Si Ahmed, Julien Bruneau and Michaëlle Grébil Liberg.

The residency at Overtoon will be devoted to research into the vocal dimension of Tremor, ritual for oblivion, a transdisciplinary project that combines dance, calligraphy and singing. To this end, the ensemble will turn to the figure of Hildegarde Von Bingen, composer, mystic and visionary of the early Middle Ages with a question: "How can the poetry and songs of Hildegarde Von Bingen, composer, mystic and visionary of the early Middle Ages, inspire the creation of a contemporary singing ritual that re-enacts bodily memories put into words, to reconnect with the flow of life?"