José Besprosvany a choreographer and a theatre director was born in Mexico in 1959. He has been living in Belgium for more than twenty years and became a Belgian citizen in 2001. Since the early 1980s, José has been one of the reformers of Francophone Belgian contemporary dance. José attended the École Jacques Lecoq in Paris, where he studied theatre (mime, movement, acting and mask play). He danced with Maurice Béjart’s 20th Century Ballet for two years. In 1986, he founded his own company. His initial creations, Momentum (1984), Evento (1986) and Tempéraments (1988), were minimalist in style. The later productions Von Heute auf Morgen (1989), Apollon la Nuit (1990) and Retours (1992) questioned the relationship between classical and contemporary languages and in the piece Cuarteto (1993) José further explored the relationships between narrative and dance. In the late 1990s, José re-examined his work, which he judged to be too conformist, and began to approach choreography from a different angle, which he continues to develop to this day. In parallel to his passion for dance, José is interested in directing both theatre and cinema. He was awarded numerous prizes and distinctions such as Il Coreografo Electronico (Italy) and the Bert Leysen Prijs (Belgium) and others.